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Record #13390
Name :
: Maggie Annie Coban MCCORMACK (1889 - 1910)
  aka : Maggie Annie Coban Ground


Father
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Mother
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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 6 Feb 1889

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 4 Aug 1910   Notes : Tuberculosis
Abode (1) : Place of BirthScotland, Tibbermore

Perth Poorhouse
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Leeds, Brockville
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 17 Jul 1905
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Corinthian

Placement Family
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Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
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Agency
: Quarriers
NotesA birth registration was found for Maggie Annie Coban Groundwater or McCormack: Date: February 6, 1889; Place: Perth Poorhouse, Tibbermore, Perth, Scotland; Mother: Jemima Groundwater, ironer, wife of James McCormack, labourer, who she declares is not the father of the child and further that she has had no personal communication with him since they cared[?] to live together about 4 years ago.

In 1905, Maggie McCormack, 16, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of 84 Quarrier children from the Orphan Homes of Scotland, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. D.J. Findley of Lanark and Mr. George Roberts, a widower from England, en route to Fair Knowe, Brockville, Ontario, Canada.

On August 4, 1910, at Brockville, Leeds, Ontario, Canada, Margaret McCormack, 21, house keeper, (date of birth: February 6, 1889 in Scotland), died at the General Hospital of tuberculosis, 3 months duration.

Maggie McCormack is remembered at The Brockville Cemetery Est. 1861 aka The Old Protestant Cemetery, Highway 2, West of Brockville, Leeds, Ontario, Canada on a stone "erected by the Fairknowe Scotch boys and girls in loving memory of their departed companions." 
ContributorsCreated : 2011-01-26 20:46:54 / From original database

Last Updated : 2011-01-26 20:56:56 /

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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
13334 MCCORMACK, Bertie1913ENG,     Jun 1924 : Ausonia CAN MacPherson Homes  
19281 MCCORMACK, Bertram1869 Apr 1883 : Sarmatian CAN MacPherson Homes  
19397 MCCORMACK, Charles1865 Apr 1883 : Sarmatian CAN MacPherson Homes  
7615 MCCORMACK, Elizabeth1861ENG,     Nov 1870 : Peruvian CAN Maria Rye  
13390 MCCORMACK, Maggie Annie Coban1889SCT,    , Tibbermore Jul 1905 : Corinthian CAN Quarriers  
15079 MCCORMACK, Thomas1873ENG,     Sep 1884 : Sarmatian CAN Colonization Fund, London