Susanna is the daughter of Matthew Serson & Jane Reaby

Susanna Serson

b1842Nov3Pakenham Bz1842Dec18 p.4 Anglican Register Vol.15
d1922Nov16 Lived with brother Richard 1871census

=John Johnston b1842Sep10CareltonCo d1930Feb26 m1868PakenhamParish witness Wm.Serson,Matilda Johnson Small farm & store at Huntley. Moved to Manitoba in 1880 Both buried at Darlingford with Helen Newman and Miriam & Ed Jordan

 

First Generation

Second Generation

 

Miriam Johnston =Edward Jordon

See separate family page

 

Edmond Bower Johnston not married b1871Feb1HuntleyOnt Bz1871Aug24FitzroyParish came to Manitoba with parents, worked for CNR. Bought fruit farm at Armstrong,OkanoganValley, moved to Keating VancouverIsland last 4 years d1943Feb26VictoriaBC Royal Jubilee Hospital McCall Bros.Funeral Chapel cremated venerable Archdeacon W.C.Western officiated

 

Hilda Mary Johnston b1874July13Brandon teacher m1906Jan1St.John'sCathedral Winnipeg Rev.J.G.Murphy witnessJ.Matheson&Allen Johston
lived in Halbrite,Weyburn,McTaggart Sask
after George died,Hilda ran a Weyburn grocery store after Doris married moved to Regina&London Ont d1958Dec29 WeyburnCem d1940Mar Weyburn cem =George Francis Davidson
 b1877Aug9 Hollyrood Ont came west, grain buyer

Doris Jean Davidson b1911May11 m1941Jan21 St.Mary'sAnglican Regina d1965Apr30 WoodlandCemLondon =Gerald Ross Kempthorne of StroughtonSask WWIIRCAFTrentonOnt LondonOntDecorator TestoredHome remarried&later she died

Brian John Davidson b1914July11 d1990Mar14@home BostonMillsCemetery WWII RCAF&RAFbomber pilot DFC at Arnham Squadron leader,glider towing,low level bombing parachute drops Ford Motor Co. Regina,Winnipeg,Oakville =Dorthey Maude Harvey b1915Dec31EastendSask m1939Oct22Assinaboin worked with children in Canadian Pony Club in Winnipeg&Regina Olympic Equestrian sport retired to Cheltenham Ont raise welsh ponies& Jack Russell Terriers

Allen Herbert Johnston b1876Apr26 Winnipeg real estate partner with Bob Scott
1913to
Rutland BC apple orchard mile from parents 1918HalkirkAltaFarm
1934 depression moved with Lorne&Clair to
homestead at Halbrilte Alta near Fawcett
both buried at
Cross Lake Alta

=Mary Elizabeth Sargent 
b 1880 Peterboro Ont
both Manitoba teachers
kids school Willow Point
m1907Aug14 Boissevain Manitoba
W.B.Wilson Methodist minister, witnesses
Hellen M.Sargent&Geo Cattingham of Boissevain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Picture of Helen Johnston
b1879 from Bruce Serson

Ruth Susan Johnston b1908Jun8Winnipeg mThreeRiversAlta movedRedDeerAlta taught handicapped kids d1994May15 RedDeer Cemetery =Ernest Forgues b1909Jun6 LousanaAltaFarm until1958 fireDept d1986Aug28

Lorne Herbert Johnston b1910WinnipegMan m1951Nov2JarvieAlta farm at Fawcett Alta d1995summer =Margaret Brown Hamill
b 1918Nov26 Colerain,
           Co.
Derry Ireland

Jean Marion Johnston b1914Jun15 d1997April had been hair dresser. =M.Richard(Dick)Verne Beamish both CanadianNavy WWII. lived in Ottawa where Dick studied journalism. worked for Lethbridge newspaper,later toSaskatoon to be west editor for McLeans &Western Producer There is a Beamish Writers Award d1963Dec23 buriedJarveyAlta

Grace Marie Johnston 1923Aug16 Halkirk Alta m1952Sept20 St.Stephens Anglican Elmwood Man Hudson Bay Co Edmonton & Winnipeg d1977Apr24 lucemia Winnipeg =Frederick Farmery b1920Aug29Winnipeg m1971Aug31SilverHeightsAnglicanChurch St.Bedes U.of M.Ed1973 Air Canada mechanic remarried Marguerite (Armstrong)Smith 1978Nov18

Clair Johnston b1920Sep20HalkirkAlta notMarried travelled extensively

 

Helen Johnston b1879 Anglican church worked at Jordans store Buried Darlingford Man =M.Gerald Newman came from England with some English men and started an English Manor farm at Manor, Sask. this project failed beautiful singer& sang operettas worked for Saskatchewan Public Health in Regina later moved to Faust Alta and bought a small house, buried Faust Alta

 

 

Robert(Bob) Serson Johnston b1880Feb15HuntleyOnt Bz1880Mar28HuntleyParish sponsors Alexander Johnston,Mary Jane Young as a young man Bob ran Ed Jordans store at Darlingford until Ed moved from Thornhill 1898 Bob had a bicycle shop along with it=Eva Greer bIreland died&buriedVancouver

Leslie Johnston b1907Feb14Winnipeg

 

 

Marjorie Johnston retired Sunnyville CA =Chas Hoff USNavy

 

 

Evelyn Johnston b1912Feb6ArmstrongBC had stroke Edmonton d1987April =Lloyd Cunningham was in Oil business lived at Devon Alta d1981August

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phyllis Johnston d1983Jan =Charles Birk died

 

 

=Marjorie(O'Brien) McPhail lived near

Stanely Park Vancouver  she was very Irish

 

 

Susan&John Johnston left Huntley Ca 1880

& settled on a farm at Poplar Point Man.

 

 

Anna(Annie)Florence Johnston b1882Aug13PortageLaPrairie BzSt.Marys Rev.L.A.Fortin d1888Apr2 scarletFever buried1888Apr4 Rev.S.Macmorin old cemetery

 

 

The Susan&John Johston family moved to

Morden Man & purchased a store

 

 

John Frederick Johnston b1884Sep7PortageLaPrairie Bz1886Mar14St.Marys Rev.G.F.Coombes d1894Mar17 heartAffliction buried1894Mar19 Rev.S.McMorin old cemetery PortageLaPrairie

 

 

Caroline(Carrie)Amllia Johnston bc1881 teacherDauphinMan m1907Feb7PortagelaPrarie AnglicanChurch d1919Apr29age37 spanishInfluenza =Hugh Cameron Gourlay farm Manitoba with brother d1955Dec15age81at CarpOnt. Body returned to Dauphin. AllBuriedRiversideCemeteryDauphinMan

Caroline Gourlay died in infancy 1908June7

 

 

Hugh John Cameron Gourlay 1914April7-1914May9

 

 

 

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