Vital Statistics from Island newspapers, 98 
     
     Georgetown & Area: 1940-1945 
     
    
   
   
    
     1940: 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. “At Chance Harbour, N. S. recently, Mrs. (Capt) 
     
     Fraser, formerly Miss Lily McAulay, daughter of the 
     
     late Mr. & Mrs. George McAulay of Georgetown 
     
     Royalty.” (Patriot, Jan. 9, 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. At the City Hospital, Ch’town, Jan. 13th, Harry 
     
     Joseph McLean, aged 52, eldest of the family of the late 
     
     Mr. & Mrs. Bernard McLean. He was born in De Gros 
     
     Marsh but moved to Georgetown thirty years ago. 
     
     Surviving are brothers, Frank and Angus, Georgetown 
     
     and sisters Margaret (Mrs. Leonard MacDonald) 
     
     Antigonish, N.S.', Molly (Mrs. Oliver Oberson), Detroit, 
     
     Mich; Florence (Mrs. John Monet), New York; Rose, 
     
     New York City. (From Patriot Jan. 16 & 18, 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     D. At Georgetown, Jan. 23, 1940, Janie Murphy, 
     
     survived by two daughters: Mrs. Henry Parker, 
     
     Georgetown and Miss Kathleen Murphy of the Patriot Job 
     
     Department. A brother, James, Georgetown, also 
     
     survives. (From Guardian, Jan. 25, 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. “At Sacred Heart Home recently, Mrs. Jane Walsh, 
     
     formerly of Georgetown. lnterrnent in the RC. 
     
     Cemetery. “(Guardiam Feb, 1, 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. At St. James R.C. Church, Georgetown, Jan. 15th, 
     
     Rev. Kiggins officiating, Miss Eileen Wight, daughter of 
     
     Mr. & Mrs. William Wight, Burnt Point, to Lawrence 
     
     Batchilder, son of Mr. & Mrs. John Batchilder. (From 
     
     Patriot, Jan. 18, 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. “At the United Church Manse, Feb. 10th, 
     
     Georgetown, John Clarey, Boughton island and the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Canadian Navy to Margaret Gosbee, Murray Harbour.” 
     
     (Patriot, Feb. 18, 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. At the King’s County Hospital, Feb. 25th, Mrs. 
     
     Daniel (Matilda) Gordon, aged 84, aftera fall five weeks 
     
     ago. She was born in Malpeque daughter of Neil 
     
     MeGougan and married John Smith of Millview and after 
     
     his death Hon. Daniel Gordon. She was first president of 
     
     the Woman’s Missionary Society. of St. David's Church. 
     
     She leaves a brother, Fulton, Vancouver and sisters Mrs. 
     
     Eliza Compton, St. Eleanor’s, RBI. and Mrs. Thomas 
     
     Ramsay, Mill Valley, P.E.l.. Interment in Geo‘town. 
     
     (From Patriot, Feb. 26. 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     B. ”AtGeorgctown, Mar. 1, 1940, to Capt. & Mrs. CH. 
     
     George, nee Elsie Knight, a daughter." (Guardian, 
     
     Mar. 6, 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. In the Ch’town Hospital, Mar. 31, 1940, Charles 
     
     Delorie, aged 78. He followed the sea from boyhood. 
     
     Surviving are his wife, formerly Martha Marchand of 
     
     Georgetown, five daughters and two sons: Mrs. E.J. 
     
     Martin, Mrs. Grace Ellis, Mrs. James Leonard, Miss 
     
     Mary Delorie, Miss Beatrice Delorie, Frank and Wilfred, 
     
     all in the U.S.A.; also brothers: Murdoch, in 
     
     Charlottetown; Alexander, in Vernon, P.E.l.; John, 
     
     Georgetown; Peter, Pictou, NS; Benjamin in 
     
     Dartmouth, NS. and a sister, Mrs. Sophia Johnston, 
     
     Georgetown; another sister, Mrs. Wallace MacDonald 
     
     (Virginia) died in Pictou about a year ago. Burial in 
     
     Georgetown. (From Guardian, Apr. 1, 1940 & Patriot, 
     
     April 15th, 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. AtAll Saints’ Church, Cardigan, May 8, 1940, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Stephen William Scully, of the P. E. I Hiighlanders, to 
     
     Rose Eileen Sullivan, Roseneath, P.E.l... Attendants 
     
    
   
   
    
     were Miss Beatrice Sullivan and Gerart Scully. (From 
     
     Guardian, May 10 & May 18, 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. At Erskine and American United Crunch, Montreal, 
     
     June 17th, by the Rev. Leslie Pidgeon, Misss Anna Isobel 
     
     McLaren, Georgetown, P.E.l., ant \William Keir 
     
     Clark, Montague, P.E.I Attendants “ere Mr. & Mrs. 
     
     Ralph Douglas and Dr. F. H. MacKay. From Guardian, 
     
     June 21, 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. At Brookline, Mass, recently, Miss Suszan LeBrocq, 
     
     daughter of the late Mr. & Mrs. John LcBr'ocq, formerly 
     
     of Georgetown, P.E.l.. (From Patriot, Mar. 30, 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. On April3rd, of spinal meningitis, Wlfrred Marehant 
     
     (fl), six-month old son of Mr. & Mrs. Eramk Marchant, 
     
     Georgetown Royalty. (From Patriot Apr 5, 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     M. On April 16th, Lance—corporal Oliver Aaron Ross, of 
     
     Georgetown, P.E.l., to Miss Mildred Mcls:aac, of Brae, 
     
     Prince co. P.E.l.. (From Patriot, May 4, 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. On April 30th, in Halifax, Sgt. F'edrerick Wallace 
     
     Jenkins, son of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Jenkins, 
     
     Georgetown, RBI. to Miss Jean Agnes Fassett, 
     
     Dartmouth, N.S.. (From Patriot, May 4. 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. "On Friday, July 5th, in Central United Church, 
     
     Calgary, Mildred Henrietta, younger datghter of Mr. & 
     
     Mrs. E. B. MacLaren, Georgetown, P.E.l., and 
     
     Charles Malcolm Stark Duffin, son of Mr. & Mrs. W. 
     
     F. Duffin, Thomdale, Ont, Rev. E Melville Aitken 
     
     officiating. Attendants were Jean Cruickshank, Mildred 
     
     Aitken & David McLure." (Patriot, July ', 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. AtSt. Mark’s Church, Halifax, Aug. 9th, 1940, Miss 
     
     Louise Cox, daughter of Mr. & Mrs J. B. Cox, to 
     
     Ernest Fairchild, R.C.N., son of Mr. & Mrs. Nelson 
     
     Fairchild, Georgetown, P.E.l, Rev. W. W. Clarkson 
     
     officiating. Attendants were Mrs. Fred Murphy and J. A. 
     
     B. McConnell. (From Guardian, Aug. 17, 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. “In Georgetown, Aug. 7th, Miss Eli/abcth Smith, 
     
     aged 70." (Patriot, Aug. 13. 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. At Dodsland, Sask, at the home of her daughter Mrs. 
     
     Margaret Schurman, Mrs. Eli/abeth McConnell, 
     
     fomierly of Georgetown. (From Patriot, Aug. 29, 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. In Phoenix, Arizona, Sept. 17, Miss Lea Catherine 
     
     Nickles, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Miles Nickles (nee 
     
     Sadie Renton, daughter of John Renton, formerly of 
     
     Georgetown, RBI.) to Charles Herz of Los Angeles. 
     
     (From Patriot, Oct. 26,1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. At St. David’s United Church Manse, Georgetown, 
     
     on Sept. 15th, 1940, Warren Bumham Hemphill, son 
     
     of the late Mr. & Mrs. Edward Hemphill to Eda Margaret 
     
     McLeod, daughter of Joseph McLeod and the late Mrs. 
     
     McLeod. Attendants were Mary Hemphill and Charles A. 
     
     Fraser. (From Patriot, Sept. 18 & 21, 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     B. “In the City Hospital. Oct. 19th, to Mr. & Mrs, 
     
     Lawrence Batchilder, a son.” (Patriot, Oct. 25, 1940) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. “In St. James R.C. Church, Georgetown, Oct. let, 
     
     by Rev. 0 Kiggins, Miss Mary Morrison and Philip