Florence Baker (Warren) Wilson (1879 - 1971)

Born 18 Sep 1879 in Cyprus

Ancestors

Wife of William John Waterman — married 2 Feb 1898 (to before 1924) in British Columbia, Canada

Wife of Matthew Gemmel Wilson — married 1 Jul 1924 in British Columbia, Canada

Descendants

Died 25 Nov 1971 at age 92 in Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada

Biography

Florence has Cypriot roots.

Florence Baker Warren was born in 1879 in Cyprus, a daughter of Falkland Warren, an English settler in British Columbia. She married, first, William J. Waterman, a mining engineer from Sheffield, England. The family went to live in England to seek treatment for their daughter's polio. They returned to BC in 1911. W.J. Waterman joined up in 1915 and went to fight in Europe. In 1916, Florence went to Paradise Ranch near Naramata, BC, where she kept house for Matthew Wilson. Her first marriage having ended, she married Matthew in 1923.^[1] She died in Osoyoos, British Columbia in 1971.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Sandy Wilson, “Major John Victor Hyde Wilson, MC 1911-1992” in Okanagan History: Fifty-ninth Report of the Okanagan Historical Society. Vernon, B.C.: Okanagan Historical Society, 1995, pp. 121-126 [ohs_1995].[1]
2. ↑ "British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLT7-G5D : 8 November 2017), Florence Baker Wilson, 1971.

See also:

• "British Columbia Marriage Registrations, 1859-1932; 1937-1938," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDZX-M8X : 21 January 2016), Falkland George Edgeworth Warren in household of William John Waterman and Florence Baker Warren, 02 Feb 1898; citing , British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Archives film number B11372, Vital Statistics Agency, Victoria; FHL microfilm 1,983,529.