Ottilie Marion (Grahame) Schreiber (1859 - 1893)

Born 13 Jun 1859 in Shettleston, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 1 Aug 1893 at age 34 in Erindale, Peel, Ontario, Canada

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Judith Robinson [send private message]

Biography

Ottilie was born in Scotland (likely at Barlanark House) to Scottish heritage, Canadian born Richard Grahame, and Scottish born Laetitia Hill. Richard and his brother James had travelled to Scotland (where their parents and some siblings permanently returned to in 1865) to marry sisters Laetitia and Janet about 1858. Richard's and Laetitia's wedding was a 'secret wedding'...the bride was 15!

Ottilie was the eldest born, her mother was not yet 17 when she was born. And because her parents went to Canada soon after she was born all her other siblings were born in Canada. They may have lived for a time in Vaughan Ontario, on rural land, with a mill and a farm, originally owned by Richard's father. Likely they lived in Toronto - Richard was a lawyer and the 1861 census shows them there. But by 1871 census docs show the family living in the town of Barrie.

In 1872 Ottilie travelled to Scotland to visit her relatives. Ottilie lost her father in 1880 when she was 19. She married Weymouth deLisle Schreiber two years later. Ottilie's uncle Thomas Grahame (or perhaps a cousin?) was a witness at her wedding. Ottilie and her new husband lived in Toronto.

After about 1885 or so Ottilie and deLisle lived in a family compound of sorts in three newly built houses, with his brother's family, and father and notable artist stepmother (Charlotte Mount Brock Morrell Schreiber) at Springfield on the Credit (Erindale) Ontario.

Their first child, a boy named 'Godfrey' in birth records but his gravestone says 'Richard', lived only 1 1/2 years and died in 1886. Ottilie ('Mrs de Lisle Schreiber') received a New Testament in 1886 from 'Lady Robinson'. In 1920 Ottilie's granddaughter Marion married into this Robinson family.

There are no records of other children born or died between in the 5 years between 1885 and 1890. Their first daughter, Marjorie, was born in 1890 and Marion was born two years later. Their third daughter came just one year after that, in 1893, but Ottilie died a few weeks later (this child, was given the name of her mother, Ottilie Marion).

Ottilie's motherless daughters were raised with the help of immediate Schreiber relatives (schooled by their Aunt Beatrice's mother) and their maternal aunts, especially their Aunt Sue Ormsby who lived in Toronto and their Aunt Vio Grahame who never married and lived various places with relatives and independently in England and Canada.

The children's 5 Schreiber cousins in Erindale were also motherless after 1897, their grandfather died in 1898 and their step-grandmother returned to England after that. And so the family grouping broke up. By 1901 Ottilie's girls and their father had moved to St. Clair Ave W. in Toronto (the Schreiber family owned a fair piece of land in the Deer Park area of Toronto). Next door, or together in the house with them lived their Aunt Edith (Schreiber) Quin and their cousin Lisle.

The Schreibers' are mentioned in the online memoir of Ottilie's niece Nina Joy [1], and there are references to the family at Erindale in the Mississauga History and Heritage files. Ottilie's family history and comings and goings can be read about in the very interesting letters and diaries of her grandfather William Richard Grahame (available in several Canadian libraries and at the National Archives).

Her step mother-in-law was the notable artist, Charlotte Mount Brock Morrell Schreiber, who also lived at Erindale and who painted portraits of the Schreibers and the Grahames[2].

Sources

• Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQDS-1Q2 : 10 February 2018), Richard Grahame in entry for Otilie Marion Grahame, 13 Jun 1859; citing SHETTLESTON,LANARK,SCOTLAND, reference , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 6,035,516.

• Book: 'Early Records of an Old Glasgow Family'[3]

• 1861 Census shows 'O.M. Grahame', age two, born in Scotland. See images. Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, FHL Film Number:6035516

• 1881 Census (see images)

• Story of Lislehurst, a Schreiber home in Erindale[4]

• Marriage announcement Barrie Examiner[5]

• Canada Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2KD-XLL : 10 February 2018), O. H. Marion Grahame in entry for Godfrey De Lisle Schruber, 26 Mar 1885; citing Toronto Twp., Ontario, Canada, 26 Mar 1885, reference cn 26810; FHL microfilm 1,845,875.

• Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1936 and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947, Archives of Ontario; Series: MS935; Reel: 72

• Letters of William Richard Grahame, His Ancestors and Descendants, 1782-1923, William Richard Grahame, Fred B. Grahame, Dorothy Grahame Sattler Magra Pub., Jan 1, 1991 - Canada[6]

• Barlanark House - 'The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry'[7]