Catherine (Thompson) Harrison (1862 - 1944)

Born 31 Oct 1862 in How, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom

Wife of George Robert Harrison — married 1 Aug 1881 in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 19 Mar 1944 at age 81 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Biography

Catherine was born in autumn 1862.^[1]

At age 18 in summer 1881, Catherine married 19-year-old George Robert Harrison.^[2] The pair went on to have ten children (six sons and four daughters) before immigrating with the youngest to Alberta, Canada in 1906.^[3]

Initially the Harrisons farmed in the Gainford area west of Edmonton, and then relocated to the area northwest of Lloydminster.^[4] Husband George passed away in 1927, and Catherine relocated with her younger sons and began farming northwest of Bapaume, Saskatchewan.^[5]

Catherine Harrison passed away in winter 1944:^[6][7]

HARRISON - At the residence of her daughter, Vining Street, there passed away Sunday March 19, Catherine Harrison, at the age of 81 years. The late Mrs. Harrison was born at Cumberland, England, and moved to this city five years ago from Bapaume, Sask. She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Jane Carnell, Vining Street; Mrs. Margaret Algar, England; Mrs. Geddes Brandes, Houston, Texas; and Mrs. Violet Stubbs, Sardis, B. C; four sons, A. G. Harrison, 1145 North Park St; James and Thomas in Vancouver; and Gibson, Vernon, B. C.; one niece, Mrs. R. Tedford, Lloydminster, Alberta; also 44 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the parlors of the S. J. Curry & Son Funeral Home. Rev. George Biddle will officiate and interment will take place in Royal Oak Burial Park.^[8]

Research Notes

• Elizabeth Jackson Curry, cited in Catherine's obituary as niece Mrs. R. Tedford, was also her daughter-in-law, widow of son William jackson Harrison, who was killed during the great war.

Sources

1. ↑ (birth) Free UK Genealogy CIO, https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=asHsVfiYONuEBh5LDtIugA&scan=1
2. ↑ (marriage) Free UK Genealogy CIO, https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=kCpIHAovhtepVcfowYGzLw&scan=1
3. ↑ Fifth Census of Canada, 1911, Alberta, District No. 2 Edmonton, Sub-District No. 31, Enumeration District No. 7, Edmonton, page 28, lines 2-9, https://central2.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?id=e001927584&app=census1911&op=img
4. ↑ Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, June 1, 1926, Alberta, Electoral District Battle River 84, Enumeration Sub-District No. 65, Streamstown, page 6, lines 36-38, http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=census&id=72538933&lang=eng
5. ↑ Seventh Census of Canada, 1931, Saskatchewan, Electoral District North Battleford 200, Enumeration Sub-District No. 56, Improvement District 526, page 2, lines 24-26, https://central2.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?id=e011731908&app=census1931&op=img
6. ↑ Province of British Columbia, Death Record, reg. no. 1944-09-639910
7. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #191024483
8. ↑ "DEATHS", Victoria Daily Colonist, March 21, 1944, page 10, https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist0344uvic_16/page/n9/mode/1up