My Family Photos — Elizabeth Edwards

Thank you to Elizabeth Edwards of Carleton Place for sending photos of her Mother, Margaret Edwards, family. We love family photos- so please send them in.

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Elizabeth Edwards– This was my granny as a baby and she was born in 1913. Hermione is my moms mom. 🙂 (Margaret Edwards) Hermione’s maiden name was Newlands. Her father owned a hardware store and apartment buildings on 5th Avenue in the Glebe. The building is now home to the store, “The Papery”.

 

Elizabeth Edwards—My great grandmother with her children; Grenville (the boy), Hermione (taller girl in the back- my granny) and Margaret (my fiesty great aunt)

 

   Elizabeth Edwards–Hermione

Elizabeth Edwards–My granny is on the left with my great-great auntie belle who was visiting her from Scotland. This is outside Granny’s family home on Fifth Avenue in the Glebe. She moved to Carleton Place when she was in her 80’s to live on our street to be closer to us. granny lived in her home, by herself, until she died at the remarkable age at 90. She lived beside the Mr and Mrs Barker when they lived on Sarah Street.

Auntie Marg (the younger girl in the photos) on the left

 

And Hermione (my granny)

 

On the right

 

At my parents wedding

Elizabeth’s Mother: Margaret

Elizabeth’s Mother and Father: Margaret and Shane Wm Edwards.

 

Come and visit the Lanark County Genealogical Society Facebook page– what’s there? Cool old photos–and lots of things interesting to read. Also check out The Tales of Carleton Place and The Tales of Almonte

1. Information where you can buy all Linda Seccaspina’s books-You can also read Linda in The Townships Sun  Screamin’ Mamas (USA)  and The Sherbrooke Record

   

   The Edwards Grocery Fire

   The Family Freezer Locker

   Dollars Worth of Gas in Carleton Place

   The Days of the Loosey Cigarette, Slinky and Mailing a Letter