Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameMary Dempster Thomson
Birth10 Jun 1877, Sandwich, DeKalb Co. IL, USA
MotherHelen Jane Goodfellow (1845-1931)
Unmarried
Children
1 FElana Hirst
3 MJoe Hirst
4 FEna Hirst
Notes for Mary Dempster Thomson
Dear Helen;
I've been thinking about your question about Aunt Mary Thomson and why she was born in Illinois. Your Grandmothers uncle, William Goodfellow, the Methodist Minister who first meet John Thomson in Argentina and found funding for him to go to college at Illinois Wesleyan where he met and married your Grandmother, was at that time a minister in a Methodist Church there.
As you have, no doubt, noticed, your aunt Mary is named after Rev. William Goodfellow's wife; Mary E. Dempster. I expect that she was staying with the Goodfellows at their home in Sandwich, DeKalb Co., Illinois when your Aunt Mary was born.
Mark
I've been thinking about your question about Aunt Mary Thomson and why she was born in Illinois. Your Grandmothers uncle, William Goodfellow, the Methodist Minister who first meet John Thomson in Argentina and found funding for him to go to college at Illinois Wesleyan where he met and married your Grandmother, was at that time a minister in a Methodist Church there.
As you have, no doubt, noticed, your aunt Mary is named after Rev. William Goodfellow's wife; Mary E. Dempster. I expect that she was staying with the Goodfellows at their home in Sandwich, DeKalb Co., Illinois when your Aunt Mary was born.
Mark
Notes for Elana (Child 1)
In a 9 January 2005 E-mail Helen Thomson Mickleburgh says that Elena Hirst had asthma along with several of her cousins.