Who's Who at Rockway Valley Meeting Room, QC

From BrethrenPedia

Jump to: navigation, search

Rockway Valley Meeting Room, Amherst, Les Laurentides, Laurentides, Greater Montreal, Central Quebec, Canada (TW-eb) 1976-current

Notable Families

Price family

As per Ancestry.com, In 1931, the Price family resided in Montreal, and all three (Samuel & Jessie, and Harold) were PB. Samuel was employed that year as a telephone inspector, who immigrated to Montreal from England in 1880 with his widowed mother and siblings. The Price family was PB as early as 1881. His mother was Kate Price (b. 1837 Eng.). His siblings:

  • Kate Caroline Price (b. 1862 Eng.)
  • John Finch Price (b. 1867 Eng. - d. 1930 St-Jovite, Mont-Tremblant, Les Laurentides, QC). In 1901, John was CoE, and employed as an electrician, residing in Cowansville, Missisquoi, QC. In 1911, he was a foreman at the Ste-Julie, Montreal branch of Bell Telephone.
  • Grace Price (b. 1869 Eng.)
  • Rachael Price (b. 1871 Eng.)
  • David Price (b. 1875 Eng.)
  • Mercy Price (b. 1878 Eng.)

Isabella Mathes Robertson (b. 1857 Eng.) was widowed in 1891, and resided in Sherbrooke with her (also widowed) father, Francis Mathes (b. 1822 Eng.) and her two daughters Jessie (Harold William Price's mother), and sister C. Belle Robertson (b. 1883 QC). Jessie's mother was Isabel Mathes (b. 1818 Eng.), registered in 1881 in Ascot, Sherbrooke, QC as Wesleyan Methodist. By 1891, the surviving family was registered as "Christian", which could signify their intro to the PB.

  • Harold William Price 1976-1990+ (b. 1912 Ste-Jean-Sur-Richelieu,QC - d. 1996 Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, QC), son of Samuel Price (b. 1873 Eng. - d. 1941 Montreal, QC) & Jessie Robertson Price (b. 1879 Ascot, Sherbrooke, QC - d. 1933 Montreal, QC).
  • Edith Gertrude Grace Price 1976-1986 (1912-1986 Montreal, QC; m. 1931), daughter of Thomas Charles Grace (b. 1883 Littlehampton, Sussex, Eng. - d. 1962 Montreal, QC) & Gertrude Evelyn Brown Price (b. 1885 Woolwich, London, Eng.; m. 1908 St. Martin's Church, Montreal, QC). Thomas Grace was a corporal in the Ordnance Store Corps.