Who’s Who at Newman Place Christian Assembly, Montreal, QC

Newman Place Christian Assembly, Montreal, Southcentral Quebec, Canada; aka Natural History Hall

(OB-F) 1856-2020+

Correspondents

• William Craig Baynes (1809-1887) 1856-1879+
• T.M. Taylor +1889+
• Frederick Hart (b. 1825 Birmingham, England - d. 1894 Montreal, QC) +1889-1894
  • did a printing internship in 1841 for an artist named John Evans (b. 1779 Birmingham, England)
  • son of John Hart, coach proprieta
  • m. Hannah Bailey on Jan. 28, 1851 @ Church of the Saviour, Edward St., Birmingham, England
    • dau. of John Bailey, paper maker
• James Mundell Aird (b. 1853 Montreal, QC - d. 1926 Montreal, QC) +1871/1894-1926
  • m. Maria Louisa Jameson in 1881
  • in 1871 lived in Montreal with (all PB), worked as a driver:
    • Thomas Cook (b. 1824 U.K.) whitewasher
    • Anna Cook (b. 1821 U.K.) wife
    • Helen Thomas (b. 1843 Scotland), dressmaker
    • Alfred Birch (b. 1834 U.S.), whitewasher (whitewashed the walls of cottages)
• Drummond Redpath Blackader (b. 1849 U.S. - d. 1902 Montreal, QC) +1891-1902
  • Raised in Brantford, ON
  • PB druggist in 1891-1901
  • son of Francis Fraser Blackader (b. 1813 Stirling, Scotland - d. 1888 Montreal, QC), of the Bank of Montreal, & Margaret Pringle Drummond (b. 1821 Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 1887 Montreal, QC)
  • brothers Alex & Edward Blackader were Montreal surgeons
• William Frederick Hart (b. 1854 Montreal, QC - d. 1936 Montreal, QC) +1901-1903+
  • son of Frederick Hart (1825-1894)
• Henry Hammond (b. 1843 Montreal, QC - d. 1916 Montreal, QC) +1881-1916

• Edward Charles Barry Featherstonhaugh (b. 1851 Guelph, ON - d. 1945 Montreal, QC) +1871-1945
• Frederick William Collier (b. 1851 British Guiana) +1905+, +1911-1923+
  • son-in-law Edward Charles Barry Featherstonhaugh

• Rowland Hamilton Blennerhassett (b. 1867 Coolaney, County Sligo, Ireland - d. 1950 Montreal, QC) +1923-1933+
  • m. Janet Weston Gordon (1870-1936)
• Ebenezer George Millard (b. 1876 Montreal, QC - d. 1949 Montreal, QC) +1927-1949
  • m. Annie Grace Corbett (b. 1878 QC, Wes. Meth. - d. 1958 Outremont, QC)
  • watchmaker in 1911
• Stanley Herbert McDowell (b. 1875 Champlain, NY - +1933+
  • son of Silas McDowell (1837-1908) & Blanche Beatrice Bedwell (1847-1908) m. 1866
    • PB by 1901
  • m. 1925 Grace Elizabeth Robertson (b. 1890) in York, ON
• David Hudson Taylor (b. 1876 ON) +1881/+1944+
  • son of William Taylor, PB shoemaker (b. 1838 ON) & Mary Spiers Taylor (b. 1840 ON)
  • ch: David Hudson Taylor (1922-2004)
• William C. Martin +1944+
• Herbert William Racey (1886-1951) +1949+
  • son of Dr. John Racey (b. 1834 Edinburgh, Scotland, lived 1871 Quebec City, QC - d. 1906 Lennoxville, QC) & Martha Sophia Ritchie Racey (b. 1842 N.B. - d. 1929 Lennoxville, QC), m. 1863 Quebec City, QC Anglican; both PB
• James Leishman Grimsgaard (b. 1897 Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Scotland - d. 1965) +1949-1965
  • son of Kristian Lefevre Grimsgaard (b. 1861 Norway - d. 1930 Montreal, QC) & Agnes Morrison Rae Kerr Grimsgaard (b. 1867 Falkirk, Sterling, Scotland - d. 1955 Montreal, QC)
  • m. Beatrice Gertrude Pattison (b. 1896 QC - d. 1984 Montreal, QC)
    • dau. of George Alexander Pattison (b. 1872 Montreal, QC - d. 1946 Tucson, AZ) & Ethel Blanche McDowell Pattison (b. 1868 Montreal, QC - d. 1957 Montreal, QC), both PB;
    • niece of Harley H. Bowell (b. 1865 U.S.), PB & Gertrude M. Bowell (b. 1871 U.S.), in 1911 PB in Hochelaga, QC
    • PB coachman of uncle & aunt: Henry Lambert (b. 1871 Glasgow, Scotland)
• Ernest Walter Wakefield (1906-1977) +1951-1977
• Roland James Blennerhassett, Sr. (1897-1984) +1951+
  • m. Ethelwyn Bickerdike (1895-1967) & Anna Margaret Dickson Stewart (1905-1999)
• Walter Gordon Blennerhassett (1904-1988) +1951+
  • m. Florence Viola Crowe (1907-1980) at St. Paul Baptist in 1928
• Roland Beacham (b. 1904 England - d. 1972 Perth, ON) +1962-1966+
  • m. Evelyn Gertrude Hipp (b. 1904 - d. 1979 Perth, ON)
    • dau. Edmund Gregory Hipp (b. 1851 London, England - d. 1910 Ottawa, ON) & Ida Helena Wilson Hipp (b. 1855 Jersey City, NJ - d. 1938 Ottawa, ON)
• Morton Hugh Mearns (b. 1914 - d. 2006 Perth, ON) +1962-1973+
  • m. Jeannette Marie Parent
  • ch: Jeannette Nowers (Toronto, ON), Louise DeGraaf (Grand Rapids, MI), Peter Mearns (Bolton, ON), Daniel Mearns (Somerset, NJ), David Mearns (Lombardy, ON)
• Hazen Emerson Galbraith (b. 1922 St. John, NB - d. 2014 Lorneville, NB) +1966-1973+
  • m. Florence Evelyn Galbraith (b. 1925 St. John, NB - d. 2007 Lorneville, NB)
• William Henry Smeall (b. 1911 Montreal, QC - d. 2009 Montreal, QC) +1973-1985+
  • m. Madeline Pringle (1909-1977)
• David Martin +1985-1999+
• John Edmund Beacham (1930-2007) +1985-2005+
• John Arendt (b. 1930 Geneva, Switzerland - d. 2019 Montreal, QC) +1985-2005+