Agnes Mary Helen (Elsie) Townsend (366)

Date of Birth: 29 Oct 1882
Date of Death: 14 Sep 1920
Generation: 8th
Residence: Kootenay, British Columbia
Father: Reverend Horace Thomas Edward (Hoddy) Townsend [346]
Mother: Oldburn, Elizabeth
Spouse:
  1. Kemp, William Henry
Issue:
  1. William Aubrey (b. 10 Jan 1907)
  2. Joan Elsie (b. 26 Jan 1908)
  3. Molly Blanche (b. 31 Jan 1909)
  4. Lyle Horace (b. 9 Feb. 1912)
  5. Elizabeth (b. 13 Oct 1916)
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Notes for Agnes Mary Helen (Elsie) Townsend

Agnes' birth was recorded by Agnes Townsend [334] in her diary - 'Oct 29 1882 Horace's daughter Agnes Mary Helen born'.

Married 15 November 1905 in Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada. William Henry Kemp (1) was the third son of the Rev John Kemp.

William was a successful fruit grower at Erickson in the Kootenay region of British Columbia.

Agnes died of a heart attack and William married second Eleanor Mary Murphy, who died in 1975.

The daughter Joan Elsie married Earl Marriot. Of their children:

Alan Townshend Marriot of Glendora, California,(b 8 May 1936) married Betty Elaine Kennedy on 13 July 1963 and they had two sons, David and Daniel.

Wendy Marriot married Ken Davies and they had two daughters.

Kirsten Louise Davies (b. 30 April 1974) married Carson Robert Newby (b. 17 April 1970); both born in Dawson Creek, BC. They had a daughter Sydney Joan Davies Newby (b. 2 January 1995, Dawson Creek, BC) and a son Nikolas Earl Newby (b. 5 June 2002, Prince George, BC).

Rona Davies (b. 27 February 1972, Dawson Creek, BC) married Chad Duane Dalke (b. 31 January 1972, Edmonton, Alberta). They had a daughter Brighid Joan Davies Dalke (b. 16 June 2000) and a son Jarod Lewis Daniel Dalke (b. 27 May 2003), both born in Grande Prairie, Alberta.

(1) William was born on 22 June 1873 and died on 24 August 1955.