My Family Tree

Guardian Monday May 6, 1929

Mrs Blanche Gorrill accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Theo Hart and her little daughter, Shirley. spent the latter part. of lsst week in Summer-I side. While there they were thef guests o! Mrs. George McPherson....

Guardian Tuesday March 3, 1953

...Sincere sympathy is being ex- tended to Mrs. Theo. Hart and iamlly in the death oi her daugh- ter, Mrs. Fraser Cooke. in the Pro- vincial Ssnatorium, Charlottetown. -

There is a baptismal record for Mamie Blanche Campbell Hart, born 15 October 1905 on the Hamilton Road, PEI, to Theophilis (Theophilus) Hart and Mary Jane (Jennie) Campbell. <ref>PEI Baptismal Index, transcribed record in the PEI PARO Database Collection</ref>

Blanche Hart, born 1906, was in the household of John and Matilda Betts in the 1921 Canadian census. A user submitted comment says that Hart should be Betts, based on the personal knowledge of her mother. <ref> Reference Number: RG 31; Folder Number: 104; Census Place: Hamilton Road, Prince, Prince Edward Island; Page Number: 3
1921 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2013. </ref><ref>Blanche Mamie is not listed as a daughter of John Clifford Betts and Matilda Boulter on a family tree submitted to the Island Register, The Descendants of Isaac Sr. Betts</ref> She was not in the household of Clifford and Matilda Bets, Lot 8, in the 1911 census of PEI. He family was under Heart in the 1911 census.. The Betts farm was near to the farm of Walter Alfred Gorrill's father.

According to the family tree of Humphrey Gorrill and Eleanor Dyment submitted to the Island Register website, "Walter Alfred Gorrill (Alfred2 Humphrey1) was born at Glenwood 2 March 1899 to Alfred Gorrill and Ada MacWilliams and was baptized the 7th of the following March. He married Blanche M. Hart, who was born 15 October 1905. They had one child. Blanche died 23 February 1923 and was buried in the Cape Wolfe Methodist (now United) cemetery. Walter died in 1928 and was buried in the Glenwood United cemetery."

The marriage of Walter Alfred Gorrill and Mamie Blanche Hart was in the PEI Marriage Licenses databases, in 1924. <ref> PRI PARO RG19/s3/ss6: Marriage registrations, 1924 </ref>

Walter, wife Blanche, and infant son were in the Rural Directory, Lot 8 of Cummins Atlas. <ref>http://www.islandimagined.ca/fedora/repository/imagined:208760</ref>

Blanche married Fraser C. Cooke and died on February 23 1953. <ref>Photograph of gravestone on PEI Ancestry, in Cape Wolfe United Church Cemetery Lot 7 </ref><ref> PEI PARO RG19/s2/ss6: Death registration books, 1953 , Mrs Blanche Cooke of Bloomfield</ref>

...Sincere sympathy is being extended to Mrs. Theo. Hart and famlly in the death of her daughter, Mrs. Fraser Cooke, in the Provincial Sanatorium, Charlottetown. <ref>Charlottetown Guardian Tuesday March 3, 1953 </ref>