Birth: 26 August 1893 152 Morse Street, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada
Father: Thomas Abbey 1858-1893
Mother: Ruth Cross [Barton] 1862-1931
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 17 January 1914 Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada
Husband: Garnet Dudley Deacon 1882-1957
Death: 12 December 1989 Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada
Gladys Edna Deacon [Brennan]
Mary Ella Deacon [Keefe]
May Margaret Deacon [Taylor]
Thomas Garnet Deacon
Albert Deacon 1914-1927
Vera Helen Deacon [Coulman] 1916-1957
Florence Irene Deacon [Lightfoot] 1918-2000
Muriel Amy Deacon [Colclough] 1921-1972
Arthur Dudley Deacon 1928-1981
Hazel Eleanor Deacon [Work] 1928-1981
Entry in Ancestry Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1913 for Amy Abbey on 26 August 1893 in York, Ontario, parents Thomas Abbey and Ruth Cross. Her father was a slater and informant, address 152 Morse Street, City.
Her father died in 1893 and her mother married Edward J Barton in Toronto in 1899.
In the 1901 Census as Amy Abbey born in 26 August 1893 in Ontario, Canadian but of Irish origin, a methodist and inmate with Thomas (brother?) and Harriet (sister?) together with some twenty others at the Loyal True Blue Orphanage Hallowell, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada, but also as Amy M Abbey aged 7, born on 26 August 1883 (sic - in the index) in Ontario, of English decent and living with her step father (Edward J Barton), mother (Ruth C), brother (Thomas), three sisters (Ellen L, Harriett V and Mary A), half-brother (Murice E) and half-sister (Gladys) in East Toronto, Ontario.
In the 1911 Census as Alice Asbry (sic - in the index) aged 17, born August 1883 in in Ontario, single, a grocer employed by Good Farming working 52 weeks in previous year, 49 hours in previous week earnings 280, and lodging with Williad and Ellen Ackany (brother-in-law and sister), William Ackney (neice), Thomas Asbry (brother?) and (Harry Asbry (sister?) at 150 Morse Streey, Toronto East, Ontario. The original is illegible.
In the Ancestry Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928 for Amy Abbay (sic) aged 20, born in Toronto, Ontario, parents Thomas Abbay (sic) and Ruth Cross, and George Garnet Beacon (sic), aged 26, born in Brighton, England, parents Albert Beacon and Madeline Boucher on 17 January 1914 in Toronto, York, Ontario. Her address is given as 52 Morse Street, she was a spinster and Church of England.
In the 1921 Census as Amy Deakin (sic - on the original) aged 27, born in Ontario, parents born in England, and living with her husband (George), son (Albert) and three daughters (Florence, May and Vera) at 33 Barker Avenue, York, Ontario.
Eight entries in Ancestry Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980 for Amy Deacon address 35 Barker, York, Ontatio, other occupant George Deacon (husband?), and 83 Barker Avenue, York, Ontario from 1945 to 1972, other occupants George Deacon (Husband?) in 1945, Thomas Deacon (son?) in 1945, Gladys, Muriwl and Very Deacon (daughters?) in 1945, Arthur Deacon (son?) in 1957 and 1958, and Hazel Deacon (daughter?) in 1957 and 1958.
There are twenty eight entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Amy Matilda Abbey adding her death on 12 December 1989 in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada.
Amy Matilda Abbey was the second cousin of Albert Alfred Cross, husband of Florence Violet Luff, my half second cousin once removed.
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