Birth: 26 January 1886 14 Esther Street, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada
Father: Thomas Abbey 1858-1893
Mother: Ruth Cross [Barton] 1862-1931
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 26 September 1907 Little Trinity Church, King Street, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada
Husband: Willard Garfield Ackney 1882-1934
Death: 4 July 1961 209 Betty Ann Drive, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada
Buried: Plot 16 Range 1 Section 3 St Johns Cemetery, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada
Entry in Ancestry Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1913 for Ellen Laverna (sic - in the index, Lavinia on the original) Abbey born on 26 January 1886 in York, Ontario, parents Thomas Abbey, a slater, and Ruth Cross, address 14 Esther Street, Toronto.
In the 1891 census as Nellie Abby (sic - on the original) aged 5, born in Ontario, a Methodist, and living with her parents (Thomas and Ruth), brother (Thos) and sister (Mary A) in St Lawrence Ward, East Toronto, Toronto City, Ontario.
Her father died in 1893 and her mother married Edward J Barton in Toronto in 1899.
In the 1901 Census as Ellen L Abbey aged 15, born on 26 January 1886, a tassell maker in a factory employing 12 and earning $150 and living with her stepfather (Edward J Barton), mother (Ruth C), brother (Thomas), three sisters (Amy M, Harriett V and Mary A), half-brother (Murice E) and half-sister (Gladys) in East Toronto, Ontario.
Entry in Ancestry Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928 for Ellen Lavania Abbay (sic - in the index, Lavania Abbey on the original) aged 22, born in Toronto, Ontario, parents Thomas Abbey and Ruth Cross, a spinster of Toronto, and Willard Garfield Ackney aged 25, born in Markham, Ontario, parents Charles and Susan Isabella Campbell Ackney, a bachelor and teamster of Toronto, on 26 September 1907 in York.
Her daughter was born in York, Ontario on 26 December 1908.
In the 1911 Census as Ellen Ackany (sic - in the index) aged 35, born in January 1886 in Ontario, Canadian of Irish descent, has life insurance for 600 cost 9.60, and living with her husband (Williad), daughter (William Ackney), and three lodgers (Thomas Asbry - brother?, Amy and Harry Asbry - both sisters?) at 150 Morse Streey, Toronto East, Ontario. The original is illegible.
In the 1921 census as Ellen Ackney aged 34, born in Canada, married at 34, parents born in England, and living with her husband (Willard), two daughters (Eilleen and Ruth), mother (Ruth Barton), and half-sister (Muriel Barton) in six rooms in a brick house rented ($14? per month) at 152 Morse Street, East Toronto, Ontario.
There are four entries in RootsWeb Worldconnect for Ellen Lavinia Abbey and her marriage to Willard (William in one) Garfield Ackney, three adding her birth on 26 January 1886 in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada, parents Thomas Abbey and Ruth Cross, her marriage on 26 Sep 1907 in Toronto, her two daughters, and her death on 4 July 1961 in Toronto and burial in St. Johns Cemetery Cemetery, Toronto,
There are forty seven entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Ellen Lavinia Abbey adding her marriage at Little Trinity Church, King Street, Toronto, death from heart attack on 4 July 1961, and burial in Plot 16 Range 1 Section 3 St Johns Cemetery, Toronto and following notice:
Note that in the service records for her brother Thomas she is frequently stated to be his mother instead of Ruth Cross.
Ellen Lavinia Abbey was the second cousin of Albert Alfred Cross, husband of Florence Violet Luff, my half second cousin once removed.
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