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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Cecil Desmond: Birth: 2 JUN 1899 in Parrsboro,Cumberland Co.,Nova Scotia,Canada.

  2. Richard Desmond: Birth: Abt 1902 in Parrsboro,Cumberland Co.,Nova Scotia,Canada. Death: OCT 1933 in At Sea

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  6. William Frances Norris Desmond: Birth: in Parrsboro,Cumberland Co.,Nova Scotia,Canada. Death: Bef 2 DEC 1984


Sources
1. Title:   1901 Cumberland County, Nova Scotia Census
2. Title:   Parrsboro Record Newspaper
Page:   7 Jan 1941, p. 4, Reel #2863 PANS
3. Title:   Cumberland County, Nova Scotia Marriages Transcription
Publication:   http://www.rootsweb.com/~nscumber/files/ccmarria.zip

Notes
a. Note:   on Sunday, December 19th, of Lena Maude Desmond, widow of Captain Daniel Desmond who, with his son, Richard and other crew members, was lost when the schooner "Ena F. Parsons" capsized in the Bay of Fundy in 1933. Fifty nine years of age, the late Mrs. Desmond was the former Lena Maude Kenney, daughter of the late Michael and Annie Morris Kenney of Halifax. Coming to Parrsboro with her parents, she has been a resident here for 45 years. Surviving are two daughters, Kathleen (Mrs. Frank Feener), of Liverpool; and Paula, at home who cared for her mother during her lengthy illness; three sons, Capt. Cecil, of Boston; Don, of New Bedford, Mass.; and William, at present at sea. Also, two sisters, Mrs. Allen Rule (Bertha), of Burlington, Mass.; Mrs. John Williams (Reta), of Medford, Mass.; and two brothers, Thomas and William, also in the United States. The funeral was from St. Briget's Church with 9 o'clock Mass on Thursday morning, with interment in St. Briget's cemetery. The pall-bearers were: Capt. James George, Joseph Kendrick, Charles Kelley and Basil Duffy (Parrsboro Record, 7 Jan 1941).
Note:   DEATH: Following a lengthy illness, the death occurred at her home here


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