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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:   1881 Cumberland County, Nova Scotia Census
2. Title:   1891 Cumberland County, Nova Scotia Census
3. Title:   1901 Cumberland County, Nova Scotia Census
4. Title:   Cumberland County, Nova Scotia Marriages Transcription
Publication:   http://www.rootsweb.com/~nscumber/files/ccmarria.zip

Notes
a. Note:   August Anderson, real name August Yelsness, of Sarpsborg, Norway. (From the Parrsboro Record, 6 Dec 1932) CENSUS: This family was listed as the DIAMOND family in the 1891 Cumberland County census. DEATH: "LUMBER-STREWN SEAS DEEMED PROOF OF LOSS BELIEVE THE THREE-MASTER, ENA F. PARSONS, CARRIED CREW TO THEIR DEATHS Yarmouth, Oct 11, 1933 - Tossing and twisting in turbulent seas some 10 miles south-west of Lurcher lightship, a great quanity of drifting lumber, sighted today, added further evidence that the missing three-masted schooner Ena F. Parsons had foundered with the loss of five lives. The lumber was sighted by Captain George Killam, owner of the yacht Kabob. It seemed strange to him, because he saw no floating hull and he had not heard of the waterlogged hulk sighted 40 miles off Cape Forchu by Captain Moyle Crouse of the Connoisseur. W.C. Purney, Lloyd's agent, said he had nothing official to report, but he expressed his belief that the Ena F. Parsons, which left Weymouth with a lumber cargo Saturday just before a wild storm set in, would have been in the approximate position of the wreck. While the motorship Bernardo was preparing to leave here at midnight to search for the wreckage, it was learned that J.C. Chesley, Marine Department agent in Saint John, had ordered the R.C.M.P. steamer Chaleur to seek the hull to establish its identification and tow it to safety where it will not be a menace to navigation. The Chaleur is now near Yarmouth, and can reach the position much quicker than the Government steamer Dollard which is at Digby. The other Government vessel in the district, the Laurentian, is undergoing repairs. On board the missing schooner were Captain Daniel Desmond, Parrsboro, Richard Desmond, his son who was mate, Richard's young wife, the former Miss Theresa Hengood, Parrsboro, who was register as cook, Gus Olsen 40, and Clarence Forbes 23, both of Parrsboro. Captain Desmond was managing owner of the craft, and Hon. Albert Parsons, former M.L.A. is a part owner." (From The Halifax Herald, 12 Oct. 1933) DEATH: "PARRSBORO SCHOONER IS WRECKED IN STORM DEATH: Schooner "Ena F. Parsons", out of Weymouth for Boston, caught in terrific storm last weekend, towed into Westport, Maine. No trace of master and crew of four. Unable to right vessel. Load of lumber in her hold helped keep her afloat upside down. Found derelict by motor vessel "Grace Lee." Another vessel sent from Westport, Maine to tow her in to port, upside down. Captain Daniel Desmond, master and joint owner left Weymouth last Saturday, October 14, for Boston with a cargo of lumber and carrying a crew of 3 men and a woman cook. Crew are Richard Desmond, Mate and his wife who acted as cook; Clarence Forbes, seaman; Augustus Olseri, seaman. Thought the body of the Mate's wife, Mrs. Richard Desmond (nee Theresa Henwood) would be found in the cabins of the schooner but small hope is held out for the lives of any aboard the ill-fated vessel." (Excerpts from article appearing in the Parrsboro Record, 17 Oct 1933) DEATH: "Another Parson's vessel, the three masted Ena Parson sailed sometime ago with Capt. Dan Desmond aboard. She was loaded in a port in St. Mary's Bay and later was lost near Briar Island. All her people were lost." (Excerpt from Reminiscences of Charles Tupper, 1930-1940, from the Town of Parrsboro Website) BAPTISM: Baptismal date precedes birth date as recorded on the 1901 census.
Note:   In 1932 Capt. Daniel Desmond was a pallbearer at the funeral of Capt.


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