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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary Elizabeth Bixby: Birth: 17 Aug 1888 in South Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Death: 5 Feb 1973 in Melrose, Middlesex, Massachusetts

  2. William Hanson Bixby: Birth: 19 Jan 1890 in South Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Death: 7 Jul 1977 in Needham, Norfolk, Massachusetts

  3. Bessie Edith Bixby: Birth: 25 Jan 1892 in South Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Death: 31 May 1966 in Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts

  4. Helen Grace Bixby: Birth: 31 Dec 1893 in South Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Death: 9 Jun 1982 in Crown Point, Lake Co., Indiana

  5. Carrie Elsie Bixby: Birth: 26 May 1896 in South Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Death: 15 Jun 1976 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts

  6. Harry Irving Bixby: Birth: 27 Mar 1898 in South Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Death: 9 Apr 1985 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

  7. Minnie Ida Bixby: Birth: 16 Oct 1900 in South Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Death: 30 Sep 1988 in South Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts

  8. Florence Gertrude Bixby: Birth: 29 Jul 1903 in South Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Death: 27 Sep 1996 in Holbrook, Norfolk, Massachusetts

  9. Charles Marsh Bixby: Birth: 28 Mar 1905 in South Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Death: 9 Mar 1989 in ? North Port, Florida

  10. John Hadley Bixby: Birth: 23 May 1909 in South Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Death: 14 Mar 1912 in Holbrook, Norfolk, Massachusetts


Sources
1. Title:   Birthdays 'Round the Year
Author:   Mary Elizabeth (Bixby) White, record of family birthdays
Publication:   (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1941)
Text:   Events after 1941 appear to be entered as they occurred. Owned by Barbara J. Beake.
2. Title:   Mary Elizabeth Bixby birth certificate. (1888) no. 5162
Publication:   City Registrar's Office, Boston, Mass.
Text:   Certified copy, dated 15 March 1945, owned by Barbara J. Beake.
3. Title:   John James Bixby death certificate. (1920) 1:81, no. 25
Publication:   Office of the Town Clerk, Holbrook, Mass.
Text:   Copy dated 29 April 1993 owned by Barbara J. Beake.
4. Title:   list of Bixby family births & deaths, 1823-1989
Author:   Esther L. (White) Beake
Text:   Typed by from entries in Mary E. (Bixby) White's birthday book, with additions from her personal knowledge. Owned by Barbara J. Beake.
5. Title:   Photographs of records, gravestones, etc., owned by Barbara J. Beake.
6. Title:   John J Bixby & Carrie M Hanson marriage certificate (1888), no. 54
Publication:   City Registrar's Office, Boston, Mass.
Text:   Certificate no. 098762 J, issued 16 Sep 1993, owned by Barbara J. Beake.

Notes
a. Note:   John J., born about 1864; married Caroline [sic] M. Hanson.
  Listed in 1871 Canada census [enumerated 2 April] in father's household at Guysborough as John Bigsby, 9, Baptist. [Roll C-10563; p. 20; Family 59]
  According to his daughter Florence, he came to the US at age 16 [1879]. It must actually have been between 1881 and 1888, when he was married in Boston. According to his son Harry, he came from Nova Scotia via England.
  Marriage recorded at Boston as John J. Bixby of Boston, 24, Machinist, b. Nova Scotia, s. Abraham Bixby & Elizabeth A. -------; and Carrie M. Hanson of Boston, 22, At Home, b. Roxbury, Ma., dau. Hadley P. Hanson & Mary F. ------, first marriage for both, 22 Jan 1888, by David B. Jutten, Minister of the Gospel.
  Residences:South Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts & Holbrook, Norfolk MA He lived as 846 E. Fourth St, Boston, when his daughter Bessie Edith was born. Occupation: Carpenter.
  According to his son Harry, he was a millwright near the Gillette Factory, First St, South Boston, near Commonwealth Pier, near the Jenney refinery. "J. J. Bixby, Contractor & Builder". The family moved from South Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts to Holbrook, Norfolk, Massachusetts around 1912,
  He died at Norfolk County Hospital in Braintree.


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