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Achille Botrine Canning, wife Annie Cockfield Canning, and children circa 1902, Loury Ave on 115th, Cleveland, Ohio. Oldest Child is Al. In front of Al is Hortence. On Achille's lap is George. Next to wife, Annie, is son Henry. Next to Henry is probably Amy. Owner of photo is Caroline Canning Richards, daughter of Henry. Scanned from a photocopy, March 31, 2001.
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MFA Canning
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Rafton Canning: death registry from London, 1866 (certified copy) --- gives address of death at a baker's establishment (home? shop?), on Spencer Street, a wealthy jewellers' /goldsmiths' street, Clerkenwell, occupation "beer and spirit merchant", person in attendance (his brother in law John O'Conner), with "Phthisis, Certified" as cause of death on Apr 3, age at death, 34.
George Canning: (Rafton's 2nd son) ~~~ death certificate from Ft. Worth, Texas, (certified copy) d.o.d. March 31, 1938, d.o.b. August 27, 1863, saying his father's name was George Canning, mother's name Mary Ann O'Conner, and that he, (George, Rafton's son) was born in France.
Achille Botrine Canning: (Rafton's 1st son) ~~~ Certificate of Death from the State of Ohio, Div. of Vital Statistics, obtained from the Ohio Historical Society. In this, his name is spelled Achille Botrium Canning, but this is explained by the fact that the convalescent hospital filled out that part of the certificate, and "botrium" is a microbial term, thus the confusion. The family always spelled it Botrine, and Achille himself was a Notary, so we take Botrine to be the correct spelling. Date of birth: blank. Age, "About 75 years." Birthplace: "Paris, France". Father: "Unknown". Mother: "Unknown". Wife: Anna. Trade or Profession: Collector. Date of death, July 30, 1937. Place of death, Cleveland, Ohio. Address at time of death: 925 Roanoke Rd., Cleveland Hgts. Informant: Henry Canning, Son (same address). Cemetery: Calvary Cemetery. Funeral Director: R. S. Mcllurch (McColloch?), The Millard (Milland?) Co. lic. # 1237. Body was embalmed.
Marinus Francis Alfred Canning: (Rafton's brother) ~~~ death certificate from Perth, Western Australia (certified copy), d.o.d. Nov. 13, 1911, at 83 years of age, saying his father's name was "Francis Canning (deceased)" and mother was Ann Powell; that he was born in Paris, France, and listing his surviving children.
Mary Ann O'Conner Canning Davidson: (Rafton's wife) ~~~ unreferenced newspaper obituary clipping (photocopy) titled "One in the Court of Napoleon III Dies," describing her sons (steel brokers in Cleveland), her adoption at age 16 into the court of Napoleon III by a French duchess, "many years of colorful court life", and her escape from France at the fall of the Second Empire, as a friend drove her to the coast from which location she made it safely to England (this tale is a veritable parallel of the escape of Empress Eugenia, who was driven incognito to the coast of France by Dr. Evans, her American dentist, and barely escaped to England, where a home had been prepared for her many months in advance).
George P. Canning: (Rafton's brother, which fact is established by an officer's journal entry wherein Rafton, owner of an "ale and stout depot in London," responds to newspaper ad seeking George's relatives in Nov., 1865) ~~~ evidence consists of historical military documentation from the journals of the officers of the CSS Shenandoah (photocopy of stamped official photocopy), the warship which destroyed the US whaling fleet in the Bering Sea, 1865, with George P. in charge of the Marine group and the guns ~~~ the crew learned he had a wife in Paris (but he would tell no one of her name or whereabouts), a brother in Australia, and that his friends were in "St. Germain"; he was accompanied on board by an older Negro servant named Edward Weeks whom he was very close to and whom he insisted on equal pay for; he said he was wounded at Shiloh, as an Aide de Camp for General Polk (but no record exists of him there); he died on board ship Oct. 30, 1865, of phthisis, and was buried at sea.
Paul Canning and Alfred Canning:
mentioned in letter (original, ink on thin paper, 8 pages) dated Aug. 3, 1877, from Louise Canning Pierrot to "sister" Mary Ann (O'Conner Canning). As Louise thinks she is dying ("I cough blood"), and Mary Ann has left for America, mention is made of every male child, of the generation following that of Rafton and Marinus, whom Louise has cared for. No mention of the father of Paul and Alfred is made. However, Paul is described as one who must have been a teenager "feeling his oats" and gets kicked out by Louise, preferring to lodge at the Chantilly stables where his heart lies. And Alfred is mentioned with him, as of good character, but hindered by his epilepsy, which is described as being serious. These two are contrasted by Louise with the "good" boys of Mary Ann.
Rafton (Paul) Canning: age 20 ~~~ noted in the 1881 census in England, working in Sussex as a servant at a hotel, born in "Arrusn Aube" (Arcis-sur-Aube?), France; referred to in Louise Canning Pierrot's letter, above.
For fuller details, see the Introduction
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