BCDC states "Hendry" as middle name.
Agnes Henry/Hendry Mullen, daughter of Patrick Mullen and Helen Hendry. Agnes always insisted that her middle name was supposed to be Hendry, not Henry, as her father had registered the birth. She arrived in Canada aboard the S.S. Canada 11 Oct 1907 to work as a domestic after her mother died. She was sent to work for Mrs. Wade Hibbard, Cornell Heights, Ithaca NY; wife of Herbert Wade Hibbard, a Professor of Railroad Mechanical Engineering. It's likely that is how Agnes met Lawrence Wilkinson Allen, Civil Engineer. They had three children in Fort William, Ontario: Lawrence W. Jr, Dorothy and Marjorie.
After baby Dorothy died she and young Larry visited two of her sisters in Scotland. When she and Lawrence split after WW1, she worked for the Hudson's Bay Company in Winnipeg, Manitoba until she married James Claude Thornton. He was a taxi driver who saved her life by taking her to the hospital when she collapsed during the Spanish Fu epidemic. They moved to Burnaby, BC in the 1930s where they built a house and started a chicken farm. Agnes volunteered with St. John's Ambulance and the Sons of Scotland. She died of bronchopneumonia and arteriosclerotic heart disease at Valleyview Hospital, Coquitlam, BC.
Her 2nd husband James Claude Thornton died 1939 and is buried beside her but he had no grave marker; son-in-law David A. Banning's ashes are interred there and her daughter Marjorie's ashes are interred in Agnes' grave.
BCDC states "Hendry" as middle name.
Agnes Henry/Hendry Mullen, daughter of Patrick Mullen and Helen Hendry. Agnes always insisted that her middle name was supposed to be Hendry, not Henry, as her father had registered the birth. She arrived in Canada aboard the S.S. Canada 11 Oct 1907 to work as a domestic after her mother died. She was sent to work for Mrs. Wade Hibbard, Cornell Heights, Ithaca NY; wife of Herbert Wade Hibbard, a Professor of Railroad Mechanical Engineering. It's likely that is how Agnes met Lawrence Wilkinson Allen, Civil Engineer. They had three children in Fort William, Ontario: Lawrence W. Jr, Dorothy and Marjorie.
After baby Dorothy died she and young Larry visited two of her sisters in Scotland. When she and Lawrence split after WW1, she worked for the Hudson's Bay Company in Winnipeg, Manitoba until she married James Claude Thornton. He was a taxi driver who saved her life by taking her to the hospital when she collapsed during the Spanish Fu epidemic. They moved to Burnaby, BC in the 1930s where they built a house and started a chicken farm. Agnes volunteered with St. John's Ambulance and the Sons of Scotland. She died of bronchopneumonia and arteriosclerotic heart disease at Valleyview Hospital, Coquitlam, BC.
Her 2nd husband James Claude Thornton died 1939 and is buried beside her but he had no grave marker; son-in-law David A. Banning's ashes are interred there and her daughter Marjorie's ashes are interred in Agnes' grave.
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