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Title: Irene Astles did she have any children.
Post by: dfk on Sunday 12 July 20 02:51 BST (UK)
Hi, Irene Astles born in 1913 in Ontario who worked as a nurse married a Dr Thoreau Willard O'Mulvenny in 1943 in Elgin County, did she have any children to either her husband or another ??
Proberley hard to answer me thinks.
Thanking you.
David in New Zealand.
Title: Re: Irene Astles did she have any children.
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 12 July 20 04:22 BST (UK)
Hi,

Dr. Thoreau Willard O'Mulvenny's obituary is in the Globe and Mail newspaper on 15 Feb 1979, page 58.  It says he died at the Welland General Hospital on 11 Feb. 1979.  Husband of Muriel (Patterson) O'Mulvenny.  In his 76th year.  Brother of Mrs A T Minnes (Ena) of Vineland, Ontario.  Interment St. Thomas Cemetery Mausoleum. 

There is no mention of any children, and no mention of Irene. 

RK
Title: Re: Irene Astles did she have any children.
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 12 July 20 04:26 BST (UK)
Findagrave....here is Thoreau O'Mulvenny

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70455819/thoreau-willard-o_mulvenny

RK
Title: Re: Irene Astles did she have any children.
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 12 July 20 04:46 BST (UK)
Looks like Irene married again - surname Gibson.  She died in 1990

Findagrave in McAffee Cemetery, Fort Erie, Ontario (with her parents)

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142133098

RK

Title: Re: Irene Astles did she have any children.
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 12 July 20 05:15 BST (UK)
Thoreau was married prior to Irene....found a divorce for Florence Gertrude O'Mulvenny and Thoreau Willard O'Mulvenny in Sept 1943. 

RK
Title: Re: Irene Astles did she have any children.
Post by: dfk on Sunday 12 July 20 08:45 BST (UK)
Not sure what it all means, i must dig a bit more.
David
Title: Re: Irene Astles did she have any children.
Post by: RunKitty on Sunday 12 July 20 14:13 BST (UK)
I can see Irene with Thoreau on the 1963 voters list.  In 1968, they are not living together, but she is still using the surname O'Mulvenny.   

I would assume that this means that Thoreau and Irene separated between 1963 and 1968.  A marriage for Irene to ? Gibson would have been after 1968.   

No children were mentioned in Thoreau's obituary.   

RK :) 
Title: Re: Irene Astles did she have any children.
Post by: dfk on Monday 13 July 20 02:39 BST (UK)
Thank you so much.