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My great grandfather, James Mitchell Lee, was a school master, in a state school I think. He died, age 50, on 27 October 1910 and is buried in Belfast City Cemetery. My great grandmother, Julia Anna Lee, was a teacher. She died at the age of 83 and is buried in the same grave, H2 33. The family lived at 140 Cliftonpark Avenue, Shankill, Belfast.
My paternal grandmother was born in Belfast in 1896. Her name was Norah Kathleen Willison Lee. I have her birth certificate. When her father died in 1910, she came to the U.S. at the age of 14. There is some thought that she sailed from Liverpool and arrived in Canada. I’m not sure where this information came from or if it is correct.
There were four children. James Mitchell Lee Jr., 1884-1937. He and his wife, Glyndys, are buried in a separate grave. They had no children. Julia Evelyn Anna, 1891-1953, is buried along side her parents. A son, Robert Bertram Fox, died at the age of two months in 1893. He too is buried with his parents. My grandmother was the youngest.
My grandparents married in Chicago. I have their marriage certificate. My father, Allan James Pierson Jr, was born in Chicago in 1916. He was the eldest of seven.
I don’t have any information prior to my great grandparents. The family was Presbyterian so I am assuming Scots-Irish.
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