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Masts of HMS Warrior 1860

Renfrew family

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 Part 4: Louisa Caroline Renfrew (1859 - 1930)

 

Marriage to Edvart Hans Jørgen Schwartz

Louisa Caroline Renfrew (referred to by her descendants as 'Granny Patton') was born 19 May 1859 and christened 28 December of that year in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Quebec City. Her parents were George Richard Renfrew and Eliza Jane Tweddell. She married shipbroker Edvart Hans Jørgen Schwartz (1858 - 1893) 26 December 1887. Edvart (known as 'Edward') was originally from Dammen, Norway. They had two children, George Bryant and Olga Renfrew. 

 

Marriage to Thomas Harold Betram Patton

After Edward’s death in 1893 from tuberculosis, Louisa married clerk Thomas Harold Bertram Patton (1863 - 1937) 31 August 1898. They continued to live in the Montcalm district but by 1911 had moved to and were living at 216 Heath St W. Toronto, where Thomas worked in a bank.

Louisa travelled frequently to England with her children before WWI, though Thomas only seemed to accompany them once. After the war, Louisa travelled at least three times more across the Atlantic. It seems her daughter Olga returned to live with them (possibly after her divorce from Major Thomas Geoffrey Leith). Louisa died in Toronto General Hospital 11 June 1930, aged 71, having suffered for some years from diabetes and arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and was buried in nearby Mt Pleasant Cemetery.

 

Louisa (date unknown)

 

Silhouette of Louisa? c1913

 

 

 

 

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