Fonds Acc4397 - Life in the parsonage : memoirs of Georgiana May Johnson (nee Harrison)

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Life in the parsonage : memoirs of Georgiana May Johnson (nee Harrison)

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  • [ca. 1970] (Creation)
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    Johnson, Georgiana May

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93 p. of textual records

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Johnson, Georgiana May

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Georgiana May Harrison was born at the Methodist parsonage in Bedeque, Prince Edward Island on 23 August 1880, the ninth child of George Harrison and Margaret Isabel Tilley. On 13 July 1904, in Newcastle, New Brunswick, she married Reverend Hammond Johnson of Highfield, Prince Edward Island. Following the death of her husband in 1930 she returned to Prince Edward Island to keep house for Reverend Ayers in Bedeque, and later in Summerside. In 1960 she went to live with her son Douglas in Bathurst, N.B. , retiring to a nursing home in Sackville, N.B. in 1968.

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This document records Georgiana May (Harrison) Johnson's reminiscences of her life as the child of a minister in several parishes in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, followed by those as the wife of Rev. Hammond Johnson in the parishes of Summerside, Bedeque, and Charlottetown as well as in New Brunswick and Newfoundland. Her close association with the Methodist/United Church continued during her 30 years of housekeeping for Rev. Ayers in Bedeque and during his retirement in Summerside. The volume is filled with accounts of family, social events and customs, and details of Methodist clergy and practices of the time. Mrs. Johnson was in her nineties at the time this narrative was written.

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PERMISSION FOR USE AND REPRODUCTION IS REQUIRED FROM THE PUBLIC ARCHIVES AND RECORDS OFFICE; QUESTIONS REGARDING COPYRIGHT ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE USER

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