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James Edmund CAIRNCROSS
(1830 –1893)
Elizabeth LINDSAY
(1835 –1928)
Andrew McCullum MORROW
(Abt 1842 – )
Jane ROTHWELL
(Abt 1847 –1878)
Edmund William CAIRNCROSS
(1873 –1939)
Eva Maude MORROW
(1874 –1947)
Bessie Evelyn CAIRNCROSS
(1900 –1980)

 

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Spouses & Children

1. Jess Marvin HARPER

Bessie Evelyn CAIRNCROSS 3
  • Born: 29 July 1900, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 4 5
  • Marriage (1): Jess Marvin HARPER on 4 June 1924 in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles County, California, USA 1 2
  • Died: 22 July 1980, Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA at age 79 6
  • Buried: 1980, North Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA 7

bullet   Cause of her death was heart attack.

bullet   Other names for Bessie were Bessie CAIRNCROSS,8 Bessie E. CAIRNCROSS,5 Bessie CARENCROSS 4 and Bessie Evelyn HARPER.6

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bullet  General Notes

BESSIE EVELYN CAIRNCROSS was born 22 July 1900 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the daughter of Edmund William Cairncross and his wife, Eva Maude Morrow. The family emigrated to the United States. They first lived in Idaho (Buhl and Twin Falls) before eventually settling in Glendale, California.

On 4 June 1924, in Eagle Rock, California, Bessie married auto mechanic Jess Marvin Harper. Jess was born 29 January 1892 in Buffalo, New York, the son of James M. Harper and Ellen Callahan. Together they had two sons, Marvin Joseph Harper (1928 –1946) and Stanley Edwin Harper (1933 – 2008).

Jess and Bessie had been married for not quite 10 years when Jess was involved in an auto accident and died of his injuries on 24 April 1934 at the age of 42. Bessie remained a widow for the next 46 years until she died of a heart attack in the Glendale offices of Dr. David Bee. It was a week short of her 80th birthday. Bessie, like her husband before her, was buried in Valhalla Memorial Park.

— brief bio written for FindAGrave, 28 Aug 2016, kmh.

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bullet  Birth Notes

prob Winnipeg

bullet  Death Notes

died of a heart attack in the Glendale offices of Dr. David Bee.

bullet  Burial Notes

Valhalla Memorial Park

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bullet  Recorded Events in Her Life


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  • She appeared on the 1901 Census of Canada in 1901 in Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 5

    1901 census of Canada:
    District: MB WINNIPEG (City/Cité) (#12)
    Subdistrict: Ward/Quartier No. 1 A-3 Page 3
    Schedule 1 Microfilm T-6435
    line 42, household #30


    CAIRNCROSS, Ed, head, M, b 26 Dec 1873, age 27, b O r, Scotch, Presby; carpenter;
    " , Eva M., wife, F, b 1 Nov 1875, age 25; b O r, Scotch, Presby;
    " , Bessie E., daughter, F, b 29 July 1900; 1?; b W M, Scotch, Presby;
  • She has conflicting birth information of 29 July 1901 and Canada. 6
  • She immigrated per 1910 census in 1909. 8
  • She immigrated per 1920 census in 1910. 4

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  • She appeared on the 1910 US Federal Census on 16 April 1910 in Buhl, Twin Falls County, Idaho, USA. 8

    Broadway #41/44:
    Cairncross, Edmond; head; 36 (b ca 1874), M1, 10; b Can/English;fa & mo b Scot/English; immigration 1909; alien; Builder/house
    " , Eva M, wife; 32, M1, 10; 4 children/4 living; b Can/English; fa b Irish/English; mo b Can/English; immigration 1909
    " , Stanley, son; 9; b Can/English; fa & mo b Can/English; immigration 1909
    " , Bessie, daur; 8; b Can/English; fa & mo b Can/English; immigration 1909
    ", Joseph, son; 2; b Can/English; fa & mo b Can/English; immigration 1909
    " , Baby, daur; 0; b Idaho; fa & mo b Can/English
  • She was naturalized per 1920 census in 1918. 4

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  • She appeared on the 1920 US Federal Census on 23 January 1920 in Twin Falls, Twin Falls County, Idaho, USA. 4

    1920>>Idaho>>Twin Falls Co>>Twin Falls City Precinct
    5, ED 255;
    pg 289B (stamped); enumerated 23 Jan 1920;
    img 40 of 42;
    line 52
    #458/490/549

    CARENCROSS, Edmund, head; 46; emig 1910/nat/1918; b Ontario Can/english;  both parents b Scotland/Scottish; agent/insurance;
    " , Eva, daur *(obvious error in relationship); 43, emig 1910/nat/1918; b Ontario Can/English; fa b Ireland/Irish; mo b Ontario Can/English;
    " , Bessie, daur; 19, single; emig 1910/nat/1918; b Manitoba Can/Engl; both parents b Ontario Can/English;
    " , Stanley, son; 17; emig 1910/nat/1918; b Manitoba Can/English; both parents b Ontario Can/English;
    " , Joseph, son; 12; emig 1910/na/; b Manitoba Can/English; both parents b Ontario Can/English;
    " , Marcia, daur, 9; b Idaho, both parents b Ontario Can/English;
  • She had a residence before 1980 in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA.
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Bessie married Jess Marvin HARPER on 4 June 1924 in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles County, California, USA.1 2 (Jess Marvin HARPER was born on 29 January 1892 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA, died on 24 April 1934 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA 9 and was buried in 1934 in North Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA.). The cause of his death was Multiple internal injuries with internal hemorrhage (auto accident).

bullet  Recorded Events about their Marriage


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Original data: Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. NARA microfilm publication T626, 2,667 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC).
  2. Marriage Certificate (digital or paper copy of official marriage record privately held by Kirsty M. Haining).
  3. Kirsty M. Haining.
  4. Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC), Edmund Carencross family, Twin Falls City, Twin Falls County, Idaho, USA.
  5. Ancestry.com, 1901 Census of Canada [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2006. Original data: Library and Archives Canada. Census of Canada, 1901. Ottawa, Canada: Library and Archives Canada. RG31, T-6428 to T-6556), Ed Cairncross household, Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
  6. Ancestry.com, California, Death Index, 1940 –1997 [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: State of California. California Death Index, 1940 –1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics).
  7. John B. Craven, “The Hainings and the Cravens: A Twentieth Century Family History” (mss. privately published in 1995, but it was a work in progress. John continued to update, add content, and re-write his manuscript up until his death in 2014.), Chapter 19:  The Cairncrosses and the Lindsays.
  8. Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910. NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC), Edmond Cairncross household, Buhl, Twin Falls County, Idaho, USA.
  9. Death Certificate (digital or paper copy of official death record privately held by Kirsty M. Haining).


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