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ca. 1860s - ca.1990s (Creation)
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- Ellsworth, Margaret
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2 boxes of textual and graphic materials.
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Biographical history
Margaret Cameron (nee Giffin) Ellsworth was born 16 July 1912 in Medford, Massachusetts, the only child of Alber Belle Savilla Fraser of Waternish, Guysborough County, and Eldon James Giffin of Isaac's Harbour, Guysborough County. Her parents met while living and working in Boston, Massachusetts. Margaret was raised in the United States, but returned frequently to Guysborough County to visit extended family and friends, often spending summers at the Fraser family home in Waternish (now demolished). Interested in local and family history, she amassed an extensive collection of photographs, genealogies, and other materials relating to the Fraser and MacIntosh families of St. Mary's, and the Giffin family of Isaac's Harbour. She married Henry Ellsworth of Greenfield, NY in 1959 and lived and worked in Illinois as a nursing professor. She died in 1998.
Custodial history
The collection was donated to the St. Mary's Genealogy Research Centre at Sherbrooke Village in 2016 by Scott and Vi Fraser.
Scope and content
Collection consists of letters, genealogy research, obituaries, newspaper clippings, poetry, a scrapbook, and numerous photographs created, compiled, or accumulated by Margaret Ellsworth relating to the Fraser family of Waternish, Guysborough County and their descendants living throughout Canada and the United States. Also included are materials relating to the MacIntosh family of Sherbrooke and the Giffin family of Isaac's Harbour, Guysborough County. Photographs range in date from the mid-19th century to the late 1980s, and include studio portraits, candid family and community snapshots, as well as landscape images of the St. Mary's River valley and Isaac's Harbour areas.
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Most items in the collection have been digitized.
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Digital object: Studio portrait of Margaret Giffin Ellsworth as a young girl, likely taken in Boston before 1920. Acc. # 2016.001. Margaret Ellsworth collection, Ser. 1.1, # 24.4
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- Cameron family (Subject)