Blanche Louisa Bray

  Research Notes:

Source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:382801&id=I253 - no detail

Source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=alh001&id=I185 has detail.

From text accompanying a photograph of Beatrice Florence Elizabeth Large at http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/a/r/Richard-B-Carruthers/index.html :
"[Beatrice's] mother, Blanche Louisa Bray, Mrs James Large, is said to have been trained in the chemist's shop of her father, William Bray, J.P., R.N.(1814-1882), chemist and druggist of Petrolea (now Petrolia), Ontario, as 'the first lady pharmacist in Canada' along with her two brothers John Lang Bray and William Thomas Bray, came from a medical family."

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census, 1851, Adelaide Twp, Middlesex, Canada West (Ontario), (Canada).

• Census, 1861, Adelaide Twp, Middlesex, Canada West (Ontario), (Canada).

• Confirmation, 18 Aug 1861, St. Anne's, Adelaide Twp, Middlesex, Canada West (Ontario), Canada.

• Census, 1881, Perry Twp, Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada.

• Census, 1891, Perry Twp, Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada.

• Census, 1901, McDonald District, Lansdowne, Manitoba, Canada.

Blanche married James Large, son of William Large and Mary Ann Plummer, on 27 Oct 1864 in Napier, Middlesex Co., West Canada (Canada). (James Large was born on 23 Jun 1835 in Lambourne, Berkshire, England, christened on 20 Jul 1835 in Lambourne, Berkshire, England, died on 18 Dec 1912 in Birnie, Manitoba, Canada and was buried in Dec 1912 in Arden Cemetery, Neepawa, Arden, Manitoba, Canada.)