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salishan Place by the River currently maintains a collection of over 9000 photographs, 2000 archival documents, 9000 objects, 500 works of art, and 300 oral history recordings. This collection, spanning hundreds of years, is a wonderful window on the past and present life of our community.

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Recording

Object ID

SR-042

Title

Aurelia Olive Odell, nee Mufford oral history interview conducted by Don Waite in 1976.

Extent

1 audio cassette.

Date

1976.

Description

SR-042: Tracks 1 - 5 discuss the Mufford family history, including John Hicks Mufford, Thomas Charles Mufford, Joseph Mufford, Anne Franciss, and Charlie Mufford. The family's political involvement is described.

The interview also features Pearl Hazel Mufford nee Perry, Annie Rosalind Heale (nee Mufford) and Lloyd Winston Mufford.

People/Subject

Heale, Annie Rosalind (Rossi)

Annie Rosalind Mufford was born December 19, 1896, to parents William John and Annie Mufford (nee Mufford). She married Robert William Heale on March 10, 1920. She died June 21, 1983 at the age of 86.
Term Source: www.bcarchives.ca

Mufford family

Thomas Prior Mufford, his wife, and their children arrived in Langley, B.C., in 1885 from the goldfields of California, their original destination when they left Cornwall, England, in 1873. They settled on the north end of the Hudson's Bay Company Farm in Fort Langley. Thomas Prior Mufford's brother and his wife, Joseph and Ann (nee Francis) Mufford, ended up settling in Langley, too.

Mufford, John Hicks

John Hicks Mufford, born in 1870, is the son of Thomas Prior Mufford and Millicent Mufford. He married Elizabeth Ruth (Ruth) Harding on November 2, 1893. They had five children: Leonard Hicks, Albert Percival (Percy), Wallace Victor, John Reginald (Reg), and Aurelia Olive (Relly). John died on April 25, 1946.

Mufford, Lloyd Winston

Lloyd Mufford was born January 13, 1906, to parents William J. and Annie Mufford (nee Mufford). He married Hazel Perry, and they had three children: Judy, Ivan and Mervin. Lloyd worked as a dairy farmer. He died April 19, 1984 at the age of 78, and is buried in Fort Langley Cemetery.

Mufford, Millicent (nee Udy), 1852-1922

Millicent Udy was born in 1852 in England. She married Thomas Prior Mufford in England, and the couple already had two children when they moved to Ontario in 1874. After time spent there and in Nanaimo, the couple settled in Langley in 1885. They had nine children: Jonathan Hicks, Annie, Charles Thomas, Kate, Frederick, Lulu, William Arthur, Henry Gendle, and Albert Edward. Millicent died September 28, 1922, and is buried in Fort Langley.
Term Source: HPC Records (MUFFO-2/478), The Langley Story, pg. 260 (Waite), Fort Langley Cemetery, pg. 43 (Hannay).

O'Dell, Aurelia Olive (nee Mufford)

Aurelia Olive Mufford was born on July 22, 1899 in Langley. She married Eric Norman O'Dell (12 Nov. 1901 - 29 Sep. 1964). Daughter of Jonathan Hicks Mufford and Elizabeth Ruth Mufford (nee Harding).

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