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Object ID
2692
Title
Eliza McClughan and Elizabeth Crompton.
Date
[ca. 1920].
Description
Two women sitting for a portrait. On the left is Mrs. Eliza McClughan, mother of Mrs. Margaret Crompton. On the right is Elizabeth Fox Crompton, mother of Frank Crompton.
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Crompton, Elizabeth (Fox)
Elizabeth Fox was born on July 26, 1864 in England to parents Sarah (nee Taylor and William Fox). She married Arthur Crompton. Arthur and Elizabeth emigrated to Canada in 1909 from Warrington, Lancashire, England. They settled in Victoria for a year and then moved the family to Vancouver. They bought acreage in West Langley on Telegraph Trail near the farming McClughan Family. Their children are Frank, Charles Samuel Sr., Dora and Amy. Elizabeth died in 1961 at the age of 97.
McClughan, Eliza Francis (nee Shaw), 1854-1943
Eliza Francis McClughan (nee Shaw) married Samuel McClughan (b.1841). Samuel homesteaded in Langley in 1877 and married Eliza in 1879. The McClughan's had five children: William Henry (b. 1880), John (b. 1881), Sam (b. 1889), Elizabeth (b. 1891) and Ellen. Samuel died in Langley on February 14, 1929, at the age of 88.
Term Source: Roads and Other Place Names in Langley, B.C., pg. 33. (Pepin); Fort Langley Cemetery pg. 35 (Hannay).
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