Armstrong

(submitted by Karl Kincade)

John and Jane Alexander Armstrong immigrated to Adelaide from Ireland in about 1850.

Their son Franklin Armstrong (1850–1921) was born in Adelaide Twp. but died in Govan, Saskatchewan. He married Martha Dowding  (1855–1913) in 1874 in Strathroy. Their children were: Mary Jane Gertrude (1874–), Delbert Randal (1875–), Olive Frances (1877–), Ida Amelia (1880–), Frederick John (1882–), George James (1886–), William Herbert Wesley (1886–), Bruce Earle (1892–) and Harry Lorne (1898–).

Franklin farmed in Adelaide Twp. until about 1880 when he moved his family to Sombra, where he took up carpentry. By 1891 he had moved back to Adelaide. Around 1900 he started farming again, this time in Warwick Twp. In 1903 he moved all his family to Humbolt, Saskatchewan, where he continued farming.

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