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Generation 2 who came to Canada

George Edward Rochford
9 August 1873, Lancashire, England - 29 July 1922, Montreal, QC

Joseph Rochford
3 January 1876, Lancashire, England - 20 July 1950, Montreal, QC

Alice (Rochford) Marshall
23 Spetember 1882, Leicester, England - 1939, Montreal, QC

Generation 2 who went to the USA

Catherine “Kate” (Rochford) O’Grady
September 1880, Liecester, England - 11 October 1955, Edgewood, Pittsburg, PA

From Kathleen Perrault’s Reminiscences, 1979

Our common ancestor Michael Rochford (1) was orphaned by the fever at age twelve in 1858. Their priest in Wexford, Ireland sent him to live with his mother’s sister Esther in Stalybridge (near Manchester, England) where he was immediately put to work in a cotton mill. He later trained as a boiler room attendant.

He and his wife Elizabeth had six boys and two girls. Mother Elizabeth would read the classics and poetry to her children by the fireplace in the evening. John, James, Thomas, and William remained in England, while George, Joseph, Kate and Alice eventually came to North America.

Michael (1) dies accidentally the day after Christmas 1913 in Leicester, where the family had moved from Stalybridge around 1881. Arriving home from work, he looked in the kitchen cupboard (likely there was only one) for his bottle of gin which was normally kept there. Apparently his wife had used an empty bottle still labelled “gin” to store some cleaning fluid, and as a result he died. An article in the Leicester newspaper referred to an inquest that declared it purely accidental.