Print, Photographic
Ireland House at Oakridge Farm
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| Object Name: | Print, Photographic |
| Classification: | Archival |
| Category: | Documentary Artifact |
| Discipline: | Local History |
| Accession Number: | 989.1.67a |
| Museum Collection: | Ireland House Museum |
| Earliest Production Date: | 1905 |
| Latest Production Date: | 1915 |
| Description: | A strip of five photographs of George and Fanny (Kit) Ireland. The photographs alternate, with there being three of George and two of Kit. All five depict George and Kit from the chest up. George is wearing a high collared white shirt with a dark coat. In the centre photograph, he is wearing a dark coloured cowboy styled hat. Fanny is wearing a dark coloured bodice with a large dark coloured bow tied at her throat. Her hair is pulled back with a large dark coloured ribbon. In one photograph, she is depicted with large umbrella behind her. |
| History of Use: | Fanny Clarissa Ireland was born on 17 September 1880 in Ireland House to John and Eliza Ireland. Fanny, also known as Kit, married Frank Dudley Booth on 14 September 1910 at St. John's Anglican Church. They lived in Lucan, Ontario until Frank passed away on 16 September 1935. Frank had been the manager of a creamery in Lucan. Kit rarely lived in her house after her husband passed away. She stayed with various sisters and brothers helping with sewing, caring for the ill, and keeping the house for her brothers. Kit passed away on 24 January 1970. George Ireland was born on 17 March 1885 and was the 10th child of 12 born to John and Eliza Ireland. After his father's death in 1904, George bought Oakridge farm from his siblings who were still living at home. He was a farmer, businessman and a member of the Holstein Breeders' Association. In 1917, George took over the farm. That same year he married Lucy Davis Springer, the youngest of 14 children born to David Springer and Elizabeth Ghent, who lived nearby on Dundas Street. George and Lucy had one child, Lucie Marie, born in 1923. During the 1960s, George retired from farming. Before his death, portions of the farm had gradually been sold. M.M. Robinson High School and the Halton Board of Education are approximate locations of where the farm fields were. The remaining acreage was sold for housing developments. George kept the house and about four acres of the remaining land. George passed away on 16 April 1972, leaving the farmhouse and property to his only child, Marie. |
| Unit-Linear: | CM |
| Image Height: | 7.5 x 21 cm |
| Events, Places, People: | Hamilton, Ontario Fanny Clarissa Ireland George Naisbitt Ireland |
| Department: | PHOTOS |
| Institution: | Ireland House at Oakridge Farm |
| Institution City: | Burlington |
| Institution Province: | Ontario |
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