DAVISON (IVAN)

Ivan and Belle (Wall) Davison, former residents of Baltic, lived in the

Neil Clark house which was situated between Gladys MacDonald’ Harry Wall’s on the Baltic River Road. This is

Frances, Mrs. David MacKenzie, was born. In 1939, they moved the house

nearer the river where they lived until 1957 and moved to Malpeque Cove. They also have two sons, John, who now lives in British Columbia married

th who lives at Malpeque Cove and is married to

s and where their daughter

Treva Thorne.

Ivan and Belle sold their house and property to Sheldon and Isabel

Cameron in 1961. Ivan and son Keith are engaged in the fishing industry at Malpeque Cove.

DICKIESON

Dawson Dickieson b. 1888, d. 1960 was born in Howlan, P.E.I., when a young man he went to Boston, Mass. where he met and married Catherine Wall b. 1877, d. 1962, daughter of Fred and Catherine Wall in 1908, returning to the Baltic in 1910, and resided on the Wall homestead until 1935 when they moved to Darnley. Their family all born here, and attended Baltic School were, Louise, Mrs. Daniel Bryanton, Spring Valley, James,

Ivan (deceased), Jennie, Mrs. Roy Champion (deceased) Darnley; Hilda, Mrs. George Simmons, Sadie, Mrs. Norwood Campbell, Sea View.

DELANEY 1827-1975

The Delaney family, like so many early settlers, immigrated to Canada from Ireland in the year 1827. Edmund Delaney, a blacksmith from Co. Kilkenny and the patriarch of the clan, settled on P.E.I. with his wife and small children. They resided for a brief period in Kensington, then known

_It is difficult for present day society to understand the hardships, sacrifices and perseverance of these early settlers. The stories passed down

through generations are similar to the plight of today’s refugee. Similiarly,

these hardy folk wished to escape from tyranny, and find a new way of life for themselves and their children.

Edmund Delaney had three sons; Patrick, a jeweller, Simon who farmed the homestead, and John the jouranlist. There were also three daughters; Mary (Mrs. Henry Smith), Ellen (Mrs. John Dempsey), and Bridget, who in

the true Irish tradition kept house for her bachelor brother Simon, and never got married. Patrick was twice married, from his first marriage he

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