Emily Duck

b. 20 August 1878, d. 13 March 1953
  • Emily Duck was born on 20 August 1878 in Ontario, Canada.
  • Jacob Duck and Martha Colborne appeared in the 4 April 1881 census of Canada in Bruce, Bruce North, Ontario, Canada. Other members of the household included Emily Duck, Lucy Duck, Lillie Duck, Ada Duck, James Duck, William Duck and Cornelius Duck.
  • Jacob Duck and Martha Colborne appeared in the 6 April 1891 census of Canada in Port Elgin, Bruce North, Ontario, Canada. Other members of the household included Emily Duck, James Duck, Ada Duck, Cornelius Duck, William Duck and Ellen Martha Duck.
  • Jacob Duck and Martha Colborne appeared in the 31 March 1901 census of Canada in Port Elgin, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. Other members of the household included Emily Duck, William Duck and Ellen Martha Duck.
  • She married Neil MacFarlane on 30 September 1908 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.
  • Neil MacFarlane and Emily Duck appeared in the 1 June 1911 census of Canada in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Other members of the household included Martha Ellen MacFarlane. Also in the household were seven lodgers.
  • Neil MacFarlane and Emily Duck appeared in the 1 June 1916 Canada census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, at 605 Fifth Avenue West. Other members of the household included Martha Ellen MacFarlane and Bernice A. MacFarlane. Also in the household were seven lodgers from various countries including England, Sweden, Scotland and Wales.
  • Left to right, appearing in the photograph taken on the occasion of the August 1916 wedding of Vorwerk Ernst and Midge Oelschlager, are Vor's mother Freda Ernst, his brother Harold, Berlin Mayor W. H. Schmalz, Midge's aunt Emily Duck McFarlane, groom Vorwerk Ernst, Midge's aunt (and wife of the mayor) Eleanora "Lolly" Oelschlager Schmalz, bride Catharine "Midge" Oelschlager Ernst, Midge's mother Lily Duck Oelschlager, Vor's father Sam Ernst, his brother Earl, and in front, his young cousins Martha and Bernice McFarlane.
  • Neil MacFarlane and Emily Duck appeared in the 1 June 1921 census of Canada in Youngstown, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. [Hungarian Breitenbach children on next page apparently erroneously identified as their children.]
  • Emily Duck became a widow at the 1951 death of her husband Neil MacFarlane.
  • Emily Duck became a widow at the 17 November 1951 death of her husband.
  • Emily Duck died on 13 March 1953 at age 74.
  • She was interred at Fairview Cemetery, Lacombe, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.
  • Last Edited: 17 May 2016

Family: Neil MacFarlane b. circa September 1874, d. 17 November 1951