Harrie Eugene Macdonald and Rosamond Edwardes (grandson of couple 21 & 22, granddaughter of 23 & 24)

[Scott's maternal Grandparents]
[Jean Macdonald > Macdonald/Edwardes]

Harrie Eugene Macdonald
BIRTH: 8 MAY 1901, Presque Isle, Aroostook, Maine
DEATH: MAY 1963, Truk, Caroline Islands

Rosamond Edwardes
BIRTH: 20 AUG 1911, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts
DEATH: 21 MAY 2000, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Harrie E Macdonald
Harrie E. Macdonald was born in 1901 in Presque Isle, Maine to "Harry E McDonald" (1870-1930) and Gertrude Morrill (1874-1952).  (McDonald according to the 1910 spelling).  He was the third of five children.  His older sister, Pauline M (1898-1905) died at age 7 when Harrie was just 4 years old.

From the 1910 Census, his father Harry was a retail merchant (married 15 years), running a grocery.  They owned a home at 257 State Street, Bangor.  (House either renumbered or no longer standing).

By 1920, they were at the same home in Bangor.  Gertrude and Harry E at that point had four kids at home: Maxwell (23), Harry E Jr (18), Kenneth M (7), and Donald F (5).

As of 1930, Gertrude (54) is leading the household, as Harry E Sr had passed away in March of that year 5 days after his 60th birthday.  The home is valued at $7000, and "has a radio set".   Harry E (29), Morrill K (17), and Donald F (15) are living at home.  Gertrude is listed as proprietor of the Grocery store, and the street address is now 259 State Street.  Dr. Maxwell had married 5 years prior to Sylvia, and was living in Milton, Massachusetts with his 3 young daughters while working as a physician (in a $15,000 house!  with a radio! 6 Windsor Street).

At some point between 1930 and 1940, Harry changed his name to Harrie, and began spelling his name Macdonald instead of McDonald.

Rosamond Edwardes
Rosamond Edwardes was born to Charles Lawrence Edwardes Jr (1875-1940) and Marjorie Kent (1885-1979) in Woburn in 1911.

As of 1920, Charles (44) and Marjorie (34) were raising Rosamond (8) in Newton, renting a portion of the house at 652 Chestnut Street.  Charles was a Bond Salesman.

By 1930, Rosamond was 18, had moved out, and was living on her own in Boston as a "Pupil Nurse" as the hospital.  She is listed among Physicians, nurses, ward maids and the like associated with Massachusetts General Hospital.

Life Together
Harrie Eugene Macdonald, known as  "Mac" after her married, worked at Mass General Hospital as a surgeon, and Rosamond, also called "Roz" was a nurse. 

Roz and Mac were married 27 June 1933 at Newton Center, Massachusetts.

He eventually got his license to work in Maine, and they moved there to work as a neurosurgeon around 1932, living on Long Street in Portland.

By 1940, Mac and Roz had been married for several years, and were living  at 136 Main Street in Yarmouth, Maine, with their three children, Susan (5), Timothy (3), and Jean (2).  Mac had completed 5 years of college and was working as a Medical Doctor in private practice. Roz had finished 4 years of high school.  Dorothy Campbell (20) was living with them as a maid, at the time.

Rosamond "Roz" and Gene "Mac"
Macdonald Family,
with Susan, Jean, and Timothy.

They lived in Yarmouth for quite a while, with Mac still practicing in Portland.  As part of his practice, he would travel all over Maine.  Mac (sometimes also called "Gene") wasn't a well man.  He had TB, and they had taken out part of his lung.  He had read in a magazine about the healthful effects of living in the tropics, and applied for a job with the Department of the Interior in the South Seas.  They accepted the position when Gene was around 50 years old, and moved with their family to Ponapei, Micronesia.  Gene left a year or 6 months before the family, and they soon followed in June of 1952.  They lived together there for 2-3 years in the typical quonset huts, with Gene in general practice, then later working in administration.  Rozzie worked as post-mistress there.  Ultimately they would name the hospital there after him.

Macdonald Family with Marjorie Kent Edwardes

Macdonald Memorial Hospital, Koror, Palau.

After a 2-3 years on the island, Mac and Roz separated, and Rozzie moved to Hawaii with the children, then returned to Chatham, where Roz's family lived.

By about the summer of 1956, Roz and Jean returned to Chatham.  At that point, Susan was at Honolulu at the University.  She stayed there, and still lives in Hawaii.  Timothy stayed at Honolulu and went to a tech school to learn auto mechanics.  After the tech school time, he joined the Air Force.  After he got out, he met Phyllis in Chatham, and they returned to Honolulu, where he studied agriculture genetics at the University of Hawaii, doing corn research.  He became a professor at Lowell University when they moved back to Massachusetts.

Mac died on Truk Island, while traveling on his way back to Ponape at one point in 1963.  He had had a heart attack, which was typical for the Macdonald men.

Rosamond lived to be 88, spending her time with her daughter Jean, and son-in-law Gordon, taking up residence in the apartment next to Culdesac Cottage.  She died in 2000.

Kenneth Herbert Pratt and Harriet Louise Howes Eldredge (grandson of 17 & 18, granddaughter of 19 & 20)

[Scott's paternal Grandparents]
[Gordon Pratt > Pratt/Eldredge]

Kenneth Herbert Pratt
BIRTH: 24 Jun 1903, So. Ashburnham, Worcester, Massachusetts
DEATH: 01 Sep 1997, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

Harriet Louise Howes Eldredge
BIRTH: 22 Feb 1905, Chatham,Barnstable,Massachusetts
DEATH: 24 Apr 1997, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

Kenneth H. Pratt
Kenneth was born to Herbert Ashton Pratt (1867-1956) and Ella Frances Edwards (1874-1957).  He was the second of two boys (Harold E (1895-1970) was 8 years his senior).  Herbert A (44) was a supervisor in a chair shop in Ashburnham as of 1910.  He and Ella (36) had been married for 18 years.  They lived on School street in South Ashburnham.

In 1920, the Pratts lived on 104 Peabody Street in Gardner, Massachusetts, the chair-making capital.  Herbert A was now a foreman at one of the chair factories in town.  The census taker accidentally recorded Harold as a grandson.

Kenneth was a four year college grad (according to 1940 Census), and Harriet had graduated High School.

Harriet L. H. Eldredge
"Lou" was born in Chatham on a cold winters day in 1905 to Joshua Clarence Eldredge (1862-1949) and Clara Burgess (1868-1941).  She was the youngest of three children, but the only one to survive childhood.  She had an infant older brother live only 6 days in 1897, and her older sister Christine (1900-1906) died of influenza when Lou was just a year old.  For all intents and purposes, Lou was raised as an only child.

Harriet lived her whole life at Chatham.  As a young girl, she walked to school.  The school was on the corner of Cedar Street and Stage Harbor Road, and she had to walk past Oyster Pond.  In the winter time, it was absolutely freezing cold, the wind coming across the water.

As of 1910, her parents Joshua (48) and Clara (40) had been married for 14 years.   Joshua was a seaman on a "tow boat", and their daughter Harriett (5) was at home with mother.

By 1920, they were renting on Main Street, while Joshua (58) was Mate on an Ocean Tug.  Clara (50) and Harriet (14) were at home between neighbors, widow Eliza Hallett and coast guard cook Jesse Tuttle.

Married Life
 Lou worked as a secretary down at Cape and Vineyard (electric company) down on Main Street.  There she met Ken, who had come from South Ashburnham.  He eventually became district manager at Cape and Vineyard.

On their way to their honeymoon, Ken played a prank on Lou.  They were to catch the train out of Hyannis, and Ken had a gentleman by the name of Alrich Copley, who worked as a lineman for the electric company.  He came onto the train and physically picked up Lou, and took her off of the train.  Ken stayed on the train and went to the next train station, before Alrich Copley drove to the next train station to get them together again. 

By 1930, they had been married for a few years (perhaps ~1925?)
"Harriet" (25) and "Kenneth" (26) were raising their son Kenneth Jr (2 1/2) while renting a house for $40 a month in Chatham near the intersection of Bar Cliff Ave and Old Harbor Road.   Ken worked as a superintendent at the Electric Company.

By 1940, they had added two other boys to the family in addition to Kenneth Jr (12), Gordon B (9) and John M (5 months).  Ken had been promoted to District Manager for Cape and Vineyard Electric Company.

Kenneth "Herb" Jr (1928-Living)
Gordon B (1931-Living) m. Jean Macdonald
John Mossman (1939-1999) partner: Susie Fishback

Grandpa Ken and Grandma Lou with Gordon, Herb, and John at their 50th Anniversary

From a hand-written Resume in the possession of Gordon Pratt:

Resume of Kenneth H Pratt, Sr

• Born June 24, 1905, So. Ashburnham, Mass.
•  Educated in Gardner, Mass Schools
• Graduated June 1925, M E degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Frat
• Employed by former Cape & Vineyard Elec Co in Falmouth in June 1925
• Transferred to Chatham in January 1926 as Supt for Harwich, Chatham, and Orleans.
• Retired in 1968 as Manager for towns of Chatham, Harwich, Orleans, Brewster, and Eastham
• Charter Member and for several years Treasurer of Central Cape Kiwanis Club,
• Chairman of Chatham Finance Committee from 1950 to 1956.
• Chairman of Chatham Commerce Committee from 1960 to 1968.
• Director of former Chatham Trust Co. from 1954 to 1979.

Lou died in 1997 at the age of 92.  She was buried at Seaside Cemetery in Chatham.  Ken died 6 months later (also in  1997) at the age of 94.  They are buried together.

Joshua Clarence Eldredge and Clara Burgess (son of 19, daughter of 20)

[Scott's father's maternal Grandparents]
[Gordon Pratt > Eldredge > Eldredge/Burgess]

Joshua Clarence Eldredge
BIRTH: 25 Apr 1862, Chatham,Barnstable,Massachusetts
DEATH: Dec 1949, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

Clara Burgess
BIRTH: 24 Jun 1868, Chatham,Barnstable,Massachusetts
DEATH: 07 Mar 1941

"China Josh" Joshua Clarence Eldredge

Clara Burgess Eldredge, with grandsons Herb and Gordon.

“At some point during her life, it had to be when she was younger, Louise worked as a waitress at Hawes House, down by the Lighthouse.  In fact, she and her mother [Clara] rented a room in that Hawes house, and Louise had pneumonia.  It was summer time, and there was obviously no air conditioning.  And they were upstairs in their room that they rented, and she was so terribly, terribly, terribly sick, so much that her mother didn’t even know if she was going to live.”  

Louise (1905-1997) had an older sister Christine Williams Eldredge, lived 6 years (11 July 1900- 9 March 1906), and she died of pneumonia.  Her brother Joshua Allen Eldredge (5 April 1897—11 April 1897) died at 6 days old.  For the most part, she was raised as an only child.

According to Gordon Pratt: "Joshua Clarence was a cabin boy on his father’s vessel at the young age of something like 12, I think it was, and made several trips to China with his father… I’ve tried to research [the name of the vessel] many times and couldn’t come up with the name of the merchant vessel, whether it was a 2-masted, 3-masted, or 4-masted schooner.   I can say that they carried quite a bit of china-ware that they painted, because Clara had some.” 

Later in his life, he was a captain of a sea-going tug called “Sequoia,” mostly used to haul barges.

China Josh at the Fish Pier

For years, China Josh would go and come, sailing his vessel around the world.  They were separated in later years, and Clara left a note for her only living child, "Louise, I want to be buried in the family cemetery located off Milestone Lane, as it was in life, so it shall be in death."  China Josh is buried over in Seaside Cemetery, Clara on Milestone Lane (now Mousehole Lane).

He went and stayed with her when she lived up on main street.  “They were separated.  He didn’t help her out very much financially.  She took in the washing.  She rented out the apartment, which is now the children’s shop on Main Street Chatham.  She took in washing and washed with a wooden washboard and a tub.  She hung out the clothes to dry in the back yard down there on Main Street and inside the house…  My mother and father helped her out financially by paying her to take care of me [during the late 30s]. ”

Gordon Pratt recalls that his mother and father lived down on Sousa Circle, but they "shipped [him] out to stay with [his] Grandmother down at the Children's shop."  He says of his grandmother: "She set me up with a card table and fudge, that I sold there in front of Main Street there… I was given one of those dime banks, you know those dime banks they used to have where you put the dime in and pull the lever.  I used to go up and down Main Street and ask people if they wanted to put a dime in my bank.  I must have made $5.00.   Hey look at my new bank, do you want to put a dime in it!?”

“I do remember she used to make my lunch. I used to go home for lunch from school.  She always put a stack of about 5 slices of bread, and she would cut each slice, cut the crust off of it, then cut each in 3 pieces, and lay them criss-crossed like logs in a tower…  They were just bread and butter.  I walked all the way up to the high school (the community building), from right across from the Wayside Inn (where the Children’s Shop is)” 

Harry Eugene McDonald and Gertrude Morrill (son of couple 21, daughter of couple 22)

[Scott's mother's paternal Grandparents]
[Jean Macdonald > Macdonald > McDonald/Morrill]

Harry Eugene McDonald
BIRTH: 20 Mar 1870, East Corinth, Penobscot, Maine
DEATH: 25 Mar 1930, Bangor, Penobscot, Maine

Gertrude Morrill
BIRTH: 23 Dec 1874, Bangor, Penobscot, Maine
DEATH: 03 Aug 1952

Harry E. McDonald
Harry was born to Timothy McDonald II (1831-1895) and Mary Ellen Dexter (1838-1911) in 1870 in Corinth, Maine, the third of seven children.  His oldest sister, Carrie (1862-1867), died at age 5 before he was born.

He first appears on the 1870 Census.  At that point, Timothy (39) and Mary E. (33) are living next door to Henry (59) and Hannah (63) Dexter, and have two children, Renaldo H (6) and Harry E (3 months) at home.  Harry is a clerk in a store with $450 in personal effects (not a real estate owner).  Henry Dexter (Mary Ellen's father) is a Grocer, so it's likely that Harry worked for his father-in-law.  Living with them was Thomas R Savage (18), who was also a store clerk, and Lizzie Brown (25), a domestic servant.

In 1880, the family of 6 led by Timothy (49) and Mary (42) is living on a farm, while Renold (15), Harrie (10), Clauda (7), Anna (2), and Donald (10 mos) are at home.  Hannah Dexter, Harry's grandmother, (73) is listed as the head of the house.  Grandfather Henry Dexter must have passed away between 1870-1880.


Gertrude Morrill
Gertrude Morrill was born to Joseph S Morrill (1832-after 1910) and Pauline ____ (1832-1879)

Gertrude Morrill

on 23 December, 1874 in Bangor, Maine.    Joseph was a carriage maker, born in New Brunswick.  He had immigrated to Bangor, Maine in either 1833 or 1847 via the North US Port.  The 1870 Census shows her father Joseph (39) as a Carpenter with $1000 in real estate, and mother Perkina/Paulina (38), also born in New Brunswick keeping house.

Siblings in that family were:
Mary E (1853)
Susan (1857)
Joseph (1860)
Perkina/Pauline (14) (1870) m. 1875 Gideon Varnum
Susan (13) (1870)
Matilda (1863-1943) (1870, 1880)
Evangelist Joseph (1867-1939) (1870, 1880)
Agnes (1870-??) (1870, 1880)
Isabella (1871-??) (1880)
Gertrude (1880) (1880)

As of 1880, her father, Joseph S (48) was married to Margaret E (45) (1834-??).  Joseph is listed as Canadian born, with both parents from Canada, and Margaret is Irish born, with both parents from Ireland.  All of their children are listed as being born in Maine.

In the household at the time were:
Anne Moran (24)
Matilda (17)
Evangelist (13)
Agnes (10) (listed as "feeble")
Isabella (9)
Gertrude (5)

Gertrude was a 4 year high school  graduate.

Her father later married Sarah E (1840-??) about 1890

Life Together

Harry and Gertrude married about 1894 (1900 Census says married 6 years).  At the time of birth of their first and second children, Maxwell (1895) and Pauline (1898), Harry was working as a clerk in Presque Isle.  Gertrude, sometimes called "Gertie" was not working.

For the 1900 Census, Gertrude(24) and Harry (30) lived in Presque Isle.  They had been married for 6 years and had two children, Maxwell (4) and Pauline (1).  Harry was employed as a manager at the Lumber Mill, and owned his house, free and clear.  They had a servant, 19 year old Ethel Nichols, an English Canadian who immigrated in 1890.  She had worked for them for the previous 9 months (as of the June 4th Census recording).

In 1901, they lived in Presque Isle, Maine, and had their son Harry E McDonald (later adapted to "Harrie Eugene Macdonald")

When Pauline died in 1905, Harry is listed as a lumberman.  Pauline died of Tubercular Meningitis (TBM).


Of their five children, three turned out to be doctors.  Two of the children died young.
Maxwell E (1895-1975): a psychiatrist, m. c.1925 Sylvia Lovejoy (1906)
Pauline M (1898-1905): died young at age 7.
Harrie Eugene (1901-1963): a neurosurgeon m 1933 Rosamond Edwardes (1911-2000)
Kenneth "Morrill" (1912-1934): died at 22
Donald F (1914-1967): an OB/GYN, m 1942 Katherine Elizabeth Gross (1917-2004)

From the 1910 Census, father Harry was a retail merchant (married 15 years), running a grocery.  They owned a home at 257 State Street, Bangor.  (House either renumbered or no longer standing).

By 1920, they were at the same home in Bangor.  Gertrude and Harry E at that point had four kids at home: Maxwell (23), Harry E Jr (18), Kenneth M (7), and Donald F (5).


As of 1930, Gertrude (54) is leading the household, as Harry E Sr had passed away in March of that year 5 days after his 60th birthday.  The home is valued at $7000, and "has a radio set".   Harry E (29), Morrill K (17), and Donald F (15) are living at home.  Gertrude is listed as proprietor of the Grocery store, and the street address is now 259 State Street.  Dr. Maxwell had married 5 years prior to Sylvia, and was living in Milton, Massachusetts with his 3 young daughters while working as a physician (in a $15,000 house!  with a radio! 6 Windsor Street).

In 1940, Gertrude (65, widow) was living in Bangor with her widowed sister Isabel M Renney.  They are recorded to have received income not from wages (pension, or rent from lodgers?)

Donald F (25) still lived with his motherand was single as of 1940, but had finished 5 years of college already.  Donald was employed as a "Boys Camp Councilor" as of April of that year.  Perhaps he was still finishing his medical schooling, because he only recorded working for 8 weeks of 1939 for a wage of $100.

Gertrude had lodgers at her house, four single adults working in the medical field (nurses, medical stenographer, etc) at the time of the Census.

Gertrude died in  1952, and was buried in Corinthian Cemetery, Corinth, Maine.

Stories from Jean Pratt, her granddaughter

Grammy McDonald was a sweetie, and her granddaughter, Jean, remembers going to visit her in Bangor for a week or so at a time.  Her apartment was over the OB/GYN.  She was a devout Catholic, and would say, "Stop talking, I'm trying to say my prayers!"

Yarmouth (where Gene lived) took about 2 1/2 hours to get to Bangor, and one of her sons would go pick up Grammy Macdonald.  When she came to visit Gene and Roz at their house on Bridge Street, you would hear her in the kitchen listening to her favorite radio program, and when static became a nuisance, she would bang the radio on the table.



According to family lore, Maxwell thought McDonald sounded too Irish, so he began spelling the name Macdonald in order to avoid being discriminated against.

Prior to Roz leaving for the islands to join up with Gene, she and the children had gone to see Grammy Macdonald one last time.   She was under care at that point.   After they reached the islands, they received news that Gertrude had passed.

Charles Lawrence Edwardes, Jr. and Marjorie Kent (son of 23, daughter of 24)

[Scott's mother's maternal Grandparents]
[Jean Macdonald > Edwardes > Edwardes/Kent]

Charles Lawrence Edwardes Jr.
BIRTH: 05 December 1875, Hyde Park, Boston, Norfolk, MA
DEATH: 2 FEB 1940

Marjorie Kent
BIRTH: December 1885, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
DEATH: 1979, Brewster,, Massachusetts

Charles
Charles Lawrence Edwardes Jr was born in 1875 in Boston, MA, the third of five children.  His father and mother were from London, England.   He was raised in Boston.

In 1880, Charles was 6 years old. According to the Census that year, both of his parents were born in England, and his father was a physician.  Indeed, Marjorie was not born in England.

In 1899, when Charles was 24, his father, Dr Edwardes, had passed away.  By 1900, the family had moved from Hyde Park (Boston) to Cambridge.  They lived at 22 Trowbridge Street, just a couple blocks from Harvard Yard.  His mother Elinora is recorded to have delivered 7 children, 5 of whom were living as of 1900 (again, Elinora recorded from England, her father from England, and mother from France, her family immigrated in 1853 when she was 6 years old).  As a 52 year old widow, Elinora kept busy as a housekeeper, Charles worked as a salesman.  They had three boarders and two servants.

As of 1910, Charles was still living at home with his mother, listed as 34 and single.  At this point they have moved to live in Boston at 1 Cambridge Terrace.  Here, they have one servant, and Eleanor is listed as having 11 pregnancies, and 5 living children.  Eleanor is recorded as English, with both parents born in England. Charles is working as a stock broker, and mother Eleanor keeps her "own income".

Marjorie
Marjorie Kent was the daughter of Reverend George William Kent and Frances E Comstock, born in 1885 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the second of four known children.  William was a Clergyman from

Marjorie Kent

England (immigrated in 1872), and Frances a New Yorker.

In 1889, when she was 4 years old, Marjorie's family immigrated from Canada to the US.

As of 1900, when she was 15, she lived in the household of her parents, along with older sister Dorothy (16), and brothers William (12) and George E (3).  They lived at 1 Benefit Terrace, Worcester, and had an Irish house servant named Delia.

In 1905, George's family lived on 612 Public Street, Providence.


By 1910, the family had moved to Providence, Rhode Island and rented a house (125 Adelaide Avenue).  Older sister Dorothy had already moved out, but the other three kids were at home.  Marjorie had taken a job as a school teacher, and Reverent Kent continued his ministry there.

















Marriage
Charles married Marjorie Kent, on 3 November 1910.  They were married in Providence, Rhode Island (Marjorie's town of residence, though she was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia).  They were married by Marjorie's father, Reverend George Kent.

At the time of his registration for the WWI draft, Charles was living at 260 Lake Avenue, Newton Highlands, MA.  He worked at 60 State Street, Boston as Manager of S Z Bond and Co.  (current description here)

By 1920, Charles was in Newton, MA, with his bride, Marjorie Kent and 8 year old daughter, Rosamond, where they rented a nice house at  652 Chestnut Street.  Charles is a bond salesman.

In 1923, Marjorie applied for her US Passport.  As of that application date, Charles and Marjorie lived at 190 Sumner St, Newton Center.  Marjorie was planning a trip to England, France, and Switzerland leaving from Montreal on June 2, 1923 for less than 3 months.
From her passport application: 5'2", gray eyes, short nose, big mouth, medium chin, brown hair, round face.

1923 Passport Photo for Marjorie.

Unfortunately, by 1930, things had started to fall apart in their marriage, and even though he's listed as married 20 years prior, Charles was living as a boarder on 141 West 78th Street, New York on Manhattan just a half block from the Museum of Natural History and Central Park.  He works as a salesman.

Charles died 2 Feb, 1940 at age 64, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery in Boston.

At the time of the 1940 Census, Marjorie is a 54 year old widow, living with her brother George (43, divorced, real estate salesman) on Revere Street.

Marjorie lived until 1979 (age 94!), and died in Barnstable County, Massachusetts.


Stories from her Granddaughter, Jean Macdonald Pratt.

Charles had a job near Boston with his best friend John McKey.  They came down to the Cape one summer to Chatham when the Kent girls were down at Minister's Point.  John was very successful, but ultimately Charles ended up going his way, leaving John to support Marjorie and Rosamond.

Marjorie Kent Edwardes with baby Rosamond

Charles Edwardes

Marjorie Kent in a Beret