1st Generation: Elwyn Robert McKinstry
Born on 24 September 1890 in Ottawa, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada, to Robert Elwyn McKinstry (Canada) & Maude Howe (USA).
Married Mabel Rebecca Whillans on 27 March 1912 in Ottawa, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada.
Died on 24 December 1928 in Meriden, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States of America.
The only vital record found for Elwyn Robert McKinstry is the image of his registration to marry Mabel Rebecca Whillans. Elwyn completed the affidavit necessary to be married on 26 March 1912.
On 27 March 1912, James Little solemnized the marriage and declared in writing that he married the twenty-one year old bachelor, Elwyn, and the twenty-eight year old spinster, Mabel, in Ottawa, Carleton County, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada.
Both professed to have been born in Ottawa, Canada, and belonging to the Presbyterian Church. Elwyn’s father, Robert Elwyn McKinstry, was listed as a carpenter, and Rebecca’s father, Robert Whillans, was entered as deceased. Elwyn’s mother’s maiden name was listed as Maud Howe, and Mabel’s mother’s maiden name was entered as Mary Reynolds. There was no indication that either of the mothers was already deceased.
In the 1891 Census of Canada for the Wellington Ward in Ottawa, Ontario, enumerated on 28 April 1891, the seven-month-old Elwyn is living with his father, Robert, a 23-year-old house carpenter, and his 20-year-old mother, Maud, all three having been born in the Province of Ontario and belonging to the Wesleyan Methodist Church.
According to the census, Robert’s parents were born in Ireland and Maud’s parents were born in the United States.
Elwyn Robert McKinstry died in Meriden, New Haven County, Connecticut, on Christmas Eve, 1928, at the age of thirty-eight after a two-month long illness following an accident.
His remains were laid to rest in the Meriden cemetery on 27 December 1928.
He was survived by his forty-five year old wife, Mabel Rebecca (Whillans) McKinstry living at 1272 Old Colony Road, Tracy, Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut, with their daughters Maude Fern McKinstry (15), Barbara McKinstry (7), and Mabel Virginia McKinstry (2), and their sons Elwyn Robert McKinstry, Jr. (14) and George Whillans McKinstry (10).