The Buckbees of Port Dalhousie
Three photographs of young Maggie Buckbee. Margaret Ella Buckbee was born on 8 August 1877 in Louth Township to John Calvin Buckbee (1823-1892) and Margaret S. Grabell Wallace Buckbee (1837-1889). The first two photographs of a much younger Maggie Buckbee were identified. The third photograph of a young teenager is purported to be Maggie Buckbee. In all three photographs, the subject is wearing the same locket.
Maggie Buckbee would live most of her life in Port Dalhousie. On 15 March 1907, she married Alfred James Cox in Port Colborne and settled to live in Port Dalhousie.
Margaret Grabell Wallace Buckbee was born ca. 1835 to Samuel Grabell and Mary Sherk of Wainfleet. On 31 December 1862, Margaret married John Wallace in Haldimand County. Mr. Wallace died 22 May 1867. Margaret remarried to John Calvin Buckbee on 5 May 1875 in Wainfleet. John C. Buckbee had at one time been a harness maker living in Thorold. It is unknown when the couple moved to Port Dalhousie, but by 1881 the Buckbees were farming in the area. Maggie Buckbee was their only daughter.
Margaret Buckbee may have been well acquainted with George Field (1827-1905) and Elizabeth Smith as she is listed as a witness to the marriage of George and Elizabeth in the records of marriages at St. George’s Parish Church, St. Catharines.