Our Genealogy - Person Sheet
Our Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameCatherine Purton 
, 1C2R, F
, 1C2R, FBirth1 Oct 1922, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.20
Death26 Dec 2000, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.20
ReligionEpiscopalian
FatherAstley Bloxam (“Pat”) Purton , M (1886-)
MotherNina May Givan , F (1885-1953)
Notes for Catherine Purton
She wrote the following info on Sept 28th, 1951 on the Givan history which she obtained from her mother Nina :
Dr. John Givan, M.D. came to Saint John in or around the year 1825. He went into the wholesale and retail merchandise business on Water Street, Saint John.
After spending several years in Saint John he returned to Omagh, Ireland, and married Frances Hamilton in May 1828, and then returned to Saint John, N.B.
He then chartered ships, bought lumber which he sent to England, and brought out settlers. Then in order to find employment for these settlers, he bought eight hundred acres of timberland on the other side of the Bay of Fundy and named the site “Givan Wharf” - now called Harbourville - built roads eastward and westward, and also up over the mountain to give access to the Annapolis Valley. At Givan Wharf he lumbered, built ships, and sent the lumber to the Old Country.
The coat-of-arms is supposed to have been given to our great-great-great-grandfather Givan when knighted for winning some battle. Mother says she cannot remember anything more closely than as shown above.
There was also another brother, Dr. William Givan, M.D., who is supposed to have come to Canada in 1828, settled and practiced at Wolfville, N.S., died suddenly of pneumonia. His name is shown on the gate of the family burial lot in the Covenanter churchyard at Grafton (near Berwick). The names of other members of the family buried there are shown on separate stones.
Several sons of Dr. John Givan removed at various times to the New England States and their descendants are still found there. Two other sons, William and Henry, are buried with members of their families in Elmwood Cemetery, Moncton, N.B.
Dr. John Givan, M.D. came to Saint John in or around the year 1825. He went into the wholesale and retail merchandise business on Water Street, Saint John.
After spending several years in Saint John he returned to Omagh, Ireland, and married Frances Hamilton in May 1828, and then returned to Saint John, N.B.
He then chartered ships, bought lumber which he sent to England, and brought out settlers. Then in order to find employment for these settlers, he bought eight hundred acres of timberland on the other side of the Bay of Fundy and named the site “Givan Wharf” - now called Harbourville - built roads eastward and westward, and also up over the mountain to give access to the Annapolis Valley. At Givan Wharf he lumbered, built ships, and sent the lumber to the Old Country.
The coat-of-arms is supposed to have been given to our great-great-great-grandfather Givan when knighted for winning some battle. Mother says she cannot remember anything more closely than as shown above.
There was also another brother, Dr. William Givan, M.D., who is supposed to have come to Canada in 1828, settled and practiced at Wolfville, N.S., died suddenly of pneumonia. His name is shown on the gate of the family burial lot in the Covenanter churchyard at Grafton (near Berwick). The names of other members of the family buried there are shown on separate stones.
Several sons of Dr. John Givan removed at various times to the New England States and their descendants are still found there. Two other sons, William and Henry, are buried with members of their families in Elmwood Cemetery, Moncton, N.B.