NameFrances Lulu Givan
, GG Aunt, F
Birth17 Jan 1877, New Brunswick, Canada5,18
DeathJan 1971, Malden, Massachusetts46
Spouses
Birth1875, Massachusetts10
Memohis wife is a widow on the 1920 census
OccupationSecretary in his father’s box manufactory10
Marriage21 Oct 1902, Shediac Cape, New Brunswick
Notes for Frances Lulu Givan
“Aunt Lu”
moved to Malden, MA and lived at 22 Dexter St.
21,17“To console his wife after the loss of her two children, Captain Givan took his wife and Lulu with him on his next trip. I am told that the sailors rigged up a swing for 5-year old Lulu from one of the yards, from which she could swing out over the ocean....The eldest, Lulu said she was named after her father's ship and was glad that that she had not come along 10 years later when she might have been called Jumbo. Among the young men who came to Idlewild for the summer, one was a wealthy man named Charles Bicknell. He married Lulu and they moved to Boston. He was tubercular and they had no children. However they adopted a boy called Sonny. Lu adapted well to Boston life. She was a patron of the symphony and art galleries but never lost her maritime directness and sense of humour. Although the eldest, she outlived all her siblings. A feisty woman, scarcely over five feet, she who had sailed on a clipper ship lived to hear the exploits of her "grandson" who ascended in a balloon in a space suit above the atmosphere.”
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Notes for Charles Richards & Frances Lulu (Family)
From the Christian Messenger & Christian Visitor, Nov. 12, 1902 published in St. John:
“Married at Shediac Cape on 21 Oct. 1902 Charles R. Bicknell of Malden, Mass to Frances Lulu Givan, eldest daughter of Captain Givan of Shediac.”