Creighton-Moreland Roots

My mother's history begins in Halifax, Nova Scotia with the Moreland and Creighton families.

 I have benefited immensely from the decades of research that has been

 undertaken by my Creighton cousin.

In 2017 we held a Creighton Family Reunion in Ontario at the beautiful home of my cousin 

Moreland Blog Posts

• Beloved Matriarch: Dorothy (Moreland) Creighton  My grandmother had an incredible life. It was hard, but she was brave and a true role model for a young girl like me. I have so many questions that I wish I would have asked her
• Quilts & Crochet: I was lucky to have a grandmother who loved to sew (Rhea Coughlin Moynahan) and a grandmother who loved to knit and crochet (Dorothy Moreland Creighton
• Into Tuft's Cove: Aunt Barb Floats About Until Rescued By Nana! The fact that my grandmother (Nana) never learned to swim and that my Aunt became a great swimmer makes this news story even more incredible!
• <The Curds of Dover, England. My great grandmother Florence Curd  met John "Jock" Moreland while he was stationed with the  style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) at Dover (Dover Castle) and they fell in love. He left for Halifax in 1907 and sent for Florence to join him in 1908.
• The Visitors From Australia - NOT Our Moreland Kin: this photograph remains a mystery . I am grateful for the Australian descendant of  Susan (Marrinan/Willis) Moreland (her grand-daughter) who helped with the photo identification ( and it was a great excuse to write about our Moreland/Australia connection. 
• On This Day: October 10: John Miller Moreland Died . I had some unanswered questions about my great-grandfathers headstone, his second wife and the Scottissh workhouse he was sent to ... I still do
• ThrowBack Thursday - a fun photo of my mother with her mother and aunt (Dorothy and Flo Moreland)
• John Moreland: From Workhouse to War: My great-grandfather went from a Scottish workhouse as a boy to the army and then to Nova Scotia at the beginning of the twentieth century.  As a soldier, he survived  WW1 and was training soldiers in Kingston, Ontario, in Canada in 1940 for WW2 when he died as a QuarterMaster Sergeant. He is buried at the Cataraqui Cemetery in Kingston, Ontario.

Creighton Blog Posts

• Frederick Douglas Creighton (1907-1976) (my grandfather) was the son of Charles Creighton (1884-1911) and Effie Tomlin (1886-1947). His father was a stevedore (a person employed, or a contractor engaged, at a dock to load and unload cargo from ships.) Effie was the daughter of a coal dealer in Halifax.
• Charles D. Crichton/Creighton (1846-1910) (my 2nd great-grandfather) The Crichton/Creighton branches of my family tree include centuries of military service in England and in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I was surprised to learn that my 2nd great-grandfather Charles Douglas Crichton (1846-1910) was only 14 years old when he enlisted in the Royal Artillery (1859) in Portsmouth, England!
• Things I Learned About My Nova Scotia Roots (in Ohio) In 2016, I visited my maternal aunt in Ohio. I had not been there in forty years! She shared her home, her hospitality, some wonderful photos and cherished stories with me. 
• My mother Dawn Maureen (Creighton) Moynahan (1936-1981). I miss her every day ... still.
• Creighton Wedding Photos: this is my collection of photos of my aunts and uncles on their wedding day
• The Tomlins and Nickersons of Nova Scotia : In 2009, Carolyn Tomlin, (the grand daughter of Frank C. Tomlin (1882-1918) shared a lot of information about our Tomlin-Nickerson Nova Scotian roots and gave me permission to share it and the Halifax Explosion story.
• The O'Connor Sisters: In Fall 2014, we lost two beautiful cousins to cancer. Karen (1950-2014) and Mary (1952-2014) were sisters in the O'Connor family.(Creighton-Moreland family tree).
  
• The Creightons: this was one of my very first blog posts about the Creighton family (2014)

British Home Child Blog Posts

• John Moreland's Sister Jemima Hind: Was She Sent To Canada? In October 2018, when I was commemorating my great-grandfather John Moreland (1882-1940), I was curious about why we NEVER knew anything about one of his sisters (Jemima), even though we knew a lot about his other two sisters (Mary and Catherine)
  Between 1870 and 1933, over 100,000 juvenile migrants from the British Isles went to Canada, with around 7,000 children coming from The Orphan Homes of Scotland and Jemima was one of them!

 Surnames (updated occasionally)

• Arrowsmith
• Bell
• Chandler
• Creighton
• Crichton
• Curd
• Daniel
• Dewer
• Dyer
• Garrison
• Hind
• Huston
• Melhuish
• Moreland
• Mulholland
• Nichols
• Nicholson
• Nickerson
• O'Connor
• Rudge
• Smith
• Sutherland
• Tomlin

Informal Moynahan-Creighton Gathering, Mississauga, Ontario (Melville)