Cyril Wellington Strong

1912 - 1987  (74 years)

• Name	Cyril Wellington Strong
  Birth	2 Aug 1912
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Feb 1987
  Person ID	I683	Field-Taylor
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2004

  
  

  Father	Ralph Frederic William Strong,   b. 25 Jan 1869   d. 22 Nov 1922 (Age 53 years)
  Mother	Martha Penny Rolenda Newhook,   b. 4 Jun 1881   d. 28 May 1965 (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	21 Mar 1904
  	Rolenda Martha Newhook (age 24) and Frederick William Strong (age 33) were married on March 21, 1904 in New Aberdeen, Glace Bay, Cape Breton (Nova Scotia). The registration number is 154-93.
  Family ID	F224	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hazel Guest   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	19 Sep 1938
  Family ID	F230	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2004

  
  

• Notes

  Refer to the Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador article regarding Cyril Wellington Strong From Cyril Wellington Strong's memoirs "My Life as a Newfoundland Union Organizer": "My father, Ralph Frederick William Strong, was born at Twillingate, Newfoundland, into a family of three sons and three daughters." "My father had left home at sixteen, to go to sea. At the turn of the century, he was in Alaska and the Yukon during the gold rush, where apparently he made a fortune digging gold. Like many who made fortunes there, he considered himself a financier, using his money to promote various companies. He managed to spend or lose all his money before he died in November, 1922, leaving his wife and family penniless." "A newspaper account of the wedding notes that 'Molly Newhook was marrying Millionaire Strong'." "My father had been married previously, in British Columbia, and was divorced." "... he was buried in the General Protestant Cemetary", in St. John's. "In June 1924 we moved to St. John's where my mother rented a house and established a boarding house, the Imperial Hotel ... which was up over Knowlings West End store on Water Street ... Around the end of 1925, Uncle Jim and Aunt Minnie came to town from Botwood and wanted to adopt my brother and me. ... My mother would not even consider adoption but she did agree that we could go to Botwood for the winter." "My mother, nee Martha Penny Rolenda Newhook, was the daughter of a miner who worked in the mine at Tilt Cove, Notre Dame Bay, until it closed. He then moved to St. John's and worked as a carpenter. I understand the family had moved to Tilt Cove from Jackson's Arm, White Bay. I do not know in which place my mother was born, but she was reared at Tilt Cove along with three brothers and two sisters." "At age one I was taken by mother and father to London, England, where we stayed for three years, and where, just before we came home, my sister, Nada Alice, was born." ... "I was four years old when I returned from England with my father, mother, and newborn sister. The year was 1916...".