The Quilietti Family

The story of a Scots Italian family

STANTON Andrew 1941 – Moose Jaw line

the generations back to Walter and Honor in Ireland
Andy with his wife Lynne MacAlister

With great pleasure and a bit of good luck another descendant of  Walter Staunton and Honor Green has surfaced from across the Atlantic.    Their names are Andrew Stanton and his wife Lynne MacAlister, and we give them thanks today for sharing their heritage with us and welcome them into the family.

September 2013 in Edinburgh with Denis Madigan Stanton. They are second cousins.
KIM
TRACY and
Daughter Tracy with her new husband 2022 – Giovanni Yglesis
daughters Tracy and Kim with Lynne centre

WALTER STAUNTON or STANTON and HONOR GREEN – 3rd Great Grandparents

Walter Stanton and Honor Green would have had many children, but it was to Scotland that their son Edward came c 1851 with his wife Margaret or Peggy Grady.

EDWARD STANTON and PEGGY or MARGARET GRADY – 2nd Great Grandparents

The couple had married in Westport, County Mayo in 1844. Can’t find the family in the 1851 census but they are here for the 1861 census with a ten year old daughter born in Edinburgh. They must have arrived just short of the survey.

St. Mary’s Westport marriage records 1844
They found themselves in Edinburgh living in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, which in itself was a little Ireland. They worshipped in St. Patrick’s RC Church which was also the local Church for the Italians in the District.
The 1861 census with EDWARD STANTON and Margaret Grady. Both born in Ireland. Son Andrew age 14 a dust Carter born Ireland. Daughter Ann born in Edinburgh 10 years previous was a stick seller. This gives us a date of arrival in Scotland as 1851 but after the census was recorded. There was another Grady family in the same close as you can see top row.
The Irish left their island in droves. First the richer landowners whose rents had gone unpaid but still could afford travel, and then the poor who may only have had enough to sail to England, Scotland and Wales, ventured off the island. Three hundred thousand left for the nearer British Isles in 1847, the most popular port being Liverpool. The fact that Britain was entering a recession made the reception only moderately better than staying at home. One hundred thousand went to Canada the same year, landing in the Maritimes and Grosse Ille, Quebec before passage to the hinterlands. Over a million went to the United States, landing mostly in New York City. Ocean voyages were long, at least six weeks in the cheaper sailing vessels, but the prospects after landing may have seemed worth the sickness continuing on the journey. In 1847, one in seven did not survive the crossing, about the same odds of surviving the famine. It was the poor who suffered the most and died in Ireland. The pattern of land redistribution bears this out: those plots under 5 acres dropped to one third their pre-famine number, while those of 30 acres, or more, tripled in count. Much of the land left by the dead or emigrated was taken over for grazing livestock. One million had died, and one and a half million escaped during the late 1840’s.
DEATH of 2nd Great Grandfather with wrong age should be 69

ANDREW STANTON and MARIA WHELAHAN – Great Grandparents

The marriage of Andrew Stanton and Maria Whelahan in St. Pats RC Chapel the Cowgate 1867
Andrew Stanton 1847, Maria Whelahan and six of their children in later life.
Eldest son Andrew however strived on and knew only Edinburgh as his home.    Through their Church he met up with Maria Whelahan whose family had likewise escaped the famine and settled in Edinburgh.  Both families came from the Mayo and Rosscommon areas of Ireland, neighbours really.   Their background would have been similar and their church was their hub.   Andrew and brother Patrick both played in the new football team started by the Church and amongst their players was Michael Whelahan.
Maria’s brother Michael Whelahan was the very first Captain of this Edinburgh Football Club – Hibernian – which was started at the Church as a pastime for the Irish boys. In the photograph above he is centre. There are also two Stanton brothers one far left Stanton with the very distinctive Stanton shape of face. Unsure which other one – he may not have been in this photograph
Andrew’s death in 1901 with address 212 Canongate, Edinburgh.

Andrew and Maria had nine children, of which Andy’s direct line was Andrew Stanton b1884-1953.

ANDREW STANTON and CATHERINE MORAN – Grandparents

Andrew an apprentice in the Printing Works

When Andrew Stanton was born on 25 October 1884 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, his father, Andrew, was 37 and his mother, Maria, was 35. He married Catherine Moran on 6 May 1915 in St. Patrick’s RC. They had five children in 16 years. He died on 24 December 1953 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, at the age of 69.

Their children were Andrew 1911-1985, Michael 1918-1964, Elizabeth or Cissy 1923-1982, Agnes 1926-1926 and James 1927-2008

ANDREW STANTON and VERONICA FALLON – Parents

57 Nicolson Street was home to the Whelahan\Stanton family for many decades. Veronica was a tailoress. They married in the Church of the Sacred Heart in Edinburgh.
Wedding photograph of Andy and Veronica in 1936 Edinburgh – church of the Sacred Heart Church. They decided to emigrate to Canada in the year 1956, shortly after the War. It was to Moose Jaw that they decided to settle. Already in the area were Veronica’s sisters who had emigrated some years earlier.
Andy Stanton and his cousin, our line Peter Stanton. Showing the familiar Stanton character of a long thin face
Andy and Veronica –

CHILDREN of Andrew Stanton and Veronica Fallon

  • Veronica Ann Stanton was born in Edinburgh on 30th April 1937.  She married John Steven Meadows , who was from Georgia, USA, in Canada in 1960.   They moved around the Country a lot but settled for a while back in Georgia.   They divorced some years later.   Veronica was living in Atlanta Georgia when she died on 23rd November 2002.Veronica and Steve had three children Peter, Victoria and Joseph.
  • Perry [Peter] was born in Moose Jaw, Perry and his family now live in North Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
  • Victoria was born in Toronto and she lived for a while in Alpharetta (which is a suburb of Atlanta) Georgia, U.S.A.  Victoria has three children, Blaze, Storm and Raine. Now with her husband Bill Nabor they live in Marietta in Georgia.
  • Joe was born in Lakeland, Florida  and now lives in the Atlanta, Georgia area (I think it is Macon)
Veronica with daughter Veronica or Vera
Three sisters Molly, Veronica and Catherine orJean Stanton
  • Catherine Jane Stanton 1941-2014. She married Garry Alexander Goudie.  They in turn have three children
  • Robert Anthony Goudie
  • Catherine Elaine Goudie
  • Jeffrey Scott Goudie
  • Jean still lives in Moose Jaw as do her three children. Bob and Catherine have never married. Jeff and Shelley were married in Prince Albert Saskatchewan but make their home in Moose Jaw. All their children were born in Moose Jaw, Jordan, Scott, Madison and Lyndzee.
  • Frances Stanton b 1944 in Edinburgh. I have no information on this line
  • MARGARET or MOLLY STANTON b 1 July 1954 in Edinburgh. She has separate page on this site
photograph taken in Edinburgh in 2012. This is North Gray’s Close, off the Royal Mile. The Stanton family lived here for three or so decades after their arrival from Ireland. They lived at No. 5. Alas it has now gone, demolished for a new housing project.

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