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
 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)

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