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Harry came from Ross, in Herefordshire, in about 1903 or 1904. He took up a homestead on a lake that he named "Whitewood". Dorothy (Rendall?) came out with a brother from Bowden, Cheshire a few years later. Her brother happened to take a homestead adjoining Harry's. They were married in 1907. Nancy was born in 1909 and Betty in 1915. In 1909 Harry gave the land on which the Rexboro church and cemetery is situated and helped build the church. Apart from a few years in B.C. Harry and Dorothy lived in the Rexboro District and in Edmonton. When they sold their land around Whitewood Lake, they kept land and a summer cottage on Lake Wabamun. Their very active support of St. Aidan and St. Hilda never diminished. Dorothy died in 1959 at the age of seventy-eight. Harry died in 1962 at the age of ninety-three.