Seventh Generation

2763. Olivia Edwina "Olive" ACKLEY appeared in the census 1850 & 1860 in Maine. 1860 census has name as Adwina She was born on 22 Sep 1842 in Maine.^656,657,2285 She was living in 1860 in Cutler, Washington , Maine.⁶⁵⁷ living with Charles Thurlow as a domestic She died on 22 Oct 1898 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Canada.²²⁸⁵ Her Obituary appeared in the Pictou Advocate on 28 Oct 1898 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Canada Many readers of the Pictou Advocate will learn with sincere regret of the death off Mrs. Crerar, widow of the late Captain David Crerar, which took place Saturday evening. She had not been in good health for some months, but her condition was not considered serious, and upon her return from Halifax a few weeks ago, where she had gone for medical advice, she went to spend a short season with her daughter, Mrs. Edward Carson. Here she was taken ill and passed away three days later. Mrs. Crerar was dearly loved by a large circle of friends and acquaintances, and the esteem in which she was generally held in the community was evidenced by the large concourse of people that gathered on Monday afternoon to attend the last rites. The deceased leaves one son Peter, member of the Northwest Mounted Police, two daughters, Mrs. Thomas Hudson and Mrs. Edward Carson of Pictou, who have sincere sympathy in their sad and sudden bereavement. also listed in 1860 ME census as Olive D Ackley living with James and his 2nd wife Elizabeth birth date ca 1843
reportedly married a man in Nova Scotia, Canada

Olivia Edwina "Olive" ACKLEY and Capt David Stewart CRERAR were married about 1865 in New York.²²⁸⁵ Capt David Stewart CRERAR²²⁸⁵ (son of Living and Living) was born on 13 Aug 1830 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Canada.²²⁸⁵ He died on 2 Jun 1893 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Canada.²²⁸⁵ His Obituary appeared in the Eastern Chronicle on 8 Jun 1898 in Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Canada Died: 2 June 1893 (Friday) at Pictou: Capt. D.S. Crerar, well-known to the older residents of the county, died last Friday morning. He had been a sufferer for many years, and has been confined to his house for some time past; yet his death was sudden, in as much that he was able to take a drive on the Monday previous. Wednesday, he was taken ill suddenly, and he never regained consciousness. His funeral took place on Saturday and was largely attended

Captain David Stewart Crerar was the last great Crerar seafarer. The youngest of Peter Crerar's seven sons, he was born 13 August 1830 in Pictou. It is likely that he was named after Colonel David Stewart of Garth, who had gained fame in 1821 with his Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders, praising the loyalty and ferocity of Highland soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars. There is also a possibility that David Stewart of Garth was more than a mere object of admiration of the Crerar family; a persistent family rumour has Peter Crerar, or his wife Anne Stewart, related to a prominent historian of the Scottish Highlands.
Like his brothers, he was famed locally for his tall stature. He first took to the sea at a young age, captaining the 369 tonne Wolfe, owned by his brothers John and Peter, at the age of 26 in 1855. The Eastern Chronicle of 31 July 1856 reported that "the barque Wolfe owned by J & P Crerar, and commanded by Capt. David Crerar left Pictou on the 14th and made the run to Liverpool in 14 days." This Wolfe was the second boat thus named, commemorating their Wolfe of 1853 which originally netted their fortune. In 1861 David became a shipbuilder himself, collaborating with his brother John in building the 507 tonne Kenmore at New Glasgow. The ship, named after the parish whence their father came, was unfortunately abandoned six months later. Other references to his seafaring life include:
1862 Dunkeld built by John and David Crerar and Donald MacDonald at New Glasgow 23 Oct.; 378T
1863 Alonzo , barque
o built at River John, registered 1865 Halifax, 549 net tonnes [Public Archives, RG 42, vol.1255 1512; orig. vol.52-D, reel No.C-2425, p.128]
o "The bark Alonzo, Cpt. D.S.Crerar, owned by Peter Crerar, esq, made the passage from the Strait of Canso to Cardiff, Brsid [?] Channel, in the unprecedented short time of 12 days." [Colonial Standard, 26 November, p. 2]
o [The Last Will and Testament of Peter Crerar of Pictou, ship owner, #2390]: "…to my brother Captain David Stewart, my barque Alonzo, now at Cuba, or on its passage from there to Falsmouth. The probable weight of the homeward freight will be one thousand seven hundred pounds, this freight I direct my said brother David to collect and pay thereon all the bark's disbursements and to pay the London and Westminster Bank to be placed to the credit of Messieurs Duffus and Company, Bankers, Halifax."
o 13 November 1869: owned by Cpt. D.S. Crerar, stranded in Heligoland, a German island west of Hamburg [E.Chronicle, 14 Sept 1950]
o note: a barque Alonzo built 1860 at Kitchin Shipyards, River John.
1864 J.M.Morales built by Peter at New Glasgow 21 May 1864; 513 tons
o [The Last Will and Testament of Peter Crerar of Pictou, ship owner, Pictou #1019]: …I give to my brother William Grant Crerar my bark "I.M. Morales, now at Cardiff or on her passage to River Pictou and from there to Chinohas Island. I direct the amount of freight to be directed from Monte Video…I give the homeward freight from Chinchas (after paying all the necessary charges thereon) unto my brothers the said David Stewart Crerar and William G. Crerar. .
o "Cpt. Foster, at Sagua, 13 May for Philadelphia" [29 May 1873)§
o "passed Newcastle, Delaware, 11 June for Pictou" (19 June 1873)§
o "Cpt.Foster, St.Thomas, sailed from Buenos Aires, 18 Jan" (12 March 1874)§
o "for Montevideo, sailed from New York, 8th inst." (26 March 1874)§
o "Cpt.Foster, cleared 19 June for Quebec" (25 June, 1874)§
o "barque, loading at Quebec, 11 July, for Bristol Channel" (23 July 1874)§
186? Iona Munro barque
o December 1869 Barque Iona Munro owned by D.S. Crerar [E.Chronicle, 14 Sept 1950]
1870 Rio de la Plata barque built by David and W.G. at River John 2 July; 648 tons
o 157.2 ft long; 33.1 ft. broad; 17.9 ft. deep holds [Ships of the North Shore, p.11]
o July 1870: owned by D.S.Crerar, launched [E.Chronicle, 14 Sept. 1950]






o "Cpt. McLeod, at Darien, Ga., April 30, 1873, loading for River Platte" (15 May 1873)§
o "Cpt.McLeod, Greenock, cleared from Darien, Ga., 18th ult." (5 March 1874)§
o wrecked, Isle Croix, France in November 1880
1881 Wolfe: three-masted barque built of oak and pine in 1881 by James Kitchin Jr. in St. John, New Brunswick. It was copper-fastened below, with galvanized iron of the upper works.
o Its dimensions were 54,35× 10,7× 6,22 m and tonnage 942 NRT Finnish measurement; 972,73 BRT, 873,06 NRT and 862,16 tons under deck Swedish measurement. It was rigged with royal and single top gallant sails over double topsails. She also had a spencer sail on the main mast [The Maritime History Virtual Archives, internet]. The archives lists an "S.Crerar" of Halifax, Nova Scotia owning the Wolfe from 1884 to 1893. In 1900 she was sold to J.E. Stenroos, Åland, for FIM 61.500. By 1905 it was Russian-owned [J.M. Cameron at 28]. Over the next fourteen years she carried freight of timber and coal, sailing to Havana, Mobile, Darien, Southampton, Cape Town, Chatham, Buenos Aires, London, Jamaica, Riga and Sweden. In 1914, at the beginning of the First World War, she was laid up in Malmö, Sweden. On 26 October 1915 she sailed from Burntisland for Malmö, with 1228 tons of coal, and was lost at sea. On 31 October 1915 the English steamer Ocean Queen found one of the lifeboats from the Wolfe 8 miles north of Lybster, Scotland, with the corpses of three men aboard.
David married Olive Edwina Ackley in 1865 in New York, departing soon afterwards for England, where their first son Ewen was born the following year. Little is known about his wife, but that she was an American of Scottish descent, born in Maine. The next year he purchased 84 (now 220) Faukland Street, Pictou (built c.1854) from a local tailor, Robert Tanner, for £300. They would live there until 1882. In 1882 they moved to the family home, at 16 [now 48] Willow [or College] Street (and High or Spring Street), living there until his death. He also held land located on what is now the south end of the Pictou race track.
Olivia Edwina "Olive" ACKLEY and Capt David Stewart CRERAR had the following children:

4234	i.	Ewen Clarke CRERAR was born on 2 Apr 1866 in Liverpool, England, UK.2285 He died on 25 Dec 1885 in At Sea.2285 Ewen was named after his uncle Ewen Clarke Crerar, who secured the family fortune by piloting the original Wolfe across the Atlantic, and who would later drown near Grand Manan Island. In a tragic irony this namesake youth suffered a similar fate on a namesake ship. He drowned 25 December 1885 from his father's barque Wolfe, off Sandy Hook, when leaving for a voyage to South America. Like the rest of his immediate family, he was buried in Haliburton Cemetery. His gravestone reads "The sea shall give up its dead". Robert Murdoch, the "Poet-Laureate" of Pictou was moved to write a poem, In Memoriam for Ewen: Dear mother, weep no more for me, My body rolls amidst the deep, My soul's at rest with Christ above And Him, He safely will it keep. When last we parted, mother dear, You fondly pressed me to your breast; Now, I am in the arms of Christ Forever to remain at rest.
+4235	ii.	Annie Clarke CRERAR was born on 21 Mar 1868 in Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Canada.2285 She died on 25 Jun 1892 in Halifax, Canada.2285
+4236	iii.	Olivia Edwina Inez CRERAR was born in Feb 1869 in Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Canada.2285 She died on 26 Jan 1952 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.2285
+4237	iv.	Peter David Stewart CRERAR2285 was born in Oct 1872.2285 He died on 3 May 1943 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.2285 Peter had a frustrating but adventurous life. He at first sought to follow the maritime career of his family but, probably sensing the dissolution of that livelihood, joined the North-West Mounted Police in 1898. He engagement papers list him as "5 feet, 11.5 inches; 174 pounds; boiler-maker and teamster; intelligence appears to be good; sanguine temperament; fair complexion; light brown hair; blue eyes." He was stationed in Fort McLeod (Calgary) in what was then called the North-West Territories and assigned the number of Reg. #3295. He soon sought a discharge, which was rejected. He was, however, granted a "furlough" of leave, and while in Nova Scotia, requested to purchase the remainder of his contract with the NWMP. He gave two reasons for this request, his business affairs, and his desire to marry. It was at this time presumably that he married Margaret, who would remain, miraculously, his wife through all of his travels. This purchase was granted, costing him $51.00, and on 8 February 1901 he left the Force. He remained restless, however, and on January 11 1902 enlisted in Halifax to serve in the Boer War with the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles. He returned with Cape, Transvaal, and South Africa medals [Private #860]. Upon return, however, he languished in Pictou and Amherst, Nova Scotia. In 1909 his solicitor friend John Ralston, solicitor in Amherst, N.S. wrote to Lieut. Col.Fred White, Comptroller of North West Mounted Police: There is a good friend of mine in this town named Peter D.S.Crerar, who was formerly of the North West Mounted Police and afterwards went to South Africa. He has been living here for the last two or three years working for the Robb Engineering Co.,Ltd., but during the last eight months he has just got two months work…He is a first class man in every way and his experience ought to eminently qualify him for any position similar to those I mention…He is simply in position now that he must leave town as things are very dull here, and I am anxious to do everything I can… While this letter was unsuccessful, he embarked once again to what was now the infant province of Saskatchewan. He worked for several years in the west as a commercial traveller, carpenter and then police constable in Brandon. Finally, in 1914 he was reengaged by the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, being stationed to Lethbridge, and then to Expanse, Saskatchewan. There his ambivalent relationship with the force continued, as he was reprimanded first for not keeping this office in order, and then in bringing his family to Expanse without permission. To these reprimands, the citizens of Expanse District signed a petition attesting that "we have never had a Police Officer in Expanse district who has carried out his duties in such a satisfactory manner…" which seemed to gain him some reprieve. In 1915 he requested leave to care for his ailing wife, and in 1916 finally himself requested a full leave from the force due to rheumatism. This was readily granted and he left with the rank of Constable. For the next sixteen years nothing is known of his life, except for a stint in the Saskatchewan Police Force. His final years appear to have been difficult. In 1932, living in Calgary, his wife Maggie wrote to Prime Minister Bennett, requesting a pension for her husband: His injuries were when he was ordered to break remounts by Sergeant Major Turner. My husband informed him at the time that if he was injured he would hold him responsible. He was detailed to ride one of the worst remounts the Force had at that time with the result he got thrown on the frozen ground injuring his knee cap badly…" This letter was unsuccessful so in a second letter she recounted some of his exploits: "…He was with them in Southern Alberta also the Yukon in 1898 leaving from Fort McLeod where he had been stationed for some time previous and was in charge of Little Salmon detachment in the Yukon Territory and for two winters owing to the shortage of men drove dogs daily carrying mail and provisions , and at one time owing to sickness among the men averaged 30 miles over the ice for thirty days in succession the last day of the thirty days he covered 62 miles with a doctor… She claimed that he was forced to sign a statement that the contraction of his rheumatism had no relation to his service in the N.W.M.P., but to no avail. In 1943, living at 303 25th Avenue W., Calgary Peter David Stewart Crerar died. He obituary noted that he was a member of the Canadian Legion, South African Veteran's Association, Arctic Brotherhood, and urged like veterans to attend his funeral, at the Field of Honour Plot, Burnsland Cemetery [Sec. G, Block 8, Lot 62 (photo)], in south-east Calgary. Funeral arrangements were made by Last Post. He was survived by his two sisters in Vancouver, his widow, his daughter of Sylvan Lake, and his three grandchildren. In 1954 Margaret still lived at 303-25th Avenue West. She died on May 18, 1995 and on May 21th was buried in St. Mary's Cemetery [Sec. K, Block 2, Lot 140 (photo)], near Burnsland Cemetery.
+4238	v.	Susan Jeanette CRERAR2285 was born on 11 Dec 1875 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Canada.2285 She died on 8 Jun 1951 in Kelowna, Canada.2285 Susan lived at 1031 West 10th Avenue in 1921 and 1923, and at 1702 West 35th Avenue in 1933. In 1943 she was listed as the widow of J.E. Carson, living at 4396 West 2nd Avenue, Vancouver. Toward her death in 1951, she was living at 7375 Granville, Vancouver [Reg.#1951-09-005862]. Six months before her death she moved to Kelowna and lived at 421 Cadder Avenue, the home of her son. She died in the Kelowna Hospital of cancer.