Gazlay Family History
 

FamilyElizabeth Arma Burrows Sifton

DIRECT DESCENDANT OF JOHN GAZLAY (from England c.1715)
Elizabeth Arma Burrows Sifton7 (Jean Donaldson,6 Emma Gazlay,5 Theodore Gazlay,4 James Gazlay,3 John Gazlay,2 John Gazlay1)

Parents

FatherWinfield Burrows Sifton (21 January 1890 - 13 June 1928)
MotherJean Gazlay Donaldson (12 March 1893 - 9 February 1956)

Personal Information

Record Created: 28 May 2012; Last Edited: 20 November 2021 
Person ID3878
NameElizabeth Arma Burrows Sifton
GenderFemale
Born 2 May 1915 in London, England1, 2
Died 24 February 1950 in New York1, 3
Buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada3

Biography

Elizabeth was born in London but moved to Canada as a child. She attended Elmwood School for Girls in Ottawa, and the University of Toronto where she specialized in modern languages. Elizabeth was a writer for the New York Post and left the newspaper to write a book.3

Sources

  1. Find a Grave (website). Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Elizabeth A. B. Sifton, born 2 May 1915; died 24 February 1950; incorrectly identified in the record as daughter of Sir Clifford Sifton, she is actually his granddaughter; she is correctly identified on her gravestone as the daughter of Winfield B. Sifton.
  2. Gazlay History, written by Spencer G. Kuhn, a grandchild of Theodore Gazlay; undated. This is a typewritten re-compilation of the earlier Genealogy of the Gazlay Family, compiled by Theodore Gazlay in 1890, including the 1852 statement of the family history by Reverend Sayers Gazlay, an elder brother of Theodore. This document re-formats the information in the 1890 work. For example, facts originally shown in list form, such as birth and death dates, are incorporated in the narrative of this later work. Two post-1890 sections are unique to this document: one with additional details about Theodore Gazlay’s family, with dates as late as 1951; and another on the Donaldson family, featuring Jean Gazlay Donaldson and her six marriages, with several dates in 1965.
  3. Obituary, The New York Times, 27 February 1950, story from the Canadian Press on 26 February; Elizabeth AB Sifton, died in New York.