Gazlay Family History
 

Family HistoryFamily History - Elizabeth Arma Burrows Sifton


Key:1.“+” before a child’s name indicates the child has their own entry in the next generation.
 2.“born xxxx” indicates the child is under 18 years of age so the birth date is not shown.
This family history features Elizabeth Arma Burrows Sifton and her immediate family.



First Generation
1. Elizabeth Arma Burrows Sifton,1 born 2 May 1915 in London, England, the daughter of Winfield Burrows Sifton and Jean Gazlay Donaldson;1, 2 died 24 February 1950 in New York.1, 3 Elizabeth is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.3

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

  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.