Monica Elease Daley

Monica married Joseph Gladstone McLaggan (Derrick) [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Michelle Antoinette McLaggan
2. Sonja Domini McLaggan
3. Sean Patrick McLaggan
4. Sharon Rose McLaggan
5. Ian Gladstone McLaggan
6. Jason Corin McLaggan
7. Tanya Vanessa McLaggan

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 22 Jun 1941, Green Island, Hanover, Jamaica; Carpenter
• Employment: 1944, USA; Farm and canning factory worker, returning to Jamaica in 1945
• Occupation: 1952, Jamaica; Special constable
• Emigration: 1955, 8 Allcroft Road, Kentish Town, Middlesex, England; SS Marine Robin. We sailed from Jamaica to Funchal, Maderia in Spain. I then took the train to France and a ferry to England. I knew were I could stay in England. Ivy later flew here a short while after Ferdinand arrived.
• Residence: 1963, 204 Church Lane, Kingsbury, Middlesex, England
• Employment: ? - 1985, Wembley Stadium, Wembley, Middlesex, England; Carpenter

Notes:

Died:
Died 3 days before his 101st birthday. Died between 01:00 and 05:00 in his sleep.

Buried:
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Ferdinand married Ivy Esmural Willie (Moms) on 22 Jun 1941 in Kendal, Manchester, Jamaica. Ivy (daughter of John Samuel Willie and Zillah Elizabeth Anne Brown) was born on 28 Feb 1919 in Green Island, Hanover, Jamaica; died on 5 Aug 2013 in Kenton, Middlesex, England; was buried on 21 Aug 2013 in Alperton Cemetery, Wembley, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Carer for Crossroads
• Occupation: Ealing, Middlesex, England; Seamstress
• Occupation: Hampstead, Middlesex, England; Seemstress for Goldstein in Hampstead, London
• Occupation: 22 Jun 1941, Green Island, Hanover, Jamaica; Clerk
• Occupation: Abt 1950, Jamaica; Own grocery business
• Immigration: 1956, 8 Allcroft Road, Kentish Town, Middlesex, England
• Religion: 1963, Kingsbury Free Baptist Church, Kingsbury, Middlesex, England
• Residence: 1963, 204 Church Lane, Kingsbury, Middlesex, England

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EULOGY FROM GRAND-DAUGHTER NATASHA LEAH THRALE ...

"Moms" was born Ivy Willie in Kendall Hanover, Jamaica on 28 February 1919, daughter of Samuel Willie and Zilla. She was the fourth of five children. She was s scholar and had dreams of becoming a teacher. In 1941 she married Ferdinand Daley from Green Island and started a family. Whilst the children were growing she successfully ran her own grocery business. In 1956 they came to England and initially lived in Kentish Town with their three daughters, Carmen, Marva and Monica. In the 1960's they all moved to a new suburb called Kingsbury and bought one of the new houses in the area. Their neighbours were the Harrison's, who have been good neighbours ever since. Moms worked as a seamstress and cutter in London. When she retired she spent some time travelling and staying with relatives in America, Canada and Jamaica. After returning, she pursued a second career as a carer for the charity Crossroads. She later worked at a local school for children with learning disabilities as a lunchtime supervisor, even though she was in her seventies. Once she finally retired, she looked after her great-grandchildren until she was well into her eighties. Ivy was a committed Christian and joined Kingsbury Free Baptist Church in 1979 and was a member of the choir for a number of years. Family was very important to her and she encouraged her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to work hard and excel in their studies. She loved her garden and would tend to her flowers and vegetables. She also enjoyed clothes-making and helped to make costumes for school events. As she grew older and frail, she never lost her spirit and love for her 3 children, 8 grandchildren 12 great-grandchildren, great-great-grand-children and all her nieces and nephews. She joined the Lord on 5 August 2013 aged 94. She impacted all our lives and we will treaty miss her. In our grief, we must remember that she lived a long and fulfilled life, with good health for 90 years. She now rests in peace. The Lord has called her home to enter his eternal rest and we know that she is rejoicing with the heavenly choir. Her eulogy ends as she would have wished with a verse from the Holy Bible, Second Corinthians, Chapter 5, verse 6 ? "To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord." 

EULOGY FROM GRANDSON-IN LAW DAVID HENRY THRALE ...

We are all here today to pay our respects to Ivy Daley. Ivy was a remarkable woman who achieved something extraordinary. This achievement was truly her life's work and is gathered here in this Church this morning.

Ivy - or Moms as everyone called her - built the most exceptional family.
* a family that is kind, supportive and together;
* a family that cares for their sick;
* a family of children that respected and honoured their mother;
* a family of grandchildren working hard and bring up the next generation of children the right way;
* a family of great grandchildren that are studying for the future;
* even a great-great granddaughter who is just the cutest thing.
Everyone in this family is what Moms wanted: decent, honest, industrious, loving.

So today, I would like to thank Moms for welcoming me into this, her most precious achievement. Her family.

Died:
Died at 3.30am

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 29 Aug 1920; Fisherman

Notes:

Died:
He was in the mountainous area of Jamaica cutting down a Cotton Tree to make a fishing boat. As it fell the large tree, hit the branch of another tree, and the branch from the nearby tree, snapped, fell and hit Thomas on the abdomen and affected his breathing. He is said to have suffered the consequences of this injury for some considerable time before it eventually hastened an Aortic aneurysm which caused his death.

Thomas married Virginia Medora Campbell on 29 Aug 1920 in Green Island, Hanover, Jamaica. Virginia (daughter of Frederick Emanuel Campbell and Jessie Ann Stewart) was born about 1889 in Kendal, Manchester, Jamaica; died on 24 Aug 1975 in Green Island, Hanover, Jamaica. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 29 Aug 1920; Domestic

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Kendal, Manchester, Jamaica; Farmer
• Residence: Burnt Savannah, Westmoreland, Jamaica; Moved from Kendal to Burnt Savannah, with all children except Samuel and Reginald, who stayed in Kendal
• Occupation: 23 Feb 1909; Labourer

John married Zillah Elizabeth Anne Brown on 31 Jul 1907 in Westmoreland, Jamaica. Zillah (daughter of Thomas Brown) was born on 13 Feb 1864 in Kingston, Surrey, Jamaica; was christened on 16 May 1864 in Kingston, Surrey, Jamaica; died in 1951-1952. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Grew up with an aunt after her father died at sea, as her mother had died earlier.

Was unable to write her name

Thomas married Morgiana Miller (Marjorie). Morgiana was born in Arch well, Prospect Estate, Green Island, Hanover, Jamaica; died about 1930. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Was illiterate

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Death: Monica Elease McLaggan says that the death date given by Ferdinand Emanuel Daley of before 1941 must be incorrect, as she met 'Tatafed' and he would have more likely died in the 1950s.
• Occupation: Farmer
• Occupation: 23 Feb 1913; Labourer

Notes:

Ferdinand Daley said that Frederick - or Tatafed as everyone knew him - Campbell's father was from he Igbo tribe in Nigeria.

However, this seems unlikely as the last recorded transportation of Africans for slavery to Jamaica was in 1807, and Slavery in Jamaica being abolished in 1834. So the ancestral african would have arrived in Jamaica no later than 1807. Assuming 25 years per generation, this means this cannot of been Frederick's father, but was more likely his grandfather or possibly his great grandfather.

Died:
Anecdotally he is said to have lived to be 108 years old.

Frederick married Jessie Ann Stewart (Miss Jess) on 23 Feb 1913 in Green Island, Hanover, Jamaica. Jessie (daughter of Edward Stewart) was born in Abt. 1879. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Occupation: 23 Feb 1913; Labourer

Notes:

Her aunt (mother's sister) died aged 113

John married Frazier. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Had just one child, Samuel.

Name:
Was half Indian. Her family may have originated from One Street or Cessnock Post Office in Kendal.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Sailor
• Residence: Lucea, Hanover, Jamaica