New NS Buttery Branch Discovered

It usually takes someone dying to find entire branches of people, and such is the case with a branch descending from Walter Frederick Buttery, 1888-1916.

Walter died tragically at the age of 27 from TB. He had 3 daughters who mostly lived in North Sydney, NS. His second daughter Rebecca M. Buttery (1912-1970) married Philip G. Francis (1907-1991) and until yesterday, I found no evidence they had children. WRONG! They had 7 children!

Rebecca's children are:

1. Margaret Jane Francis Ongo
2. Regis Cordella Rose
3. Walter Frederick “Buck” Francis
4. Clarence Francis
5. Arthur Francis
6. Dorothy Cross
7. Oswald “ozzy” Francis

They are not in order of age--don't know all of the birthdates yet. 

Arthur Francis died in 2011 and worked as a purser aboard Marine Atlantic vessels for most of his life, retiring from the Atlantic Freighter in 1992. He was a former member of the Canadian Navy, and a veteran of Iraqi war, "Desert Storm" serving with the Merchant Marines. He was a member of Branch #19 Royal Canadian Legion, the Cape Breton Naval Veterans and St. John the Baptist Anglican Church, North Sydney.