The Desmond Family View Family Tree

In various primary documents, their surname was spelled a variety of ways: Desmond, Dismond, and Dismal. Thomas and Jane were born in Nova Scotia and their date of immigration to PEI is not known. Their first documentation was in Meacham’s 1880 Atlas where T. Dismond was documented as living on 11 acres of land in Lot 48. It is interesting to note that he lived off the Georgetown Road, not far from the Baptist Church as the 1881 census indicates his religious affiliation to be Baptist. In 1881, he was still living in Lot 48 and listed himself as a farmer. Living in his household was his wife Jane, and Angelina, who was nineteen at that time. Also living in their household was Hettie Bolton, twenty years old, but her relationship to the Desmond family is also not known. The 1881 census further documents that everyone in the household had been born in Nova Scotia.

Frederick’s 1889 PEI Directory for PEI list Thomas Desmond as a Laborer living on Chestnut. Six years later, the church records for the First Baptist Church in Charlottetown, in a 1895 census for their congregation again document Thomas Desmond as living on Chestnut Street. His household consisted of two adults. In 1901, Thomas was working as a truck man in Charlottetown. Living with Thomas and Jane at that time was Lilly, who was adopted and listed her religion as Anglican. McAlpines 1904 Directory for PEI document Thomas as a truck man living at 45 Chestnut Street. McAlpine’s 1909 census, however, list the Desmond family as having moved to 47 Chestnut Street. After Thomas’ death in 1911, Mrs. Thomas Desmond, widow, is listed as living at 47 Chestnut Street in Bagnall’s 1914 Directory for PEI.

Thomas died in 1911 and Jane in 1914, both living to be eighty-four and eighty-three years of age respectively. They are both buried in the People’s Protestant Cemetery in Charlottetown.

There are no known descendants of Thomas and Jane Desmond living on PEI today.