Joseph and Josephine

Margaret Merrow's parents were Joseph Daniel Merrow (1851-1922) and Josephine Gertrude Greusel (1861-1938). They were married on 3 August 1881 and are shown here photographed shortly afterwards. Joseph and Josephine were second cousins, both being great grandchildren of Jean Baptiste Amirault, a French Canadian of Acadian descent. The surname Merrow is an anglicization of the original Amirault.

In the span of twenty years, Joseph and Josephine had sixteen children, only half of which lived to adulthood.

The children of Joseph and Josephine, reconstructed from census records and Charlotte A Raymo's notes:

• Margaret Angeline Merrow, b. 11 October 1882, d. 21 December 1946
• Clarence Charles Merrow, b. 10 April 1883, d. sometime after 1920
• Joseph Daniel Merrow, Jr., b. 20 December 1884, d. 1886
• Vivian Merrow, b. 19 December 1886, d. September 1887
• Twin boy, died in infancy
• Twin boy, died in infancy
• Girl, died in infancy
• Josephine Gertrude Merrow, b. 23 December 1891, d. 6 October 1949
• Marie Stella Merrow, b. 3 April 1893, d. sometime after 1949
• Rachel Irene Merrow, b. 2 August 1894, d. September 1983
• Flavious Joseph Merrow, b. 10 June 1895, d. 29 September 1918
• Unknown child, died in infancy
• John Merrow, died in infancy
• Florence Virginia Merrow, b. 23 February 1898, d. 2 December 1992
• Caleb Merrow, b. January 1900, d. probably died in infancy
• Hazen Alfonso Merrow, b. 7 July 1901, d. 6 December 1978