Ethel Maude McCrorieAge: 81 years1890–1972
- Name
- Ethel Maude McCrorie
- Given names
- Ethel Maude
- Surname
- McCrorie
- Married name
- Ethel Laltoo
| Birth | December 18, 1890 28 |
| Birth of a half-sister | Alma Sampath March 3, 1905 (Age 14 years) |
| Birth of a half-brother | Dr. Shadrack David Sampath May 28, 1907 (Age 16 years) Note: Place from NY passenger list, exact date from Detroit Border Crossing |
| Birth of a half-brother | Meshach Sampath 1908 (Age 17 years) |
| Birth of a half-brother | Leonard Sampath 1910 (Age 19 years) |
| Birth of a son #1 | Ralph Clarence Laltoo September 28, 1915 (Age 24 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | Laura Winnifred Laltoo 1917 (Age 26 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #3 | Sybil Emily Laltoo 1919 (Age 28 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #4 | Sylvia Evelyn Laltoo 1923 (Age 32 years) |
| Birth of a son #5 | Joseph McCrorie Laltoo October 18, 1926 (Age 35 years) |
| Death of a father | Hugh McCrorie 1928 (Age 37 years) Cause: Drowning Note: The Rupununi River is a tributary of the Essequibo River in southern Guyana, originating in the Kanuku Mountains. He died when the country was still called British Guiana. |
| Death of a husband | Rev. Henry C. Laltoo 1958 (Age 67 years) |
| Death of a half-brother | Leonard Sampath 1967 (Age 76 years) |
| Death | March 28, 1972 (Age 81 years) |
| Family with parents |
| father |
Birth: June 22, 1862 31 32 — Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland Death: 1928 — Rupunimi Falls, Guyana |
| mother |
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Not married: 1888 — |
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11 months elder brother |
Birth: November 22, 1888 26 — Arima, Saint George, Trinidad and Tobago Death: 1988 — Trinidad and Tobago |
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2 years herself |
Birth: December 18, 1890 28 — Arima, Saint George, Trinidad and Tobago Death: March 28, 1972 — Trinidad and Tobago |
| Mother’s family with David Sampath |
| step-father |
Birth: 1858 — India Death: November 7, 1942 — Fyzabad, Saint Patrick, Trinidad and Tobago |
| mother |
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Marriage: 1893 — |
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14 years half-brother |
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4 years half-brother |
Birth: 1910 52 — Fyzabad, Saint Patrick, Trinidad and Tobago Death: 1967 — Fyzabad, Saint Patrick, Trinidad and Tobago |
| half-sister |
Alexandra Sampath Birth: Tabaquite, Caroni, Trinidad and Tobago Death: Trinidad and Tobago |
| half-sister |
Birth: March 3, 1905 47 — Tabaquite, Caroni, Trinidad and Tobago Death: January 31, 2004 — New York, USA |
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Meshach Sampath Birth: 1908 50 Death: in infancy |
| Family with Rev. Henry C. Laltoo |
| husband |
Birth: May 1876 — Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, India Death: 1958 — Trinidad and Tobago |
| herself |
Birth: December 18, 1890 28 — Arima, Saint George, Trinidad and Tobago Death: March 28, 1972 — Trinidad and Tobago |
| son |
Birth: September 28, 1915 39 24 — Diamond Village, Victoria, Trinidad and Tobago Death: August 26, 2004 — Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada |
| daughter |
Private |
| daughter |
Private |
| daughter |
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3 years daughter |
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5 years daughter |
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4 years son |
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| Rev. Henry C. Laltoo + Charlotte Ragoonath |
| husband |
Birth: May 1876 — Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, India Death: 1958 — Trinidad and Tobago |
| husband’s wife |
Charlotte Ragoonath Birth: 1877 — Trinidad Death: 1910 — Trinidad |
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9 years step-son |
Frederick Laltoo Birth: 1901 24 24 — South Naparima, Victoria, Trinidad and Tobago Death: 1933 |
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-4 years step-daughter |
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9 years step-son |
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| Note | [Henry's] daughter, Clara, attended the Iere Home Finishing School at the age of 18 where her best friend was Ethel McCrorie (they are pictured together in the group shot I sent to you). Here, as a widower, Henry met Ethel and proposed to her. Ethel’s mother, Alice Bhagmania, told her to marry Henry, age 34, because as half-breed, she was unlikely to be wanted by either the Indians or the whites. Being mixed in those days was a liability. Therefore, at the age of 18, Ethel took on four children and Henry Laltoo. Her first child was my father, Ralph. In many ways, she was a modern woman. She could change spark plugs in their Model A Ford car, muck out the pig sty (she kept pigs to finance Uncle Joe in medical school in Bristol, England), preside over the Board of Directors of the Iere Home Finishing School, which she supported all her life, and unbeknownst to Henry, gave equal opportunity to other religious groups and even the obeah man when trouble prevailed. She brought up seven children, and me. At the age of 70, she travelled by plane to the U.S. for the first time, making several follow-up trips until her death in 1971.
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