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MARSLAND, MARY JOSEPH (NOONAN) (1866-1910)

MARSLAND, MARY JOSEPH (NOONAN), milliner; b. Chatham, 21 Feb 1866 (bap. 24 Feb 1866, 3 days), d/o John Noonan and Margaret Ryan; m. 1904, Henry K. B. Marsland; d. Chatham, 20 Mar 1910.

Mary Joseph ("Josie") Noonan's father was a general merchant in Chatham for many years, until his bankruptcy in 1877, and her brother Patrick A. Noonan conducted a men's wear store on the same premises in the 1880s. The men's wear was taken over by another brother, Michael Noonan, in 1887, but he also went bankrupt in 1893. Meanwhile, in 1892, advertisements began to appear in the newspapers for Josie Noonan's millinery shop. In 1893 she spent several weeks in New York buying stock for the business. She bragged in an advertisement for "Josie Noonan's Mammoth Millinery" in 1899 that, because she sold "the very latest in London, Paris, and New York productions," her store had expanded rapidly and now carried "the largest and most reliable stock" of any millinery store in the Maritimes. She announced the addition of a "Cloak and Suit Room" in 1900, the first of its kind in Chatham.

In 1904 Noonan gave up her business and went to West Virginia to be married to Henry K. B. Marsland, a native of Manchester, England, who had previously been employed as mechanical manager of the Maritime Sulphite pulp mill in Chatham. She and her husband subsequently returned to Chatham, and in 1908, opened Marsland Millinery. When she died in 1910, at age forty-four, she was survived by her husband and two daughters.

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[b] church records [m] Advance 15 Sep 1904 [d] World 23 Mar 1910 / Advance 9 Mar 1893, 10 Aug 1899 (ad), 1 Sep 1904; Advocate 8 Oct 1892 (ad); Fraser (C); Leader 25 Mar 1910; World 8 Sep 1900


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