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Spouses/Children:
Catherine Elizabeth Merryweather
- Frederick Godfrey Vivian
- Margaret Vivian
- Ellen A. Vivian
- Catherine E. Vivian
- Clara Vivian
- Mabel Vivian (d.y.)
- Nicholas Joseph Beauregard Vivian (d.y.)
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Dr. Godfrey Vivian of Alexandria
- Born: Mar 1839, Abernant, Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales
- Christened: 17 Aug 1839, Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales 1
- Married: 28 Aug 1861, Ontonagon Twp., Ontonagon, MI, USA 2
- Died: 26 Aug 1897, Alexandria, Douglas, MN, USA 3
- Buried: Kinhead Cemetery, Alexandria, Douglas, MN, USA 3
 Research Notes:
Godfray son of Nicholas Vivian of Abernant, engineer, and Margt Godfray (baptismal record)
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In 1870 Godfrey Vivian, aged 30, born in Wales, physician, and wife Clara Vivian, aged 26, born in Michigan, USA, keeping house, were living in Alexandria, Douglas, Minnesota. With them were children (born in Michigan) Margret (6), Katie (4), Nellie (4), Clara (2), and Godfrey's father Nicholas Vivian (55) of England, civil engineer.
In 1880 Godfrey Vivian, aged 41, born in Wales, physician & surgeon, and wife Clara E. Vivian, aged 36, born in Michigan, housekeeping, were living in Alexandria, Douglas, Minnesota. Present were children (born in Michigan) Fredrick G. (17), printer, Catherine E. (14), Ellen A. (14), Clara A. (12), and mother-in-law Catherine Merryweather (52) of New York, boarding.
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OBITUARY.
Dr. Godfrey Vivian is dead. This will be sad news for his friends in this county, and for everybody who knew him was his frie[n]d. The doctor has been failing for a number of years and passed away at his home on Sixth avenue, after a long and painful illness, this morning at 5 o'clock.
Dr. Vivian was born in Abadair, Wales, March, 1839, his father being English and his mother French. He came to this country when nine years of age with his parents. His father came to take charge of the Bruce mine, Canada, being a mining engineer, and later had charge of mines at Pittsburg and in the Lake Superior region. He was married in 1861 to Miss Clara Merryweather in Ontonogan, Mich., having earlier attended a medical school at Pittsburg and was with a Michigan doctor. He was mining physician for the Phoenix and Copper Falls companies until the spring of 1869 when he moved to Alexandria and enjoyed a large practice for over twenty years. Seven years ago he moved with his family to California for his health, but returned last fall and purchased the house where he died. He was an educated gentleman, a splendid surgeon and physician and a good citizen. He leaves a wife and five children, Fred, in the newspaper business at Niles, Mrs. Jenks, at Los Gratos [sic], Mrs. Retallick, Misses Kathreyn and Callie, all of whom are in California except Miss Katheryn who lived with her parents.
The Lake Review, Osakis, 2 Sep 1897. 3
Marriage Information:
Godfrey married Clara Elizabeth Merryweather, daughter of Algernon Merryweather and Catherine, on 28 Aug 1861 in Ontonagon Twp., Ontonagon, MI, USA. (Clara Elizabeth Merryweather was born in Nov 1842 in Independence, Oakland, MI, USA and died on 17 Feb 1921 in Alameda Co., CA, USA)
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