She brought up the girls, it seems, in New Brunswick after she and Chris parted, possibly with the help of her mother, Mary Ann Tamlyn-Jamieson. She does not show up on the 1901 census but many photos were taken in saint John.


This is her house and the cemetery where she is buried.

Dynamic Descendancy Chart for: Christopher and Sarah Abigail Cosman

Cosman, Eva M - #I5667, b: 1887

Sp: Kay, William G, lived in Cambridge City, Middlesex, Masscahusetts in 1920 - #F2410, b: 1881

Kay, Margaret M - #I7104, b: 1911

Kay, William J, residence in 1941 Newport News Virginia - #I7105, b: 1912

Sp: Eviston, Wilma Jean - #F2411, b: 1917

Kay, Andrew D - #I7106, b: 1918

Cosman, Dora M - #I5666, b: 1889

Sp: Tamyln, Roy, wholesale salesman, Swift Co., Portland, Maine,, lived at 357 Preble St and 13 and 28 Craggmere Ave. Portland, Maine, - #F2406, b: 1887

Tamlyn, Virginia - #I7095, b: 1919

Tamlyn, Thelma - #I7096, b: 1922

Tamlyn, Irene A - #I7097, b: 1925

Cosman, Vivian - #I6934, b: 1891

At some point, Sarah and Christopher parted. Christopher died in 1939 and Sarah remarried Luther Herring. Sarah is buried in Whitemarsh Memorial Park, Pennslyvania.


Sarah Herring

First Name:	Sarah
Last Name:	Herring
Birth Date:	2-28-1867
Death Date:	6-1-1970
First Known Location:	Pennsylvania
Last Known Residence:	Souderton, PA
Record Type:	Death Record
Collection:	Social Security Death Index

Daughter Dora was lovely too. ( Photo gift of Barbara Tamlyn) Dora died in Portland Maine at age 41 of tuberculosis.

Barbara's husband Peter falls in place
in the Tamlyn family. Mary Ann Tamlyn, wife of Hugh Jamison, had a younger brother
Charles Wesley Tamlyn (March 15, 1847 - Mar 21, 1921).
Charles was Peter's great grandfather. They lived on a farm in
Newtown, NB. see photo below.....

		#8 - Frin#2415 Tamyln, James & Mary Avery - / mr:1831 HBr: WBr:
				#4 - Frin#2414 Tamyln, William & Mary Ann Marr- / mr: HBr:1833 WBr:
		#2 - Frin#2407 Tamyln, William Delorum & Alma Maud Wilcox- / mr: HBr:1860 WBr:1866
				#5 - Frin#2416 Wilcox, John Henry & Susannah Tamlyn - / mr: HBr: WBr:1841
#1 - Frin#2406 Tamyln, Roy & Dora M Cosman- / mr:1910 HBr:1887 WBr:1889
				#6 - Frin#14 Cosman, John Nelson & Lydia Ann Sheck- / mr: HBr:1820 WBr:1826
		#3 - Frin#181 Cosman, Christopher & Sarah Abigail Jamison - / mr: HBr:1862 WBr:1865
Roy and Eva's daughters went to South Portland High School. Eva wanted to be a writer and had some fame at school,. She married and became a nurse. Irene acted in the school plays and Thelma headed the Art Club. Both married. ( More on their families later)				#7 - Frin#1629 Jamison, Hugh & Mary Ann - / mr: HBr:1825 WBr:1831
Virginia Marie Tamlyn and myself, Darlene Lawton...we look alike.

Irene Annabelle and Thelma Tamlyn.



JUST A NOTE ON
(Extended Tamlyn Family -in New Brunswick

Photo c. 1900
Charles and Sarah Jane (Oldfield) Tamlyn
& children Front L-R: Helena (Lena), Frank, Georgianna (Georgie)
Second Row: Arthur, Charles, Bella (Bert's wife), Sarah & Harry
Back Row: Foster, Bert & Percy)


Photo..Barbara Tamlyn

More photos of Christopher Wager Cosman


As young man




Chris worked also as teamster and farmer.....and who knows....



A hard worker


Photos gifts of Barbara Tamlyn.


Christopher Cosman looks like a powerful man, strong, serious, and brooding. The family lore about him is that he was a stern task-master and did not spare the whip, that he was a hard-working farmer who kept the Lawton kids from starving, that he was a magician with horses, that he was a nice man with brown eyes and hair, that he gave slips of roses to neighbours and that they still bloom, that he drove the waggon to town from the Old Black River Road to sell vegetables and that he cut wood at Mispec.

The Lawton descendants have called him...that boarder...and the story goes that there was jealousy over the land and that some of them beat Chris up when he was 77 and that he died some weeks after this.

Phoebe called him Chris and husband.


My Dad never mentioned his name.




There it is, the brooding spirit.


MORE ABOUT EVA AND DORA

Roy Tamlyn, Dora's husband died between 1942 and 1945. I followed Roy and Dora in Portland directories...

they lived from 1920-23 at 7 Pillsbury St, Portland, from 1924-1927 at 13 Craggmere Ave, Portlans, from 1928 to 1940, at 28 Craggmere Ave. Portland, in 1941 and 1942 Roy is listed alone and in 1945, the listing reads...Heirs of Roy Tamlyn.


Eva was married in British Columbia.....


Eva was petite, pretty, and a Captain in the Salvation Army.


British Columbia Marriage Index: 1872 to 1924
about Eva May Cosman

Name: Eva May Cosman Gender: Female Spouse's name: William Gibson Kay Spouse Gender: Male Marriage Date: 14 Sep 1910 Location: Vancouver BCA Number: B11375 Registration Number: 1910-09-061824 GSU Number: 1983703

And in more detail....

Marriage Date: 14 Sep 1910
Marriage Place: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Groom's Name: William Gibson Kay
Groom's Age: 29 , Groom's Birth Date: 1881, Groom's Birthplace: Stair, Scotland
Groom's Marital Status: Bachelor
Groom's Father's Name: Thomas Kay
Groom's Mother's Name: Margaret Mckinlay Gibson


Bride's Name: Eva May Cosman ,Bride's Age: 22 ,Bride's Birth Date: 1888
Bride's Birthplace: Sussex, New Brunswick Bride's
Marital Status: Spinster
Bride's Father's Name: Christopher W Cosman
Bride's Mother's Name: Sarah A Jamieson

Film Number: 1983703 Digital Folder Number: 4400859
Image Number: 234 BC Archives Film Number: B11375
Registration Number: 234
Banns or License: License
Collection: British Columbia Marriage Registrations, 1859-1932
William Gibson Kay, Eva's husband, was born in Stair, Ayrshire, Scotland.


William Gibson Kay signed a draft card in WWI and WWII.

Eva was running a boarding house in Claremont, New Hampshire in 1930.
1930 United States Federal Census
about Eva M Kay

Name:	Eva M Kay
Home in 1930:	Claremont, Sullivan, New Hampshire
Age:	43
Estimated birth year:	abt 1887
Relation to Head of House:	Wife
Spouse's name:	William G
Race:	White
: Age at first marriage: Parents' birthplace:
Neighbors:
Household Members:	Name Age William G Kay born Scotland abt 1881 49 Eva M Kay born NB abt 1887 43 William J Kay born 1913 17 Margaret W B Kay born 1912 18 Andrew G Kay born 1918 12 Sylvia S Gilda Roomer 1906 Illinois 24 Ida Sears Roomer 1911 Mass. 19 Eleanor Dwyer Roomer 1910 Canada 20 Gladys I Johnson Roomer 1906 Maine 24 Maud R Mcbride Roomer 1905 New Hampshire 25 Claud Hodgson Roomer 1884 Texas 46
Eva's son, William Jamieson lived to be 96, the same age that Eva attained.

William J. Kay, 96 William Jamieson Kay, 96, of West Lafayette, died at 6:45 a.m. Monday, Oct. 13, 2008, at University Place in West Lafayette.

Born Oct. 7, 1912, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he was the son of the late William G. and Eva Cosman Kay. He lived in the New England states during his childhood, particularly Claremont, N.H. In 1938 he graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a bachelor of science degree in engineering technology and received his master's degree in civil engineering from Purdue University in 1941.

He became a naturalized American citizen in 1941. Mr. Kay taught surveying, hydraulics and materials testing at Purdue, retiring in 1979 after 39 years, and was named professor emeritus of Purdue's University School of Civil Engineering. He also was on the teaching staff at Purdue's summer surveying camp at David Ross Civil Engineering Camp and was coordinator for civil engineering cooperative students for many years. He also had been an engineer at the Navy Yard in the public works department in Portsmouth, N.H.; was a field engineer in dry-dock construction in Newport News, Va.; and an engineer at Wright-Patterson Field in Dayton, Ohio.

During World War II he served in the Navy Engineering Corps in the Public Works Division, working with the Sea Bees in construction at several Navy bases. Mr. Kay was a member of the Navy Reserve, retiring as a commander, after 26 years of active and reserve duty. A registered professional engineer, he was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He served on the Purdue Faculty Student Affairs Committee and was a member and faculty adviser of Chi Epsilon, the civil engineering honorary and received the Ross Judson Buck Memorial Award as an outstanding counselor in the School of Civil Engineering. He was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity and served as an adviser to the Purdue Chapter for many years.

He had been a member of First United Methodist Church since 1946; had been a Scoutmaster for Harrison Council of Boy Scout Troop 34; an honorary member of Scabbard and Blade military organization for students; was president in both the Exchange Club and Lafayette Geographic Society; was a faculty fellow in the Purdue Residence Halls at Fowler Courts for many years; and was a member of Purdue Retirees and Purdue Alumni associations.

Since retiring, he had been a Red Coat volunteer at Home Hospital and Wabash Center. At Wabash Center, he designed, repaired and made equipment for the occupational therapy department and in June 1984 was awarded a Distinguished Service Award by the Indiana Occupational Therapy Association. He married Wilma Eviston on Nov. 4, 1941, in Huntington.

Surviving are his wife and a daughter, Laurie Kay Eckart (husband: Gerry) of Corydon. Also surviving are 10 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. A son, Dr. John Boyd Kay, preceded in death. His greatest love, joy and pride was in his family. Memorial visitation 1-2 p.m. with memorial service at 2 p.m. Friday at First United Methodist Church, West Lafayette, the Revs. Daniel J. Berger and Bob Fish officiating. Inurnment at a later time at Mt. Hope Cemetery, Huntington, Ind.


William's son John Boyd Kay, as , mentioned above, predeceased him.

Social Security Death Index
about John B. Kay

Name: John B. Kay SSN: 317-44-6101 Born: 16 Dec 1942 Died: 2 Feb 2000 State (Year) SSN issued: Indiana (1960-1961)

John had resided in 1975 at Rt 6 Pob 16, Huntington IN. Two previous addresses are also listed as well as his birthdate.

U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1
about Dr John Boyd Kay

Name: Dr John Boyd Kay Birth Date: born,16 Dec 1942 [19 Mar 1975] Phone Number: phone-356-5424 Address: Rr 6 Pob 16, Huntington, IN, 46750 [1445 N Etna Rd, Huntington, IN, 46750-8108 (1993)] [760 Blake St, Indianapolis, IN, 46202-2975]

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