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Mohawk Ancestry - Marguerite (Peggy) Farndon Page-Turner nee Tate ( later Strode on 2nd Marriage) Born Sept 25th 1910 - Died 29 May 2004

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  Marguerite (Peggy) Farndon Page-Turner nee Tate (later Strode on her 2nd Marriage)  Born Sept 25th, 1910 - Died 29 May 2004 Marguerite (Peggy) Farndon Page-Turner nee Tate (later Strode on her 2nd Marriage) Born Sept 25th, 1910 - Died 29 May 2004, her grandfather Charles Francis Tate,   was born in Halifax Nova Scotia Canada circa 1851 and died on the 22nd April 1916. His Father was John Tate a Merchant seaman, and his mother was a Native Indian of Halifax Nova Scotia, a Mohawk Indian. The  Mohawk , also known by their own name, are an  Indigenous people  of  North America  and the easternmost nation of the  Haudenosaunee , or  Iroquois Confederacy  (also known as the Five Nations or later the Six Nations). Mohawk is an  Iroquoian -speaking people with communities in southeastern  Canada  and northern  New York State , primarily around  Lake Ontario  and the  St. Lawrence River . As one of th...