A son arrived in August 1834, named for his father but called Dunbar
. SM
had seven children in eleven years; all were difficult pregnancies and births. One of SM
's midwives (besides her sister
Friends, Associates
Catharine Parr Traill
After arriving in Peterborough, CPT
became a close friend of Frances Stewart
, an Irish-born chronicler of pioneer life who was related by marriage to Maria Edgeworth
.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.