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Elizabeth Willis
d.19 Jan 1864
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Canada West (Ontario): Northumberland County: Haldimand Township, in United Province of Canada. 1851 Census of Canada. (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada)
page 107.
John Stewart, age 30, born in Ireland, Church of England, farmer
Elizabeth Stewart, age 64, born in Ireland, Church of England, widow
Wm C. Stewart, age 16, born in Canada, Church of England, labourer
Mary Crop, age 17, born in Ireland, R. C., servant
- ↑ Canada West, Northumberland County, Haldimand Twp, in Canada. 1861 Census of Canada. (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada).
Bengimen Stewart, age 42, born in Ireland, Church of England, single, farmer
Elizabeth Stewart, age 74, born in Ireland, Church of England, widow
Margret St Peters, age 19, born in L Canada, R. C., servant
Harrison Cartor, age 19, born in U Canada, Baptist, labourer
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Robert Edwards Stewart, "The Stewart Genealogy" (family records).
'In 1826 John and Elizabeth Stewart emigrated to Canada from Dunmanys County Cork Ireland. ... Elizabeth lived until 1864 dying at the age of 82.'
- ↑ Memorial and biographical record and illustrated compendium of biography [Nebraska]: containing a compendium of local biography...of Butler, Polk, Seward, York and Fillmore Counties, Nebraska. (Chicago, IL: G.A. Ogle & Co., 1899)
page 373.
'William Stewart ... was born in County Cork, Ireland, 1815, and in 1827 came to the New World with his parents, John and Eliza (Willis) Stewart, the former a native of Scotland, the latter of County Cork, Ireland. ... Their children were James, Jane and Elizabeth, all now deceased; Thomas; Mary, deceased; William; Benjamin and Ann, both deceased; and John.'
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Family records or research of correspondent.
'I visited the Academy Hill cemetery in Haldimand Township and photographed the new plaque that Jack was instrumental in having erected to replace the original weathered inscription.'
The plaque says:
'STEWART
1780 John Stewart 1831
1786 wife Elizabeth 1861
1816 son Benjamin 1861'
Inscription from the photo of the original tombstone:
'ELIZABETH ... [wife/widow of] JOHN STEWART died Jan 19 1864 aged 78 years'
The date on the original tombstone is difficult to read (the "1864" looks very much like "1861") but according to another source the year was clearly "1864" in photographs taken some years earlier when the tombstone was less weathered.
- ↑ Family records or research of correspondent.
'As far as Elizabeth Willis’s death date, ie: 1861 or 1864? She died January 19th, 1864 at the age of 78. This was confirmed in several photographs taken of her headstone that clearly showed, at that time, the last two numbers of her death year read “64”. Further, within the headstone inscription appears “aged 78”.'
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