William
James
Duncan
Born about in Stamford, Welland, Canada West
Ancestors 
Son of George Duncan
and Esther Arkell (Cole) Duncan
Brother of
George John Duncan, Agnes Constant Comfort Bayfield (Duncan) Biggar, Esther (Duncan) Campbell and Catharine (Duncan) Williamson
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 33
in Welland, Ontario, Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 22 Mar 2012
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Biography
William was born in 1844. He is the son of George Duncan and Esther Cole. [1]
William was a bookkeeper and His religion was Presbyterian. [2]
In about 1874 he became ill with consumption (TB). His niece Fannie had it around the same time and passed away in 1876. He fought it for 3 years, but William James Duncan passed away on 6 Mar 1877 in Welland, Ontario, Canada. He was 32 years old. His brother George J Duncan from Drummondville registered the death on March 11th. [2] He was laid to rest in the Drummond Hill Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada on 9 Mar 1877.
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Burial
- Drummond Hill Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Plot 0050, Section 01 includes:
- Constant Comfort Cole; Grave 1S; Findagrave link
- Esther (Arkell) Duncan - Buried: 1890-04-08; Grave C; Findagrave link
- George Duncan - Buried: 1883-05-09; Grave 2N; Findagrave link
- William Duncan; Grave 1N; Findagrave link
- William Duncan - Buried: 1877-03-09; Grave 1N; Findagrave linkDuncan Memorial# 9450418]
Burial Notes
- March 9, 1877 - Wm. Duncan was buried on Friday in the afternoon at 3 o'clock. A large funeral and as a very stormy day snowing. Old ground north side next to Cole's vault. Undertaker - Chippawa. $2.50 paid.[3]
Sources
- Graeme MacKay, firsthand knowledge. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Graeme and others.
- ↑ Entered by Graeme MacKay, Mar 22, 2012
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Death: Ancestry.com. Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1948 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Collection: MS935; Reel: 17, Name: William James Duncan, Age: 32, Birth Date: abt 1845, Birth Place: Stamford, Death Date: 6 Mar 1877, Death Place: Welland, Ontario, Canada, Religion: Presbyterian, Cause of Death: Consumption, (view Ancestry record free, accessed on 16 Feb 2021)
- ↑ Burial records and notations of William Dalton, 1845 to 1916, by William Dalton, transcribed and edited by Douglas A. Robbins, St. Catharines, Ont., 1991
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
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~0.78%
~6.25%
G. MacKay 
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