Mary (Faulkner) Trefry (1787 - 1851)

Born 1787 in Yorkshire, England

Wife of Mark Trefry — married [date unknown] in Hantsport, Hants co., NS

Wife of Benjamin Pitman Trefry 1st — married about 1800 in Yarmouth,N.S.,Can.

Died 17 Mar 1851 at about age 64 in Newport Landing, West Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

Mary "Martha" Faulkner was born circa 1787, the daughter of Thomas Faulker of Yorkshire England^[1]

She married Mark Trefry, a twin, the son of Joshua Pitman Trefry and Mary Allen of Chebogue, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. ^[2]

They were the proprietors of a well-known public house on the Windsor Road. Having no children of their own they adopted Joshua, Zilpha and Jane, three children of Mark's twin brother Thomas^{[3] [4] [5]}

Mary died March 17, 1851 , and is buried in the Meander Cemetery, Newport Landing, West Hants, Nova Scotia, along with her husband. The inscription on her gravestone reads: Erected to the memory of Mary wife of Mark Trefry and daughter of the Earle Thomas Faulker Yorksire England de Mar 17 1851 age 64^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 06 February 2021), memorial page for Mary Faulker Trefry (unknown–unknown), Find A Grave: Memorial #117668373, citing Meander Cemetery, Newport Station, Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada ; Maintained by Tamara Gallagher (contributor 47844452) .
2. ↑ Familysearch shows various family trees with the same information
3. ↑ Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Genealogies : Transcribed from the Yarmouth Herald, by George S. Brown; prepared for publication by Martha & William Reamy, assisted by John McDonald Hilton ... et al.; published in Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., c1993. ISBN: 0806313722; page 588, 589
4. ↑ "Canada Census, 1851," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWTP-7ZG : 10 November 2014), Mark Trefry, Lower Horton, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada; citing p. 64, line 14; Library and Archives Canada film number M_3139, Public Archives, Ontario.
5. ↑ "Nova Scotia Census, 1861," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQQD-SLG : 8 November 2014), Mark Terfry, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada; citing line 37; Library and Archives Canada film number M-881, Public Archives, Halifax; FHL microfilm 865,126.