Catherine Kerr (1841 - 1918)

Born 21 Dec 1841 in Ireland

Wife of John Walton — married 18 Aug 1869 in Bridgewater, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada

Descendants

Died 3 Jul 1918 at age 76 in Hamilton, Wentworth County, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Catherine Kerr was born in 1841 in Ireland.^[1] Her family immigrated to Canada about 1843 and settled in Hastings County, Ontario.^[2] She married John Walton in 1869,^[3], lived in the United States in the mid-1870s, where two of their children were born, and returned to Canada about 1880 to the Village of Madoc, Ontario.^[4] Around 1900 they moved to St. Catharines, where she lived until John’s death in 1918.^[5] She died a few months later in Hamilton.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Public Archives Canada, 1901 Census, St. Catharines, Lincoln & Niagara Counties, Ontario, p. 18
2. ↑ Public Archives Canada, Censuses 1851 & 1861, Elgin Township, Hastings County
3. ↑ Ontario Vital Statistics Project, Ontario Marriage Registrations 1800-1927, 1869 Hastings County, Schedule B - Marriages, p. 159, #476
4. ↑ Public Archives Canada, 1881 Census, Village of Madoc, North Hastings County, Ontario, District 122, p. 15
5. ↑ Province of Ontario, Registration of Death, St. Catharines, Lincoln County, 1918, p. 210, #024961
6. ↑ Province of Ontario, Registration of Death, Barton Township, Hamilton, Wentworth County, 1918, p. 74, #043219