Eunice Jane (Laird) Borden (1825 - 1915)

Born 1 May 1825 in Glooscap Indian Reservation, Kings, Nova Scotia,

Ancestors

Wife of Andrew Borden — married about 1850 in Kings County, Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died 29 Mar 1915 at age 89 in Kentville, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

At the time of the 1871 Canada Census, Andrew, Eunice Jane, Thomas A., Robert L., William J., Julia H., and Henry C. Borden were listed as living in Lower Horton, Nova Scotia, along with a servant and a woman listed as Julia "Leard", but was probably Eunice's mother, Julia Laird^[1].

At the time of the 1881 Canada Census, Andrew, Eunice J (enumerated as "I"), J. William, Julia H., and Harry C. Borden were listed as living in Lower Horton^[2].

At the time of the 1881 Canada Census, Eunice was enumerated with Andrew, William, and Julia H in Avonport, Horton Township, Kings, Nova Scotia^[3].

She appears in the 1901 Canada Census, enumerated as "head" of household, a widow, residing with Jula (sic) H^[4].

Eunice died in Kentville, Nova Scotia on March 29, 1915^[5].

Sources

1. ↑ Census of Canada, 1871, Nova Scotia, Kings (189), Lower Horton (c), page 1, dwelling 1, family 1, Eunice Jane Borden; RG31 - Statistics Canada, roll C-10541 (http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1871/Pages/item.aspx?itemid=3435650 : Accessed May 21, 2019).
2. ↑ Census of Canada, 1881, Nova Scotia, Kings (17), Lower Horton (I), page 1, dwelling 2, family 2, Eunice J Borden; RG31 - Statistics Canada, roll C-13173 (http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1881/Pages/item.aspx?itemid=791741 : Accessed May 21, 2019).
3. ↑ https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1891&op=img&id=e011166993 page 2, line 22
4. ↑ https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1901&op=img&id=z000042974 line 23
5. ↑ Death registration for Eunice Jane Borden, Registration Year: 1915, Book: 40, Page: 80, Number: 304, Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics.

• Robert Craig Brown, “BORDEN, Sir ROBERT LAIRD,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 16, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed April 6, 2014, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/borden_robert_laird_16E.html.

• https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LHDH-KX3/eunice-jane-laird-1825-1915