Harriet (McKay) Birston (1841 - 1869)

Born 1841 in On the Oregon Trail

Ancestors

Wife of Miles Birston — married 10 Feb 1859 in North Plains, Washington, Oregon Territory, United States of America

Died 1869 at about age 28 in Tualatin Plains, Washington, Oregon, United States

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Biography

Harriet (McKay) Birston was a Canadian First Peoples and member of the Metis Nation.

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In 1841, Harriet's parents and siblings joined the Sinclair Expedition party from Red River Canada and traveled overland to the Puget Sound area of Washington. The 1841 settlers had been recruited for the Hudson Bay Company Puget Sound Agricultural Company venture at Fort Nisqually [1]

Harriet McKay, was born September of 1841 at either Ft. Spokane, Washington or on trail to Oregon Territory, USA

In 1857 Harriet married her brother-in-law, Joseph Stewart SPENCE, son of Margaret WHITFORD and Archibald Stewart SPENCE (1797-1851). Joseph SPENCE died in 1858

In 1859 Harriet remarried to Miles BIRSTON, son of Grizzel ROWLAND an James BIRSTON (b-1809) who was also among the 1841Red River settlers to Oregon in 1841. They had one child, Samuel

Harriet died 1869 in North Plains, Washington, OR, USA.

Quality Sources

Census • United States Census, 1850 with birth familyi https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/27HT-QBR

Red River Metis The First Large Settler Group in Oregon Territory: The Sinclair Expedition to the Oregon Territory (1841) https://www.academia.edu/39184809/Red_River_Metis_The_First_Large_Settler_Group_in_Oregon_Territory_The_Sinclair_Expedition_to_the_Oregon_Territory_1841_

Limited horizons on the Oregon frontier : East Tualatin Plains and the town of Hillsboro, Washington County, 1840-1890 https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4817&context=open_access_etds

Trail Breakers – Vol. 38, July 2011 to June 2012 Clark County Genealogical Society, Vancouver, Washington, page 21 * https://www.ccgs-wa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ccgs-trail-breakers-vol-38-2012.pdf

Other Sources

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/27HT-QBR

https://www.redriverancestry.ca/McKAY-CHARLES-RICHARD-1808.php