Jane Shaw (Moir) Dewdney (1843 - 1906)

Born 5 Apr 1843 in Columbo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Wife of Edgar Dewdney P.C. — married 28 Mar 1864 in Hope, British Columbia

Died 30 Jan 1906 at age 62 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Biography

Jane Shaw Moir was born in Columbo, Ceylon on 5 April 1843, the daughter of Stratton Moir and Susanna Mildern.

Her father, Stratton was the owner of a tea plantation in Ceylon, he died there in about 1849, and his wife a family returned to live in England.

In 1851, Susanna and her three children are living in the parish of St Marylebone, Middlesex at 37 Nottingham Place.^[1]

• Susan Louisa Moir, widow age 36, keeper of a boarding house, late coffee planters wife, born Devonport
• Susan L daughter, age 5, born Columbo, Ceylon
• Stratton son age 7, born Columbo, Ceylon
• Jane S daughter age 8, born Columbo Ceylon
• together with 10 boarders

She married Edgar Dewdney in 1864.

At the time of the 1901 Canada Census, Edgar and Jane S. Dewdney were listed as living in Victoria, along with a niece named Elfride K. Allison, Jane's mother Susan L. Glennie, and a servant named Lee Ging^[2].

Jane died on 30 Jan 1906, in Victoria, British Columbia^[3] and was buried in the Ross Bay cemetery.

Sources

1. ↑ (https://www.ancestry.co.uk) Class: HO107; Piece: 1488; Folio: 236; Page: 67; GSU roll: 87814-87815
2. ↑ Census of Canada, 1901, British Columbia, Victoria (4), Victoria City (D), page 11, dwelling 99, family 102, Jane O Dewdney; RG31 - Statistics Canada, roll T-6430 (http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1901/Pages/item.aspx?itemid=46577 : Accessed June 17, 2016).
3. ↑ Registration of Death for Jane Shaw Dewdney, Registration number 1906-09-019883, Microfilm number B13080, BC Archives - Royal BC Museum.

See also:

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 21 August 2020), memorial page for Jane Shaw Moir Dewdney (5 Apr 1843–30 Jan 1906), Find A Grave: Memorial #17054735, citing Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada ; Maintained by Airrow (contributor 46629499).
• "British Columbia, Victoria Times Birth, Marriage and Death Notices, 1901-1939," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2DS-3HDP : 15 March 2018), Jane Shaw Dewdney, Death 30 Jan 1906, Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada; from Victoria Daily Times news clippings, City of Victoria Archives, British Columbia, Canada; citing Victoria Daily Times, 30 Jan 1906; FHL microfilm 2,218,776.