Born in Lincoln, Upper Canada
Ancestors 
Daughter of Christian (Riseley) Riselay
and Catharine (Sipes) Riselay
Sister of
Hannah (Riselay) Young, Mary (Riselay) Willson, Edmund Riselay, Sophia (Riselay) Miller, John Riselay, Barbara Ann (Riselay) Bowen and Charlotte M (Riselay) Thompson
Wife of
William Powell
— married
23 Nov 1816 in Upper Canada
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 63
in Canada West
Profile last modified
| Created 7 Apr 2013
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Biography
On November 23, 1816, William Powell married Rebecca Riselay daughter of Christian Riselay and Catharine Sypes. The property of William and Rebecca Powell was just south of Frenchman’s Creek. William and Rebecca had no children of their own, however they did have an adopted daughter.[1]
Rebecca was named an Executor of her husband's estate upon his death in January 1851.[2]
Sources
- ↑ War of 1812 Graveside Project, entry for William Powell.
- ↑ Niagara Settlers Land Records, R. Robert Mutrie, Settler Records "P".
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Dave Rutherford for starting this profile. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Dave and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rebecca by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rebecca:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rebecca by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rebecca:
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~1.56%
Bill Young
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M249292 [compare]
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~1.56%
Gerald Young :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A874467 [compare], Ancestry member younggn42
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~0.78%
Brenda (Milne) Rutherford :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch LK5204517 [compare]
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~0.39%
Bob Harman :
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