Mary Sherwood Roe was born February 18, 1790 to John Roe Sr. and Sarah Sherwood at Milshogue, County Wexford, Ireland. The parish register for teh Church of IReland at Camolin did not have all the earlier Roe births registered in it. May may perhaps be best described as the mother figure of the family. Since her mother Sarah died in 1804, there were still young children for whom to care. It would certainly be Mary Sherwood Roe who ran the househdold and to whom the yonger children would go. She did not consider marriage as long has her father John Roe Sr. was alive but kept the home running smoothly for him. After his death she lived for a while with her brother, George Brass Roe. So far no actual date has been found for her marriage to Thomas Bates. Mary converted to Methodism, married Thomas, and moved to Georges Lake, a Methodist community, in the Township of Plantagenet, in Ontario, not so very far away (it is documented in the Ontario Census of 1861 that they lived there.[1]
After Thomas died on June 15, 1863, Mary left Georges Lake and moved to Bearbrook to live with her brother-in-law James McRae and his family. Her sister Sarah Sherwood Roe had died several years before (about 1856).
Mary died February 11, 1871 in Clarence [2]. Both she and Thomas are buried at the Clarence Cemetery.
See also:
1. "Canadian Headstones," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJ88-CSGH : 14 July 2014), Mary Sherwood Roe Bates, Burial, Russell, Ontario, Canada, Clarence Protestant + cemetery; citing 215924, Canadianheadstones.com, http://www.canadianheadstones.com.
2. http://www.geni.com/people/Mary-Bates/4248111188320125534?through=4248048043930125458
3. Book: "Captain John Roe, County Wexford, Ireland to Clarence, Ontario" written in 2012 by Elizabeth Waymann's (née Hardie) on the Roe and related families, includes research done on Roe family members while she was in Wexford Ireland. Copy with Glenn Pushman's records.
This book includes references to sources such as The leather notebook of John Roe Sr., Ferns Marriage licenses booklet, Ferns Parish Register, Mary Sherwood (Roe) List of Roe family events & dates.
The leather notebook of John Roe Sr. was found in and in possession of the Roe family at Clarence, Ontario.
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