Born in Franklin Manor, Province of Nova Scotia
Ancestors 
Daughter of Robert Samuel Sparks
and Joanna (Unknown) Sparks
Sister of
Daniel Sparks and Hannah (Sparks) Mennart
Wife of
Johann Franz Georg Rector
— married
about 21 Mar 1791 in Parrsboro N.S.
Wife of
Daniel Holmes
— married
about 30 Oct 1845 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Hannah (Rector) Staten, Elizabeth (Rector) Schofield, Robert Rector, William Rector, John Rector, Mary R. (Rector) Scofield, George Francis Rector, Thomas Rector, Christiana (Rector) McAloney, Reuben Sparks Rector and Ellenor (Rector) Spence
Died before
before age 90
in Nova Scotia canada
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Biography
Mary was born in 1776 in Franklin Manor, Southampton Township, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. Her parents were Robert and Johanna Sparks, and she had at least an older brother Daniel and a younger sister Hannah.[1]
Mary married George Rector on Mar 21, 1791. [2]
Mary and George went on to have 11 children together, 5 sons and 6 daughters.
When Mary and George had 6 children, he petitioned the governor for a land grant on the basis of military service for the Crown during the American Revolution. In 1809, along with Jesse Lewis, they received 400 acres on the Maccan River north of Parrsboro.[3]
‘George Rector Sr’ appears on the 1838 census at Parrsboro Township [then still part of] Kings County. He gives his occupation as ‘farmer’, and there are two people in the household with him, one adult male, one adult female.[4]
Mary is believed to have remarried to Daniel Holmes after George’s demise.[5]
Mary died at the age of about 86 in 1863.[6]
Sources
- ↑ A source is needed for this information
- ↑ https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nscumber/sources.html (col/cumb marriage transcriptions, source Don Lewis)
- ↑ please provide link to primary source
- ↑ https://archives.novascotia.ca/census/1838/results/?Search=George+Rector&SearchList1=&SearchList2=
- ↑ a source is needed for this
- ↑ a source is needed for this
- Southampton Township Book, birth of Mary Sparkes to Robt and Johanna Sparkes, Franklin Manor, 1776, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
- Parrsboro Township Book, marriage of Mary Sparks and George Rector, Parrsboro, 1791, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
See also (approach Ancestry ‘sources’ with caution):
Transcript re George Rector's land grant and arrival in NS, Detail from letter to Joseph Small from member of NS Historical Society Gene. Committee T. M. Punch, Nova Scotia Historical Society, Genealogical Committee, 1976, found in Family tree of Joe Patterson, Ancestry.com
copy of land grant petition shared on Ancestry.com by Miss Sisson in 2017
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her 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 Mary:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her 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 Mary:
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~1.56%
Trudi (Dickie) O'Connell
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23andMe, GEDmatch AP7812869 [compare]
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~1.56%
Anne Sulzbach :
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~0.78%
Cheryl (Poirier) Ross :
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Rebecca Bobor :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Atayct1
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~0.78%
Cheryl Crocker :
MyHeritage DNA
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~0.39%
Keely (Skidmore) Brower :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch ZH5179545 [compare], Ancestry member keely_brower
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Anne Sulzbach
Anne Sulzbach
Sparks-3610 and Sparks-1748 appear to represent the same person because: They have the same first name, same parents, same siblings, same husband, same birthday, and their birth year is just 1 year off.
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Rejected matches › Mary Ann (Sparks) Caswell (1773-)
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