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Robert Westcott

Born 7 Apr 1828 in Gaspereau, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ancestors

Son of Samuel Westcott Jr. and Elizabeth (Benjamin) Westcott

Brother of Letitia (Westcott) Mitchell, Lucinda (Westcott) Allen, Jacob Benjamin Westcott, Nancy (Westcott) Benjamin, Susan (Westcott) Lawrence, Mary Elizabeth Westcott, Sarah Ann (Westcott) Miner, Amelia Westcott and Parney Read Westcott

Husband of Maria Ann (Benjamin) Westcott — married 29 Dec 1850 in Gaspereau, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

Descendants

Father of Olivia Westcott, Rebecca Delight (Westcott) Coldwell, Samuel Lathrop Westcott, Elmina Elizabeth Westcott, J. Eliphalet Westcott, Lenora Olivia (Westcott) Coldwell, Frank K Westcott, Cassie Blanche Westcott, Daniel Archibald Westcott and Winifred (Westcott) Coldwell

Died 24 Nov 1915 at age 87 in Kentville, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

Robert wass the son of Robert Westcott and Elizabeth Benjamin.^[1]^[2]

Robert Westcott was a butcher in Hantsport, Hants Co., Nova Scotia. It appears from a picture that three of his sons worked in his butcher shop with him.

He married Moria Benjamin.^[3]

Robert's and Maria (Benjamin) Westcott's five surviving daughters, four sons, two grandaughters and Lathrop's wife Ellen Jane Johnston are pictured outside of the butcher shop in Hantsport, Hants Co., Nova Scotia. Also in the picture are Robert and Maria ( Benjamin ) Westcott.

Sources

↑ Bicha, Gloria Wall and Brown, Helen Benjamin, ed."The Benjamin Family in America", Racine, WI: privat, 1976, Archive.org, p. 372, #1753
↑ Farnam, Charles Henry, "History and Descendants of John Whitman of Weymouth, Mass", New Haven : Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1889, Vol. II, Archive.org, p. 736, #10546
↑ Bicha, Gloria Wall and Brown, Helen Benjamin, ed."The Benjamin Family in America", Racine, WI: privat, 1976, Archive.org, p. 602, #3365

Robert's death report; Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics, Year 1915, Book 40, Page 131, # 490
"Canada Census, 1871," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M48B-FJK : 13 November 2014), Robert Westcott, Gaspereau, King's, Nova Scotia, Canada; citing p. 18, line 1; Library and Archives Canada film number C-10541, Public Archives, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 2,229,129.

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