Maria Louisa (Jersey) White (1836 - 1874)

Born 9 Oct 1836 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Abel Calkins White — married 26 Aug 1856 in Stanbridge East, Missisquoi, Canada East

Descendants

Died 19 May 1874 at age 37 in Canada

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Biography

Maria Louisa Jersey was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England on Oct. 9th, 1836.^[1] She was the fifth daughter and seventh child of Francis Jersey and Ruth Rishton. As the child of an itinerant preacher, with changing geographic assignments every year or two, Maria therefore lived in her childhood in numerous locations in northern England. In 1841, she was recorded at age 5 on the England census in Crosby Garrett, Westmorland, with her parents and all living siblings except her older brother^[2]

In 1842, the entire family, including 8 living children at the time, took the decision to move to Canada. In 1851, Maria appeared with her parents and 9 siblings on the Stanbridge Census.^[3]

On Aug 26, 1856, Maria married Abel White of Potton in her father's home church in Stanbridge East, Quebec.^[4] Maria and Abel had 5 children together between 1858 and 1873, namely:

1. Ellen Adelia b. 30 Jan 1858 d. 4 Apr 1871
2. Ruth Eliza b. 28 Nov 1860 d. 1934 (m. Alfred Wilfred Fullerton)
3. Malcolm Herman b. 11 Aug 1862 d. 22 Jul 1944 (m. Fanny Emily Peabody)
4. Ida May b. 12 Nov 1869 d. 14 Oct 1909, and (m. Arthur Smith)
5. Cora Edith b. 14 Jan 1873 d. 4 Jun 1903 (m. Aulden Bailey).

Maria, her husband and two oldest children were recorded on the 1861 census for Potton,^[5] then on the 1871 census with their four oldest children.^[6]

She passed away in 1874^[7]. It is thought she was interred in either the Mansonville Protestant Cemetery (where her husband rests), or at Chapel Hill Cemetery where her parents were interred and where she has a stone.

Sources

1. ↑ Jersey Family Bible
2. ↑ 1941 England Census| 1841 England & Wales Census
3. ↑ 1851 Canada East Census, District 16 (Missisquoi); Sub-District 224 (Stanbridge); Page 35, Line 10| 1851 Canada East Census, "Mary Lucy Jersey, Age 16"
4. ↑ Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968, Saint, St. Armand Est, Baptist Church, 1853
5. ↑ 1861 Canada East Census, District of Brome, Sub-District of Potton, Page 178, Line 2| 1861 Canada East Census, "Mark White, Age 24"
6. ↑ 1871 Canada Census, Province of Quebec, District 126 (Brome), Sub-District d (Potton), Page 40, Line 13| 1871 Canada Census, "Maria White, Age 33"
7. ↑ Jersey family Bible

See Also:

• Family Search | Maria Louisa Jersey
• Walworth, Reuben Hyde. Hyde Genealogy, or The Descendants, in the Female as well as in the Male Lines, From William Hyde, of Norwich (J. Munsell, Albany, 1864) | Page 512