Anne (Murray) Powell (1755 - 1849)

Born 26 Apr 1755 in Norfolk, England

Ancestors

Wife of William Dummer Powell — married 3 Oct 1775 in Boston, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 10 Mar 1849 at age 93 in Toronto, Upper Canada

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Biography

This profile is part of the Murray Name Study.

Name: Ann Murray Gender: Female Record Type: Baptism Baptism Date: 31 Apr 1755-1756 Baptism Place: Wells, Norfolk, England Father: John Murray Mother: Mary Murray Parish as it Appears: Wells

"Anna Murray Powell was born in Wells, England in 1755 to parents of a middle class background. She emigrated at the age of 16 with her Aunt Elizabeth, who had herself emigrated to the New World at the age of thirteen and established a thriving millinery business in Boston. On a trip back ‘home’, Aunt Elizabeth was horrified by the new ideals of middle-class female domesticity becoming popular in England, which did not sit well with her own ideas about female independence and business activity. She did not have children of her own, and as seemed to be common at the time, ‘adopted’ her nieces and brought them back to Boston to manage her business. What might have been a good solid business experience for a young man was greeted by Anne and her sister with reluctance and resentment. She was mortified by working in ‘trade’ and she carried this sensitivity about her pre-marriage working life throughout her life, and indeed it may have contributed directly to the stiff-necked and inflexible ‘propriety’ that she demanded of her family, and all other York inhabitants in her social circle."[1]

"Wednesday, March 21, 1849 Toronto Mar 8, 95 y Anna relict of late Hon. Wm Dummer Powell formerly Chief Justice of Province of Canada"

Sources

• Norfolk, Cof E. Wells next the Sea, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1754-1801

• Women in Upper Canada[2]

• MI, St, James Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Find a Grave[3]

• Life of Propriety: Anne Murray Powell and Her Family, 1755-1849, Author Katherine M.J. McKenna, Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1994 [4]

• Edith G. Firth, “MURRAY, ANNE,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 7, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed January 31, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/murray_anne_7E.html.

• Pages 136, 183 in 'Letters of James Murray, loyalist by Murray, James, 1713-1781'; Tiffany, Nina Moore; Lesley, Susan I. (Susan Inches), 1823-1904 Publication date1901[5]