Alma Emmaline Chase (1868 - abt. 1950)

Born 2 Mar 1868 in Upper Brighton, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

Ancestors

Wife of Cline Fixit Hoit Bourinot — married 20 Dec 1893 in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Descendants

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Biography

Alma E. Chase was the daughter of Emmeline A. NEVERS and Charles A. CHASE, a farmer and mill owner in New Brunswick.

She married Cline Bourinot in December 1893 in Lowell, Massachusetts and they had a daughter (Laura) born there in 1894.

When she was a young woman, Alma (and a sister) worked as a dress maker. Later, she acquired training as a nurse. That was her occupation in 1910, when she was enumerated as a widow, living in her mother's home with daughter, Laura Bourinot, in Portland, ME.

She may have returned to New Brunswick to live for a time.^[1] In 1924, she returned to the United States, traveling from Saint-John, by rail to Vanceboro, Maine, and made her way back to Massachusetts. In the 1930 census, Alma is a staff nurse at Essex County Sanatorium in Middleton, MA.

In 1934, she resided with her daughter and son-in-law in Lowell, and filed a petition to become a naturalized citizen of the USA. The 1940 census finds Alma stayed with her daughter, son-in-law Joseph Keirstead, and, no doubt, enjoying her two grandsons.

Sources

1. ↑ "Recensement du Canada de 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV95-YY2T : 2 March 2015), A E Bourinot in entry for E A Chase, 1911; citing Census, Saint John Sub-Districts 19-36, New Brunswick, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 2,417,678.

• Ancestry.com; 1940 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: T627_1694; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 18-110.

• Ancestry.com; 1930 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Middleton, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: 901; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 0209; Image: 1073.0; FHL microfilm: 2340636.

• Ancestry.com; 1910 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Portland Ward 7, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: T624_539; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 0090; FHL microfilm: 1374552.

• Library and Archives Canada (http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/); 1891 Census of Canada. Item Number: 257882, Chase, Charles; Province: New Brunswick, District Name: Carleton, Sub-District Name: Brighton; Image No.: 30953_148099-00593.

• Library and Archives Canada (http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/); 1881 Census of Canada. Item Number: 4918972; CHASE, Charles; Province: New Brunswick, District Name: Carleton, Sub-District Name: Brighton; Image No.: e008133022.

• Library and Archives Canada (http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/); 1871 Census of Canada. Item Number: 867184; Chase, Charles; Province: New Brunswick, District Name: Carleton, Sub-District Name: Brighton; Image No.: 4396658_00091.

• FamilySearch; Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920. Rec. Date: 9 Jan 2016; Alma Chase in entry for Joseph Earle Keirstead and Laura Bowinot, 12 Dec 1917; citing Marriage, Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, certificate number 1313, page 695, State Archives, Boston.

• Ancestry.com: Massachusetts, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1798-1950. NAI Number: 3000057; Record Group Title: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685-2009; Record Group Number: RG 21. Petition Number: 152415 Alma Emmaline Bourinot [E Bourinot]; Birth: 2 Mar 1868, Upper Brighton, Canada; Arrival: 28 Mar 1924, Vanceboro, Maine; Date: 7 Feb 1934, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Spouse: Cline.