Shenton
Bigney
Born in Wentworth, Cumberland, Nova Scotia
Ancestors 
Son of James Bigney
and Sarah Elizabeth (Carter) Smith
Brother of
John Marshall Bigney, Charles S Bigney, Joseph E Bigney, Rufus Purdy Bigney, Mary Ann (Bigney) McLean, Unknown Bigney and Stephen Fulton Bigney
Husband of
Margaret Eliza (Spencer) Bigney
— married
18 Apr 1895 in Nova Scotia, Canada
[children unknown]
Died
at age 52
in Londonderry, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 14 Jun 2013
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Biography
Shenton married Maggie Spencer at Lorneville, Nova Scotia, on 18 September 1895.[1] He worked as a carriage driver, and also as a mail driver near the end of his life. He died of a skull fracture when the coach he was driving was hit by an automobile.[2]
Sources
- ↑ Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics, Marriages. (http://novascotiagenealogy.com Accessed 13 June 2013) Maggie E. Spencer and Shenton Bigney married 1895 in Colchester County. Item can be found in Registration Year: 1895 - Book: 1807 - Page: 92 - Number: 118.
- ↑ Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics, Deaths. (http://novascotiagenealogy.com Accessed 13 June 2013) Sheaton Bigney, died 1918 in Truro, Colchester County. Item can be found in Registration Year: 1918 - Book: 32 - Page: 53 - Number: 207.
- Nova Scotia Roots https://novascotiaroots.ca/individual/18552
- Black, Cyrus. Historical Record of the Posterity of William Black. Amherst, Nova Scotia. Amherst Gazette Stream Printing House, 1885. (Available online at Google Books, http://books.google.ca/books?id=6W4ZAAAAYAAJ Accessed 13 June 2013)
- Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics, Births. (http://novascotiagenealogy.com Accessed 13 June 2013) Shenton Bigney, born 1866 in Wentworth, Cumberland County. Item can be found in Registration Year: 1866 - Book: 1805 - Page: 14 - Number: 171.
- Census of Canada, 1871. Nova Scotia District Name: Cumberland District Number: 198 Sub-District Name: Wentworth Sub-District Number: e Page Number: 8.
- Census of Canada, 1881. Nova Scotia District Name: Colchester District Number: 19 Sub-District Name: Middle Londonderry Sub-District Number: D Family Number: 483 Volume Number: 20 Page Number: 101.
- Census of Canada, 1891. Nova Scotia District Name: Colchester District Number: 29 Sub-District Number: B Family Number: 57 Page Number: 15.
- Census of Canada, 1911. Nova Scotia, Colchester, 1 Acadia Mines poll district, page 10.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Shenton by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Shenton:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Shenton by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Shenton:
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~1.56%
Linda (Thompson) Cassirer
:
23andMe
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Donna Finley :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Orrin Merritt III :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Jeffery Schidlowsky :
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