Helen (Cant) Dodds (1852)

Born 15 Jan 1852 in Roxburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Wife of Walter Dodds — married 15 Dec 1871 in Roxburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Helen Cant was born in Roxburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland in 1852 to Thomas Cant and Catherine Hutchinson.^[1]

Event Type: Birth

Event Date: 15 Jan 1852

Event Place (Original): Roxburgh, Roxburgh, Scotland

Name: Helen Cant

Gender: Female

Father's Name: Thomas Cant

Mother's Name: Catherine Hutchison

Helen resided with her parents and siblings in Roxburgh, where her father was a gardener and her mother was a grocer.^[2][3]

Helen married Walter Dodds in Roxburgh in 1871.^[4]

Event Type: Marriage

Event Date: 15 Dec 1871

Event Place (Original): Roxburgh, Roxburgh, Scotland

Name: Walter Dodds

Spouse's Name: Ellen Cant

They lived in Yetholm, Roxburghshire^[5] and Coldstream, Berwickshire^[6], where Walter was a farm steward.

They later relocated to Northumberland, England.^[7][8]

Sources

1. ↑ "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQHD-KCS : 11 February 2020), Helen Cant, 1852.
2. ↑ "1861 England, Wales & Scotland Census," database. Entry for Helen Cant, age 9 (born 1852), scholar, daughter of Thomas Cant; Fairnington Cottage, Roxburgh, Fairnington Roxburgh Parish, Roxburghshire, Scotland. https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBC%2F1861%2F0022144382 Find My Past (findmypast.co.uk : accessed 6 Dec 2020).
3. ↑ "1871 England, Wales & Scotland Census," database. Entry for Helen Cant, age 19 (born 1852), farm worker, daughter of Catherine Cant; Grocer's Cottage, Roxburgh, Roxburgh Parish, Roxburghshire, Scotland. https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBC%2F1871%2F0023576678 Find My Past (findmypast.co.uk : accessed 6 Dec 2020).
4. ↑ "Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYQB-Z9K : 11 February 2020), Ellen Cant in entry for Walter Dodds, 1871.
5. ↑ "1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census," database. Entry for Helen Dodds, age 28 (born 1853), farm steward wife, wife of Walter Dodds; Wideopen, Yetholm, Roxburghshire, Scotland. https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBC%2F1881%2F0027850825 Find My Past (findmypast.co.uk : accessed 6 Dec 2020).
6. ↑ "1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census," database. Entry for Helen Dodds, age 39 (born 1852), wife of Walter Dodds; Cottage, Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland. https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBC%2F1891%2F0033528337 Find My Past (findmypast.co.uk : accessed 6 Dec 2020).
7. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS99-H5G : 21 May 2019), Helen Dodds in household of Walter Dodds, Duddo, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Norhamshire And Islandshire subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
8. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWMB-NB2 : 11 July 2019), Helen Dodds in household of Walter Dodds, Middleton, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.