Catherine (Conway) Winchester (1866 - 1972)

Born 1866 in Canada West

Ancestors

Wife of Alexander Winchester — married 25 Sep 1885 in Lindsey, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada

Descendants

Died 1972 at about age 106 in Ontario, Canada

Biography of Kate CONWAY WINCHESTER

• Kate Conway was born about in Ontario, Canada in about 1866, She is the daughter of either Mick Conway and his wife Margaret Spencer or maybe the child of Henry Conway and his wife Kate McEnvoy. We are still trying to determine exact parentage.

• Children of Michael "Mick" Conway and Margaret Spencer Conway according to 1901 Census of Canada are
  • Nellie Conway, born February 2, 1886
  • Margaret Conway, born May 5, 1888
  • William Conway, born June 23, 1890

These may be Kate's siblings or her other relatives.

• Kate Conway and her siblings may be the grandchildren of:
  • Richard Spencer, who was born in 1819 in County, Tipperary, Ireland and died August 4, 1896 in Peterborough, Ontario, a town northeast of Toronto, Canada.
  • Mary Purcell born August 12, 1820 in County Tipperary, Ireland and died April 20, 1910 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

• She was a Scottish Presbyterian?

• Kate Conway married Alexander Winchester on September 28, 1885 in Ontario, Canada and they had at least six children:
  • Robert Winchester, born 1889 in Bexley, and died in Toronto, Ontario in 1906 at age 17.
  • Margaret "Maggie" Winchester,
  • James Winchester,
  • Charles Winchester,
  • Anna May Winchester, born March 30, 1900, in Bexley, Victoria, who immigrated to Buffalo, New York USA, and married Martin Versch, Jr.
  • Agnes Christina Winchester, born 1902 in Bexley, Victoria.

• The Winchester family lived in Bixley, Victoria, Ontario, Canada when their daughter Anna May "Annie" Winchester was born in 1900. They were still in Bixley in 1901 for the Census of Canada, in 1902 when Agnes Christina was born, and in 1913 when Kate's husband Alexander Winchester died. Their son Robert may have gone to Ontario for work, because his parents were still in Bexley in 1913.

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Sources

1. ↑ Information as told to Sharon Centanne, Saturday, May 9, 2015.

• Ontario Birth Records: "Ontario Births, 1869-1912", index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KZ1C-CHK : accessed 04 Dec 2014), Annie May Winchester, 1900./GS Film Number: 2056567 , Digital Folder Number: 004656987 , Image Number: 00656

• 1901 Census of Bixley, Victoria, Ontario, Canada

• 1902 Birth record for her sister Agnes Christina Winchester.

• 1906 Death record for her son Robert.

• 1913 Death record for her husband.

• 1919 US-Canadian Border crossing records for her daughter Annie May.Winchester.

• Living family member met Kate Winchester in the 1930s.