Margaret Douglas (abt. 1831 - 1901)

Born about 1831 in Upper Canada

Ancestors

Died 7 Jul 1901 at about age 70 in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

"The two daughters were Ellen and Maggie. Neither married. They, with their mother, for many years kept a boarding house at 145 Mutual Street, Toronto. Maggie went to the Bond Street Congregational Church, where once I heard the then famous Dr. Wild preach. He was expostulating on the folly of worrying over the results of any past action. He gave as an illustration the way, as a boy, he used to bend his body and even twist his mouth when the stone he threw was not going where he had thought to throw it."^[1]

By 1891, Maggie and her sister Ellen were lodging with a Philip Querrie, blacksmith, in Toronto's St. James Ward. There is no sign of her mother, who must have passed on in the interval between the second marriage of her son George in 1889, which she witnessed, and the 1891 census. George's two oldest girls by his first wife, Rose and Victoria, were also lodging with the Querrie's, listed as dress makers.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ The Tipperary Bowles, by Richard Pinch Bowles.
2. ↑ 1891 Census of Canada, Ontario, Toronto City, St James Ward, pg. 192 of 277.

• 1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Canada West (Ontario), Peel County, Toronto, pg. 91 of 189.

• 1871 Census of Canada, Ontario, Peel, Streetsville, Page Number: 35, Line Number: 12, Microfilm: C-9972, Reference: RG31 - Statistics Canada, Item Number: 511118. Image on Library and Ancestry Canada.

• "Canada Census, 1881," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MVF3-HW9 : accessed 20 Jun 2014), Rose Douglass, St-James Ward, Toronto (City), Ontario, Canada; citing p. 83; Library and Archives Canada film number C-13246, Public Archives, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 1375882.

• "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JD2C-Y6F : accessed 24 May 2014), Margaret Douglas, 07 Jul 1901; citing Toronto, York, Ontario, yr 1901 cn 2877, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1854089.

• George Bowles Family Tree, by Tom Laporte.