Affa (Gilbert) Morrison (abt. 1795 - abt. 1882)

Wife of Thomas David Morrison — married 2 Sep 1818 in York, Upper Canada

Died about 29 Oct 1882 at about age 87 in Ontario, Canada

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Biography

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography, in it's article on David Thomas Morrison, gives her name as Effie Gilbert, née Patrick, but most other sources give her first name as Affa. The obituary for her sister Sarah Gilbert, in the Christian Guardian, would indicate that her LNAB is Gilbert:

Miss Sarah Gilbert died 17th inst. At the residence of her sister, Mrs Morrison, Jarvis Street Toronto, aged 68^[1].

Affa's obituary didn't mention her maiden name, and had an error in her age when the family moved to York (she was 4, not 14):

MORRISON, ,Mrs. Dr. who came to the little village of York from Presqu’ile with her father and family in 1799 when she was 14, and joined the Methodist Church there 19 years later, died in Toronto, October 28 1882, in her 88th yearf. ^[2]

She is buried in Toronto Necropolis Cemetery (Ontario, Canada), in Section N, Grave 5a

Research Notes

Secondary sources indicate that Affa was the daughter of Thaddeus Gilbert, blacksmith of Town of York, and she was born in Hubbardton Vermont. Another sister, Elizabeth, was married to William Poyntz Patrick.

Sources

1. ↑ Christian Guardian. 30 September 1857
2. ↑ Christian Guardian, 3 Jan 1883, p. 7 Obituary

• Affa Gilbert Morrison on Find A Grave: Memorial #126664861 retrieved 3 Apr 2017
• Victor Loring Russell, MORRISON, THOMAS DAVID, in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 8, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed April 3, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/morrison_thomas_david_8E.html.