Isabella (Gilroy) Shewfelt (1848 - 1905)

Born 10 Oct 1848 in Truro, Colchester, Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Wife of Leonard Shewfelt — married 13 Feb 1868 in Bruce County, Ontario, Canada

Descendants

Died 12 Apr 1905 at age 56 in Kincardine Township, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada.

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Biography

Isabella was born in 1848. Isabella Gilroy ... She passed away in 1905.

Burial Armow Methodist Cemetery, Armow, Kincardine Township, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada.

Her gravestone reads:

Sources

• 1861 Census of Canada West, Bruce, Kincardine (Library and Archives Canada) census photo page 20 line 46 Isabella Gilroy age 13

• Ontario - County Marriage Registers , GS # 1,030,055.

"Lonard Shoefelt age 22, Res: Kincardine, born: Ontario, parents: L. Shoeflet & Mary Shoefelt Isabella Gillroy, age 19, res: Kincardine, born Nova Scotia, parents: James Gillroy & Ann Gillroy Witnesses: Peter Shoefelt & Mary Hume, Kincardine Date of Marriage: Feby 13th, 1868." No. 287 Return of marriages Solemnized by R. Large a Minister of Episcopal Methodist for the year ending 23rd January AD 1867[sic].

• "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869," database with images, FamilySearch marriage record photo : 31 March 2017, Lonard Shoefelt and Isabella Gillroy, 13 Feb 1868; citing Bruce, Ontario, Canada, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,030,055.

• "Canada Census, 1871," database, FamilySearch [1] : accessed 31 May 2016, Esebella Shewfielt, Kincardine, South Bruce, Ontario, Canada; citing p. 27, line 11; Library and Archives Canada film number C-9935, Public Archives, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 4,396,334.

• 1881 Census of Canada, Ontario, Bruce South, Kincardine (Library and Archives Canada) census photo page 29 line 6 Shewfelt Isabella age 31
• "Canada Census, 1881," database, FamilySearch [2] : accessed 31 May 2016, Isabella Shewfelt in household of Leonard Shewfelt, Kincardine, Bruce South, Ontario, Canada; citing p. 29; Library and Archives Canada film number C-13275, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 1,375,911.

• 1891 Census of Canada, Ontario, Bruce South, Kincardine (Library and Archives Canada) census photo page 55 line 5 Shewfelt Isabella age 42

• 1901 Census. Ontario, Bruce, Kincardine Twp. C page 1.

• 1911 Census of Canada, Ontario, Bruce North County, Kincardine Township (Library and Archives Canada) census photo page 6 line 20 Shewfelt Annie age 59

• Armow Methodist Cemetery Recording, #2, GS # 6088955.
• Canada Gen Web's Cemetery Project, Photo Alan Falconer, Isabella (Gilroy) SHEWFELT gravestone photo

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch [3] : 11 July 2016, Isabella Gilroy Shewfelt, 1905; Burial, Armow, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, Armow Methodist Cemetery; citing record ID 65651891, Find a Grave, [4].

• Government of Ontario, Ontario Death Registration, GS # 1854288 Reg. # 6501-05.

"Shewfelt, Isabella, female, died: April 12 1905, 74 years, farmer's wife, married, born Noa Scotia, Methodist, registered: April 13, 1905." County of Bruce, Division of Kincardine.