Mary Etta (Hicks) Maxwell (1864 - 1921)

Born 16 Aug 1864 in Hicksville, Salisbury, Westmorland, New Brunswick

Ancestors

Wife of Frederick James Maxwell — married 18 Jun 1889 (to 7 Jul 1921) in Havelock, Salisbury Parish, Westmorland County, New Brunswick

Descendants

Died 7 Jul 1921 at age 56 in Rockport, Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada

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Biography

Mary Etta was born in 1864. She was from Butternut Ridge near Havelock, NB.

From Daniel Johnson's Vital Statistics From NB Newspapers , Vol 73 1889. Item 314 (Chignecto Post, 27 June 1889) :

married at residence of Deacon Howard Hicks, Salisbury 18th inst by Rev. B.N. Hughes, Frederick J. Maxwell, Rockport/ Etta M. Hicks, both of Westmorland County. (Also the same notice---Item 3521 on 22 June 1889 DT.)

Fred and Etta were second cousins. They had four children between 1892 and 1903. She died of tuberculosis at age 57. Her husband remarried.

Buried in Lower Rockport Cemetery^[1]

Etta Hicks and son Fred, 1900

Research Notes

The hamlet of Havelock was once known as Butternut Ridge and lies in Kings County. But today, what is now known as Butternut Ridge lies just over the county line in Salisbury Parish of Westmorland County. A map of the area is shown. Etta would have been born and grown up on the grant of her father H.D. Hicks.

Many variations of her name exist: Mary Etta, Etta Mary, Etta M. Etta Mae, but the earliest variation is May E. in the 1871 census. At her marriage she uses Etta M. Mary Etta appears on the birth records of children Electra and Robert but those were both filled out after she died by others.

As a young woman in the 1880s she kept an autograph album. Pages of the album can be seen here.

Sources

1. ↑ PANB death record

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