Born in Nova Scotia
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Irish
and Margaret Banbury (Day) Irish
Sister of
Henrietta Maria Margaret (Irish) Smith, Martha Jane (Irish) Allison, Margaret Banbury (Irish) Smith, Joseph Scott Irish, John Winckworth Mercer Irish, Mary Ann (Irish) Harvie, Deborah Cottnam Irish and Elizabeth Irish
Wife of
Joseph Rathbun
— married
25 Nov 1832 in Newport, Hants, Nova Scotia
Descendants 
Mother of
Charles Edward Rathbun, John Bell Rathbun, George Mercer Rathbun, Mary Ann (Rathbun) Allison, Margaret Banbury (Rathbun) Chambers, Elizabeth Rathbun, James Allison Rathbun, Joseph Frederick Rathbun and Frances M. Rathbun
Died
at age 73
in Nova Scotia, Canada
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Biography
Grace was born in 1809[1][2]. She was the daughter of John Irish and Margaret Banbury Day.
In 1832, Grace married Joseph Rathbun/Rathburn[3][1][2].
Lived in Mantua Hants Co Nova Scotia part of her life.[4]
The 1871 Canadian census lists Grace as a 61 year old, Nova Scotia born, married, of Irish origin, Wesleyan Methodist adherent, living in Scotch Village district NS.[5]
She passed away in 1882[1].
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Willis Luther Irish and Stella Bertha (Putnam) Irish, The Descendants of John Irish, The Immigrant 1629-1963 and Allied Families, The Dingley Press, Freeport, Maine, 1964
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 L. S. Loomer, Notes for the Beaton Institute of the college of Cape Breton unpublished Windsor, Nova Scotia, November, 1981, 'Biography and Genealogical File Cottnam Brothers' (15pp).
- ↑ Marriage notice, New Brunswick Courier, December 8 1832: "m. Newport, N.S. 25th ult. by Rev. Dr. Porter, Joseph RATHBURN / Grace Amelia IRISH youngest d/o late John IRISH of Falmouth, N.S. WO" Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics Volume 5 Number 554
- ↑ Her son Joseph's Family Bible contains her obituary from an obscure newspaper
- ↑ 1871 Cdn census, NS, 188 Hants, A-1 Scotch Village , pe 44 line 13. https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1871&op=img&id=4396320_00140 Individual page: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1871/Pages/item.aspx?itemid=560263
See also
- Eaton, Arthur H. W.: Americana Feb 1915- 'Rhode Island Settlers on the French Lands in NS in 1760 &; 1761'; PART II; 'The Township of Windsor' pp83-104. https://archive.org/details/1913t19chaptersinhistor00eatouoft/page/n3/mode/2up
- Duncanson, John V; Newport, Nova Scotia a Rhode Island Township, pp265-266, 344-345
- Brown, Pearl Aileen (Cochrane): The Story of Cinq Maisons & Georgefield Winckworth Mantua & Reminiscences pp192-194
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