Bachelor and spinster. He was a resident of Harbour Grace, she was a resident of Mosquito.
Residence 1900
Census of Suffolk, Massachusetts. In household:
Bertram Sheppard Head Male 28 Canada Eng
Eliza L Sheppard Wife Female 27 Canada Eng
Thos H Sheppard Son Male 3 Canada Eng
Charles Sheppard Son Male 1 Massachusetts[3]
Residence 1910
Census of Suffolk, Massachusetts. In household:
Bertram Sheppard Head Male 40 Newfoundland
Lucie Sheppard Wife Female 38 Newfoundland
Thomas Sheppard Son Male 12 Newfoundland
Charles Sheppard Son Male 10 Massachusetts
Roy Sheppard Son Male 8 Massachusetts
Walter Sheppard Son Male 6 Massachusetts[4]
Census of 1920
Census of Suffolk, Massachusetts. In household:
Bertram Shepherd Head Male 48 Newfoundland
Eliza L Shepherd Wife Female 47 Newfoundland
Thomas H Shepherd Son Male 22 Newfoundland
Charles Shepherd Son Male 20 Massachusetts
Roy Shepherd Son Male 18 Massachusetts
Walter Shepherd Son Male 17 Massachusetts
Matilda Shepherd Mother Female 79 Newfoundland[5]
Sources
↑ "Newfoundland Vital Statistics, 1753-1893," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9T-KVZH : 11 March 2018), Eliza Lucinda Piddle, 1873; citing Birth, Harbour Grace, Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, Canada, Provincial Archives, St. John's.
↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9YY-9JB : accessed 12 September 2020), Bertram Sheppard, Precinct 1 Chelsea city Ward 2, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 1556, sheet 1B, family 25, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,689.
↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M22D-957 : accessed 12 September 2020), Bertram Sheppard, Chelsea Ward 3, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1665, sheet 6A, family 117, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 626; FHL microfilm 1,374,639.
↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF96-SV4 : accessed 12 September 2020), Bertram Shepherd, Chelsea Ward 3, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing ED 630, sheet 38A, line 33, family 802, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 743; FHL microfilm 1,820,743.
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