Christina
Pirie
Born in Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Ancestors 
Daughter of James Pirie
and Catherine Kate (Elrick or Earlick) Pirie
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Benjamin Cruickshank
— married
1 Dec 1883 in Lock-Lundy, Slains, Scotland
Descendants 
Mother of
Noah Cruickshank, Christina Cruickshank, George Cruickshank, Benjamin Cruickshank, Peter Cruickshank, [private daughter (1890s - 1950s)], Margaret Cruickshank, William Cruickshank, David Cruickshank, Jimmy Walker Cruickshank, Mary Walker (Cruickshank) Hooke and Jean Nicol (Cruickshank) Winter
Died
at age 87
in Port Credit, Ontario, Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 7 Apr 2016
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Biography
Christina Pirie married Benjamin Cruickshank on 1 December 1883 at Slains. By the 1891 Census she was still living and working as a House keeper on her father-in-law's farm. She was recorded as being named Christian,aged 32 and married to Benjamin. they had 3 sons, George Cruickshank, 7, a scholar; Benjamain Cruickshank, 5, a scholar and Peter Cruickshank, 3. Benjamin and Christian also had two daughters Christina Cruickshank, 2 and a baby born in 1891, Annie D.[1] By the 1901 Census Benjamin was shown as being the farmer, aged 47, still married to Christian. Son George was 17 and listed as Farmer's son (cattleman), Annie was now 11 and a scholar. The couple had three additional sons born since the 1891 Census, William Cruickshank 6, David Cruickshank, 4, and James Walker Cruickshank aged 1.[2]
Buried
25 Oct 1947.
Pine Hills Cemetery, Toronto. [3]
Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1947[4]
- Name: Christina Cruickshank [Christina Perie]
- Gender: Female (widowed)
- Race: Scotch (Scotish)
- Age: 87
- Birth Date: 15 Feb 1860
- Birth Place: Scotland
- Residence: 9 Third St, Port Credit
- Death Date: 23 Oct 1947
- Death Place: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Father: Perie
- Spouse: Benjamin Cruickshank
- Informant: James W Cruickshank 159 Monarch Park Rd, Toronto
- Certificate Number: 034339
- Reference Number: RG 80-08-0-2596
Sources
- ↑ 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census, https://www.findmypast.com.au/transcript?id=GBC/1891/0032461302.
- ↑ 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census, https://www.findmypast.com.au/transcript?id=GBC/1901/0034844782.
- ↑ Source: #S1 Lot 76 7, Section J 25 Oct 1947
- ↑ Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1947; Archives of Ontario. Registrations of Deaths, 1869-1947 (MS 935, reels 1-694), Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[1]
- Source: S1 Find A Grave
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