Donald Campbell Ridout (1848 - 1893)

Born 16 Sep 1848 in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Katherine (Kay) Ridout — married 22 Sep 1870 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Descendants

Died 2 Aug 1893 at age 44 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

DONALD CAMPBELL RIDOUT was educated to become a civil engineer, but his entire business life was spent as a solicitor of patents, which business he founded in Canada, and which he continued until the time of his death.

Mr. Ridout married Katharine Kay, daughter of John Kay (1817-16 Dec 1891) and Agnes Bryce Cullen^[1] (d. 1864), both born in Scotland. The Kays came to Canada and settled in Toronto, where soon after settling he formed a partnership with a Mr. Betley, under the firm name of Betley & Kay, later known as John Kay, Son & Co., wholesale carpet dealers of Toronto (the Kays had children Mrs. Colin Gordon, of Toronto ; Misses Eliza and Helen; John; and Katharine).

The Ridouts had the following children :

• Mrs. W. D. Strickland, of Toronto, who has three children, Donald, Gerald Percy and Katherine Sherwood;
• Donald Campbell, of Toronto;
• Norman Stewart, a graduate of the military college, Kingston, who was in the employ of the government at the time he was accidentally killed;
• D. K., who married Ruth Jones, and has one son, Donald C. ;
• Edith, of Toronto ;
• Howard Edgar, in the Imperial Bank of Toronto; and
• John Edwin, of Toronto.

Ridout died of Bright's disease (nephritis).

Sources

1. ↑ Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of York, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1907, p. 96

• "Canada Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2JN-RFH : 27 November 2014), Douglas Kay Ridout, 18 Apr 1878; citing Toronto, York, Ontario, 18 Apr 1878, reference cn 40305; FHL microfilm 1,845,220.
• "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDKH-YJQ : 11 December 2014), Donald C. Ridout, 02 Aug 1893; citing Toronto, York, Ontario, yr 1893 cn 22863, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,853,581.
• Donald Campbell Ridout on Find A Grave: Memorial #58709113 retrieved 24 Sep 2017
• Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of York, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1907, pp. 518-519