Frances
Maria
"Fanny"
Saunders
Born in France
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Saunders
and Lucy Ann (Willcocks) Saunders
Sister of
Lucy Anne (Saunders) Hurd, Thomas Willcocks Saunders, Louisa (Saunders) Shanly, Henrietta Saunders, Maria (Saunders) Webster, Elinor (Saunders) Kennedy and Julia Octavia Saunders
Died
at age 81
in Toronto, York County, Ontario, Canada
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| Created 15 May 2014
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Biography
Frances was the second daughter of Thomas Saunders and Lucy Willcocks. The Saunders emigrated to Canada in the early 1830s and settled on a farm in Puslinch Township, Ontario, near the town of Guelph.[1] Thomas Saunders served his pioneer community in several capacities: as colonel of the militia for the counties of Wellington, Waterloo and Grey, as crown prosecutor, and as Clerk of the Peace (magistrate) for Wellington from 1840 until his death in 1877.[2]
The Saunders built a comfortable farmhouse, which they named "Woodlands," in 1846 and raised their large family there. In 1860, the couple retired to a house in Guelph called "Summerhill."[3] [4] In 1871, Frances (35), her sisters Henrietta (30) and Julia (22), and her widowed sister Elinor Sutherland (33) and her two daughters Lucy (4) and Elinor (3) all lived at Summerhill.[5]
By 1881 Henrietta and Julia had moved to St. James Ward, Toronto, Ontario, and become teachers.[6] In 1891 Fanny joined them. Two lodgers lived with the Saunders sisters: 84-year-old Mary White and their 19-year-old nephew, Bernard Saunders, who worked as a bank clerk. An Irish immigrant, Elizabeth Black, was employed as their general servant.[7] In 1911, the three sisters were still living together in Toronto.[8]
Fanny suffered from paralysis agitans, now called Parkinson's disease, for the last eight to ten years of her life. She died of "exhaustion" November 29, 1912.[9]
Sources
- ↑ Census of Canada West 1861
- ↑ Ryerson, A.E. The Journal of Education for Ontario, Vol. 25-26. Toronto: J. George Hodgins, 1873
- ↑ Hardwick, Joan. Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn. London: Andre Deutsch, 1994
- ↑ Fowler, Marian. "High Priestess of 'It'". The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History, Oct./Nov. 1994
- ↑ Census of Canada 1871
- ↑ Census of Canada 1881
- ↑ Census of Canada 1891
- ↑ "Recensement du Canada de 1911", index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/27XS-HYR : accessed 14 December 2014), Frances M Saunders, 1911.
- ↑ "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JK7J-TTR : 11 December 2014), Frances Maria Saunders, 29 Nov 1912; citing Toronto, York, Ontario, yr 1912 cn 6765, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,854,855.
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