Born in Elderslie, Bruce, Ontario, Canada
Ancestors 
Daughter of Samuel Shaw
and Rosannah (Keyes) Shaw
Sister of
George Shaw, Susannah (Shaw) Grey, James Shaw, William Shaw, John Shaw, Samuel Shaw and Henry Shaw
Wife of
Thomas Blair
— married
about 1880 in Elderslie Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario
Mother of
Nettie Ames Blair and Glenn Earl Blair
Died
at age 34
in Michigan, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 17 Aug 2017
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Biography
Thomas and Minnie are mentioned in the 1881 census as living with her father Samuel Shaw in Elderslie Twp., Bruce Co.
According to a personal letter from Kathleen Shaw "Minnie was very pretty. One time she went to Paisley to sell eggs. The clerk couldn't take his eyes off Minnie and he put the eggs on the scales and weighed them instead of counting them. She married a man called Blair. He got to be a doctor on her money".
In 1881 her father Samuel sells the rest of the farm (100 acres) to Minnie and her husband. By 1883 they have sold it to John Kelborne. (Land Registry Office in Walkerton, Ont.) Their daughter Annie/Nettie was born in Canada in 1885 and according to the 1910 census they moved to Michigan in 1888.
Minnie died in 1896 and Thomas Blair had a second wife Edna by 1897. She is buried in Lyons Cemetery, Fulton County, Ohio, USA
death of son Glenn
Source Citation Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, Michigan Source Information Ancestry.com. Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Death Records. Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan.
Sources
Ancestry.com for census records
death https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10626471/minnie-j.-blair
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Minnie by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Minnie:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Minnie by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Minnie:
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~6.25%
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Rejected matches › Jane (Shaw) Franklin (abt.1870-abt.1946)
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