Mary Jane (Shea) Sharpe (1827 - 1903)

Born 23 Oct 1827 in Northampton, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

Ancestors

Wife of Eli (Sharp) Sharpe — married 12 Jul 1849 in Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

Descendants

Died 15 Jul 1903 at age 75 in Northampton, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

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Biography

Mary Jane Shea was born in about 1827 in New Brunswick. (New Brunswick, Canada was its name after 1867). FamilySearch profile #LCY7-P4G shows her parents as Mary Hester Dickinson and John Arden Shea Sr. Her siblings are listed as:

• William Sperry Shea - 1818–1876
• Sarah Ann Shea - 1819–1900
• Charles Shea - b. 1823
• John A. Shea - 1825–1904
• Lydia Hester Shea - 1829–1867
• Adam Henry Shea - 1832–1910
• George Elihu Shea - 1832–1909

Records have been found for 3 of the children - Mary, Adam and George.

Mary Jane married Eli Sharpe on 12 July 1849 in Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. On the same FamilySearch profile, their children are listed as:

• Ernest Charles Sharpe - 1850–1861
• John Shea Sharpe - 1850–1909
• Lydia Sharp - 1853–1884
• Maria L. Sharpe - 1853–1895
• James Hudson Sharpe - 1855–1936
• William Sperry Sharpe - 1857–1857
• George Frederic Spurgeon Sharpe - 1859–1921
• Mary Harriet Sharpe - b. 1861
• George Baird Sharpe - 1863–1947
• Sarah Helen Sharp - b. 1865

Records have been found for John, James, Maria and Frederic.

On the 1901 Canadian Census, Mary Jane, 73, widowed, was living in Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. The record shows that she was of Irish ethnicity, of Canadian nationality and religion was Baptist. She is listed as "Mother", living with her daughter-in-law Clara A., 34, (wife of Mary Jane's son Fred), and grandchildren Helen P., 9, Annie A., 8 and Ralph, 5.

Sources

Canada Census, 1901," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KHK3-LW9), Mary J Sharp in household of Clara A Sharp, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada; citing p. 3, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa. Also - (https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1901&op=pdf&id=z000024430)

R. Wallace Hale. The Shea Family. A Preliminary Study of the descendants of William Elihu SHEA of Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland and the Parish of Northampton, Carleton County, New Brunswick., citing New Brunswick Provincial Archives, Wallace Hale's Fort Havoc http://archives.gnb.ca/Exhibits/FortHavoc/html/Shea-study.aspx?culture=en-CA

"New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Births and Late Registrations, 1810-1906," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XTSY-HY7), Mary Shea in entry for James Hudson Sharpe, 03 Feb 1855; citing Grafton, Carleton, New Brunswick, certificate 08256, Provincial Archives, Fredericton; FHL microfilm 1,943,957.

"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/Q2QK-N6CQ), Mary Shea in entry for Maria L Sharpe Noble, 01 Mar 1895; citing Death, Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 2,437,749.

"New Brunswick Provincial Deaths, 1815-1938," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XGCT-L7N), Mary Shea in entry for Fredrick Spurgeon Sharp, 21 Oct 1921; citing Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, certificate 003994, Provincial Archives, Fredericton; FHL microfilm 2,134,613.

“FIND A GRAVE” https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101540598/mary-jane-sharpe

THE SHARP FAMILY, Descendants of Alexander Sharp of Edinburgh, Scotland and the Province of New Brunswick., by Edwin Tappan Adney (https://archives.gnb.ca/exhibits/forthavoc/html/Adney.aspx?culture=en-CA)