Born in North Fredericksburgh Tp., Lennox and Addington County, Ontario
Ancestors 
Daughter of Miles Shorey
and Sarah H. (Switzer) Shorey
Sister of
William Anson Shorey, Christopher S. Shorey, Elijah Switzer Shorey, Miles Shorey, Lydia (Shorey) Guess and Zilpha (Shorey) McKim
Wife of
John Wesley Peterson
— married
29 Oct 1845 in Prince Edward District, Ontario, Canada
Descendants 
Mother of
Anna Maria (Peterson) VandeWater, George Wesley Peterson, Annette Shorey Peterson and William Maurice Peterson
Died
at age 72
in Toronto, Ontario
Profile last modified
| Created 7 Nov 2012
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Biography
Orra Shorey was born in 1825 on the family farm northeast of Napanee, Lennox County, daughter of Miles Shorey and Sarah Switzer. In 1845 she married John W. Peterson. They farmed in Fredericksburgh Township, then (1852) at Madoc (Hastings County) and by 1853 in Newburgh, Lennox County. In 1857 they bought a farm north of Newburgh in Camden Township. They had four children. In 1865 they moved to Mount Pleasant Township, Wabasha County, Minnesota, and thereafter to West Albany Township, Wabasha County, and finally to McCook County, Dakota Territory. John died there in 1884. Orra returned to Ontario and lived with her daughter Anna Maria Vanderwater and family in Kingston. Orra died in 1897 in Toronto and is buried in a family plot on the farm where she grew up.
Note
The Miles Shorey farm was the northernmost in North Fredericksburgh Township (= Third Town).
Sources
Ontario Marriages, 1801-1928, Prince Edward District, 1845 (John W Peturas)--Ancestry.com [clearly "Peterson" in the image]
Canada West Census, Lennox and Addington County, Fredericksburgh, 1851, http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1851_pdf/e095/e002357346.pdf (Orra is listed for Madoc [Hastings County], Ontario, in a column denoting "out of limits" residences.)
Ontario Census, Lennox and Addington County, Camden, 1861, p. 23, http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1861/pdf/4391943_00136.pdf
U.S. Census, Minnesota, Wabasha County, Mt. Pleasant Township, 1870, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDH6-G6Z
Minnesota State Census, Wabasha County, 1875, p. 103, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6X5S-439?i=3&cc=1503053
U.S. Census, Dakota Territory, McCook County, 1880 (Anna Peterson) --Ancestry.com and https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MCV7-YR9
Ontario Census, Frontenac County, Kingston, Victoria Ward, 1881Ancestry.com and https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MVXJ-6LJ (Orra and son William Maurice were visiting her daughter Anna Maria Vanderwater.)
Canada Census, Ontario, Toronto, 1891, https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1891&op=img&id=30953_148149-00101
Ontario Deaths 1869-1937, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JN66-QN5
Shorey Burial Plot, http://www.sfredheritage.on.ca/nfcemSZ.html AND http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/13351696/person/-83305724/photox/0fed6dc1-e408-49e7-a5ab-fcca00014631?src=search The burial plot on the Shorey farm is at 44°16'55.0"N 76°54'14.9"W, on Palace Road (Route 5) northeast of Napanee, observed 1984 and 2016 by Roger Peterson-2111. --R.S.P. 5/2021
Records of Shorey Peterson-2110 (a grandson) and Malcolm Powley-69 (a grandnephew)
Acknowledgments
Profile begun in 2012 by Katharine E-173 with additions by Roger S. Peterson-2111.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Orra 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 Orra:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Orra 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 Orra:
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