Frances (Watson) Henderson (abt. 1806 - 1906)

Born about 1806 in Ireland

Died Apr 1906 at about age 100 in Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Robert Henderson and Fanny Watson Henderson came to Canada from County Tyrone, Ireland, about 1835. They first settled at Laskay, in North York, and after a few years removed to a bush farm in the town ship of Artemesia, near Flesherton, in the County of Grey. They had nine children; three daughters and six sons.

Her husband Robert died in 1861.

The 1881 census shows the household as:

• Joseph Henderson M 30 y Ontario
• Jane Henderson F 22 y Ontario
• Frances Henderson F 55 y Ireland
• Fraces L. Henderson F 19 y Ireland
• Samuel Henderson M 24 y Ontario
• Thomas Henderson M 27 y Ontario
• Robert H. Henderson M 21y Ontario
• Robert F. Henderson M 1 y Ontario
• Mina May Henderson F : O Ontario

Sources

• Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of York, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1907, p. 437
• "Canada Census, 1881," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVFP-814 : 30 June 2017), DEFAULT RECORD TITLE - CHANGE ME, Artemesia, Grey East, Ontario, Canada; citing p. 79; Library and Archives Canada film number C-13261, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 1,375,897.