Dorothea (Woolsey) Rutherford (1893 - 1976)

Born 25 Oct 1893 in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Died 17 Mar 1976 at age 82 in Alberta, Canada

Biography

Dorothy was the daughter of watchmaker/jeweller Harry Woolsey, and Mary Jane Foster, who came from a family of butchers.

Following the death of her mother in 1909, she accompanied her father to Canada.

In 1911, she and her father lived with her sister Edith and her new husband Hugh Boyd in Saskatchewan.

She married Charles Herbert Rutherford in 1916, and had four children including daughter Audrey.

Sources

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JSTQ-TFP : 18 September 2020), Mary Jane in entry for Dorothy Woolsey, 1893.

"England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9RP-59Q : 21 May 2019), Dorothea Woolsey in household of William H Woolsey, Lockwood, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Lockwood subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.

"Recensement du Canada de 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBQ-NXMM : 10 March 2018), Dorothy Woolsey in entry for Hugh Boyd, 1911; citing Census, Saskatoon Sub-Districts 13-44, Saskatchewan, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 2,418,581.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146173519/dorothea-rutherford

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