Person Sheet


Name Mary Rebecca RICHARDS
Birth Date 185010,9
Death Date 193110,9
Burial Place Castleton, Cramahe Twp, Northumberland Co. ON Canada9
Burial Memo Castleton Cemetery
Religion Methodist15,24
Father John Oliver RICHARDS (1810-1899)
Mother Eliza BIBBY (1810-1879)
Spouses
Unmarried
Notes for Mary Rebecca RICHARDS
For a history of the Richards farm, in which Mary had an interest, see her sister Drusilla Richards.

Mary was secretary of Castleton Methodist Church Cradle Roll in 1902. She was a Sunday school teacher at Castleton Methodist Church in 1902.24 Mary gave "hallelujah testimonials" at church meetings and embarrassed her nieces.15
Research Notes
NAME: Her first name(s) is/are also given as Mary.14,12,7

BIRTH: Mary is shown as 2 in the 1851 census,14 as 20 in the 1871 census,12 and as 36 in the 1891 census.7

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1851 census entry:
RICHARDS, John 41 farmer, Eliza (BIBBY) b. Ireland 40, Lucretia 16, Eliza A. 15, Alice 13, Margaret 11, Drusilla 8, John 6, Wilhelmina 4, Mary 214

1871 census entry:
RICHARDS, John 60 farmer, Eliza 61, Eliza Ann 30 teacher, Drusilla 26, John 24 farmer, William 22, Margaret E. 28, Mary 20, Nicholas 18 teacher, Lucretia 86 widow, Madde 11, Harry 912

1891 census entry:
RICHARDS, John 80 widower farmer, Eliza A. 50. Margaret C. 46, Dricila 44 teacher, Mary 36, Harry 28 farmer
BAYES, Frank 22 dom. labour7
Last Modified Apr 16, 2003 Created Dec 31, 2003 by Reunion for Macintosh

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