McKay related
- To: nscumber@yahoogroups.invalid
- Subject: McKay related
- From: "keysie" <keysie_uid1613@yahoogroups.invalid>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:58:27 -0000
Bertram Amos McKay's half-sister:
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NSARM Cumberland County delayed birth registrations
Year: 1876 Page: 99000050
Name: McKAY, Jennie
DoB: 1876-07-04 River Hebert, NS
c/o: Amos Edward McKay (Parrsboro) & Bessie Vergie
affidavit by stepmother, Lettie McKay on 1945-12-19 at 43 Albion St, Amherst
based on registered in family bible
[collected by EMKeys 2010-01-08]
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It appears that Amos Edward McKay married off his 16 year old daughter to widower Sherman Porter, then married Lettie Mary Cates himself about a year later.
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NSARM Cumberland County marriage registrations
Year: 1893 Book: 1810 Page: 110 Number: 143
Groom: PORTER, Sherman, 28, w, farmer
living Scots Bay, born Hall's Harbour
s/o Asaph & Nancy, farmer
and
Bride: McKAY, Jennie, 16, s
living Shulie, born Shulie
d/o Amos & Bessie, labourer
married 1893-11-02 Shulie, NS
before Gideon Prescott, Amos McKay
by Rev J M Parker
[collected by EMKeys 2010-01-08]
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