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Charles Meredith

Parents

Biography

• Birth: 26 September 1833; Lower Canada (Quebec)

• Christening: 17 November 1833; Anglican Cathedral, Holy Trinity church, Quebec City

• Marriage: 24 May 1864; Catherine Anne (Kate) Brock; Guelph, Wellington county, Canada West

• Note: Baptism certificate image from Ancestry.ca, Drouin collection.
  Charles and Catherine lived in Fergus, Ontario in 1871, where Charles was a merchant. The family is a bit of a mystery, as neither Charles nor his wife can be found either on the 1881 census, nor in the Ontario death records. Their son Albert was living with his grandparents, the Brocks, in 1881.
• Note: Catherine Anne (Kate) Brock; Marriage index indicates that Charles' father was Rice Meredith. Marriage notice published in Elora Observer 27 May 1864.

• Chart(s): Meredith of Reary

• Last Edited: 11 July 2009 01:00:00

Charles James Arthur Meredith

Parents

Biography

• Birth: 4 July 1871; Fergus, Ontario

• Death: 23 November 1877; Guelph, Ontario

• Note: Charles was 6 years and 5 months old at the time of his death due to "membranous croup". He was Wesleyan Methodist. An obituary in the Christian Guardian (12 Dec. 1877) gave the cause of death as diptheria. (Ontario birth reg'n # 3246, 1871; death reg'n #16455, 1877)

• Chart(s): Meredith of Reary

• Last Edited: 27 February 2005 00:00:00

Rice Meredith

Parents

Biography

• Birth: About 1805; Ireland

• Marriage: 30 July 1831; Amelia Atkins; Quebec City, Lower Canada

• Death: 2 December 1871; Ingersoll, Ontario

• Burial: Ingersoll Rural Cemetery

• Note: Rice was a resident of Montreal in 1831 when he married. It isn't clear just when the family moved to Ontario (then called Upper Canada). A daughter Amelia was apparently buried in Toronto in 1850, but the family is found in Quebec City in the 1851 census. That census indicates that a four-year old son had died in the previous year (i.e., 1851). The family in January 1852 consisted of Rice 47, Amelia 36, Charles 19, Eliza 17, Thomas 14, Frances 12 and Ellen 2 (ages were to be age at birthday in 1852).
  1871 Census in Ingersoll, Oxford County, Ontario:
  Rice 60 merchant Ireland M p. 33 Div 1
  Amalia 59 Ireland M " "
  Elizabeth 28 Quebec S " "
  Fanny 25 Quebec S " "
  Ellen 20 Ontario S " "
  
  OBIT - Ingersoll Chronicle, Thursday, December 07, 1871, Pg: 3, Col: 5: “MEREDITH--In Ingersoll, on Saturday, 2nd inst., Mr. Rice Meredith, merchant, late of Guelph, aged 66 years.” Buried Ingersoll Rural Cemetery - No gravestone. Name, age, date of death or burial taken from the burial book at the Cemetery. (Source: LS; )
• Note: Amelia Atkins; "Mr. Rice Meredith of the City of Montreal Merchants Clerk Bachelor, was married (by Licence) to Amelia Atkins of the City of Quebec, Spinster, (daughter of Mr. Thomas Atkins Shopkeeper) this thirtieth day of July in the year of our Lord, One thousand and eight hundred thirtyone. "
  [Signature of rector illegible except after his name is "D.D. Rector of Quebec?"]
  Signatures follow of Rice, Amelia, Thos Atkins Father, and Henry John ???
  Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral, Quebec City
  [On the same date and with same witnesses is marriage of Amelia's sister Eliza to Paul Lepper, also a "Merchants Clerk."]

• Chart(s): Meredith of Reary

• Last Edited: 25 November 2010 00:00:00

Catherine Anne (Kate) Brock

Parents

Biography

• Birth: About 1846

• Marriage: 24 May 1864; Charles Meredith; Guelph, Wellington county, Canada West

• Note: Catherine was a resident of Guelph at the time she married.
• Note: Charles Meredith; Marriage index indicates that Charles' father was Rice Meredith. Marriage notice published in Elora Observer 27 May 1864.

• Chart(s): Meredith of Reary

• Last Edited: 21 August 2004 01:00:00

Rev. James Brock

Biography

• Birth: About 1810; Ireland

• Death: After 1881

• Note: Lived in Guelph when daughter Kate married in 1864. In 1881 they were in Kingston, Ontario (Sydenham Ward, C-13235, p. 41).

• Last Edited: 5 September 2004 01:00:00

Thomas Meredith

Parents

Biography

• Birth: About 1838; Lower Canada (Quebec)

• Marriage: 19 February 1866; Hannah Haldanby Crowe; Galt, Canada West (Ontario)

• Death: 14 March 1885; Durham tp, Grey County, Ontario

• Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Guelph, Ontario

• Note: Probably the Thomas "Meridith" living in St. Mary, Hamilton, Canada West (Ontario) in the 1852 census. He was aged 16, born Montreal, occupation shoemaker, Wesleyan Methodist. His father's sisters, Eliza Meredith and Jane Wylie, were also listed in the same district, as was a Charlotte Meredith.
  
  Thomas was a merchant in Guelph in 1871. In 1881 he was a bailiff living in Durham tp., Grey County.
  
  1881 Census: Name Marital Status Gender Ethnic Origin Age Birthplace Occupation Religion
  
  Thomas MERIDETH M Male Irish 42 Q Bailiff Church of England
  Hannah H MERIDETH M Female English 36 O Methodist
  Rice Willm MERIDETH Male Irish 13 O Church of England
  Lenora MERIDETH Female Irish 9 O Church of England
  Laura A MERIDETH Female Irish 7 O Church of England
  Gertrude A MERIDETH Female Irish 5 O Church of England
  Harcourt T A MERIDETH Male Irish 2 O Church of England
  Amelia E MERIDETH Female Irish 2 O Church of England
  
  Death Reg'n 005290-85: Thomas Meredith, 47, Clerk, born Canada, Church of England, died 14 March 1885, of consumption, ill for 6 mos.
• Note: Hannah Haldanby Crowe; Marriage notice published in Elora Observer, 27 February 1866.

• Chart(s): Meredith of Reary

• Last Edited: 18 September 2010 01:00:00

Hannah Haldanby Crowe

Biography

• Birth: 5 August 1843; Canada West (Ontario)

• Marriage: 19 February 1866; Thomas Meredith; Galt, Canada West (Ontario)

• Death: 5 April 1918; Cochrane, Alberta

• Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Guelph, Ontario

• Note: In 1901 Hannah was a widow and living in Durham, Grey county, with her children Nora W, Flora A, Amelia E, Harry T and Adam F. In 1911 only Flora was still living wilth her mother.
  Hannah's name was listed as "Eliza" Crowe on the birth registration of her son Adam.
• Note: Thomas Meredith; Marriage notice published in Elora Observer, 27 February 1866.

• Chart(s): Meredith of Reary

• Last Edited: 17 July 2014 12:35:52

Rice William Meredith

Parents

Biography

• Birth: 10 November 1867; Glenelg tp, Grey county, Ontario

• Christening: 23 April 1868; Grey county, Ontario

• Marriage: About 1903; Leila Ada Banks; Canada

• Death: 29 June 1940

• Burial: Regina Cemetery

• Note: Baptism and birth record at:
  Living in Regina in 1905; at 2149 Cornwall Street in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1911--name on 1911 census is William Meredith. In 1916 were at 2245 Osler Street, Regina.

• Chart(s): Meredith of Reary

• Last Edited: 17 July 2014 11:31:44

Cathleen Hannah Meredith

Parents

Biography

• Birth: 17 September 1869; Guelph, Wellington county, Ontario

• Death: 25 July 1870; Guelph, Wellington county, Ontario

• Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Guelph, Ontario

• Note: Birth reg'n #11835-1869. Cathleen was said to be aged 10 months, 11 days when she died of "congestion of brain." The informant was her father, Thomas Meredith. The "Elora Observer" reported her birth date as 17 Sep 1869.

• Chart(s): Meredith of Reary

• Last Edited: 26 July 2006 01:00:00

Lenora Warburton Meredith

Parents

Biography

• Birth: 11 December 1871; Durham, Ontario

• Marriage: 8 July 1903; John McNee Fisher; St John's Anglican Church, Yale, BC

• Death: 5 January 1943; Vancouver, BC

• Burial: Mountain View Cemetery

• Note: 1901 census gives birth year as 1872, but enumerator evidently erred.
  Found BC details under first name Leonora--two listings in Ancestry family trees: and

• Chart(s): Meredith of Reary

• Last Edited: 17 July 2014 12:25:51