Margaret (Hardy) Henry (1851 - 1931)

Born 10 Jan 1851 in Somerville, Peel County, Ontario, Canada

Ancestors

Wife of James Henry — married 27 Aug 1867 in Meadowvale Village, Peel County, Ontario

Died 27 Mar 1931 at age 80 in Toronto, York County, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Margaret was born in 1851. She was the daughter of Joseph Hardy and Isabella Hood. Margaret was born in Somerville, an old township in the northeast corner of Victoria that no longer exists. However, she grew up in Meadowvale Village in Peel County. She married James Henry at age 16. He was 22. In 1871 the couple was living in Port Hope in Durham County. James was a miller and had found work there. They already had the first of their seven children. In 1881 they had moved to Toronto where James was working as a miller. An employee, a flour packer, John Kerr was living with the Henry family. James died suddenly in August 1883 and her daughter Isabella died of tuberculosis in 1886. It was a difficult time for Margaret but she managed. In 1891, four of her children were living with her and she took in two boarders, Ralph and Sarah Green. In addition she worked as a laundress. In the 1901, 1911 and 1921 census records she still lived in Toronto; her grown children, some of them married with children, lived with her. Margaret died in 1931 at age 80 and her daughter Marion arranged for a memorial. Burial was in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Sources

• Ontario, Canada, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869, 27 Aug 1867, spouse James Henry
• 1881 Census of Canada, St. Johns Ward, Toronto city, James Henry 34, miller, MARGARET HENRY 30, William J. Henry 11, Isabella A. Henry 9, Joseph E. Henry 7, Dora Henry 6, Margaret Henry (Marion) 4, John Kerr 20, flour packer
• 1891 Census of Canada, St. Johns Ward, Toronto, Margaret Henry, widowed, laundress, Joseph Henry 17, picture frame maker, son, Cora 16 (actually Dora) Henry, dau, Marion Henry 14, dau, Freddie Henry 10, son, Ralph Green 40, lodger, Sarah Green 27, lodger
• 1901 Census of Canada, Toronto, Margaret Henry 50, widow, born 10 Jan 1851, Fred Henry 19, son, salesman, Margaret Henry (Marion) 23, dau, book folder, Joseph Henry 27, son glass cutter, Lillie Henry 24 (wife of Joseph, Lillian Moffat), Hilder Henry 4 (Hilda Maude Henry, dau of Joseph), Ruben Owen 28, steam fitter, Dora Owen 25
• 1921 Census of Canada, Toronto, 109 Bellwood Ave., Margaret Henry 70, Marian Henry 41, dau, forelady, Dora Henry 43, dau, Lillian Henry, cutter, 2nd wage earner
• Ontario, Canada, Deaths 1869-1938, Margaret Henry,27 March 1931 Toronto
• Ontario, Canada, Toronto Trust Cemeteries, 1826-1989, buried Mount Pleasant Cemetery