Charles Alexander Rutherford (1842 - 1927)

Born 11 Feb 1842 in Dereham, Oxford, Canada West

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Mulenyx) Rutherford — married about 1868 in Ontario, Canada

Husband of Mary Catherine (Smith) Rutherford — married about 1885 in Ontario, Canada

Descendants

Died 30 Jan 1927 at age 84 in Petrolia, Enniskillen, Lambton, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

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Charles was born on February 11, 1842. He is the son of Orlando Rutherford and Elizabeth Pherrill. He was privately baptized by Rev. James Stewart at St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Dunwich Township on September 26, 1842.^[1] In the 1871 and 1881 census he was listed as a carpenter. He apparently moved to Oil Springs in Lambton County after 1871 (because three of his children were born there between 1875 and 1878), but the family was listed back in Dereham township in the 1881 census, it probably had to do with Margaret's TB infection. By 1901 the family has returned to Lambton County and Charles is listed with his new wife Mary and five of the seven children he had with her. On the 1901 census he is listed as a farmer. On the 1911, Mary is listed as the family head and Charles has no occupation listed (was he ill during at that time?). In 1921 he is living in the village of Oil Springs with his son Richard, by his first wife, Margaret.

He passed away in 1927 at Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital in Petrolia Ontario.^[2] Cause of death uremia.

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Sources

1. ↑ Baptisms at St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Dunwich Township 1842-1869.
2. ↑ C.E.E. Hospital History

• Cited in Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1913, Archives of Ontario; Series: MS929; Reel: 2, Oxford, Ontario.

• Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938 and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947, Archives of Ontario; Series: MS935; Reel: 348

• 1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Canada West (Ontario), Oxford County, Dereham, pg. 37 of 147.

• 1861 Census of Canada, Canada West, Oxford, pg. 939 of 1245.

• 1871 Census of Canada, Dereham, Oxford South, Ontario; Roll: C-9910; Page: 76; Family No: 280.

• 1881 Census of Canada, Dereham, Oxford South, Ontario; Roll: C_13266; Page: 1; Family No: 5.

• 1901 Census of Canada, Year: 1901; Census Place: Moore, Lambton (west/ouest), Ontario; Page: 6; Family No: 55

• 1911 Census of Canada, Year: 1911; Census Place: 44 - Sarnia, Lambton West, Ontario; Page: 1; Family No: 10

• 1921 Census of Canada, Reference Number: RG 31; Folder Number: 67; Census Place: Oil Springs (Village), Lambton East, Ontario; Page Number: 6

• Find A Grave Memorial #118312224.

• Ancestry.com - Ruther01 Family Tree - Brett Rutherford