Joseph Knight Boswell (1812 - 1890)

Born 1812 in Dubland, Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Jane Paterson — married 15 May 1850 in St Andrew's Church, Quebec City

Descendants

Died 11 Dec 1890 at about age 78 in Quebec

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Biography

XIII. Mary Jane Paterson, m. Joseph Knight Boswell of Quebec (son of James Boswell and Martha Carey of Dublin, Ireland). Res. Quebec. Joseph Knight Boswell was b. in Dublin in 1812, was educated in Ireland, and after spending four years in Edinburgh, Scotland, came to Quebec in 1840. He d. in Dec. 1890, aged 78.

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Children :

a. James Boswell, b. May 16, 1852; d. unmarried 1893.

b. Marion Boswell, b. May 1854.

c. Vesey Boswell, b. April 25, 1856; m. (1) at Sydney,

Oct. 20, 1898, Florence Isabel Bown of Port Morien, C. B.; (2) Elizabeth Margaret Brown of Quebec, (widow of Henry Brown) June IS, 1906.

Children:

1. James Vesey Boswell, b. Aug. 25, 1900.

2. Florence Mary Boswell, b. Sept. 10, 1902; d. at age of four years.

d. Joseph Knight Boswell, b. April 10, 1858.

e. Ada Martha Boswell, b. Apr. 10, 1860.

f. Laura Boswell, b. Oct. 17, 1862; m. Norman Christensen of London, England, at Quebec, Sept. 18,1901.

Child:

Allen Hewiston Christensen, b. March 4, 1903.

g. Margaret Louisa Boswell, b. Jan. 10, 1864.

h. Andrew William Boswell, b. Nov. 23, 1865.

i. Lewis Henry Boswell, b. Sept. 4, 1867.

j. Charles Edward Allen Boswell, b. Sept. 27, 1870.

k. Ernest Henry Boswell, b. June 27, 1873; d. Feb. 3, 1897.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ http://archive.org/stream/genealogyofwickw00wick/genealogyofwickw00wick_djvu.txt.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Harry Boswell for creating Boswell-370 on 19 Nov 13.