Mary Elizabeth Fenton

Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth

When Mary Elizabeth Fenton was born in June 1784, in Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Richard Fenton, was 38 and her mother, Elizabeth Stubbs, was 40. She married John T Wallace about 1810, in Centre Rawdon, East Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 14 October 1865, in Shubenacadie, East Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 81, and was buried in Wallace Cemetery, Mill Village, East Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Family Time Line

John T Wallace
1783–1862
Mary Elizabeth Fenton
1784–1865
Marriage: about 1810
William Richard Wallace
1805–1875
Elizabeth Wallace
1808–1862
Rachel Wallace
1810–1893
Agnes Wallace
1812–1853
Nancy Wallace
1817–1817
Thomas Wallace
1817–1853
Mary Ann Wallace
1820–1901
John Robinson Wallace
1823–1894
Joshua James Wallace
1827–1857

Sources (5)

  • Mary Wallace, "Canada, Nova Scotia, Deaths, 1864-1877"
  • Mary Wallace in entry for Wm R Wallace, "Nova Scotia Deaths, 1864-1877"
  • Mary Wallace, "Canada, Nova Scotia, Deaths, 1864-1877"

World Events (3)

1823

Oldest Grave Seen in Memorial List

1850

Oldest Grave Seen in the Memorials List

1861

In 1861, Hants County was divided for court sessional purposes into two districts named East Hants and West Hants.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of various places, in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and Nottinghamshire, so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh, fen’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.

Irish: English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta or Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as Hunt (see Fee 1 and Finnerty ).

Scottish: habitational name from Fenton in East Lothian.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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