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Janet Thurrott
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Janet Thurrott 1 2
- Born: 26 Mar 1848, New Brunswick, Canada 1 3 4
- Marriage (1): James Walker
- Marriage (2): Unknown
- Died: 1934, United States aged 86 1 3
 Other names for Janet were Jannet Thorat,4 5 Jennie Thurrott and Jennet Walker.
General Notes:
Although Frederick is listed as part of John and Mary MortonThurrott's family in the 1871 census, by the time he moved to Nova Scotia, he lists Janet (aka Jennie) Thurrott as his mother. His death record lists her as his mother, with the father unknown.
Discussion in NB genealogy message boards by his direct descendants, indicate that he was the illegimate child of Janet Thurrott and a neighbour who owned a sawmill that she was babysitting for. There is uncertainty about who that is, both Thomas Carruthers and Thomas Cail are mentioned as likely possibilites. Robert Spencer (Frederick's great-grandson) posted that he had pictures of both Thomas Cail and Frederick Thurrott and they looked almost identical, however both Cail and Carruthers owned a sawmill locally, and it could be either. 2 6
Noted events in her life were:
• Religion: a member of the Presbyterian church: Weldford, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. 5 7
• Census: Canadian, 1861, Weldford, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. 5
• Census, 1871, Weldford, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. 7
• Ethnic Origin: Listed as Scotch on the census, 1871, Weldford, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. 7
• Census: Canadian, 1881, Weldford, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. 8
• Census: Canadian, 1891, Weldford, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. 9
• Census: Canadian, 1901, Lower Stewiacke, Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada. 4
Janet married James Walker, son of William Walker and Agnes Irving. (James Walker was born on 23 Feb 1852 in New Brunswick, Canada,1 10 11 died on 9 Feb 1923 1 10 12 and was buried in West Branch, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada 10 12.)
Janet next married.
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Sources
1
Robert F. Fellows, "Genealogies (First Families) at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Canada," p. 58; report to Provincial Archives New Brunswick, Sixth Edition Jan 2006; Source listed in Genealogies (First Family): MC80/2354 Saint John Branch, NBGS: Arrivals 99: our first families in New Brunswick, pages 273-274.
2
Province of Nova Scotia, "Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics," database, Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics (http:/www.novascotiagenealogy.com : accessed 10 Feb 2010), Death record for Frederick Thurrott; Registation Year: 1946, Page: 4555.
3
Eleanor Wilson Graham and John Currie MacMichael, West Branch Days (1826 - 1989) (Sackville, New Brunswick: The Tribune Press Ltd., 1989), 46.
4
Library and Archives Canada, "1901 Census of Canada Indexing Project," database, Automated Genealogy (http://automatedgenealogy.com/index.html : accessed 12 Feb 2010), Census record for Janet Thurrott Walker; Citing Library and Archives Canada Schedule 1, Microfilm: T-6448.
5
1861 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Kent, Weldford, Weldford, p. 2, Janet Thurrott; RG 31; Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 0,477,552, item Library and Archives Canada Film Number: C-1002-1003, Digital GS Number: 4108515.
6
Province of Nova Scotia, "Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics," database, Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics (http:/www.novascotiagenealogy.com : accessed 10 Feb 2010), Marriage of Elizabeth Ann Smith and Frederick Thurrott; Registration Year: 1899, Book: 1807, Page: 142, Number: 139.
7
database, Kent County Census Records (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbken/Census.html : accessed 1 Aug 2009), Census record for Janet Thurrott.
8
1881 census of Canada, New Brunswick, district 34, Kent, sub-district E, Welford, p. 13, dwelling 73, family 73, Janet Thurrott Walker; RG 31; digital images, Library and Archives Canada, Census of Canada 1881 (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1881/index-e.html : accessed 12 Feb 2010); citing Library and Archive Canada Microfilm: C-13185.
9
1891 census of Canada, New Brunswick, district 15, sub-district Weldford, Weldford, p. 12, dwelling W 1 2/6, family 58, Janet Thurrott Walker; RG 31; digital images, Library and Archives Canada, Census of Canada, 1891 (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1891/index-e.html?PHPSESSID=drq0c684ro6df1k23a0q2kvpv7 : accessed 10 Jan 2010).
10
New Brunswick Provincial Government, "Provincial Archives of New Brunswick," database, New Brunswick Cemeteries (http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NBCemeteries/?culture=en-CA : accessed 16 Jul 2009), Cemetery record for James Walker.
11
database, Kent County Census Records (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbken/Census.html : accessed 12 Feb 2010), Census record for James Walker.
12
Eleanor Wilson Graham and John Currie MacMichael, West Branch Days (1826 - 1989) (Sackville, New Brunswick: The Tribune Press Ltd., 1989), 63.
