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Alexander MacMichael Thurrott
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Alexander MacMichael Thurrott 3
- Born: 16 May 1855 3 4
- Marriage: Mary Jane Porter on 28 Sep 1887 in Salmon Creek, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada 1 2
- Died: 1920 aged 65 5
- Buried: Redbank, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada 5
 Other names for Alexander were Alexander Thorat 6 and Alexander Thorret.7
Noted events in his life were:
• Occupation: was a teacher: West Branch, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. 8
• Religion: a member of the Presbyterian church: Weldford, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. 6 7
• Education: Normal School, 1844, Fredericton, York County, New Brunswick, Canada. 9
• Census: Canadian, 1861, Weldford, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. 6
• 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, 1901, Canning, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada. 10
• Census: Canadian, 1911, Canning, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada. 11
Alexander married Mary Jane Porter on 28 Sep 1887 in Salmon Creek, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada.1 2 (Mary Jane Porter was born on 8 Dec 1866 in New Brunswick, Canada,12 13 died in 1940 14 and was buried in Redbank, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada 14.)
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Sources
1
Daniel F. Johnson, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, "Newspaper Vital Statistics," database, Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics (http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NewspaperVitalStats : accessed 31 Jan 2009), Newspaper record of Alexander Thurrott and Mary Jane Thurrott.
2
Eleanor Wilson Graham and John Currie MacMichael, West Branch Days (1826 - 1989) (Sackville, New Brunswick: The Tribune Press Ltd., 1989), 70.
3
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.
4
Eleanor Wilson Graham and John Currie MacMichael, West Branch Days (1826 - 1989) (Sackville, New Brunswick: The Tribune Press Ltd., 1989), 46.
5
New Brunswick Provincial Government, "Provincial Archives of New Brunswick," database, New Brunswick Cemeteries (http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NBCemeteries/?culture=en-CA : accessed 2 Nov 2009), Cemetery record for Alexander MacMichael Thurrott.
6
1861 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Kent, Weldford, Weldford, p. 2, Alexander MacMichael 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.
7
database, Kent County Census Records (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbken/Census.html : accessed 1 Aug 2009), Census record for Alexander MacMichael Thurrott.
8
Eleanor Wilson Graham and John Currie MacMichael, West Branch Days (1826 - 1989) (Sackville, New Brunswick: The Tribune Press Ltd., 1989), 71.
9
Eleanor Wilson Graham and John Currie MacMichael, West Branch Days (1826 - 1989) (Sackville, New Brunswick: The Tribune Press Ltd., 1989), 8.
10
Library and Archives Canada, "1901 Census of Canada Indexing Project," database, Automated Geneology (http://www.automatedgenealogy.com : accessed 2 Nov 2009), Census record for Alexander MacMichael Thurrott.
11
Library and Archives Canada, "1911 Census of Canada Indexing Project," database, Automated Genealogy (http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/ : accessed 10 Jan 2010), Census record for Alexander MacMichael Thurrott; New Brunswick, Sunbury & Queens County, Canning.
12
Library and Archives Canada, "1901 Census of Canada Indexing Project," database, Automated Geneology (http://www.automatedgenealogy.com : accessed 2 Nov 2009), Census record for Mary Jane Porter Thurrott.
13
Library and Archives Canada, "1911 Census of Canada Indexing Project," database, Automated Genealogy (http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/ : accessed 10 Jan 2010), Census record for Mary Jane Porter Thurrott; New Brunswick, Sunbury & Queens County, Canning.
14
New Brunswick Provincial Government, "Provincial Archives of New Brunswick," database, New Brunswick Cemeteries (http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NBCemeteries/?culture=en-CA : accessed 2 Nov 2009), Cemetery record for Mary Jane Porter Thurrott.
