Rhoda Elsworth (1826-)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: Captain Richard Knight Susan Elizabeth Knight+ John H. Knight Samuel Knight+ Anna Harriet Knight Olive Rhoda Knight+ Ernst Knight Rhoda Elsworth 1 Born: 15 Jan 1826, New Brunswick, Canada 2 3 Marriage: Captain Richard Knight on 27 Nov 1845 in Grand Lake, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada 1    Other names for Rhoda were Rhoda Ellsworth,2 Molly Knight 4 and Rhody Knight.2   Noted events in her life were: • Religion: a member of the Mill Cove Baptist Church: Mill Cove, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada. 2 5 • Census: Canadian, 1861, Cambridge, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada. 4 • Census: Canadian, 1871, Cambridge Parish, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada. 2 • Ethnic Origin: Listed as English on the census, 1871, Cambridge Parish, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada. 2 • Census: Canadian, 1881, Cambridge, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada. 6 • Census: Canadian, 1891, Cambridge, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada. 7 • Census: Canadian, 1901, Cambridge, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada. 3 Rhoda married Captain Richard Knight, son of Samuel Knight and Sophia Holland, on 27 Nov 1845 in Grand Lake, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada.1 (Captain Richard Knight was born on 9 Oct 1823 8 9 and died on 25 Jun 1903 in Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada 10.)   Noted events in their marriage were: • Marriage Performed By: Rev. A. Wood. 1

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 28 Mar 2010), Marriage of Rhoda Elsworths and Captain Richard Knight; Volume 11 Number 363, the The Loyalist, 25 Dec 1845.

2 database, Census Records (http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbqueens/cen-intro.htm : accessed 17 Apr 2009), Census record for Rhoda Knight.

3 Library and Archives Canada, "1901 Census of Canada Indexing Project," database, Automated Geneology (http://www.automatedgenealogy.com : accessed 21 Apr 2009), Census record for Rhoda Knight; Archives Microfilm: T-6444.

4 1861 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Queens, district 28, Cambridge, sub-district E, Cambridge, p. 20, Molly (Rhoda) Knight; RG 31; Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 0,477,555, item Library and Archives Canada film number: C-1004, Digital GS number: 4108520.

5 Rev. Walter R. Greenwood M.A. Th.D., The Early Baptists of Cambridge Parish Queens County New Brunswick (N.p.: n.p., 1941), 24.

6 1881 census of Canada, New Brunswick, district Queens (28), sub-district E, Cambridge, p. 22, dwelling 88, family 92, Rhoda Elsworth Knight; RG 31; digital images, Library and Archives Canada, Census of Canada 1881 (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1881/index-e.html?PHPSESSID=amblt64e1mokqd1p547d42ri45 : accessed 28 Mar 2010).

7 1891 census of Canada, New Brunswick, district 18, Cambridge, p. 44, family 210, Rhoda Knight; RG 31; digital images, Library and Archives Canada, Census of Canada - 1891 (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1891/index-e.html : accessed 21 Apr 2009); citing Library and Archives Canada, Reference: RG31 - Statistics Canada.

8 database, Census Records (http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbqueens/cen-intro.htm : accessed 17 Apr 2009), Census record for Richard Knight.

9 Library and Archives Canada, "1901 Census of Canada Indexing Project," database, Automated Geneology (http://www.automatedgenealogy.com : accessed 21 Apr 2009), Census record for Richard Knight; Archives Microfilm: T-6444.

10 New Brunswick Provincial Government, "Vital Statistics from Government Records," database, New Brunswick Provincial Archives (http://archives.gnb.ca/Archives/Default.aspx?culture=en-CA : accessed 28 Mar 2010), Death Record for Captain Richard Knight; citing New Brunswick Vital Statistics from Government Records (RS141): Reference C4/1903, Microfilm F18710.