Mary Morton 1 2
- Born: 15 Feb 1818, Minnigaff, Kircudbrightshire, Scotland 1 2
- Marriage: John Thurrott about 1834 1
- Died: 2 Mar 1879 aged 61 1 3
- Buried: West Branch, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada 3
 Other names for Mary were Mary Thorat 4 and Mary Thorret.5
Noted events in her life were:
• Religion: a member of the Presbyterian church: Weldford, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. 4 5
• Residence: West Branch, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. 1 6
• Immigration: from Kircudbrightshire, Scotland, 1825, Nicholas River, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. 7 8
• Census: Canadian, 1861, Weldford, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. 4
• Ethnic Origin: Listed as Scotch on the census, 1861-1871, Weldford, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. 4 5
• Census, 1871, Weldford, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. 5
Mary married John Thurrott, son of James Thurrott and Jane Cowan, about 1834.1 (John Thurrott was born in 1811 in Newton Stewart, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland,9 died on 24 Dec 1874 in West Branch, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada 1 10 11 and was buried in West Branch, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada 10.)
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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
Eleanor Wilson Graham and John Currie MacMichael, West Branch Days (1826 - 1989) (Sackville, New Brunswick: The Tribune Press Ltd., 1989), 44.
3
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 Mary Morton Thurrott.
4
1861 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Kent, Weldford, Weldford, p. 2, Mary Morton 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.
5
database, Kent County Census Records (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbken/Census.html : accessed 1 Aug 2009), Census record for Mary Morton Thurrott.
6
Eleanor Wilson Graham and John Currie MacMichael, West Branch Days (1826 - 1989) (Sackville, New Brunswick: The Tribune Press Ltd., 1989), 46.
7
Eleanor Wilson Graham and John Currie MacMichael, West Branch Days (1826 - 1989) (Sackville, New Brunswick: The Tribune Press Ltd., 1989), 1.
8
Robert F. Fellows, "Genealogies (First Families) at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Canada," p. 152-153; report to Provincial Archives New Brunswick, Sixth Edition Jan 2006; Source: MC80/76 E.W. Graham and Maude Morton's Mortons who came from Kircudbright and their descendents, 184 pages.
9
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.
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 John Thurrott.
11
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 30 Jan 2009), Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics; Volume 37 Number 227.