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Personal data Mary Jane Secord Bell 

• She was born Jun 16 1837 in Shefield, Lennox Addington, Ontario.Sources 1, 3, 4
• Resident:
• in the year 1881: Addington, Ontario, Canada.Source 3
• in the year 1891: Addington, Ontario, Canada.Source 1
• She died Dec 08 1894 in Tamworth, Ontario, she was 57 years old.Source 5
• A child of William Bell and Hesther Catherine Wheeler

Household of Mary Jane Secord Bell

She is married to Robert Adair.

They got married Feb 06 1857 at Napanee, Ontario, she was 20 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Eliza Jane Adair  1859-1930
2. Ruth Adair  ± 1872-????

Notes about Mary Jane Secord Bell

(Taken from Bedore Family Tree) Mary Jane Secord Bell was born June 16, 1837 in Sheffield Township, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, the fourth child of William Bell IV (1811 - 1878) and Esther Catherine Wheeler (1818 - 1893). Mary Jane lived all her life in the Tamworth area of Ontario and on February 6, 1857 she married Robert Adair in Napanee, Ontario. Robert was born April 15, 1830 in Newburgh, Ontario, the son of John Adair (1804 - 1889) and Eliza Hannah (1804 - 1899). John and Eliza had emigrated from Northern Ireland between 1826 and 1828. Eliza’s parents were William Hannah (about 1783 - after 1861) and Susanna Moore (about 1783 - 1850). Mary Jane and Robert raised a family of ten children in Tamworth. Robert had spent seven years in the gold fields in California about 1874 while his family was young. He was also a renowned carpenter, building, among other things, the pulpit for the Inglesfield Church. He also designed and helped build some houses in the area, one being on NE 34 10 31 W1 for his son James McGillvary. Mary Jane continued to raise her young family even while Robert was off prospecting in the gold fields in California. Mary Jane died on December 8, 1894 at Tamworth. After her death, Robert continued to live in Tamworth, moving to Saskatchewan sometime between 1901 and 1906. He resided amongst his children in Saskatchewan and died on May 23, 1915 at the home of his daughter at Ryerson, Saskatchewan. Mary Jane and Robert are both buried in the United Church Cemetery at Tamworth. Nine of their ten children were pioneers in what was to become the Maryfield Municipality in Saskatchewan. Their children were Eliza Jane (1859 - 1930) married to Tom Sheard, William Angus (1860 - 1923) married to Lucinda Campbell, John (1862 - 1948), Hester Catherine (1863 - 1951) married to James Phillip Huffman, Thomas Fleming (1865 - 1947) married to Elizabeth Martha Simpson and secondly to Margaret Crawford McNeil, Clarissa Caroline (1868 – 1936) married to Peter McConnachie and secondly to Joseph Arthur James Jopling, Robert Hanna (1870 - 1924) married to Arvilla Hubble, Ruth Johnson (1872 - 1938) married to Andrew Bell Donovan, James McGillvary (1874 - 1944) married to Annie Maria Dunham, Sara Susanna (1882 – 1956) married to Jacob Armstrong Huffman.

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