Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
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Birth14 Oct 1826, Iona, Elgin, Ontario, Canada1284, p 2
Burial8 Feb 1918, Bethel Cemetery, Harwich, Kent, Ontario2303
FatherRobert Collin READ (1796-1867)
MotherMary Hamilton NELSON (1798-1890)
Individual Notes
• Frances Read Blackburn is the individual whose oral history of the Nelson family was written down in 1901.
Source: Maryanne Barker, letter to DWM dated 26 Sep 1994.
• In Ernest Coates’ “Read Family History” published in “the Citizen” in 1981, he shows among his references for the family of Robert Collins Read and his wife Mary Hamilton (Nelson) Read: “Reference was from a printed manuscript left by their daughter Frances (Read) Grieves (1826-1918), and the above data was sent to me in long-hand by her great-great-grandson Robert S. Green of Wallaceburg Ont.”2351
• “Great Grandmother.” Marginal note.3190, p 1
Source: Maryanne Barker, letter to DWM dated 26 Sep 1994.
• In Ernest Coates’ “Read Family History” published in “the Citizen” in 1981, he shows among his references for the family of Robert Collins Read and his wife Mary Hamilton (Nelson) Read: “Reference was from a printed manuscript left by their daughter Frances (Read) Grieves (1826-1918), and the above data was sent to me in long-hand by her great-great-grandson Robert S. Green of Wallaceburg Ont.”2351
• “Great Grandmother.” Marginal note.3190, p 1