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James Adams  (1817 ~ 1908)

 

4. Fourth child of Thomas Adams and Isabella McBride, James Adams, was born May 15, 1817, in Co. Monaghan, Ireland.

  He married Jane English, daughter of Robert English and Isabella Gilliland, on October 3, 1843, in Cobourg, Northumberland Co., Ontario and had ten children:

 

  • (4.1)  Thomas  (1844 ~ 1870)

  • (4.2)  William  (1846 ~ 1917)

  • (4.3)  Jane  (1848 ~ 1905)

  • (4.4)  Robert  (1850 ~ 1940)

  • (4.5)  Margaret  (1851 ~ 1945)

  • (4.6)  James  (1855 ~ 1883)

  • (4.7)  Isabella  (1857 ~ 1944)

  • (4.8)  John  (1858 ~ 1902)

  • (4.9)  Susan  (1860 ~ 1863)

  • (4.10) Martha  (1864 ~ 1910)

 

  James Adams died November 5, 1908, aged 91 years, and Jane English Adams died February 14, 1907, aged 86 years, in Tiny Twp., Simcoe Co., Ontario and are interred at Wyebridge Presbyterian Cemetery.

 

 

----- OBITUARY -----

 

Jane English Adams

May 11, 1820 ~ February 14, 1907

After long suffering borne with great patience Mrs. Adams, wife of James Adams, passed peacefully away at the age of eighty-six. The remains were interred in the Presbyterian church cemetery on Friday, Rev. F. W. Gilmour officiating. A husband, two sons and three daughters survive. Elmvale Lance, Feb. 21, 1907.

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