6. Mary Jane Adams (1821-1892)

Mary Jane Adams (1821 ~ 1892)

6. Sixth child of Thomas Adams and Isabella McBride, Mary Jane Adams, was born October 22, 1821, in Co. Monaghan, Ireland.

She married William Motton, son of John Mutton and Dorothy Hodge, July 31, 1837, in Cobourg, Ontario and had one child:

Zacharias (1842 ~ 1915)

Mary Jane Adams Motton died April 16, 1892, aged 70 years and William Motton died October 10, 1895, aged 85 years in Cobourg, Northumberland Co., Ontario.

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William Motton

July 16, 1815 ~ October 10, 1895

Another of Cobourg’s old and well-known citizens has been removed from our midst by death. Captain William Motton died at his home on Ball’s Lane, Cobourg, on Thursday evening, October 10, 1895. Deceased was a seaman of many years’ experience and was known among his seafaring companions as a skillful and reliable navigator. William Motton was born in 1815. In 1837 he was married to Miss M. J. Adams and spent the remarkably long period of fifty-five years with his life-partner, until in 1892 she was taken from him by death. The survivors of his kin are three sisters and one son. Mrs. [Jane] Hills and Mrs. Bell live in Port Hope, and Mrs. C. [Mary] Nunn in Erie, Pa. Only one son remains, Mr. Zacharias Motton, a merchant of Erie, Pa., who attended his father’s funeral.

Captain Motton was for upwards of fifteen years, commander of the merchant vessel Northumberland, which was engaged in carrying trade on the great chain of lakes, and which was the last vessel he sailed. He has previously commanded several other crafts that plied on the lakes between Duluth and the St. Lawrence. His death will be heard of with deep regret by many of his calling who survive him, and by friends and relatives who mourn his death at the ripe age of 85. Cobourg World, Oct. 16, 1895.