Waterloo Region Generations
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Catherine Johnston

Female 1841 - 1909  (~ 67 years)


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  • Name Catherine Johnston 
    Born Aug 1841  Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Name Catherine Murray 
    Residence North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Eby ID Number Waterloo-132006 
    Died 3 Apr 1909  Arkell, Puslinch Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Farnham Cemetery, Arkell, Puslinch Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I132006  Generations
    Last Modified 25 Apr 2024 

    Family John Murray,   b. 5 Aug 1838, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Oct 1926, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Last Modified 26 Apr 2024 
    Family ID F63637  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • MURRAY, CATHERINE (Nee Johnston)

      At 1 the morning of April 3rd 1909, at her home in Arkell, in her 68th year. On Sunday, while preparing for church, she was stricken with a paralytic stroke, from the effects of which she gradually succumbed. She was born in August 1841 on the farm on which she died and where she had lived the greatest part of her life. After marrying John Murray, who survives, they lived for six years in North Dumfries, after which they moved back to the old homestead, when they purchased it from her father. Her industry assisted her husband to increase his farm from one hundred to three hundred acres. Survived by children, Margaret, a nurse in Winnipeg; Mrs. Alexander Stewart of Clyde; Robert, at home; Mrs. R. J. McFarlane of Puslinch; Mrs. John A. McPherson of Schaw Station; Mrs. John Rae of Arkell; James and George, at home; and Finlayson in Ladner, BC. She was a member of Chalmers Church and was a most earnest and devout Christian woman. Funeral on Tuesday at 2: 30. Pallbearers were her three sons, Robert, James and George; three sons-in-law, Robert McFarlane, John Rae and Alex Stewart. All the members of her family, with the exception of her youngest son, Finlay who is in BC, were present. The funeral cortege included friends from Hamilton, Dumfries, Guelph and Toronto. Interment Farnham Cemetery.

      -Information from the transcription of Farnham Cemetery: Children, Jane (1869-1871) and John (1870- 1871) are buried with them.

      A Celebration of Lives Obituaries of Puslinch Township, Wellington Co., Ontario Vol 2 Anna Jackson & Marjorie Clark
      Used with kind permission of Marjorie Clark

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - Aug 1841 - Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - - North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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