Waterloo Region Generations
A record of the people of Waterloo Region, Ontario.
Emma Alvarena Devitt

Emma Alvarena Devitt[1, 2, 3]

Female 1860 - 1925  (64 years)

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  • Name Emma Alvarena Devitt 
    Born 16 Oct 1860  Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Gender Female 
    Birth 17 Oct 1860  Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Recipes
    • MEAT STEW Mrs. L. J. Breithaupt


      Brown a teaspoonfull of butter in a stew pan, add two cups of left over meat, cut in small dice, and enough hot water to cover it, boil well for a few minutes. Take 1 onion, 1 carrot, 1 head of celery (all small), 6 bay leaves, cook till tender in a little salt water, then add to above and thicken with a little flour.
    Residence 1861  Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [13
    Roman Catholic 
    Residence 1871  Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    Evangelical 
    Residence 1891  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Evangelical 
    Recipes 1906  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [14
    • CREAM OF POTATO SOUP

      Mrs. L. J. Breithaupt

      To 10 potatoes add water enough to cover well and boil till done; put potatoes through potato ricer and return to the water they were boiled in, add a good quart of milk and let it heat well. Put a piece of butter the size of an egg into a frying pan and let it brown nicely, then add a cup of flour and allow it to turn brown and powdered fine; add this to first mixture and season with salt and pepper. Put all through a fine colander.1a

      1aThe Ladies of Berlin, Waterloo and Friends Elsewhere, The Berlin Cook Book (Berlin, Ontario: The New Record Print Shop, 1906), pg 24
    Name Emma Alvarena Breithaupt 
    Residence 1911  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Evangelical 
    Residence 1921  108 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Residence 1921  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Zion Evangelical 
    Eby ID Number 00030-2327 
    Died 12 Jun 1925  Belmont, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 12
    Buried Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 12
    Person ID I19685  Generations
    Last Modified 6 Apr 2024 

    Father Mayor Benjamin Devitt,   b. 10 Jul 1835, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Sep 1910, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years) 
    Mother Nancy Lewis Bowman,   b. 1 Jan 1839, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 May 1921  (Age 82 years) 
    Married 29 Sep 1857  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [15, 16
    Devitt,Benjamin-NancyL.Bowman-biblerecord.jpg
    Devitt,Benjamin-NancyL.Bowman-biblerecord.jpg
    Family ID F2410  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mayor - Warden Louis Jacob Breithaupt,   b. 3 Mar 1855, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Mar 1939, Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Married Apr 1881  [10
    Children 
     1. Louise Evaline "Evaline" Breithaupt,   b. 11 Jun 1882, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Emma Lillian "Lillian" Breithaupt,   b. 28 May 1884, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Sep 1951, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)
     3. Martha Edna "Edna" Breithaupt,   b. 26 Jul 1885, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Apr 1963  (Age 77 years)
     4. Rosa Melvina "Rose" Breithaupt,   b. 19 Jun 1888, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Lt. Gov. - Mayor Louis Orville Breithaupt,   b. 28 Oct 1890, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Dec 1960, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)
     6. William Walter Breithaupt,   b. 7 Jun 1894, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jan 1977  (Age 82 years)
     7. Catherine Olive Breithaupt,   b. 28 Jan 1896, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     8. Paul Theodore Breithaupt,   b. 9 Sep 1903, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1961  (Age 57 years)
    Last Modified 7 Apr 2024 
    Family ID F3513  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Emma Alvarena Devitt
    Emma Alvarena Devitt

  • Notes 
    • Emma Devitt, "is married to Louis Breithaupt and resides in Berlin." Emma Devitt, "... has a family of six children,.."


      Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

  • Sources 
    1. [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 528.

    2. [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 146.

    3. [S10] Book - Vol II A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 707.

    4. [S20] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berlin Telegraph (title varies: Berlin Telegraph, Berlin Daily Telegraph) (1853-1922), 26 Oct 1860.
      Devitt: At Waterloo Village, on the 16th instant, the wife of Mr. Benjamin Devitt, of a daughter.

    5. [S166] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Mount Hope CC#4508 Internet Link .
      Breithaupt A. M. Edna / Breithaupt / July 26, 1885 / Apr. 13, 1963 / Edna B. Louis Jacob / Breithaupt / March 3, 1855 / May 6, 1939 / father C. Emma Alvarene / Devitt / beloved wife of / Louis J. Breithaupt / October 17, 1860 / June 12, 1925 / mother / Emma Lillian / Breithaupt / May 28, 1884 / Sept. 9,1951

    6. [S137] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1901, Berlin (Town/Ville) A-4 Page 6.

    7. [S340] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1911, Div. 38 Page 3.

    8. [S1885] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - 1861, Waterloo 1861 Dist. 3 Page 22.
      name written as Eva

    9. [S2264] Census - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - 1921, Sub Dist. 25 Page 5.

    10. [S1592] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1891, Section 2 Page 5.

    11. [S2658] aaaaWaterloo Village 1871, Sect. 2 Page 3.

    12. [S3231] Find A Grave, Cemetery, M., America, N., Municipality, W., & Cemetery, M. (1860). Emma Alvarene Devitt Breithaupt (1860-1925) -... Retrieved 12 May 2020, from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/170612950/emma-alvarene-breithaupt.

    13. [S1885] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - 1861, Waterloo 1861 Dist. 3 Page 22.

    14. [S1720] Book - The Berlin Cook Book.

    15. [S14] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berlin Chronicle (1856-1860), September 30, 1857.
      At Berlin, on the 29th instant, by the Revd. Mr. Smith, Mr. Benjamin Devitt, of Lancaster, to Miss Nancy Bowman, of Waterloo Village.

    16. [S31] News - ON, Waterloo, Cambridge - Dumfries Reformer (1850-1892), 7 Oct 1857.
      Bowman, Nancy married 29 Sep 1857 to Benjamin DEVITT At Berlin by Rev Smith. Benjamin, of Lancaster; Nancy, of Waterloo.

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - 16 Oct 1860 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 17 Oct 1860 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Roman Catholic - 1861 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Evangelical - 1871 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Evangelical - 1891 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsRecipes - 1906 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Evangelical - 1911 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Zion Evangelical - 1921 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 12 Jun 1925 - Belmont, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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