Mary Kidd^[1]

1822 - 1896  (73 years)

• Name	Mary Kidd
  Born	10 Jul 1822	Seamer Near Scarborough, Yorkshire, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Name	Mary Evans
  Residence	1861	Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada   [3]
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-462310
  Died	10 Jan 1896	Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Buried	Howitt Memorial Cemetery (formerly Kirkland Cemetery), Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario   [2]
  Person ID	I462310	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Family	William Frederick Evans,   b. 28 Apr 1816, Croxden, , Staffordshire, England ,   d. 21 Jan 1896, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 79 years)
  Married	22 Dec 1831	Home District, Ontario, Canada
  Children	1. William Fenton Evans,   b. 4 Dec 1846, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 27 Jan 1924, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 77 years)   2. Alfred Evans,   b. 26 May 1851, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 28 Jul 1936, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 85 years)   3. Thomas Parker Evans,   b. 2 Aug 1855, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 19 Dec 1945, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 90 years)
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2025
  Family ID	F288466	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  EVANS, MARY (Nee Kidd) Mrs. William Evans, on Friday, January 10th 1896, in the 74th year of her age, after an illness of a little more than a week, another of the honoured pioneers that helped to make Puslinch Township and our country at large, what it is today. She came to this country from England with her father, the late John Kidd, in 1830 and settled on a farm on the Brock Road, where she resided for several years. In 1847, she married William Evans of the 4th concession of Puslinch, the home she went to being her home till her death, a period of forty-nine years. Here the work of pioneer life was carried on with such intelligence and energy, that the farm was soon made one of the best in the township and as years elapsed, farm after farm was added, upon which most of the different members of the family are now situated. The family consists of five boys and two girls: Phenton, living in Waterloo Township near Hespeler; John, with his sister, Miss Ady, living on Manitoulin Island; Miss Evans, at home; Alfred and David, on farms near by; and Thomas, on the homestead. The members of the family are all highly respected and well known throughout the township and surrounding country. Mrs. Evans was a lady of that benevolent disposition, of whom it may truly be said, no one was ever sent hungry from her door. She was modest and retiring in her demeanor, a desirable neighbour, a good wife, an affectionate mother, her greatest ambition ever centring in the promotion of the best interests of her family and home. Her funeral on Sunday, notwithstanding the inclemency of the day, was one of the largest seen in the township. She was interred in the Kirkland Cemetery. The family have the sympathy of the entire community, rendered doubly great by the fact that their aged father is, at present and was at the time of the mother's death, in an apparently dying and unconscious condition. A Celebration of Lives Obituaries of Puslinch Township, Wellington Co., Ontario Vol 1, Anna Jackson & Marjorie Clark Used with kind permission of Marjorie Clark

  
  

• Sources

  [S3002] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, 012707-96. William Fenton Evans, 49, b. Puslinch Twp, res. Waterloo Twp, Widower, occ. Farmer, son of William Evans and Mary Kidd, married Hannah Ann Salt, 45, b. Puslinch Twp, res. same, daughter of James Salt and Ann Evans, Witn Carrie Millar, Mrs. Agnes Jackson, Both Galt, married 2 December 1896, Galt [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213128677/mary-evans. [S862] Census - ON, Wellington, Puslinch - 1861, Div 3, pg 57.

  
  

• Event Map

  Residence - 1861 - Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Died - 10 Jan 1896 - Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Buried - - Howitt Memorial Cemetery (formerly Kirkland Cemetery), Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario  = Link to Google Earth