Catherine Michie^{[1, 2, 3]}

1840 - 1901  (61 years)

• Name	Catherine Michie
  Born	1840	Hawick, , Roxburgh, Scotland   [4]
  Gender	Female
  Name	Catherine Spalding
  Residence	1891	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Presbyterian
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-59882
  Died	30 Jan 1901	Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I59882	Generations
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2025

  
  

  Family	John Spalding,   b. 6 May 1839, , Scotland ,   d. 26 Feb 1918, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 78 years)
  Married	3 Jul 1863	Hawick, , Roxburgh, Scotland   [5]
  Children	1. Christina Spalding,   b. 6 Mar 1864, , Scotland ,   d. 7 Jan 1944, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 79 years)   2. Nellie Spalding,   b. 1869, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Helen Spalding,   b. 21 Jan 1870, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Robert James "James" Spalding,   b. 28 Mar 1876, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 26 Dec 1969  (Age 93 years)   5. Welkie Spalding,   b. 1878, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Catharine Wiekie Spalding,   b. 12 Jul 1880, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Mary Spalding,   b. 15 Apr 1881, Guelph Township, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 6 May 1962  (Age 81 years)
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2025
  Family ID	F15670	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  MRS. JOHN SPALDING. If we wanted to test the reality of a Christian profession how would we do that ? By looking at the life. Our Lord said: " Ye shall know them by their fruits." If we were desirous to know the real character of a mother, where would we search for proofs of that? In the lives of her children. In their temper, in their disposition, in their life, in their character. In the whole conduct of their conversation among men. That would give us demonstrative proof. That would show what the mother had been. For while we have in the children s faces the features of the parents, we have at the same time the moral and spiritual impressions made upon their hearts, especially by the mother. She seems to stand nearer to the children than the father. She is more with them, and her character affects them more deeply. They drink into her spirit and reflect her very nature in their own, and are to us a living exhibition of what she was. Mrs. Spalding was above all else a mother, a keeper at home, delighting in all the sanctities of the home. She so trained her children that they rise up and bless her and treasure her memory as a sacred possession. In the home she found her sphere of service and her kingdom, where she reigned over loving and obedient hearts. Her light shone there in a disposition bright and cheerful, in a heart overflowing with great kindness, in a countenance that ever wore a sweet and winning smile, and in a life that always was humbly loyal to the Lord. Her religious spirit poured itself into her daily activities, and made her existence a wholesome and beneficent experience. She shed an inspiring and uplifting sunshine wherever she went. Her place in the House of God and in the prayer-meeting was never vacant if she was well. She honored God's ordinances by a worshipful waiting on them. She gave them the first place. She did not talk her religion, she lived it. It was to her the breath of her life, and like her breathing, unconsciously enjoyed to the full. She was a native of Hawick, Scotland, and she carried in her heart a great love to the famous town and its people. She was ever ready to tell some interesting story or some amusing incident in the history of the place. Much of the spirit that animated Mr. Robert Murray, an old and intimate friend of hers, who has written the History of Hawick down to 1835, lived in her. She prided herself in the old town and its ways, and nothing pleased her better than to welcome visitors from its familiar scenes and learn of its present progress and welfare. It was her lot to pass through a long and severe illness ere she reached her end. Sometimes improvement would come and hopes of health would revive, then reverse of this condition would ensue, and thus until the last. But through it all she never lost her fine, sweet spirit, her patient, noble endurance, her leaning upon the Lord, who has said: " I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." (Heb. 13. 5.) 1a\bEbenezer: A History of the Central Presbyterian Church, Galt, Ontario, with brief sketches of some of its members who have passed on the the other side, The Rev. James A. R. Dickson

  
  

• Sources

  [S57] Vit - ON - Birth Registration. Mary Spaulding Born: 15 Apr 1881 County: Wellington Father: John Spalding Mother: Catherine Michie [S4] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, 18614-04. Robert James Spalding, 27, Occ. Traveller, b. Guelph, Res. Galt, son of John Spalding and Catherine Michie, married Jean Moore, 27, b. Waterloo, Res. Galt, daughter of William Moore and Catherine Hardie, Witn: Charles Spalding of Toronto and Edith Moore of Galt, 21 Sept 1904 at Galt [S4] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, 019084-05. Wallace C. Clark, 27, Occ. Pattern Maker, b. Canada, Res. Galt, son of Henry Clark & Agnes Wightman married C. Wilkie Spalding, 25, b. Canada, Res. Galt daughter of John Spalding & Catherine Michie, Witn Robert Clark & Mary Spalding Both of Galt, 14 June 1905 in Galt. [S1800] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1891, Section 2 Page 25. [S117] Vit - Scotland - Marriage Registration.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1840 - Hawick, , Roxburgh, Scotland Married - 3 Jul 1863 - Hawick, , Roxburgh, Scotland Residence - Presbyterian - 1891 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 30 Jan 1901 - Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth