Person Sheet

Name Bertha CLARKE Birth Date Feb 23, 18562 Birth Place ON Canada Death Date Apr 18, 189911,22,2 Death Memo tuberculosis? Burial Place Castleton, Cramahe Twp, Northumberland Co. ON Canada11,40,39 Burial Memo Castleton Cemetery Education Vernonville School18 Father Benjamin JACKSON (1819-1887) Mother Eveline J. CLARKE (1836-1892)
Spouses
1 John Diamond McGREGOR Birth Date Feb 22, 185411,2,39,17 Birth Place Cramahe Twp, Northumberland Co. ON Canada Death Date Apr 7, 193711,22,40,39,2,17 Death Place Ogema SK Canada Burial Place Ogema SK Canada11,40,2 Burial Memo Ogema Cemetery, from Ogema United Church. Rev. J. Bright. There is also a marker in Castleton Cemetery. Occupation Labourer (1891), Farmer31,15 Father George McGREGOR (1823-1892) Mother Mary Ann DIAMOND (1833-1901)
Marriage Date Oct 5, 187618,11,2 Marriage Place Wicklow, Haldimand Twp, Northumberland Co. ON Canada
Children Ethel May (1878-1946) Lena Maud (1879-1967) Myrtle Bertha (1881-1976) Unnamed (Died as Child) (ca1883-ca1883) William Bartlett (1889-1970) George Percy (1891-1986)
Notes for Bertha CLARKE
Bertha was raised by her maternal grandparents William & Ethelwina Clarke. William was very fond of her; Ethelwina was not, and allowed Bertha's uncle Henry to tease her. Bertha did practical nursing, and was "very intelligent and a great reader". She read Scott, Dickens, etc. to her family.18 She was ill with anemia for some years.11
Research Notes
BIRTH: Her birthdate is also shown as 185417 and 1855.39 She is shown as 35 in the 1891 census.15 DEATH: Castleton Cemetery records have her death as 1898.39 The year is confirmed elsewhere as 1899.17 ---------- 1891 census entry: McGREGOR, John D. 37 labour, Bertha 35, Ethel M. 13, Lena M. 11, Bertha M. 9, William B. 2 OWENS, Eveline J. 54 mother15