Mary Elizabeth Stewart

1869 - UNKNOWN

• Name	Mary Elizabeth Stewart  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Born	20 Apr 1869	Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1870	Chicago Ward 15, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
  	FatherForeignBirth: Y; MotherForeignBirth: Y
  Birth	1873	Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
  Arrival	1873  [5]
  Race	Scotch  [3]
  Race	White  [1]
  Nationality	Canadian  [1, 3]
  Residence	1881	Ward 6, Hamilton City, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  Residence	1891	Ward 7, Hamilton City, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	20 Age: 20; Book Keeper ?? Occupation: Book Keeper ??; CanRead: Yes; CanWrite: Yes; DivisionNumber: 1; EnumerationDistrict: 72; Single MaritalStatus: Single; Daughter RelationToHead: Daughter; Canadian Presbyterian Religion: Canadian Presbyterian
  Residence	1901	Ontario, Canada   [1, 4]
  	28 Age: 28; Clerk Dry Goods Occupation: Clerk Dry Goods; AbleToSpeakEnglish: Yes; CanRead: Yes; CanWrite: Yes; DivisionNumber: A; EnumerationDistrict: 69; EnumerationDistrictName: Hamilton (City/Cité); SourcesWageSalary: 200; SubEnumerationDistrict: 2; Su
  Residence	1911	, Hamilton East, Ontario   [5]
  Residence	1 Jun 1921	101 Eric Ave, Hamilton, Hamilton East, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	51 Age: 51; Presbyterian Religion: Presbyterian; Municipality: Ward 1; AbleToSpeakEnglish: Yes; CanRead: Yes; CanWrite: Yes; EnumerationDistrict: 87; SpeaksFrench: No; SubEnumerationDistrict: 7; SubEnumerationDistrictName: Polling Division No 7; Married MaritalStatus: Married; Daughter RelationToHead: Daughter
  Died	UNKNOWN
  Person ID	I17774	Brown Genealogy
  Last Modified	22 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Robert Stewart,   b. 20 Jun 1837, Puslinch, Wellington, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 25 Aug 1922, Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada  (Age 85 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth McCallum,   b. 4 Apr 1832, Gorbals, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland ,   d. 10 Nov 1912, Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada  (Age 80 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	15 Jun 1866	Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada   [7, 8]
  	Central Presbyterian Church
  Family ID	F4637	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Leith,   b. 19 Nov 1871, Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1964, Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada  (Age 92 years)
  Married	28 Aug 1901	Welland, Ontario, Canada
  Last Modified	22 Jan 2025
  Family ID	F2426	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Mary Stewart was born in 1869 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA, though her family was originally from Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. In 1870, Mary was residing in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA with her parents and older sister. About 1873, her family moved back to Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. In 1881, Mary was residing in Hamlton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada with her parents and siblings. In 1901, a matching Mary Stewart is found residing in Welland, Ontario, Canada, not employed. She is living with 41 year old Charles Howell who is identified as her uncle. I can find no such uncle on the Stewart side. The birth date given for Mary in the census does not match, but the year does and she's born in the USA. Mary also married that same year in Welland to John Leith, so finding her in Welland in 1901 is consistent. It's possible that Charles Howell was an uncle of John Leith. In 1911, Mary was residing in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada with her husband. They had no children. They were residing in the home of her parents along with her sister Margaret and Margaret's husband. In 1921, Mary was residing in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada with her husband and widowed father. They had no children. No record has been found of Mary's death. She is the only member of her extended family who is not recorded on the family headstone. Her husband John Leith is listed, but Mary is not. It appears that Mary was the last of her family to die and that there may have been no surviving family member to ensure that her name was added to the stone. Mary had no children and her siblings had no surviving children. If she outlived her husband passed 1964, then her closest surviving relatives in Canada would have been her first-cousin, once-removed, John Stewart Brown (this author's grandfather), or one of the similarly distant McCullough cousins on her mother's side.

  
  

• Sources

  [S19] 1901 Census of Canada, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Year: 1901; Census Place: Hamilton (City/Cité) Ward/Quartier No 1, Hamilton (City/Cité), Ontario; Page: 12; Family No: 119. Record for Robert Stewart https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=8826&h=11325617&indiv=try [S3] 1891 Census of Canada, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2008;), Year: 1891; Census Place: Ward 7, Hamilton City, Ontario, Canada; Roll: T-6342; Family No: 65. Record for Robt Stewart https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1274&h=4267729&indiv=try [S224] 1921 Census of Canada, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;), Reference Number: RG 31; Folder Number: 62; Census Place: 62, Hamilton East, Ontario; Page Number: 15. Record for Mary Luth https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=8991&h=3384239&indiv=try [S19] 1901 Census of Canada, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Year: 1901; Census Place: Thorold, Welland, Ontario; Page: 2; Family No: 14. [S21] 1911 Census of Canada, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Year: 1911; Census Place: 2 - Ward one, Hamilton East, Ontario; Page: 11; Family No: 111. [S61] 1881 Census of Canada, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1881; Census Place: Ward 6, Hamilton City, Ontario; Roll: C_13257; Page: 85; Family No: 415. [S111] Church Register. [S277] Ontario, Canada, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869. Record for Robert Stuart https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=8510&h=139112&indiv=try