Name: Thomas, Orvis Family and Extended Family Updated_2021-04-15

Updated: 04-25-2021 05:04:63.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Eleanor THOMAS: Birth: 22 NOV 1780 in Moose Factory, Northwest Territories. Death: in Vaudreuil, Québec, Canada

  2. John THOMAS: Birth: 25 SEP 1784 in Rupert's Land. Death: 13 JUN 1816 in Moose Factory, Rupert's Land

  3. Margaret THOMAS: Birth: 25 SEP 1784 in Rupert's Land. Death: in England

  4. Elizabeth THOMAS: Birth: JUL 1786 in Moose Factory, Northwest Territories. Death: 1881 in Moose Factory, Northwest Territories

  5. Charlotte THOMAS: Birth: 2 JUN 1788 in Moose Factory, Northwest Territories. Death: 17 MAY 1843 in Vaudreuil, Quebec, Canada

  6. Mary THOMAS: Birth: 23 JUL 1791 in Moose Factory, Northwest Territories. Death: 24 OCT 1802 in Moose Factory, Northwest Territories

  7. Charles THOMAS: Birth: 9 SEP 1793 in Rupert's Land. Death: 8 MAR 1873 in Golden Lake, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada

  8. Anne Nancy THOMAS: Birth: 29 DEC 1794 in Moose Factory, Rupert's Land. Death: in Scotland

  9. Frances Martha THOMAS: Birth: 17 DEC 1796 in Rupert's Land. Death: 10 NOV 1869


Sources
1. Title:   England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906
Page:   Place: Westminster, London, England; Collection: St James; -; Date Range: 1723 - 1786; Film Number: 1042308
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2008;
2. Title:   Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2008;
3. Title:   England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;

Notes
a. Note:   According to the book written by Jennifer S.H Brown, Strangers in Blood: In about 1810 John Thomas , chief at Moose began to keep a "Register of Births, Christenings, Deaths and other occurences at Moose Factory" and recorded at its beginning the marriages of 4 of his daughters, whose choices he had doubtless influenced. One daughter, Elizabeth, was the widow of one company man and had since married another; a second, Charlotte, was the wife of Orkneyman Peter Spence, who had joined the company in 1800. When Thomas left Moose and the company's service for Canada in 1814, the Spence family and several other relatives travelled with him. The other two daughters, Eleanor and Ann took the other marriage option open to girls who remained within the orbit of post life and married the native-born sons or grandsons of older officers, who were themselves just beginning careers as company employees (Moose Factory register; Rich and Johnson 1954: 370; HBC Library, biography of Peter Spence). In the register at Moose, John Thomas recorded far more information than required on his own and other families. Besides reporting the birthdates of his nine children and his older daughter's marriages, he also initiated the practice of recording deaths. The following entry describes the passing of Thomas's wife in the same terms that might be used of a white wife: 31 December 1813 Died of Gout in her Stomach Mrs. Margaret Thomas at this Factory leaving a disconsolate Husband and a large family of Children and grand Children to lament her loss, Viz. Three Sons and Five Daughters and six gransons and six grand daughters, in this Country, besides her Daughter, Margaret, in England. - Short before her departure she express'd strong hopes of Immortality, the 3 January she was buried with every respect to her remains (Moose Factory Register).
 

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