Thursday, July 31, 2014

Treasure Chest Thursday - Post 225: 1901 Census of Canada for Alexander Sovereen Household

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1901 Canada Census record for my 3rd great-grandfather, Alexander  in Windham township, Norfolk County, Ontario:


The Alexander Sovereen household entry:



The extraction of the information for these two Sovereen households , residing in Windham township, Norfolk County, Ontario, is:

*  Wilber M. Sovereen - male, white, head of family, married, born 3 Nov 1867, age 33, born Ontario, German origin, Canadian nationality, Baptist religion, a farmer, working on own account
*  Fanny Sovereen - female, white, wife, married, born 24 Aug 1867, age 33, born Ontario, German origin, Canadian nationalty, English religion
*  Alexander Sovereen - male, white, head, widowed, born 22 Dec 1814, age 86, born Ontario, German origin, Canadian nationality, Baptist religion, a farmer 
*  Levi S. Jay - male, white, lodger, married, born 22 July 1872, age 28, born Ontario, German origin, Canadian nationality, English religion, a farm laborer, an employee, worked 12 months, earned $400
*  Margaret L. Jay - female, white, lodger, married, born 29 July 1875, age 25, born Ontario, German origin, Canadian nationality, Lutheran religion
*  Russell R. Jay - male, white, boarder, single, born 26 Mar 1895, age 6, born Ontario, German origin, Canadian nationality, English religion
*  Edward L. Jay - male, white, boarder, single, born 5 Apr 1898, age 2, born Ontario, German origin, Canadian nationality, English religion

The source citation for this record is:

Census of Canada, 1901, Norfolk County, Ontario, Schedule No. 1 (population), District 93, North Norfolk, Division No. G, Subdivision 6 of Windham, Page 3, Family #31, Alexander Sovereen household; digital image, Library and Archives Canada (http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1901/Pages/1901.aspx : accessed 31 July 2014).

The neat thing about this census record is the actual birth date provided for each person.  

I don't know who Levi and Margaret Jay are.  They are not directly related to Alexander Sovereen - they are listed as lodgers in the census record.  One of them might be Alexander's grandchild, but I haven't researched that yet.

When I started this blog post, I had to go find this census record - I had not captured the image previously. I also noticed that the Libraries and Archives Canada URL has changed since I last captured census records there.


Copyright (c) 2014, Randall J. Seaver


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