William Doud Wait
ID # 2840, (1837-1904)
Father | Jonathan Wait (1809-1874) |
Mother | Cynthia Ann Doud (1814-1896) |
Birth | William Doud Wait was born on 8 March 1837 at Dumfries Township. |
Marriage | He married Charlotte Malinda Lawrason, daughter of Thomas Lawrason and Charity Deneen. |
Marriage | He married Sophronia Smith, daughter of William Smith and Hannah Bennett, on 19 January 1876 at Paris, Ontario. Marriage reg. 001242-76 Paris, Brant Co. Wm Doud Wait, 38, farmer, widower, born Dumfries, residing Beverly. Parents Jonathan and Scynthia Ann Wait. Sophronia Smith, 26, spinster, born and residing Beverly, parents William and Hannah Smith. Witnesses Margaret Philp and Wm. Philp, both of Paris. On January 19, 1876, at Paris. Clergyman Rev. J. Philp. The bride and groom were Methodists. |
Death | He died on 31 July 1904 at Jerseyville, Ancaster Twp., Ontario, at age 67. |
Note | At the time of the 1861 and 1871 censuses, William and Charlotte are in Blenheim Township, Oxford County. By the time of the 1881 census they are in Beverly Township. William and Charlotte are buried in St. George Cemetery. The inscription on their stone, as provided by the Brant County branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, reads as follows: William Doud Wait born in S. Dumfries 8th March 1837 died in Jerseyville 31st July 1904; his wife Charlotte Malinda born 4th Nov 1840 died 13th Feb 1875; side; Cynthia C aged 11 years; Jonathan O aged 3 years; Cynthia A. aged 3 years We may say that Cynthia Caroline Wait and her brother Jonathan O. Wait are commemorated on this family stone in St. George Cemetery, but that they are actually buried in Washington Cemetery in Blenheim Township. There are two sources for this. The first is the website entitled Cemeteries in the County of Oxford, Ontario. This is an excellent presentation of photographs of surviving gravestones and there is a photo of the stone for Jonathan Oren Wait. (This is indexed as Wate, but an examination of both the photo and the transcriptions indicates that 'Wait' is correct.) Not much of the stone is readable in the photograph, but the two available transcriptions indicate that he died on January 5, 1864, aged 2 years and 10 months. Note that this is before civil death registrations came into being. No photograph is to be found of the gravestone for Cynthia Caroline Wait, but, again, two transcriptions indicate that she s buried in Washington Cemetery. One transcription has it that she died in 1820. This is incorrect. The other transcription shows her death on September 26, 1870, which is correct, but then shows her age as 5 months, which is not correct. These problems will have had to do with wear to the stone. Cynthia's death registration provides adequate information and appears under her name. It's always possible that there was another child and that records were pre-vital statistics or we are without a surviving stone, or one without adequate information. What we may say, so far as William and Charlotte are concerned is that the family was residing in Blenheim Township as late as 1870 and that they were in Beverly Township by 1872. This may be followed to a degree looking at birth and death registrations of their other children. One note here: Transcriptions of Washington Cemetery were done by the Oxford County branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society. There are two and the Archives of Ontario have both on microfilm. These microfilms are of the MS451 series. One transcription is on reel 18 and the other on 73. |
Children of William Doud Wait and Charlotte Malinda Lawrason |
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Child of William Doud Wait and Sophronia Smith |
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Last Edited | 29 Sep 2017 |