Mary Harvie
ID # 4499, (1831-1855)
| Father | David Lennox Harvie (1794-1865) |
| Mother | Mary Fraser (1796-1894) |
| Birth | Mary Harvie was born in 1831 at Dumfries Township, Gore District. |
| Marriage | She married Thomas Anderson on 14 January 1852 at Dumfries Township. GS2987 First Church Marriage Records Nbr. 344 By license in Dumfries Jan. 14, 1852 Thomas Anderson, Nassagaweya Mary Harvie, Dumfries Witnesses David Harvie and John Harvie. Nassagaweya is a township in Halton County. The the time of this marriage, Dumfries Township had been divided into North and South. North Dumfries was a part of Waterloo County and South Dumfries was a part of Brant. The clergyman does not record the fact, but since the marriage was likely held at the home of the bride's family in all probability is was held in North Dumfries. With time, the First Church entries did include the letters N or S for the township as appropriate. |
| Death | She died on 25 March 1855. |
| Burial | She was buried at Section 2, Mountview Cemetery, Galt. |
| Note | We have Mary's date of death as it appears on her stone at Mountview Cemetery in section 2. She is shown as the wife of Thomas Anderson. She is buried with her Harvie family, though her name is spelled as Harvey on her stone. The Dumfries Reformer issue of 25 October 1854 does record the birth of a daughter to Thomas Anderson at Guelph on 18 October 1854, and the logic of the date is that this is their daughter Jane. A Jane Anderson was married to a Robert Phillip of Luther Twp. in Orangeville in 1880. She gives her parents' names as Thomas Anderson and Mary Harvey. We have no place of death for Mary, but considering that her daughter was born in October of 1854 in Guelph and that Mary died five months later, it is probable that she died in Guelph. Mountview Cemetery did not come into existence until 1869. Mary will have been buried elsewhere, probably in the First Church Cemetery at High Park. When the Galt Cemetery, as it was first known, came into existance, First Church cemetery stopped receiving burials. It was later deemed to be run down and so in the 1880s there was a 'dig' and stones and remains were transferred to Mountview as it was by then known. The only difficulty with this theory is that First Church began a burial book in January of 1855 and Mary's burial should be recorded. Later entries in this book have the appearance of being 'hit and miss', but at this early stage we should have all the burials. Where Mary is presently buried is in section 2 of Mountview and she is buried with other Harvie family members, certainly brother David and his wife. The idea that her original burial in High Park has a problem, as mentioned, but it's difficult to see her burial being moved from a cemetery elsewhere unless a family farm was involved. |
Child of Mary Harvie and Thomas Anderson |
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| Last Edited | 10 May 2018 |