Note | Mary's year of birth, 1789, is approximate, but calculated from her age, 72, as it appears in the 1861 census at Innisfil Township in Simcoe County. This would make her year of birth 1788 or 1789. The Simcoe County branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society transcribed the Sixth Line Cemetery in Innisfil and this tells that Mary Hood (for it provides us with her maiden name), the wife of William Jack, was born in 1782 and that she died in 1867. It is possible that the gravestone is correct and that the census entry is in error, but the census information for Mary is written clearly enough and we may not now gage just how worn her gravestone was when the transcription was done. The census page, in this situation, is probably the more reliable. |