Jane Short
Eldest child of John Short and Mary Jeffrey, born at Cobourg, Upper Canada, in 1836, a few months after her parents' marriage. She grew up at Newcastle, did not marry, and in her last years lived at Woodstock, Ontario, with her sister Isabella Hay, dying there in 1909. She is named with her parents on the family stone at Woodstock. Aunt of Ruth (Short) Ellingwood.
Life
- 1836Born23 Nov 1836, Cobourg, Northumberland County, Upper Canada
"Their daughter Jane, born Nov. 23 1836 at Cobourg," on the family stone at Woodstock.
- 1901LivedWoodstock, Oxford County, Ontario
With her sister Isabella and Isabella's husband, James Hay (the 1901 census, as WikiTree has it).
- 1909DiedAug 1909, Woodstock, Oxford County, Ontario
"Died Aug. 6 1909 at Woodstock," on the family stone; WikiTree has 16 Aug 1909, citing her Ontario death registration (FamilySearch J6MR-17V; not seen).
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Family
- Father
- John Short
"John Short ... and his wife Mary Jeffrey ... and their daughter Jane," on the family stone at Woodstock.
documentedprovenSources
- Gravestone of John Short (1808-1858), Mary (Jeffrey) Short and their daughter Jane
- Find a Grave memorials of the Short family: John Short and his children, and John G. and Mary (Pattullo) Short at Spokane
- WikiTree profiles for the Ellingwood line's ancestors (Woodbury, Cheever, Pattullo, Short, Jeffrey, Elliott, Adams, Deyoe, Rice, Warren, Holdershaw)
- Mother
- Mary Jeffreydocumentedproven
Sources
- Gravestone of John Short (1808-1858), Mary (Jeffrey) Short and their daughter Jane
- Find a Grave memorials of the Short family: John Short and his children, and John G. and Mary (Pattullo) Short at Spokane
- WikiTree profiles for the Ellingwood line's ancestors (Woodbury, Cheever, Pattullo, Short, Jeffrey, Elliott, Adams, Deyoe, Rice, Warren, Holdershaw)
Pedigree
Notes
Aunt of Ruth (Short) Ellingwood, the eldest of John Short and Mary Jeffrey’s six children. She was born at Cobourg on 23 November 1836, ten months after her parents’ marriage there, in the town where her uncle Andrew Jeffrey was a merchant. She grew up at Newcastle, in Clarke Township, where her father was postmaster from 1845, and after his death in 1858 went with her mother and the younger children to Cobourg and then to Woodstock, where the family lived on Graham Street.
She did not marry. In 1901 she was living at Woodstock with her youngest sister, Isabella, and Isabella’s husband, James Hay, as her sister Mary had in 1891 (the censuses, as WikiTree gives them), and she died at Woodstock in August 1909. The family then put up the tall stone at the Woodstock Presbyterian Cemetery that names her with her parents: “and their daughter Jane, born Nov. 23 1836 at Cobourg, died Aug. 6 1909 at Woodstock” (record).
Open questions
- Her death date: 6 Aug 1909 (the stone) or 16 Aug (her death registration, as WikiTree cites it).