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Doris Maud Weeks

Female 1915 - 1998  (82 years)


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  • Name Doris Maud Weeks 
    Birth 23 Sep 1915  Dereham Twp, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Residence 1959 
    Death 30 Aug 1998  Oxford Regional Nursing Home, Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 2 Sep 1998  New Delmer Cemetery, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I659  Weeks
    Last Modified 25 Feb 2017 

    Father Ransom Weeks,   b. 2 Sep 1867, Dereham Twp, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Oct 1959, Tillsonburg, Dereham Twp, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 92 years) 
    Mother Sarah Etta Partlo,   b. 4 Jun 1878, Bayham Twp, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Jul 1956 (Age 78 years) 
    Marriage 25 Apr 1911  Tillsonburg, Dereham Twp, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • Marriage Index #9(1911 A-Z)4-25-11 #011157-11
      FHC Reel # 1888065 Ontario Marriages 1911
      Registration # 11157-11
      Location: Tillsonburg, Oxford
      Date: April 25, 1911
      Husband: Ransom WEEKS
      Husband Occupation: Farmer
      Husband Status: Bachelor
      Husband Age; 43
      Husband Religion: Protestant
      Husband Residence; Tillsonburg
      Husband Father: Isaac Weeks
      Husband Father Occupation; Farmer
      Husband Mother: Nancy Westbrook
      Wife: Sarah E. Scanlan
      Wife Status: Widow
      Wife Age: 38
      Wife Religion: Methodist
      Wife Residence; Tillsonburg
      Wife Father: James Partlow (? looked more like Parkinan)
      Wife Mother: Margaret Scanlan
      Witnesses: K.J. Brown and Mary Brown
      Minister: J.J. Brown

      The certificate itself listed:
      Mr. Ransom Weeks of Dereham, Oxford AND Mrs. Sarah Scanlan of Middleton,
      Norfolk
      there is discrepancy between birth dates for Sarah - (1878 or 1873) and the surname spelling (Scanlan or Scanlon)


      Tillsonburg Observer Newspaper, Apr. 27, 1911, Pg 3 col 3
      Marriage:
      Weeks - Scanlan
      On Tuesday, April 25th, at Avondale manse, by the Rev. J. J. Brown, H.A., Mr. Ranson Weeks of the 9th concession of Dereham was united in marriage to Mrs. Sarah Scanlan.
      Mr. and Mrs. Weeks will reside on their farm in Dereham.
    Family ID F213  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Norman Spence Kilgour,   b. 23 Jan 1907, Delmer, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Apr 1992, Maple Manor Nursing Home, Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years) 
    Marriage 13 Jun 1936  , , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. E.J. Kilgour
    +2. B.J. Kilgour
     3. R.S. Kilgour
    Family ID F214  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Jan 2011 

  • Event Map
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  • Notes 
    • St Thomas Times Journal newspaper, 17 June 1936, Pg 10 col 4
      Marriage - Doris Maud Weeks & Norman Spencer Kilgour were married on 13 Jun 1936

      From Tillsonburg Observer September 30, 1915
      Birth of daughter to Ransom and Sarah Weeks, page 5, column 4

      Notes from Joyce Garnham July 2012:
      Lived on a farm Oxford Cty, near Culloden & Avon . Joyce remembers teams of horses, cows, pigs and chickens on this farm. Always had a car. Later bought a Farmall A Tractor - and later turned the farm into a Dairy herd of registered holstein cattle.

      New Delmer Cemetery Transcripts
      KILGOUR - Doris M. 1915 - 1998; N.Spence 1907 - 1992

      Obituary
      Kilgour: Peacefully at the Oxford Regional Nursing Home, Ingersoll, Mrs. Doris Maud (Weeks) Kilgour, formerly of Tillsonburg and Culloden, in her 83rd year. Born in Dereham Township, September 23, 1915. Member of Brownsville Fun Fellowship Seniors, Member of Culloden Women's Institute. Predeceased by her husband N. Spence Kilgour (April 27, 1992); dear mother and mother in law of Joyce Garnham, Tillsonburg, Betty and Bert Nilson, Hudson Hope B.C, Ronald Kilgour and Denise Thompson, London; dear sister and sister in law of Horace and Melba Weeks, St Marys, Ontario; dear grandmohter to 9 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. Predeceased by a son in law, Robert Garnham (March 15, 1996; also by 2 sisters Percil Jasper and Minnie Cowell, Dear daughter of the late Ransom Weeks and the former Sarah Etta Partlo. Resting at Verhoeve Funeral Home, 262 Broadway, Tillsonburg where service will be held in the chapel on Wednesday, September 2, 1998 at 1:30 pm by pastor Alan G. silvester, North Broadway, Baptist Church, Tillsonburg.

  • Sources 
    1. [S158] OVS Marriages, Ransom Weeks & Sarah Scanlon, 1911, Reg # 11157 (Reliability: 3).



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