Emily Allison RUSSELL [34436]

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Marriage
Name: Emily Alison Russell
Age: 30
Birth Year: abt 1847
Birth Place: Percy Canada
Marriage Date: 23 Aug 1877
Marriage Place: Canada, Carleton, Ontario
Father: Alexander Jamieson Russell
Mother: Isabella Russell
Spouse: Lawrence Fortescue

Canada, Ocean Arrivals (Form 30A), 1919-1924
Emily Alison Fortescue
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1850
Birth Place: Gaspe Qe
Age: 74
Date of Arrival: 24 Oct 1924
Port of Arrival: Quebec
Port of Departure: London, England
Ship Name: Montreal

Emily Allison Fortescue
Age: 81
Birth Date: abt 1846
Birth Place: Ottawa, Ontario
Death Date: 11 May 1927
Death Place: Carleton, Ontario, Canada
Cause of Death: Senility

MRS. L. K. FORTESCUE IS CALLED BY DEATH
Was Widow of Former Well-known R.C.M.P. Official
Ottawa has lost another of her pioneer residents in the death of Mrs Lawrence K. Fortescue nee Emily Allison Russell, who died in her 82nd year yesterday at a local hospital after an illness of two weeks duration. Mrs. Fortescue was very widely known in Ottawa and leaves a large circle of friends to mourn her loss. She was the daughter of the late Alexander J. Russell and Isobella Smollett Sims, and she was the only surviving member of a family of three boys and five girls. Her father came to Ottawa first In 1842 as crown timber agent. On August 28 1877 the deceased married the late Lawrence K. Fortescue of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, who retired from the position of comptroller in 1917 after completing 41 years of splendid service In recognition of which he received the CMG. After the death of her husband, which occurred at Oxford. England in 1917 , Mrs. Fortescue returned to Ottawa where she spent the remainder of her life. Mr. Fortescue was buried at Stratford-on-Avon. (buried in Wilmcote Warwickshire)
As far as is known Mrs. Fortescue is survived by only two relatives. Major A. L. Sherwood of the Royer Canadian Engineers at Kingston. Ont., a nepbew and one niece, Mrs W. G. E. Austin, wife of Dr. W. G. E. Austin, 155 Augusta street. Ottawa.
The funeral will be from Christ Church Cathedral on Friday afternoon at 3.30. Interment will be made in the family plot at Beech-wood cemetery. . .
Ref Dr S Lappidge 2021

Emily married Laurence FORTESCUE CMG [14689] [MRIN: 12390], son of Rev Edward Bowls Knottesford FORTESCUE M.A. [9950] and Frances Anne SPOONER [14679], on 23 Aug 1877 in Christs Church Ottawa CAN. (Laurence FORTESCUE CMG [14689] was born on 17 Aug 1845 in Alveston WAR, baptised on 1 Sep 1845 in Wilmcote WAR, died on 26 Jan 1924 in Headington and was buried in Wilmcote WAR.)