Mary RIDDELL (1832- )

1 Mary Anne RIDDELL¹ (1832- ) [999]. Born Oct 1832, Markham Twp, County of York, Canada West (Ontario).¹ Bap 18 Jan 1833, Fr. Edwin Gordon.

Reference "Markham 1793-1900" Edited by Isabel Champion and published by the Markham Historical Society. Page 162. The following was recorded under the heading:

ROMAN CATHOLIC
The earliest Roman Catholic services for Markham were almost certainly held in a chapel in the de Puisaye settlement where visiting missionary priests such as the Rt. Rev. Edmund Burke celebrated occasional masses. The first substantial permanent Catholic settlement in Markham, however, was provided by the Irish arriving in the 1820s and '30s. This group was served by missionary priests, first from St. Paul's, Toronto, and then, in the period 1840-58, from St. John Chrysostom's Newmarket. By 1838, Thornhill had 103 Roman Catholics and Markham Village 68. The first recorded baptism in the township was that of Mary Ann (typo, should be Anne) Riddel, daughter of William Riddle and Margaret Lavin, on Jan. 18, 1833, by Fr. Edward Gordon.

Note: The spelling of the surname was inconsistent. Generally, the early family history tended to favour the Riddle spelling and the latter history the Riddell spelling.

2 William RIDDELL² (1804-1873) [997]. Born 1804, County of Mayo, Ireland.¹ Marr Margaret LAVIN 1831, St. Paul's church, muddy little York (Toronto).² Died 12 Dec 1873, County of Grey, Ontario, Canada.¹ Buried Catholic Church Cemetery, Nottawasaga Twp, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.¹

3 Margaret LAVIN² (c. 1801- ) [998]. Born c. 1801, County of Mayo, Ireland.¹

Sources

1	"Information provided by Greg Mander".

2	"A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography edited by George Maclean Rose, 1886".