Thomas Wesley Connor

Thomas married Georgia SCOVILLE. Georgia was born in in Detroit, Wayne Co, MI. [Group Sheet]

1. Don CONNOR was born in in Detroit, Wayne Co, MI.
2. Kirke CONNOR was born in in Detroit, Wayne Co, MI.
3. Grace CONNOR was born in in Detroit, Wayne Co, MI.

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Birth:
Additional notes re Howell book information: The compiler noted in the book, that dates obtained from documents seemed to contain errors. In example, the death certificate of Henry Howe Connor (with his son, Thomas Wesley Connor as informant) is cited giving his death as 12 Oct. 1906 and birth as 15 March 1820, and offers an age calculation of 89 yrs, 6 mo, 21 days. However, those two dates actually calculate to 86 years, 6 months, 23 days...at best leaving one in doubt.
From today, 17 Nov 2021, Henry's dates will reflect those given on his gravestone.

Died:
He spent some years of his later life in the Soldiers Home at North Park, Kent Co, Michigan, but died on 12 Oct. 1906 while living with his wife in Detroit. - Ancestral Lines of Chester Everts Howell — Note that his gravestone gives Oct. 6, 1908.

Henry married Miriam Fletcher on 24 Nov 1848 in Church of England, Newcastle, Ontario, Canada. Miriam (daughter of Archibald Fletcher and Rachel E. Peck) was born on 1 Feb 1834 in Syracuse, Onondaga Co, NY; died on 3 May 1913 in Grand Rapids, Kent Co, MI; was buried in Woodmere Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne Co, MI. [Group Sheet]

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Name:
(later called Mariam, and sometimes given as Marion)

Buried:
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Married:
There was a strong disapproval of this marriage by the Fletchers. She was the eldest daughter of Archibald Fletcher of a strict Presbyterian household who had married a strictly reared Methodist. - Ancestral Lines of Chester Everts Howell

Henry married Elizabeth Howe. [Group Sheet]

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Name:
As for his [Henry Howe Connor's] mother Elizabeth Howe, a genealogist making a collection of records of the Howe family of England, sent the information that Howe as a Kentish name originated in Hoo, a rather large peninsula where the river Thames joins the river Medway. - Ancestral Lines of Chester Everts Howell

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Birth:
Archibald, the second son of Alexander "Squire" Fletcher, was born in 1800, the same year the family moved to Darlington.

Archibald married Rachel E. Peck in 1830. Rachel was born in 1808; died on 25 Apr 1862 in Kent Co, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Dolsen Cemetery, Pain Court, Chatham-Kent Municipality, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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Buried:
Some confusion exists regarding the reinterment of Alexander's and Rachel's; which were moved from the Old Kirk churchyard in 1883 to Bowmanville Cemetery. Said to have been moved to his son Gordon Drummond Fletcher's plot, they are not there. However, there are two unmarked non-empty graves next to the grave of Alexander's great uncle, Drummond Gordon Fletcher. Neither those graves nor Alexander's or Rachel's graves are in the cemetery interment records. Please view the provided PDF file for more information (same as media under Headstones below).

Alexander married Rachel Corwin. Rachel (daughter of Joseph Corwin and Elizabeth Hixon) was born in 1777 in NJ; died on 23 Apr 1847 in Darlington, Ontario, Canada; was buried after 23 Apr 1847 in Old Kirkyard, Bowmanville, Darlington, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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also listed as born 1771, age 75 at death

Buried:
Said to have had Rachel's and Alexander's graves moved in 1883 to (their son) Gordon's plot. It is unclear if that plot was in the same non-located cemetery (Old Kirkyard, in Bowmanville). They did have a son named Drummond Gordon Fletcher.

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A pen picture of Alexander Fletcher was written in 1896 by his grandson J. Wesley Fletcher. Grandfather soon after marriage settled below the Whirlpool on the British side of the Niagara where Uncle John was born. He afterward about 1800 moved to Darlington where he was Major of the 2nd Durham Militia and one of the first magistrates of Durham County then a part of York. He was a small man of considerable attainments; was very bright, systematic, shrewd, active, nervous, quick tempered, a very loyal British subject and a strict Presbyterian. He died in his 78th year and Grandmother (Rachel Corwin Fletcher) in her 72nd year." —The Ancestral Lines of Chester Everts Howell, Finch 1976