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John Mason

Male 1822 - 1910  (87 years)

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  • Name John Mason  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Birth 20 Nov 1822  Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Christening Prob St-Patrice de Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Name John 
    _UID 905D9F8A90FFFB4A923492D0C9B0359E5EF8 
    Death 10 Aug 1910  Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Burial 12 Aug 1910  St-Patrice de Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Notes 
    • Confirmed at St. Patrice de Rawdon, 10 Sep 1837, per Registres Parroissioux de St-Patrice de Rawdon, 1837-1876, Vol I, pg 3 rev and 4. Listed as John.

      Per 1901 census, age 78, living with wife Mary, occ Farmer.

      Household Record 1881 Canadian Census
      Household:
      Name Marital Gender Ethnic Age Birthplace Occupation Religion
      John MASON W Male Irish 60 Quebec Farmer Catholic
      John M. MASON Male Irish 25 Quebec Farmer Catholic
      Thomas MASON Male Irish 23 Quebec Farmer Catholic
      Rosanna MASON Female Irish 21 Quebec Catholic
      William MASON Male Irish 20 Quebec Farmer Catholic
      Agness MASON Female Irish 18 Quebec Farmer Catholic
      Mary Jane MASON Female Irish 16 Quebec Farmer Catholic
      Catherine MASON Female Irish 13 Quebec Farmer Catholic
      Falex MASON Male Irish 11 Quebec Catholic
      James MASON Male Irish 8 Quebec Catholic
      Marea MASON Female Irish 6 Quebec Catholic
      Source Information:
      Census Place Ste-Patrice-de-Rawdon, Montcalm, Quebec
      Family History Library Film 1375852 NA Film Number C-13216
      District 89 Sub-district F Page Number 26 Household Number 104

      1851 (1852) Canada Census - listed as John, occ farmer, in Wexford, Leinster, Quebec, age 29
    Person ID I551  broderick
    Last Modified 2 Oct 2016 

    Father Arthur Mason,   b. Abt 1793, Leggygowan, Saintfield, Down, Ulster, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jun 1879, Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Smith,   b. Abt 1789, Hollymount, Loughan Island, Down, Ulster, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Aug 1873, Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1818  Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Family ID F68  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Rose Ann Brown,   b. Abt 1829, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Dec 1875, Wexford, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years) 
    Marriage 11 Feb 1851  St-Patrice de Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    • Marriage witnesses were Patrick Mason and Hugh John Mason, brothers; James Brown, brother of bride, and Jead Baptiste Rivois, friend of the bride.
    Children 
     1. Joseph Arthur Mason,   b. 1 May 1852, Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jan 1926, Lincoln, Midland, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
     2. Elizabeth Mason,   b. 13 May 1853, Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jul 1892, Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years)
     3. John Patrick Mason,   b. 8 Mar 1855, Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Jan 1943, Lincoln, Midland, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
     4. Thomas D. Mason,   b. 14 Feb 1857, Wexford, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 May 1887, Larkin, Midland, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 30 years)
     5. Rose Ann Mason,   b. 6 Feb 1859, Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1920, Prob , Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)
     6. William Mason,   b. 20 Mar 1861, Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1930, Prob , Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
     7. Agnes Mason,   b. 22 Dec 1862, Wexford, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Sep 1924, Montréal, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)
     8. Mary Jane Mason,   b. 11 Mar 1864, Chertsey, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Mar 1902, Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years)
     9. Catherine Alice Mason,   b. 30 Jul 1867, Chertsey, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Dec 1946, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
     10. Felix Edward Mason,   b. 1 Nov 1869, Chertsey, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1920 and 1923, Prob , Midland, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)
     11. James Mason,   b. 25 Sep 1872, Chertsey, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1938 (Age 66 years)
     12. Maria Louisa Mason,   b. 3 Mar 1875, Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 3 Oct 1952, Montréal, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
    Family ID F175  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 11 Sep 2013 

    Family 2 Mary Daly,   b. 29 Jan 1838, Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Oct 1915, Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Marriage 16 Jan 1882  Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    Family ID F187  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Oct 2016 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 20 Nov 1822 - Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 11 Feb 1851 - St-Patrice de Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 16 Jan 1882 - Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 10 Aug 1910 - Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 12 Aug 1910 - St-Patrice de Rawdon, Montcalm, Québec, Canada Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Sources 
    1. [S203] FamilySearch.org, Census of Lower Canada, 1831, (Database on line, 1831 Census of Lower Canada.), L'Assomption, Rawdon, img 5 & 6, sht 3, household 202. (Reliability: 3).
      Dwelling 202, inhabited, range 8, lot 22, Arthur Mason head of household, proprietor, occ. Farmer, 8 persons in the family, 2 persons aged 5 or older, 3 persons aged up to 4 years, 1 married male aged 30-60, 1 unmarried female aged 14-18, 1 married female aged 18-45, 8 persons in family who are Roman Catholic.
      200 acres land, 50 of which are cultivated, last years's harvest: 8 minots peas, 60 minots oats, 16 minots rye, 150 minots potatoes, 10 cows, no horses, 4 pigs.

    2. [S116] Ancestry.com, Census of Canada, 1851, (Database on line, 1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. Note - enumeration form numbers lines 23 and 24 as line 24 (repeated).), Canada East / Leinster / Wexford / p 5 & 5a / indiv 6 (Reliability: 3).
      John Mason, occ. Farmer, age 29, born Canada.
      Residence a log house.

    3. [S189] FamilySearch.org, Census of Canada, 1861, ("Census of Canada, 1961," database, FamilySearch; from Canada. Board of Registration and Statistics. "Census of Canada, 1861," Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. FHL microfilm, 296 reels. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.), Canada East, Montcalm, Wexford, img 292, ln 6 (Reliability: 3).
      John Mason, age 26, born Rawdon Bas Canada.

    4. [S87] Ancestry.com, Census of Canada, 1871, (Database on line, 1871 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.), Quebec, Montcalm, St-Theodore de Chertsey / Wexford, Dist 101, p 10, img 36, ln 1 (Reliability: 3).
      John Masson, age 48, born Quebec, ethnic Irish, occ. Farmer, married.
      Dwelling 31, household 34.

    5. [S89] Ancestry.com, Census of Canada, 1881, (Ancestry.com, database on-line. Census images provided by Library and Archives Canada.), Quebec, Montcalm, St. Patrick of Rawdon, ED89, p 26, img 15, ln 18 (Reliability: 3).
      John Mason, age 60, born Quebec, ethnic Irish, occ. Farmer, widowed.
      Dwelling 104, household 104.

    6. [S70] Ancestry.com, Census of Canada, 1891, (Database on-line), Quebec, Montcalm, Dist 169, St Patrice de Rawdon, p 32, img 17, ln 12 (Reliability: 3).
      John Mason, age 68, married, head, born Quebec, both parents born Ireland, Cultivateur, employer, reads and writes.
      Dwelling B 1/5, household 143.

    7. [S102] Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada., Census of Canada, 1901, (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1901/index-e.html), Quebec, Montcalm, Rawdon, ED 171, pg 11, img 1, ln 4 (Reliability: 3).
      John, head, married, born 20 Nov 1822, Quebec. Irish, farmer, own means.
      Dwelling 103, household 103.

    8. [S7] Ancestry.com, Québec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967., ([database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2008. Includes images of the actual copies of parish registers submitted to the central authorities.), Rawdon (St-Patrcie), 1910, pp 11&v, S-14, img 11-12 (Reliability: 3).
      On 12 Aug 1910 was buried John Mason, deceased the day before yesterday in this parish, aged ninety-one years, spouse of Mary Daly of this parish.

    9. [S24] Patrick Mason, A Few Notes of My Past, (Online transcript is located at http://www.education.mcgill.ca/rawdon/masonotes.htm. Photocopy of the original in possesion of S. M. Broderick.) (Reliability: 3).

    10. [S25] Parroissioux de St-Patrice de Rawdon, Registres Parroissioux de St-Patrice de Rawdon, (FamilySearch.org. Québec Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1900. Database online, with images of original parish registers.), Vol I, pp 163 rev and 164, M-3, film frames 194-195, Microfilm #1293145. (Reliability: 3).
      Bride a minor.
      Hugh John Mason and Patrick Mason, brothers to groom and James Brown, brother to bride and Jean Baptiste Rivois, friend of bride were witnesses.
      Only Patrick and John Mason and James Brown able to sign their names.

    11. [S7] Ancestry.com, Québec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967., ([database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2008. Includes images of the actual copies of parish registers submitted to the central authorities.), Rawdon (St-Patrice), 1882, pp 2&v, M-2, img 2-3 (Reliability: 3).
      Witnesses were Thomas Daly, brother of the bride, and John Smith, friend of the bridegroom.
      Both parents of bride were deceased.