Richard Byron Colpitts 1852 - 1917

Richard Colpitts, the husband of Anne Atkinson Peters the second cousin three-times-removed on the father's side of Nigel Horne, was born in New Brunswick, Canada on 16 Sep 18521,2,3,4,5 and married Anne (with whom he had 8 children: Robert Noble, Emma Alverda, Sarah Rowena Maude, Maud, Henry Jones, Ralph Watson, Carrie Eliza Ida and Clara Agnes) in New Brunswick on 21 Nov 1876.

During his life, he was living at Elgin, Albert, New Brunswick in 1861[1], in 1871[2], in 1891[3] and in 1901[4] and in Westmorland, New Brunswick in 1911[6].

He died on 20 May 1917 in New Brunswick5 and is buried at Pleasant Vale, Albert, New Brunswick5.

Citations

1. 1861 Census of Canada Ancestry.com Operations Inc (Relation to Head of House: Son)
2. 1871 Census of Canada Ancestry.com Operations Inc
3. 1891 Census of Canada Ancestry.com Operations Inc (Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head)
4. 1901 Census of Canada Ancestry.com Operations Inc (Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head)
5. Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
6. 1911 Census of Canada Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. .Original data - Library and Archives Canada. Census of Canada, 1911. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, 2007. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-19
7. Canada Census 1901 - Findmypast (was the head of the household)

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Marriage date (21 Nov 1876) has no citations

Census information missing between 1871 Census of Canada and 1891 Census of Canada