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Martha FREEMAN

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  • Name Martha FREEMAN  [1] 
    • Surname was Hopkins when she married Peter McNab - previously married to Mr. Hopkins. Birth name Freeman.
    Gender Female 
    Person ID I81  McNab/Kuhn
    Last Modified 10 Feb 2021 

    Family 1 Peter MCNAB,   b. 7 Dec 1767, Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Jun 1847, McNabs Island, Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Married 17 Jul 1832  St. Paul's Anglican Church, Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Type: Marriage Bond 
    License 17 Jul 1832  Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    Marriage bond signed 17 July 1832.  
    Last Modified 11 Feb 2021 
    Family ID F25  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Captain Henry HOPKINS,   d. 2 Sep 1827, At sea Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 17 Feb 1816  Liverpool, Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 6, 7] 
    Last Modified 19 Nov 2021 
    Family ID F153  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 17 Feb 1816 - Liverpool, Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - Type: Marriage Bond - 17 Jul 1832 - St. Paul's Anglican Church, Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLicense - Marriage bond signed 17 July 1832. - 17 Jul 1832 - Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Sources 
    1. [S201] The Liverpool Township Book: Liverpool, Queens County, Nova Scotia, Birth, Marriages & Deaths, Transcribed by Kim Stevens , p.307 (Reliability: 2).
      enry Hopkins, son of Elisha Hopkins, Esquire, and Sarah, his wife, of Liverpool, N.S., was married to Martha Freeman, daughter of Elkanah Freeman and Ruth, his wife, at Liverpool on the seventeenth day of February, one thousand, eight hundred and sixteen, by John Thomas Esquire, Commissioner

    2. [S36] Religious Marriages in Halifax, 1768-1841, Punch, Terrence M., (Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS. 1991), p.100 (Reliability: 2).
      Name cited as "Martha"

    3. [S105] Nova Scotia Vital Statistics from Newspapers 1829-1834, (Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia ), 83 (Reliability: 2).
      Acadian Recorder, 21 July 1832. Officiant: Archdeacon Willis.

    4. [S3] Marriages Nova Scotia, Government of Nova Scotia, Canada, (Nova Scotia Archives), https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/ItemView.aspx?ImageFile=1800-6212&Event=marriage&ID=197108 (Reliability: 3).
      Digital copy of marriage bond. Marriage occurred two days later.

    5. [S165] Nova Scotia Church Records 1720-2001, (Family Search ), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-8BCJ-Q7V?cc=1925428&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3A6C1G-F2SS (Reliability: 2).
      While most of this collection is digital copies of parish register entries, this particular item is typewritten and obviously transcribed from original document ( likely fragile as contains old marriage bonds, etc. No further information on this particular record provided by Family Search.

    6. [S39] Nova Scotia Vital Records from Newspapers, 1813-1822, Punch, Terrence M., (Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS. 1983), p. 36 (Reliability: 2).
      17 Feb. at Liv~,rpool·: Mr. Her..ry HOPKINS I Martha, 4th.d/o late Capt.Elkanah FREEMAN. Acadian Recorder publish date: Saturday 2 March 1816

    7. [S258] The Colonial Journal , p.284 (Reliability: 2).


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