Davida (Vida) Bennett MAXWELL

  General Notes:

Her family is confirmed by finding her exact birth date, 14 Dec 1889, on the record for her family in the 1901 census, for St. George, Charlotte, New Brunswick. This matches the date and place family records give for her. On all census records both in Canada and Massachusetts, she is listed as Vida.

Her brother Percy lived next door to Harrison and Vida McKinstry in 1920, and this is the only record I can find of any of the family in this country. He was not there in 1910 nor in 1930. It is not clear if Harrison married the girl next door, or if her brother came to live next door on account of her relationship with the McKinstry family. Her husband was listed as a farmer. All of his kin in New Brunswick were farmers. That he should have migrated to rural southern Massachusetts in order to farm doesn't add up. Nor does the more likely guess that he migrated in search of work having failed to inherit sufficient land from his large family. Tehre were enough textile mills in Canada. Russ McKinstry says they don't know alot about Vida and her family.

Davida married Harrison Bond McKINSTRY, son of William Luther McKINSTRY and Jennie Sarah BOND, on 28 Feb 1913 in St. George, New Brunswick, Canada. (Harrison Bond McKINSTRY was born on 4 Oct 1884 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts and died on 14 Feb 1968 in Southbridge, Massachusetts.)

  Marriage Notes:

I also have this marriage having occurred in Oxford, Massachusetts. Russ McKinstry's family group sheets say it was in New Brunswick, in the location where her family actually lived.