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[ca.1915-1990] (Creation)
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- Katherine L. Stoddard family
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1 photograph
1 postcard
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Katherine Laura Stoddard was born on June 16, 1927 in Wileville, Lunenburg County. Her parents were Clarence Simon Stoddard and Eva Kathryn Siteman who was the daughter of Charles Edward Siteman and Jessie (Robson) Siteman of Ship Harbour. Katherine grew up in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia and later lived in Hantsport. Like her mother, Katherine worked as a school teacher but was also very active in genealogy. She never married and lives in the Windsor Elms seniors’ home in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
Katherine’s father, Clarence Stoddard, was the son of Robert Jamison Stoddard, originally of Clam Harbour, and Harriet “Edith” Ritcey of Musquodoboit Harbour. Robert Jamison was the son of Thomas Stoddard and Elizabeth Eisan of Clam Harbour. Thomas was a ship captain and died in 1858. Thomas’s grandfather, also Thomas Stoddard (b. before 1740) had come to Nova Scotia from Scotland c. 1760.
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Series forms part of the Katherine L. Stoddard fonds and consists of one postcard featuring a picture of the motel in Lake Charlotte c. 1970s. Also includes one copy of a photograph of Emily Usher Ritcey c. 1915. Emily Margaret Usher was born March 27, 1891 and was the daughter of William Philip Usher and Emily Anderson Mack of Musquodoboit Harbour. She married Herbert Simon Ritcey on January 26, 1915. They lived in Dartmouth and she died March 1, 1974. Herbert Simon Ritcey was born August 24, 1874 in West Petpeswick and was the son of Simon (ship captain) and Susanna Elizabeth (Gaetz) Ritcey. He was the brother of Katherine L. Stoddard’s paternal grandmother, Harriet “Edith” Ritcey Stoddard, making Emily Usher Ritcey her sister-in-law.