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From - A Trip to the Perry Gifford Farm
by Janette Burnham Lozon
Hiram Gifford was the son of Perry Gifford. I know of no record for Lorenthe. Who is she? In the Haldimand County Marriage Register (1803-1856) there is a marriage for Hiram Gifford of Cayuga to Mary Cristor of Cayuga on October 2, 1849, performed by Rev. Thomas Stillwell, Baptist Church, Walpole Township. In the 1851 census Hiram is listed with his children but no wife. His children are Mary, born 1828, William, 1834, Daniel 1843, Eliza Jane, 1844, Henry, 1850. It would seem that Mary Cristor was therefore a second wife. Perhaps Lorenthe was his first wife and the first four children belonged to her. The dates certainly fit. Hiram, born in 1805, married by 1828 before his daughter, Mary, was born, widowed in 1848 when Lorenthe, born in 1806, died, and remarried in 1849 to Mary Cristor. Who is Mary Cristor? I have been unable to find a Cristor family in Cayuga at the time of their marriage. There were, however, Christie families in Walpole. Perhaps Mary was from one of them, either a daughter or a widow. Why isn't she with Hiram Gifford in the 1851 census? Did she perhaps die shortly after Henry's birth in 1850?
On the 1852 Census of South Cayuga, Haldimand, Ontario are:
Hiram Gifford, Farmer, Born United States, Baptist, Married, Aged 45, Male Line 8
Mary Gifford, Born Rainham, Upper Canada, Baptist, Married, Aged 24, Female
William Gifford, Born South Cayuga, No Religion, Single, Aged 18, Male
Daniel Gifford, Born South Cayuga, No Religion, Single, Aged 9, Male
Eliza Jane Gifford, Born South Cayuga, No Religion, Single, Aged 8, Female
Henry Gifford, Born South Cayuga, No Religion, Single, Aged 2, Male
Log House, 1 Storey, 1 Family Occupying
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