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Matilda
Rae
1901 personal census, Colchester South Twp, Essex Co., ON,
D1-7:
Quick Matilda, F, Widowed, 22 July 1866, 34, born England, immigrated 1873,
origin: Scotch, Can, Presb;
Allan, M, son, Single, 17 Sept 1887, 13, born
Scotland(?), origin: Scotch, Can, Presb;
Rae Geo., M, uncle,
Single, 17 May 1829, 71, born Ont, origin: Scotch, Can, Presb, Gentleman.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 48-49:
The Quick family prominent for several generations in Canada, has had able representatives in the township of Colchester South, County of Essex, in the late Cornelius R. Quick, and now in his capable daughter, Mrs. Annie A. (Quick) Brush, widow of the late Arthur B. Brush.
The first of the family here was Alexander Quick, grandfather of Cornelius R., ... Mr. Quick was well advanced in life when he went to Canada, and only survived a few years after the change. His sons were: Joseph, father of Cornelius R; ...
Joseph Quick was born in Kentucky, ... In Gosfield South, County of Essex, he married Susanna Munger. She bore her husband twelve children...
Cornelius R. Quick ... married Miss Abigail Wright, the daughter of Henry Wright...
Mrs. Cornelius R. Quick died about three years before her husband, Dec. 12, 1893. She was the mother of the following children: ... Francis Gore (born April 18, 1862, who married Miss Matilda Rae, and was killed by the explosion of a boiler at William Craig's, June 25, 1890).