Elizabeth Sadler
Elizabeth is said to have been 5’ 7” with auburn hair and blue eyes.
Events
Date of Birth: 11 August 1808
The date is given by Our Family History (p. 115) and the 1901 census of Canada.
Date of Baptism: 18 September 1808
Place of Baptism: Thornton Dale, Yorkshire
The date and place are given in the parish registers for Thornton Dale.
Date of Death: 14 April 1901
Place of Death: Ontario County
The date and place are given in her death registration.
Date of Burial: 16 April 1901
Place of Burial: Salem Cemetery, Pickering township, Pickering, Ontario, Canada
Relationships
Father: Wilfrid Sadler (1770 - 1858)
This relationship is given by the baptism record (“Wilfrid Sadler”), and also by Our Family History (p 115), written by Elizabeth’s granddaughter.
Mother: Mary Maw (1773 - 1829)
This relationship is given by the baptism record (“Mary”), and also by Our Family History (p 115), written by Elizabeth’s granddaughter.
Spouse: John Adamson (about 1804 - 31 July 1856) Married 1 June 1828 in Thornton Dale, Yorkshire.
The date and place are given in the parish register.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Sources include Yorkshire parish registers, Canadian censuses, Ontario birth, death, and marriage registrations, gravestones, and Our Family History.)
Mary Adamson (25 October 1828 - 8 February 1830)
Samuel Adamson (19 December 1830 - 3 September 1900) married Mary Ann Wilson.
Mary Adamson (28 January 1833 - 28 August 1833)
John Maw Adamson (8 September 1835 - 4 December 1836)
Thomas Adamson (1 February 1837 - 3 September 1900) married Rachel Bowers.
Robert Adamson (8 April 1839 - 5 February 1918) married Margaret Maria Gibson on 16 May 1872 in Brooklin, Ontario.
Sarah Ann Adamson (5 September 1841 - 26 April 1923) married Robert Graham 14 May 1859 in Ontario County, Canada West.
William Wilfrid Adamson (10 February 1843 - 4 May 1912) married Margaret Moody.
John Maw Adamson (28 February 1847 - 8 February 1928) married Adelaide Victoria Harvey.
Henry Gamble Adamson (14 July 1849 - 26 April 1935) married Elizabeth Beatrice Cooke on 6 June 1876 in Toronto, Ontario.
Evidence
Thornton Dale parish register [baptisms]:
Sept.t 18 [1808] Elizabeth D.r. of Wilfrid & Mary Sadler
An abstract of Elizabeth Adamson’s death registration:
Name of Deceased: Adamson, Elizabeth
Sex: F
Date of Death: Apr 14 1901
Age: 92 y 8 m
Residence: lot 7, concession 5
Occupation: Farmer’s widow
Where Born: England
Cause of Death/Length of Illness: Senile Debility, 1 day
Name of Physician in Attendance: Bateson, Dr U.E.
Religious Denomination: Methodist
Name of Person Making the Return: Bateson, Dr U.E.
Date of Registration: Apr 14 1901
from Our Family History (p. 83):
A recipe more than one hundred years old, for a wedding cake taken from Elizabeth Sadler Adamson’s book.
Take 18 lbs. of flour, 10 lbs. of fine sugar, 9 lbs. butter, 11 nutmegs, 18 eggs, 5 qts. of milk, 1 qt. yeast, 10 lbs. fruit, 1 oz. mace, 1 qt. of wine, 1 pt. brandy. The butter and the sugar are to be rolled together, the other materials are then to be mixed with the butter and sugar, putting the fruit in last when nearly ready for the oven.
How to make icing or frosting for cake: Beat it and sift it through a fine sieve, put into it a spoonful of starch, a penny’s worth of gum arabie, beat them together. Take the whites of 4 or 5 eggs and beat them all and put in a spoonful of rose water, a spoonful of lemon juice, beat them with the eggs, then mix and beat the whole together till the cake comes from the oven, when the frosting is to be applied.
[One can well believe the assertion on page 139 that “Grandma Adamson used to buy currents by the barrel.”]
References
Elizabeth Sadler baptism, Thornton Dale, Yorkshire (Bishop’s Transcripts); FHL microfilm 990864, item 2 (Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah). [Unfortunately, I have lost my notes and cannot currently give a more specific citation for the citations from the bishop’s transcripts.]
John Adamson - Elizabeth Sadler marriage, Thornton Dale, Yorkshire (Bishop’s Transcripts); FHL microfilm 990864, item 2 (Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah).
Elizabeth Adamson, Ontario death registration 020813 (14 April 1901); digital image, Ancestry.ca (http://ancestry.ca : accessed 22 March 2014), citing MS 935, reel 103, Archives of Ontario, Toronto. A digital image can be viewed at FamilySearch:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J6Q7-M68
John Adamson household, 1851 census of Canada West, Ontario (district 26),Pickering Township (subdistrict 245), ED 12, stamped page 139, line 15; digital image, Library and Archives Canada, Censuses (https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/Pages/census.aspx : accessed 9 March 2014),citing LAC microfilm C-11742
A digital image can be viewed here: http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/e/e095/e002363000.jpg
Elizabeth Adamson household, 1861 census of Canada West, Ontario, Pickering Township, stamped page 43, line 39; digital image, Library and Archives Canada, Censuses (https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/Pages/census.aspx : accessed 9 March 2014), citing LAC microfilm C-1057
A digital image can be viewed here: http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1861/jpg/4391564_00244.jpg
Elizabeth Adamson household, 1871 census of Canada, Ontario, Ontario South (district 48), Pickering Township (subdistrict A), page 1, family 2; digital image, Library and Archives Canada, Censuses (https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/Pages/census.aspx : accessed 9 March 2014), citing LAC microfilm C-9973
A digital image can be viewed here:http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1871/jpg/4396343_00529.jpg
Elizabeth Adamson household, 1881 census of Canada, Ontario, Ontario South (district 132), Pickering (subdistrict A), division 2, page 19, family 95; digital image, Library and Archives Canada, Censuses (https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/Pages/census.aspx : accessed 22 March 2014), citing LAC microfilm C-13244
A digital image can be viewed here: http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/e/e328/e008180287.jpg
Elizabeth Adamson household, 1891 census of Canada, Ontario, Ontario West (district 102), Pickering Township (subdistrict B), division 3, page 6, family 34; digital image, Library and Archives Canada, Censuses (https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/Pages/census.aspx : accessed 22 March 2014), citing LAC microfilm T-6358
A digital image can be viewed here: http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1891/jpg/30953_148160-00630.jpg
Henry Adamson household, 1901 census of Canada, Ontario, Ontario (west) (district 99), Pickering Township (subdistrict B), division 6, page 4, family 23 (family begins on page 3); digital image, Library and Archives Canada, Censuses (https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/Pages/census.aspx : accessed 9 March 2014), citing LAC microfilm T-6487
A digital image can be viewed here:
http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1901/z/z002/jpg/z000089839.jpg
Mortgage: Elizabeth Adamson to Robert Adamson, in Pickering-Ajax Digital Archive; digital image: http://www.pada.ca/books/details/?id=2472
Mortgage: Elizabeth Adamson and Samuel Adamson to William Mulock, in Pickering-Ajax Digital Archive; digital image: http://www.pada.ca/books/details/?id=2129
Hawn, Elizabeth Beatrice Adamson. Our Family History. (Gravenhurst, Ontario: Baxter Press Ltd., October 1969).
[Elizabeth Beatrice Adamson Hawn, the compiler, was a granddaughter of Elizabeth Sadler.]
Parish Registers, Thornton Dale. Digital images on Findmypast.co.uk accessed 24 February 2018.