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Coffin plate · primary-source record

Peter Rutherford

abt 1841 – 23 Nov 1901

60 years · transcribed from the original coffin plate

Editorially verified

At-a-glance facts

Record type

Coffin plate

Date of death

23 Nov 1901

Date of birth

abt 1841

Age at death

60 years

Plate found in

Ontario, Canada

The coffin plate

Inscription transcription

Peter Rutherford
Died Nov 23rd 1901
Aged 60 years
Transcription from the Ancestors at Rest archive.

Researcher's notes

Peter Rutherford's coffin plate was found in Ontario together with the plate of James Rutherford (1819–1891). The archive's contributor was unsure how Peter fits the family: from his birth year (1841) he could be a son of James who was no longer living at home by 1881, but Peter's death certificate records him as born in Ottawa, which complicates a direct link to James (born Perthshire, Scotland).

Death certificate: Peter Rutherford, Kent County, Ontario, City of Chatham. Age 60 years, died 23 Nov 1901, living on King Street, law clerk, single, born Ottawa, died of dropsy.

(James Rutherford's son Alexander went on to become the first Premier of Alberta.)

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Source & citation

Source type
Original photograph
Provenance
From the Ancestors at Rest archive — founded 2004 by Brian and substantially built out across two decades by Lorine McGinnis Schulze of Olive Tree Genealogy.
Transcribed by
Ancestors at Rest archive — original contributor not recorded.
Last verified
2026-06-17
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Image vs transcription
Both — original photograph and transcription on this page

Citation: "Coffin plate of Peter Rutherford (abt 1841 – 23 Nov 1901)," transcribed and contributed to the Ancestors at Rest archive (https://ancestorsatrest.com/records/coffin-plates/rutherford-peter-1901/ : accessed [your access date]).

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Related records

Peter Rutherford's plate was found in Ontario together with James Rutherford's; the family connection between them is uncertain (see researcher's notes).

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