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Funeral Notice · primary-source record

Martha Mitchell

circa 1831 (estimated in the Ontario death register) – January 16, 1889

Died 16 January 1889 · Collingwood, Ontario

Editorially verified

At-a-glance facts

Record type

Funeral Notice

Date of death

January 16, 1889

Date of birth

circa 1831 (estimated in the Ontario death register)

Age at death

58 years

Place of death

Collingwood, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada

The funeral notice

From the funeral card

Died

At Collingwood, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1889

MARTHAR

Beloved wife of Timothy Mitchell, Aged 58 yrs.

Funeral

Will leave the family residence, Huron Street, (to-day), Saturday, Jan. 19, at 2 p.m., for All Saints Church Cemetery.

Ontario death register look-up

A search for Martha Mitchell on Ancestry.com found her in the Ontario death registers.

Name: Martha Mitchell. Death date: 16 Jan 1889. Death location: Simcoe. Gender: female. Estimated birth year: abt 1831. Birth location: Monaghan, Ireland.

The name is clearly MARTHA, not MARTHAR, on the death registration, which gives the cause of death as an intestinal obstruction.

Died At Collingwood, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1889 MARTHAR Beloved wife of Timothy Mitchell, Aged 58 yrs. Funeral Will leave the family residence, Huron Street, (to-day), Saturday, Jan. 19, at 2 p.m., for All Saints Church Cemetery.

The card prints the given name as "MARTHAR" — the Ontario death register confirms the name is Martha. This card appears within a group photograph of several Collingwood, Simcoe County funeral cards, each indexed individually in this archive.

— Ancestors at Rest

Sources consulted

  • Ontario death register, Simcoe, 16 January 1889 — indexed on Ancestry.com

People named in this record

  • Martha MitchellSubject
  • Timothy MitchellSpouse

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Source & citation

Source type
Photograph & transcription
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.
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Ancestors at Rest archive — original contributor not recorded.
Last verified
2026-06-12
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Both — photograph of the card and a transcription on this page

Citation: "Funeral notice of Martha Mitchell, Collingwood, Ontario, died 16 January 1889," photographed and contributed to the Ancestors at Rest archive (https://ancestorsatrest.com/records/funeral-cards/mitchell-martha-1889/ : accessed [your access date]).

One of five Collingwood, Simcoe County, Ontario funeral notices photographed together; this card is indexed individually here.

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