Descendants of Charles BATEMAN and Martha ELLIS of Rathclaren Parish, County Cork, Ireland
Fourth Generation
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209. Ada BATEMAN (Edward C. , Charles , Charles ) was born on 26 Dec 1857 in Caradoc Twp, Middlesex County, Canada West. She died on 7 Mar 1926 in Middlesex County, Ontario. She was buried on 9 Mar 1926 in Mayfair Cemetery, Ekfrid Twp, Middlesex County, Ontario.
Lived in Ekfrid Twp. Cemetery record gives birth and death dates for both Ada and Duncan.
Ada married Duncan A. MCLEAN son of Alexander MCCLEAN and Anna (Hannah) BATEMAN on 22 Dec 1891 in Christ Church, Delaware, Ontario. Duncan was born in 1858 in Ontario. He died in 1930.
Farmer and resident of Ekfrid Twp. at time of his marriage.
Duncan and Ada had the following children:
571 M i Wellington J. MCLEAN was born in 1893. Wellington married Edna Maude BROWN. Edna was born in 1897. She died in 1966.
212. Wellington Thomas BATEMAN (Edward C. , Charles , Charles ) was born on 6 Mar 1869 in Middlesex County, Ontario. He died on 7 Sep 1949 in Calgary, Alberta. He was buried on 9 Sep 1949 in Okotoks, Alberta.
1901 census lists birth date of "Thomas" Bateman as 6 Mar 1868, but other records suggest he was born in 1869, a year later than his wife. Obituary from The Okotoks Review, 23 September, 1949:
"Funeral services were conducted from the United Church on Friday, September 9 for Wellington Thomas Bateman who passed away in the Holy Cross hospital in Calgary on September 7. Rev. J.V. Howey officiated at the service.
"Mr. Bateman who was 80 years of age came from Strathroy Ontario. He came to Okotoks in 1912 and for 25 years operated a cartage and coal business. Mr. Bateman had farmed in Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia previous to settling in Okotoks.
"Mr. Bateman was very interested in gardening and made it a lifetime hobby. He never failed to bring his friends baskets of fresh vegetables and bouquets of flowers. Mr. Bateman had been in ill health for the past few years but always managed to do some gardening.
"Surviving are his wife Jennie of Teeswater, Ontario; one son Fred and three grandchildren of Didsbury.
Pallbearers were D.C. Carr, J.H. Carr, Jas. MacDonald, John Sparrow, R.E. Hanson, and Joseph Miller. Gooder Bros. were in charge of arrangement [sic] and interment was in Okotoks cemetery."
Wellington married Jane (Jennie) SHARPE. Jane was born on 6 Apr 1868 in Teeswater, Ontario. She died on 9 Aug 1952 in Ontario. She was buried in Teeswater, Ontario.
Notes of Jennie Sharpe Bateman:
I was born on April 6, 1868 in the village of Teeswater, Ontario, in our home here; attended Public School here, until I qualified for High School , which was at Walkerton our County town. Took what was called a Third Class Non Professional Certificate (now Grade 10 I think) in 6 months. Then took a 4 mos Teacher’s Practice or Normal Course, and got my Professional Certificate, and taught for three years in a country school, almost 4 miles N.E. from Teeswater---2-1/2 miles north 1-1/4 mile east. Then went to Harriston and later Kincardiane H.S. to be with sister Bessie (who wanted to go ) for a year and took my Non-Professional 2nd. Class or Grade 11 now. Taught for 2-1/2 years at Westford a sem-country school on the way to Kincardine. Attended Toronto Normal for 6 mos to get Prof. 2nd class Certificate. After that I taught for 2-1/2 years in a country school in Middlesex County about 10 miles from Strathroy and 17 miles from London: where I met my future husband, Wellington Thomas Bateman; and later on I went to Manitoba and taught in the town of Hartney near my sister, Mrs. Wm Forbes’ country home and later in the town of Killarney- (altogether about 4 or 5 years). Then came home to Teeswater to be married in the year 1898, and to our farm home in Middlesex where Fred was born in 1900. Lost one baby before Fred and one after. We sold the farm and moved to Manitoba to farm there in the spring of 1902. Sold out and went to B.C. near Nelson in 1907. Came to Alta. In 1910 and lived there near Calgary continuously till I cam here to Teeswater to take care of my sisters, in 1940, in their old age and infirmity. Sister Mary died October 4th, 1946.
Wellington and Jane had the following children:
572 M i Living
