Emma Jane Ryder "Jennie" (1864-1928)
Emma Jane Ryder was born August 28th 1864. At that time her father had bought a Blacksmith Shop in Acton and was doing a thriving business. She was the second daughter and third child of James Ryder and Pricillia Swackhammer. When her mother died in 1872 she was just 8 years of age so most of her growing years would have been with her father and stepmother Frances Sophia Martin.
When the family moved to Petrolia in 1879 Emma was fourteen years old. It is here she would meet the man she would marry. Joseph Edward Pollard (referred to as "Jack"), a hardware retailer and fifteen years her senior.
In the 1881 census Emma was sixteen years old and still at home with the family in Petrolia.
I do not know exactly when or where Emma Jane met Joseph “Jack” Edward Pollard, but it was quite possibly through her older brother Billy. He is found as a witness to some of the Pollard marriages which would indicate that he was good friends with some of the family members.
I have their marriage date as January 3rd 1884. The place is listed as Elgin. This could be verified through the Source Citation: Archives of Ontario; Series: MS932_46; Reel: 46. My Source Information was as follows: Ancestry.com and Genealogical Research Library (Brampton, Ontario, Canada). Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Original data: Ontario, Canada. Registrations of Marriages, 1869-1928. MS932, Reels 1-833, 850-880. Archives of Ontario, Toronto.
When the family moved to Petrolia in 1879 Emma was fourteen years old. It is here she would meet the man she would marry. Joseph Edward Pollard (referred to as "Jack"), a hardware retailer and fifteen years her senior.
In the 1881 census Emma was sixteen years old and still at home with the family in Petrolia.
I do not know exactly when or where Emma Jane met Joseph “Jack” Edward Pollard, but it was quite possibly through her older brother Billy. He is found as a witness to some of the Pollard marriages which would indicate that he was good friends with some of the family members.
I have their marriage date as January 3rd 1884. The place is listed as Elgin. This could be verified through the Source Citation: Archives of Ontario; Series: MS932_46; Reel: 46. My Source Information was as follows: Ancestry.com and Genealogical Research Library (Brampton, Ontario, Canada). Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Original data: Ontario, Canada. Registrations of Marriages, 1869-1928. MS932, Reels 1-833, 850-880. Archives of Ontario, Toronto.
Edward and Emma Jane's first son was born in February of 1885.
Their union would produce at least three. The first child was Samuel Bloss Pollard 1885, then Edward Franklin born in 1892 in Petrolia, and lastly daughter Jennifer Louise born May 4th 1895.
The 1891 census finds Emma and Jack with their son listed as Blass living in Petrolia. By 1901 The family had grown to include the two other children. Edward senior "Jack" is listed as a hardware merchant. Times must have been good as the have a domestic servant living with them.
By 1911, Edward senior is sixty but still working in his trade and both the sons appear to have followed in his footsteps and are employed as hardware salesmen. Jennie is going to school.
In 1921 Emma Jane now a widow lives with her son Edward Franklin Pollard 28, in the city of Sarnia at 294 Wellington. She was 58 at that time and Edward was 28 and employed as a yard-foreman making $1900 per year. She is listed as the head of the family. Her daughter Jennie Louise 26, and son-in-law Samuel Gladstone Stokes 28, are living in the house as well. Samuel is a superintendent and earning the same salary as Edward. Both Edward and Samuel work at an oil refinery.There is no mention of Samuel Blass and I am unable to find him in the census..
Emma Jane Ryder-Pollard died in Sarnia at age sixty-three on February 24th 1928
Their union would produce at least three. The first child was Samuel Bloss Pollard 1885, then Edward Franklin born in 1892 in Petrolia, and lastly daughter Jennifer Louise born May 4th 1895.
The 1891 census finds Emma and Jack with their son listed as Blass living in Petrolia. By 1901 The family had grown to include the two other children. Edward senior "Jack" is listed as a hardware merchant. Times must have been good as the have a domestic servant living with them.
By 1911, Edward senior is sixty but still working in his trade and both the sons appear to have followed in his footsteps and are employed as hardware salesmen. Jennie is going to school.
In 1921 Emma Jane now a widow lives with her son Edward Franklin Pollard 28, in the city of Sarnia at 294 Wellington. She was 58 at that time and Edward was 28 and employed as a yard-foreman making $1900 per year. She is listed as the head of the family. Her daughter Jennie Louise 26, and son-in-law Samuel Gladstone Stokes 28, are living in the house as well. Samuel is a superintendent and earning the same salary as Edward. Both Edward and Samuel work at an oil refinery.There is no mention of Samuel Blass and I am unable to find him in the census..
Emma Jane Ryder-Pollard died in Sarnia at age sixty-three on February 24th 1928
Citations
B.1864 Ryder Emma Jane 1871 Census of Canada Place: Esquesing, Halton, Ontario; Roll: C-9956; Page: 17; Family No: 71
M.1884 Ryder Emma/Pollard Edward Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928, 1933-1934 Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Registrations of Marriages, 1869-1928; Reel: 46
D.1928 Ryder Emma Jane Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1946 Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Collection: MS935; Reel: 361
B.1928 Ryder Emmaline Jane Web: Canada, GenWeb Cemetery Index
B.1864 Ryder Emma Jane 1871 Census of Canada Place: Esquesing, Halton, Ontario; Roll: C-9956; Page: 17; Family No: 71
M.1884 Ryder Emma/Pollard Edward Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928, 1933-1934 Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Registrations of Marriages, 1869-1928; Reel: 46
D.1928 Ryder Emma Jane Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1946 Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Collection: MS935; Reel: 361
B.1928 Ryder Emmaline Jane Web: Canada, GenWeb Cemetery Index