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Child's Full Name Margaret Jane Brooks
Birth Date 22 April 1840
Place of Birth New Bideford
Baptismal Date 15 July 1840
Officiating Clergy A.V.G Wiggins
Father's Name John Brooks
Mother's Name Christiana Ramsay
Church Name Church of England
Church Location Richmond
Record Book Number 1
Record Book Page 142

Margaret J. Brooks from Lot 67 married James Champion in 1867. "At Charlottetown on the 4th inst by the Rev. Alexander Falconer Mr James Chamption of Malpeque to Miss Margaret J. Brooks, of Lot 67." Summerside Journal September 12 1867. Benjamin Champion was a witness.

She and James were in Lot 4 in 1881, 1891, and 1901. On the 1891 census, she said her father was born in England and her mother on the Island. In the 1901 census, James and Margaret were lodgers in the household of Benjamin Champion, Lot 4.

At the time of her sister Mattie's death in 1898, Margaret was about 56, and living in Alberton.

Lengthy obit in the Wesleyan, 1912