William Ada

07/01/1834 — 27/04/1911
A brief biography

Ancestors


Rebecca Ada — 1770±
Thomas Ada ±1734 —
William Ada 1767 — 1837
William Ada 1807 — 1883
William Ada 1834 — 1911
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History of the Ada family in Australia

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Elizabeth Lynn 1839 — 1933   William Ada — 1955   Mary Sophia Ada 1865 — 1956   John Frances Ada 1868 — 1954   Edwin Joseph Ada 1878 —  

William Ada


Son of William Ada and Sophia Fletcher. .

Born in 1834, the fourth year of the reign of King William IV, and died aged seventy-seven in the first year of the reign of King George V  He has 55 direct descendants in the family.

Founder of the Canada Adas


The eldest son of William Ada, exciseman, William was born in Stonehouse in Gloucestershire.

He emigrated to Canada and in 1880 was Captain of the Corinthian, a steamer of the Ontario & Richelieu Navigation Company on the Great Lakes.

The photo is believed to be of The Corinthian running one of the Rapids on the Port Hope – Rochester route on the Great Lakes, before canals were built to bypass them.

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