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Thank you SO much everyone for the links!!  You're NOT going to believe it though -NONE of those are "my" William (Hughes) Clark!! I'm just shaking my head in disbelief!!   All I want to know is William Hughe's  cause of death!!  After coming over from England, he only lived in Ontario in the New Delphi (Norfolk County) area & b/c the 1931 census isn't going to be released for some time, I can't check WHEN he moved from New Delphi to Montreal!!  There's family history of Alzheimers & severe depression & I'm trying to trace through the ancestors for signs of how prevalent they are.

Have quite a few ancestors who committed suicide or who were committed to asylums in one case being described as "lunatic for 45 years"!  THIS is even though them man was trained as a tailor & lived with his parents until THEY died which is why I suspect some form of bipolar/schizophrenia.  And the ancestor who died of "senile decay"?? THAT is definitelyAlzheimer disease Victorian style!!

Thank you to Sandra for reminding me of the links I put up to the William Hughes Clark family Bible. I had forgotten I had posted them! I seem be the only one interest in this branch of the family though which is unfortunate. I'm not sure how many genealogists actually have in their grubby little hands the family Bibelot those you're researching nor the luck to have ancestors who HOARDED & passed everything down the generations!

Thank you SO much to everyone b/c you've helped eliminate some of the rabbit holes I might have gone down in my genealogical searches!! Been there, done that & absolutely NO fun!!

UPDATE:  I've decided to overcome my hesitation that errors aren't made on census forms and indeed, that people will LIE to a census enumerator & therefore to work with the theory that the date on the headstone is correct.  I went through the original documents I have & found that my great-grandfather bought the cemetery plot on October 14, 1903.  IF I assume that her husband knew she only had days to live or that she had died on October 14, 1903, I decided that I'm going to try to wade through the French-only Province of Quebec archives & order a death certificate for October 17, 1903.  A crap-shoot as we here in Canada say however it seems to be the only way of reconciling all this disparate information!!  It really goes against all my instincts though about accuracy of census information (I mean, why would the family LIE 8 years after her death??!!) however right now that seems to be the only answer!! Now my only other question is: who the heck took care of all those kids (the oldest was 12 & the youngest 4) between 1903 & 1912??!!

Thank you for that information - much appreciated!  I came across the topic of Marriage Allegations & Bonds just yesterday & was going to check it out today.  One ancestor in a different branch, had a Sarum Marriage Bond & it gave quite a bit of information; it finally dawned on me that a MAMB would most likely be worthwhile to explore. 

Now all I have to do is find out where these might exist for marriages done by licence.  Let's hope something surfaces because I now have more brick walls than I'd like!  It took me 3 years, & some extraordinarily helpful people in Ivybridge, Devon, to finally figure out where a g-g-uncle had disappeared to after his parents died so for me, it's never say never!!

If Mary Emma was buried from the same church that the children were baptized in.....

The online records for this church appear to NOT have 1903 as part of the collection. This may explain why the burial can't be found.

My suggestion matches an earlier one....IMHO, you need to apply for the death date ($5.00 option) from the cemetery.

PB

Unfortunately, the death date on the cemetery headstone is quite possibly WRONG; I contacted the cemetery & all they said was "1903" which doesn't explain the discrepancy between the headstone and the 1911 census.   It says she died 1903 however she's still alive in the 1911 census. What I've done is found researchers in Quebec to see if they can locate her death from 1911 to 1912. After that will leave it for a while.  It's really unfortunate that everyone who WOULD know is now dead or suffering from Alzheimer disease.

Roland/Rowland Percival Bowen born 13 June 1894 and baptised 18 June 1899

Sandra

Thank you so much!!  That "Methodist" designation is probably just for "convenience" although I'll have to check out the non-conformist links.   Mary Emma Williams was the daughter of a Unitarian minister in England.  When Howard Prime Bowen married his second wife, he listed his religion as "Unitarian".  I am the keeper of the MASSIVE marble clock given to Mary Emma's father, Samuel Fletcher Williams, when he retired along with the illuminated "thank you" piece of paper that came with the clock.  I've found that my branch of the Bowen family is rather fluid about religion.  Some of them are Methodists, some Anglican, some Congregationalist, some Huguenot, some Plymouth Brethren.  I often wonder what it was like at the dinner table when the Congregationalist sister-in-law chatted with the brother-in-law who was with the Plymouth Brethren or her sister, who was Unitarian.  Possibly it's one of those cases where they never talked about religion or politics!!