Thomas Pitre

1869 Rustico, PEI – 1932 Charlottetown, PEI

 

 

Continuation of tree (6th child of Andre Pitre/Marie Gallant); all known surname descendants:

               8          Thomas Pitre  b: 6 June 1869  St. Augustine, Rustico, PEI; d: 27 December 1932  Charlottetown, PEI

                                   +Sophie Mary Doucet  b: 1 February 1872  Rustico, PEI; m: Abt. 1902 [Joseph J./Genevieve Doiron]; d: Aft. September 1952  Charlottetown, PEI

                           9          Joseph Andrew Peters  b: 15 August 1903  Charlottetown, PEI; d: Aft. 1921

                           9          Marie Genevieve Peters  b: 19 October 1905  Charlottetown, PEI; d: Bef. 1911

                           9          Lawrence Leo Peters  b: 22 August 1907  Charlottetown, PEI; d: Bef. 1911

                           9          Thomas Edward Peters  b: 2 November 1910  Port Hawkesbury, Inverness, NS; d: 1 August 1955  Ottawa, ONT           

                                         +Irene Bertha Fitzgerald  b: 16 January 1916  Sudbury, ONT; m: Abt. 1945 [Patrick Henry/Louise Delia Robichaud]; d: 30 January 1979  Ottawa, ONT

                           9          Leo Daniel Peters  b: 6 January 1913  Port Hawkesbury, Inverness, NS; d: 29 June 1921  Rustico, PEI

 

 

Notes for Thomas Pitre:

Census

- 1901 PEI, Lot CA12:  Thomas Peters 34, lodging with Samuel Dorion 25 & wife Helen 25.

 

- 1911 Port Hawkesbury, Inverness, Nova Scotia:  Thomas Peters 39, wife Marie Sophia 39, Joseph Andrew 7, Thomas Edward 7 months.

 

- 1921 PEI, South Rustico (Lot 24):  Marie Sophie Pitre 49, J. Andre 17 mechanic/garage, Edouard 10, Leo Daniel 8.

 

- 1931 Charlottetown City, Queens, PEI:  Mary Sophia Peters 59 (mar), Thomas Edward 20 lineman/light & power electric co., boarder Keir Victor O’Hanley 5 months ( 21 Douglas St.).

 

Obituaries for the children:

Thomas Edward Peters:  The Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa, ONT), Tuesday, 2 August 1955:  Peters, Thomas E. - Suddenly, at his home, on Monday, August 1, 1955, Thomas E. Peters, age 44 years, beloved husband of Irene Fitzgerald, of 267 Booth Street.  Resting at the parlors of McEvoy Brothers.  Funeral Thursday to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church for requiem mass at 8 o'clock.  Burial Notre Dame Cemetery.

- Kingston Whig Standard (ONT), Wednesday, 3 August 1955:  Ottawa - Police Tuesday described the death of a 47-year-old civil servant as one of the most elaborate suicides they had ever seen.  Police said Thomas Peters, a Bureau of Statistics employee, apparently made elaborate arrangements for his suicide while his wife and two children were at a movie Monday night.  They said he dressed himself in a woman's bathing suit, padded it with wet towels and wrapped himself in a coil of copper wire.  With lamp cords he grounded one end of the wire to a ement sewer pipe and was electrocuted when he plugged the other end into a ceiling light socket.  Police say Peters, a reserve army paymaster, had no record of neurosis.  They said they could uncover no motive but that they are investigating reports he was a poor handler of money.

- The Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa, ONT), Thursday, 4 August 1955:  Largely attended by relatives and friends the funeral of Thomas Edward Peters who died on Monday was held this morning from McEvoy Brothers to Our Lady of Perpetual Help.  Very Rev. Msgr. J. O'Neill celebrated the requiem mass and Rev. D. T. Sullivan said the prayers at Notre Dame Cemetery.  Chief mourners and survivors were his wife, the former Irene Fitzgerald; one son, Brian and one daughter, Lorie, both at home.

Tombstone Inscription, Notre Dame of Ottawa Cemetery, Ottawa, ONT:  1911  Thomas E. Peters  1955 / 1916  Irene B. Peters  1979 / 1914  Dora Ouellette  1999 / nees Fitzgerald / 1947  Brian A. Peters  (blank) / 1948  Lorie Peters  (blank) / 1953  Serge Gervais  2014

 

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