after the family moved from Toronto. She was born the next
spring on March 13, 1862. She was living with her parents in
Brant County in 1881 when she was 18, but is not with them in
1891 in Whitehead, Manitoba. I have been unable to find
her at all until the 1910 Census for Maricopa County, Arizona.
Her husband has been easier to trace. William Young Rumney
was the son of William Young Rumney and Harriet Hunt
Learned. He was born March 17, 1849 in Detroit, Michigan.
In the 1870 census, we find the family in Ward 3, Detroit,
Wayne County, Michigan. The father is a city assessor of
taxes. The son, William, is 20 years old and a clerk. There
is a sister Catherine and an Irish servant named Bridget
Peanlou, 22 years old.
The son turns up in the 1875 census for Douglas, Dakota
County Minnesota. In 1880, he is still a bachelor and
farming in the same location with his widowed mother,
a 19 year old sister (Hattie) who is a school teacher, as
well as other siblings.
The IGI website has a submitted marriage for William and Catherine; therefore, someone has been researching the family. They were apparently married on February 12, 1896. Catherine is shown as Catherine E. Oliver, apparently a second marriage. I have not found a first marriage in Manitoba or Ontario.
Interestingly, they appear in the 1910, 1920 and 1930 census records for Maricopa County (south-west Phoenix) living on Grand Street.
In April 1910, William was 59 years old and was a real estate salesman. Catherine was 48 years old, had no children (living or deceased) and was a practitioner of Christian Science. The couple had been married for 14 years. They had an adopted daughter named Josephine who was born in Arizona. A later census gives her parents as Mexican descent.
The 1920 census states that their home is free of a mortgage and William is still a real estate agent at 69 years old. The company he worked for was possibly J. L. Irvin. This census states that Catherine went to the US in 1888, and became a naturalized citizen in 1895. She is still a Christian Science practionner. Their daughter, Josephine, has married since the 1910 census and is a stenographer for a company called 'Hardman'. Josephine now has a three year old daughter named Dorothy King and she was born in Arizona, like her mother, but Mr. King was born in Michigan. There is also a 49 year old woman named Lila Kinnear born in Wisconsin living with the Rumneys. Her occupation is 'servant' but it seems that she worked outside the Rumney home.
In 1930, Catherine and William were living with their grand daughter; Dorothy King was then 12 years old. The value of their home is given as $15,000.00 and they owned a radio. Catherine is still practising the same faith.
William died July 10, 1930 in Maricopa County, Arizona at 80 years of age. Catherine died April 14, 1940 in Los Angeles, California.
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