My Family Tree

Harriet Cotton is in the PEI Baptismal Index, father Samuel and mother Jane. According to a family tree on the Island, the Descendants of Samuel Cotton:
1. Samuel Cotton- b. in England. d. before 1841 in PEI. Married Jane Grant, who was b. in PEI and died after 1841 in PEI. 6 children:
--a.)Harriet- b. December 8, 1828 in Bideford, PEI
b. Church of England Richmond
Married in C of E, Port Hill

A Mackinnon genealogy agrees that Harriet was the daughter of Samuel Cotton and Jane Grant. In the records for St. Eleanor's Church of England on familysearch.org, the other birth notices for Samuel Cotton confirm that his wife was Jane Grant.

Harriet was named in John Dyment's will, but I was unable to find her in subsequent census records in the United States or Canada. Her death was not recorded in burials/deaths for Port Hill C of E. There were no obituary or death notice for Harriet, and she and John did not have a gravestone. Her grandchildren, in filling out their parents death records, did not even know her full name - one record had "Miss Cotton".

I would hazard a guess that Harriet died when her grandchildren were young, or that she went to the States with her daughters. She was not in the 1901 census with Samuel, Mary Jane, Harriet Maud or Watson, nor was she in the States with her married daughters Laura Annie or Margaret.

Undocumented family trees on Ancestry say date of death is 26 MAR 1909, but Harriet was not in the 1901 census.