Rexford Ferndale MacCoubrey (1907-1980)


Dates

Birth: 24 July 1907 Monck, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada
Father: Henry Lowrie McCourbrey 1878-1929
Mother: Margaret Jane McBride 1881-1975

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: 10 July 1930 Toronto Ontario Canada
Wife: Alfreda Esther Croucher 1908-2002

Death: 6 March 1980 Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
Burial: Union Cemetery, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada

Children

Charles MacCoubrey 1935-a1950
Robert Rexford MacCoubrey 1938-2008
Mary Jane MacCoubrey 1943

Notes

In the 1911 census as Rexford F McConkey aged 3, born in July 1907 and living with his parents (Henry L and Margaret J) and uncle (William F) in Lot 1, Con 1, Monck Township, Ontario

There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Robert Rexford MacCoubrey, born and died in Cobourg, Ontario. Another entry adds his birth on 24 July 1907, parents Henry L McCoubrey and Margaret Jane McBride and his death on 6 March 1980 in Cobourg, Northumberland, Ontario. Another gives is birth in Bracebridge, Muskoka, Ontario, his father as Henry Lowrie MacCoubrey, his marriage to Alfreda Esther Croucher in 1930 in Toronto, York, Canada and his burial in Cobourg Cemetery, Cobourg, Northumberland. Another gives his birth in Monck Township, Muskoka, Ontario. Steve MacCoubrey adds that in 1928 he drove a water taxi for Ashdown Hotel, his marriage date as 10 July 1930 when he worked for Glen Ashdown at Ashdown Hardware Store, in 1938 he went to work at McFadden Funeral parlor, his three children and his death from liver cancerand burial at Union Cemetary Cobourg Ontario. A photograph of the headstone has "MacCoubrey/Rexford F/1907-1980/His Wife/E Alfreda Croucher/1908-2002".

Rexford founded the MacCoubrey Funeral Home in Cobourg, Ontario which he has passed down to his son Robert.

Relationship

Rexford Ferndale MacCoubrey was the husband of Alfreda Esther Croucher.

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