Birth: 29 February 1912 York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Father: Joseph Forsyth 1864-1944
Mother: Rosa Ella Toronto 1877-1069
Marriage: 22 February 1930 Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada
Husband: Leslie Frederick Richards 1909-a1931
Marriage: 5 August 1931 York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Husband: Richard Alexander Leder 1909-1994
Death: 18 December 1994 Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada
Buried: Buried: Farnham Cemetery, 570 Arkell Road, Farnham, Wellington, Ontario, Canada
Father unknown
Shirley Marjorie Rae Forsyth [Cupples] 1929-1991
By Leslie
Thomas Richards 1931
By Richard
A son and daughter (Patricia?)
Entry in Ancestry All Ontario, Canada Births, 1832-1914 for Emily Alma Forsyth born 29 February 1912 in York, parents Joseph Forsyth (deceased), and Rose Ella Toronto of Pine Ridge Road, Dunbarton. Note that the birth was registered by Emily Alma Leader nee Forsyth on 20 January 1956, not at her birth and hence her father is given as deceased.
In the 1921 census as Emily Forsyth aged 8, born in Ontario, and living with her parents (Joseph born in Ontario and Rose born in USA), three brothers (John, Joe and William), and sister (Eliza) in York, Ontario.
Entry in Ancestry Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1936 for Emily Alma Forsyth aged 18, born in Ontario, parents Joseph and Rose Forsyth, a spinster and saleslady, of 38 Gibson Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, and Leslie Frederick Richards on 22 February 1930 in York, Toronto, Ontario.
Entry in Ancestry Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1936 for Emily Alma Forsyth aged 24, born in Toronto, Ontario, parents Joseph and Rosella Forsyth, a devorcee, of 281 Withrow Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, and Richard Alexander Leader on 5 August 1936 in Pembroke, Ontario.
There are four entres in Ancestry Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980 for Mrs Leader a addresses Appartment 33b, 194 Javis Street, St Paul, Toronto, Ontario in 1935, other occupant Richard Leader, 142 Elsworth Avenue, Spadina, Toronto, Ontario in 1939, other occupant Richard Leader, 485 Willard Avenue, High Park, Toronto, Ontario in 1945, other occupant Richard Leader, and 66 Algoma Street, Mimico, York-Humber, Ontario in 1953, other occupant Richard Leader, and four for Emily Leader address 66 Algoma Street, Mimico, York-Humber, Ontario changing to Lakeshore, Toronto, Ontario from 1968 from 1957 to 1972 when she was an Assembler, other occupant Richard Leader.
Entry in FindaGrave for Emily Alma Leader born 29 February 1912, spouse Richard Alexander Leader, died 18 December 1994 and buried in Birch, Row 2 South, Lot 3B, Farnham Cemetery, Farnham, Wellington, Ontario, Canada. "Leader/Richard/"Red/Alexander/Sept, 17, 1909/Aug. 18, 1994/Emily/Alma/Forsyth/Feb, 19, 1912/Dec, 18, 1994".
There are twenty eight entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Emily Alma Forsyth adding her death in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario.
Emily Alma Forsyth was the wife of Richard Alexander Leder, first cousin once removed of Earla Elsie Burger, wife of Donald Arthur Clayfield, grandnephew of Ellen Kate Luff, wife of Frederick Baker, my first cousin twice removed.
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