Individual Details

This family farmed first at New Canaan, where William appears on the Muster Rolls of Capt Keith's Company September 28 1846. Later the family moved to "Campbell's Settlement" described by Manchester Ryder as "four or five miles from Coles Island off the Canaan Road." It was there that most of his family were reared. At the time of her death in 1900 Caroline was living at 60 Metcalf St. Saint John NB.

A persistent family tradition says that William Ryder had either lived or travelled to the United States. A note in family possession says, "I saw a basket my grandfather (William Ryder) brought from New York at the time of the Civil War." However, the ages of his children, all believed to have been born in New Brunswick, would not suggest that the sojourn into the United States was anything more than a visit.

References: Dana Ryder; NBBrunswick census 1871; R Wallace Hale, Queens County New Brunswick Marriages, Vol A, 1812-1861; Saint John Burial Applications #406; Myrna Geldart; Maxine Allen.

Birth	1827	New Canaan, Brunswick Parish, Queens County, New Brunswick
Marriage	17 Aug 1846	New Canaan, Brunswick Parish, Queens County, New Brunswick - CAROLINE CURRY
Death		William's date of death not known

Spouse	CAROLINE CURRY (1829 - 1900)
Child	Living
Child	Living
Child	HENRY RYDER (1852 - )
Child	JAMES HULET RYDER (1855 - 1937)
Child	Living
Child	CHARLOTTE HANNAH RYDER (1858 - 1898)
Child	OLIVE MARTHA RYDER (1860 - 1901)
Child	MELISSA DRUCILLA RYDER (1862 - 1954)
Child	Living
Child	MARY RYDER (1864 - )
Child	WILLIAM BRADFORD RYDER (1866 - 1948)
Child	MELBOURNE RYDER (1868 - 1923)
Child	DANIEL FREEMAN ARON RYDER (1870 - 1905)
Child	Living
Child	STEVEN RYDER (1871 - )
Child	ALICE LAVENIA RYDER (1873 - 1910)

Father	STEPHEN RIDER (1798 - 1861)
Mother	ABIGAIL COREY (1798 - 1861)
Sibling	ESTHER RYDER (1818 - 1864)
Sibling	ELIZABETH RYDER (1821 - )
Sibling	Living
Sibling	ABIGAIL RYDER (1829 - )