Farmer.
Born at New Orleans, Louisiana on 7 March 1858, son of John Inkster and Mary Fogarty, he came to Manitoba as a boy and began farming. He owned 240 acres of land near Stonewall. He married Margaret Tait (1858-1933) and they had ten children, of whom eight lived to adulthood: Ellen Mary Inkster (1882-1975, wife of Joseph Attree), Josephine Inkster (1885-1970, wife of James Waddell Jeffery), Constance Harriet Inkster (1887-1988), Emily Inkster (1889-1969), John “Jack” Inkster (1890-1969), Isabel Inkster, Louise Inkster (1896-1991, wife of William Alexander Bell), and Geoffrey James “Geoff” Inkster (1898-1981, husband of Mary Fern MacFarlane). He was a member of the Independent Order of Foresters and Episcopal Church. He died in the Rural Municipality of Rockwood on 14 October 1938 and was buried in the Stonewall Cemetery.
Birth registration [Constance Harriet Inkster], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
Death registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Isabel Inkster], Winnipeg Free Press, 20 February 1989, page 22.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Wayne Inkster for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 18 September 2024
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