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Robert B. Adams
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20 cm of textual records
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Biographical history
Mortician and funeral director Robert Brook Adams, the son of Jackson Adams, was born at Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1867. Jackson Adams conducted a funeral service business in Fredericton for many years, and was also engaged in cabinet and furniture making. By 1886 son Robert was working as a mortician and undertaker, and he continued in the profession for a number of years.
Robert's brother John G. Adams also found employment in the family business. Robert B. Adams married Sarah Haines MacFarlane on 19 September 1894, and they had no fewer than four children: Jean (Mills), James Boone, Roberta (Eaton), and T. Burtt. He died on 3 November 1963 at Fredericton, and is buried in the Rural Cemetery on Woodstock Road.
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Scope and content
This fonds documents the business activities of Robert B. Adams -- undertaker, mortician, and funeral director. It consists of account ledgers which record the name of the deceased, his or her date of birth, the cause and place of death, the place of burial, and the name of the individual requesting services (1903-1908).
Also included are records of casket sales (1896-1902), death returns of the Fredericton Board of Health (1899-1904) containing detailed information about the deceased, three burial permits (1905), a floor plan for the funeral parlor, and a few additional business records.
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Donated to the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick in 1989 by Jean Mills, of Fredericton, N.B., the daughter or Robert B. Adams.
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