Joseph E. Ready and Mary Elizabeth Buffam
Joseph, Ada Belle, Bessie, Vivien, Mary. c. 1898 Barton, Vermont.	Name:	Joseph McEwne Ready
	Birth:	8.x.1857 Burgess Twp.
	Death:	3.3.1908
	Grave:	Rideau Ferry
	Spouse:	Mary Elizabeth Buffam
	Birth:	10.x.1863 Renfrew
	Death:	4.15.1940 Alberta
	Grave:	Airdrie Cemetery
	Marriage:	12.21.1881
	Parents:	Joseph: William Ready and Elizabeth H.
	Children:	Bessie Maxwell Ready Ada Belle (Acheson) Vida (Vivien) Ruth (Pole)
	Ready Family Database

Joseph Ready was born in Burgess Twp., Leeds, Ontario, in August 1857. He married Mary Elizabeth Buffam (1863 - 1940) on 21 Dec 1881. Mary Buffam was born in McNab Twp., living in North Elmsley at the time of her marriage to Joseph. She was raised by her aunt Isabella McIntosh Coutts Morrison. Her grandfather was Duncan McIntosh (1806 - 1884).

006084-1881 (Leeds Co) Joseph READY, 23, Farmer, Burgess, same, s/o William READY & Elizabeth READY, married Mary E. BUFFAM, 21, McNab, North Elmsley, d/o Henry BUFFAM & Maybell BUFFAM, witn: Robert READY, Burgess, Maggie HOLLIDAY, Almonte, 21 Dec 1881 at Newboro.

Their first daugher, Bessie M. Ready, was born in Ontario November 1883 but her birth was not registered.

The family moved to Barton, Vermont in 1885, where Ada Belle Ready was born Sep 1886. Joseph worked as a labourer in Barton, Vermont.

Vida Ruth Ready was born 16 Dec 1892 in East Charleston, Vermont. Vida went by the name of Vivien. She married a Russell Pole in Calgary in 1923.

The Ready family appeared on the 1900 census in Barton, Orleans, Vermont.

The family moved back to Perth, Ontario in 1905 (appearing on the 1911 census), where they ran a grocery store at 109 Gore Street East (the corner of Gore and Craig). Joseph died of heart failure on 3 Mar 1908.

Mary was listed as a widowed grocer when she married for the second time in Perth, Ontario. She sold her business to Fred Free at the time of her marriage to George Hogg. Her two eldest daughters were witnesses at her wedding. Mary moved to Calgary with her daughter Ada in November 1913 (without George). Daughter Vivien's wedding was held at Mary's home at 316 - 3 Ave. W., Calgary. Mary's cemetery site in Airdrie Cemetery is 2/19/8. Granddaughter Doris Pole Evans remembers Mary's tasty gingersnaps. She was also a tall woman, about 5'11", as was her oldest daughter Bessie.

Bessie attended the Perth Federal College in 1906. She was a witness at her mother's second marriage in 1909. Also in 1909, she was the bridesmaid at her cousin, Maggie Morrison's wedding. In the 1911 Ontario census, she was listed as a stenographer in a law office, the occupation that she continued after she moved to Alberta. En route to moving to Calgary in July 1913, Bessie and Vivien visited with Ralph Miller, Maggie's widower, in Loreburn. Bessie died of tuberculosis and heart failure in September, 1950.

1911 Perth Census

Ada, Bessie and Vivien Ready

Ada, Vivien and Bessie Ready