- 1930 PEI PARO Marriage Record
Groom's Name Frederick Ernest Mills
Groom's Residence St. Eleanors
Groom's Status Bachelor
Bride's Name Catherine Viola Mildred Compton
Bride's Residence St. Eleanors
Bride's Status Spinster
Source RG19/s3/ss6: Marriage registrations, 1930
     From image: Page 111 #230 , Parish of St Eleanors, Prince County, PEI, 1930
Frederick Ernes Mills, Bachelor, of St Eleanors parish
Catherine Viola Mildred Compton of St Eleanors parish
Married by license, Church of St John, with consent of parents on 24 Sep 1930 by C de W. White
Witnesses: Kenneth Hubert Mills , Isabella Fortune Hunt, Leopold Compton

- They had 3 children.

- 1935 PEI death record index:
Mrs Fred Mills, 25
Residence St Eleanors,
Died 17 August 1935
Entry 254
Source RG19/s2/ss6: Death registration books, 1935 - PARO
Notes: “(Catherine)”

- 1935 gravestone: [Billion Graves]
MILLS
Frederick E. Mills 1909 - 1990
his wife
Katherine Viola Mildred Compton
1910 - 1935

RESEARCH NOTES:

Katherine is listed twice in these pages in both the families of her adoptive and her birth parents, all related.  Here she is listed with her adoptive parents.

There were 2 Katherine Comptons in 2 consecutive generations.  This Katherine Compton was the niece of the Katherine Compton who raised her. Middle names were also similar. They died within 1 day of each other in 1935.

The younger Katherine [Viola Mildred] Compton 1910-1935, adopted daughter of Katherine “Kate” and Henry Compton, is the same person as Katherine Compton, daughter of Leopold Compton. 

The older Viola Catherine "Kate" Compton 1863-1935 (sister of Leopold Compton, the birth father of the younger Katherine Compton), married her 1st cousin William Henry Compton and adopted their niece Katherine Compton rather than have children of their own.