As per Brunswick Methodist Church, Halifax NS Records NS Archives MFM # 11402, odometer 114.34, entry #88, 1831 Circuit, George Ritchey (Ritchie) was the son of John H. Anderson Merchant and his wife Margaret born 1 Jan 1831 and baptized 30 Jan 1831 Halifax. Registered by Wm Croscombe.

Buried 24 Sept 1886 as per Halifax Regional Municipality Cemetery information.

The Anderson family was a prominent family in Halifax. George Ritchie Anderson was the senior partner in the dry goods firm Anderson, Billings and Co. that was begun by his father, the late Hon. John Hawkins Anderson, who was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia (MLA) and was appointed by Royal Proclamation to the first Canadian Senate as a Liberal Senator at Confederation. The Anderson house, now a historic site, was built to showcase of his new prominence in his father's firm and in Halifax society. George Ritchie Anderson attained the rank of colonel in the local militia and was an aide-de-camp to the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. His other achievements included: director of the Union Band, director of the Halifax Gas Company, and member of the managing committee of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum.

Marriage records confirm George Richie Anderson married twice. First to Harriet Amelia Connell (1829-1865), daughter of Jeremiah Mansfield Connell, Esq. and M.L.A. and Mary Payne (nee Wolhaupter) Connell. Together they had numerous children including Minnie, Kate, John H. and Ida. After Harriet Amelia passed in 1865, George Richie remarried Harriet's cousin, Susan Helen Connell (1847-1913), daughter of the late Hon. Charles Connell and Ann (nee Fisher) Connell.

Obituaries: General, The Press, Woodstock, NB 8 Sep 1886
Press Newspaper Sept 8, 1886

George R. Anderson, of Halifax, died in London, England on the 1st inst., of paralysis. He was a native of Halifax, but so well known and intimately connected in Woodstock that his death will be deeply felt here. He had a stroke of paralysis at Halifax last winter, from which he so far recovered as to enable him, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Anderson, to take a trip to England, hoping by a season in another climate, and with the best possible medical advice, to be still further restored. Though apparently doing as well as he could expect, he was stricken again on Tuesday, August 31st , and died the next day.

In October, 1852, he married Harriet, daughter of the late Jeremiah Connell, M. P.; she died in 1862 [1865] leaving four children-Minnie, John, Katie and Ida. On July 24th 1866 [1867] he married Susan Helen, eldest daughter of the late Hon. Charles Connell. In his painful bereavement in a distant land, she and his children have the deep sympathy of a wide circle of friends.

George Richie Anderson was buried at Camp Hill in the Anderson family plot.