Notes:

Birth:
Alt Loc: Toronto, Ontario.

Died:
Buried with his parents & wife Berverly Jane Lawrence.

Buried:
Plot: Haven of Peace, Map 1, Lot 731-4. Recumbent bronze plaque.

Family/Spouse: Beverly Jane GRAY. Beverly was born on 2 Mar 1920 in Los Angeles, California; died on 2 Aug 2010 in Los Angeles, California; was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. 1906 Toronto Directory
J Ernest Lawrence teller, Standard Bank, 155 King St., Toronto &
1 WSide Avenue Road, Toronto, 2nd north of Carendon Avenue, Toronto.

. WWII Registration 25 Apr 1942, J E Lawrence,
Height 5' 7.5", weight 163 lb. Eyes Hazel, Hair gray, Complexion, ruddy. Pasadena, Calif. - - -

Birth:
102 Avenue Road.

Died:
Recumbent monument on a grassy hillside.

Buried:
Glendale, LA. Plot: Haven of Peace, Map 1, Lot 731, Space 1, with wife Mabel.

John married Mabel Bruce SAWYER est 1918. Mabel was born on 18 Mar 1886 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario; died on 11 May 1951 in Pasadena Twp., Los Angles Co., California; was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Verify location.

Died:
Glendale, LA. Plot: Haven of Peace, Map 1, Lot 731, Space 2, with husband J E Lawrence.

Notes:

. Methodist Baptism, John Wilson Street Lawrence,
s/o John & Margery Lawrence
Born Eglinton, ON., on 2 Mar 1856,
Baptized 7 Aug 1856 at York Twp., by Rev. S C xx
Ref: Ontario Methodist Baptismal Register, Vol 2, Pg. 413 York Co.

. Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto Plot H5B.
Red granite monument, with leaves & triangles, inscription reads:
John Willson Lawrence, Born 2nd March 1856, passed 27th May 1926,
Not lost but gone before, underneath are the everlasting arms.
His wife Marie Eleanor Bridgeland,
born 30 June 1857, passed away 22nd April 1936. - - -

Birth:
Alt Name: Parents called him Wilson. East York.

Died:
Aged 70y 2m 5d. at 13:30 PM. COD: acute indigestion, Angina pectoris.

Buried:
Others sources say he is buried in Sutton, ON. Monument 40.

John married Maria Eleanor MARIE BRIDEGLAND on 9 Nov 1880 in Yorkville (Toronto), Ontario. Maria (daughter of James William BRIDGELAND and Maria Rebecca DENNIS) was born on 30 Jun 1856 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario; died on 22 Apr 1936 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario; was buried in Cummer Burial Grounds, Willowdale. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Maria Eleanor is the daughter of Maria Rebecca Dennis, b 1831 Kingston, Ont. & James Wm Bridgeland, b 9 Apr 1918 Town of York, Ontario.

. Ontario Marriage Registration 012846
John W S Lawrence, Age 25/1855, Yorkville, book keeper, Methodist,
s/o John & Margery Lawrence,
Married Maria E Bridgeland, Age 24, Yorkville, Methodist.
d/o James W & Maria Rebecca Brigland,
Witnesses: Percival L Mason, Toronto [i.e. his cousin] &
Anna S Bridgeland, Yorkville,
Married by Rev W J Hunter, D.D.

. 1880 Nov 9, Tuesday, Married Lawrence- Bridgeland,
At Bloor street Methodist Church by Rev W J Hunter,
John Willson Lawrence, youngest son of John Lawrence Esq.
to Marie Eleanor, eldest daughter o the late J W Bridgeland, all of Yorkville.
Ref: Toronto Globe & Mail Newspaper.

. 1888 Feb 22 - Died Lawrence, at 10 Avenue road, Toronto, Anna May Madeline, beloved daughter of John W Lawrence, aged 9 months 22 days. funeral from 10 Avenue road on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Ref: Toronto Globe & Mail newspaper.

. 1902 The Society Blue Book of Toronto,
Lawrence, Mr & Mrs. J. Willson, "Southlawn, 67 Lowther Ave. Toronto, [etc. as below].

. 1903-4 The Society Blue Book of Toronto, Hamilton & London, A Social Directory
Lawrence, Mr. & Mrs. J. Willson, 78 Walmer road.
Summer Residence: "The Retreat," Jackson' s Point, Lake Simcoe.
Receives 1st & 2d Friday. Mrs., nee Bridgeland, (65 Women's Art Assoc.)

. 1913 & 1920 The Society Blue Book of Toronto,
Lawrence, Mr. & Mrs. John Willson (Bridgeland)
10 Clarendon avenue, Toronto, Receives 1st Thursday & Friday
Clubs, Mrs. 68-Women's Musical Club
Mr. J. Ernest Lawrence
Mr. Karl W. Lawrence, 45 Royal Canadian Academy of Art. - - -

Birth:


Died:
9 Wynchwood Park, Toronto.

Buried:
COD: from x-ray findings a growth in base of left lung, pain., old age.

Notes:

Married:
[ Toronto ]

Notes:

Letter from John Lawrence.xii to Cousin Valentine Harden Tisdale :

"Dear Cousin, To Val Harden Tisdale, Yonge Street, December the 26th, 1837

I often have been talking about the Revolutionary War, but we have had a Rebel war in earnest. Pappa heard on Saturday night [i.e. Dec 6, 1837] about 9 o'clock that the Rebels intended to attack the City in the course of the next week. He went in early on Monday to inform the Governor who called his Counsel together immediately & said that it was the first information he had received that he could depend on. Father informed them the Rebels might come tonight. Sure enough about 9 o'clock at night they began to parade down the Street past our house. [i.e. Lawrence Ave East & First Con. Yonge St.] We had just got in bed when there came a tap at the Door. When Father jumped & opened the Door there came in a good Tory* saying that the Rebels was all going to take Toronto.

We all muster up directly & went to all the Loyal Fellows that we knew. That night I went out to get another man on the Second Concession West. The Rebels was going down that Road. We laid down by the fence to let them pass. They came within about 8 feet of us where they made a full stop & said this is not the place, turned off to go to Montgomery's Wharf, where they took their Stand. [Montgomery's Ave: Yonge just north of Eglinton Ave. West side.]

That night Father sent Peter & our hired man to 2nd Con to warn along that line to get into Toronto as early as possible in the morning.

Uncle Perine & Colonel Moody called at our house & told Mama he intended to go the Governor that night unless they killed him. They had a guard placed across the Street at Montgomery's Tavern. [i.e. a couple of miles south.] When Uncle & the Colonel came up they Bid them stand, but the Colonel in forcing his way through was Shot thought the Body by the Rebels. Perine immediately wheeled his horse & topped [jumped] over the fence & ran his horse to the Governor's house & gave the alarm that the Rebels was coming.

Father & Mr. Bond was all night along the Street laying by the sides of the fence whenever the Rebels would pass. They crept along the side of the fence until they came within a few rods of the Rebels guard & lay for about 2 hours expecting to get some information respecting their attack, but all their talk was what a fine fellow McKenzie was.

We all returned home just before day & got our Breakfast. On Tuesday morning five of us took into the woods & went up hills & down dales till we came into the City. At the Market Buildings we found the Governor with 2 guns in his hands & the Chief Justice Robinson & all the rest of the Nobility with their firelocks in their hands with their Cartridge Box & Baronets by their sides & a fine lot of Good Loyal men all getting Arms. We all immediately got our Army formed into a Company & marched to the Garrison.

That night Father was placed officer of the guard & the next Morning placed on picket guard where we was kept till about 8 o'clock at night. The next morning that word was for action. Capt. McClain came to my Father & wished him to go with him on the west flank of the Army as he was acquainted with the ground which he readily complied with. When they say the Army coming up Yonge Street, the Rebels ran down in the woods to flank them not expecting that we had a flank of about two hundred men coming out of the woods upon them. As soon as our Cannon began to play in their faces & our flanks on their backs, they took to their heels for their life. We believed there was upwards of a dozen killed & several wounded.

Sir Francis Bond Head led army into action like a Gallant General & when Prisoners was taken he allowed them the Greatest leniency. The Army all marched up above Hoggs Mills & then returned, except a few that pursued McKenzie & took his horse & burnt Gibson's House & Barn. Montgomery's Buildings was all burnt to ashes but we must not forget that MacKenzie began the burning & burnt Doc. Horn's house, or the thirty men who killed one of the Rebels & wounded several others & the Rebels had to retreat.

The Rebels came to our house several times with a full determination to have Father's Gun & Sword. Mama took care to have the Gun & Sword hid. They plundered all through the Neighbours, but all they took from us was one powder Flacks. MacKenzie threatened to burn our house the day the Battle took place.

Uncle Perine was here yesterday & said that all our relations was well up there [i.e. further north on Yonge Street] & Sarah C. is not married yet. She is waiting for you to come down. You must answer this as soon as you can.

The Family joins me in love to you, Uncle, Aunt & Cousins. For John Lawrence."

Note1: In 1984 the Archives of Ontario received this letter from John F Brook of Niagara-on-the Lake, Ontario. They maintain that the letter had never been delivered when it was found in a torn-down building. Archives of Ontario Accession # 16315. Further explanations on these people may be found in the Lawrence Willson Book.
Note2: Those accompanying Col. Moonie were: Capt. Stewart, Capt. Bridgeford. On the road we were joined by Mr. Prime (Perine) Lawrence, Mr. G. Read, & Mr. Brooks.
. Transcribed, P J Ahlberg, 2008.

. 1852 Census York Twp., (Lawrence Ave & Yonge St., Toronto)
John Lawrence, age 25 b New Brunswick, Methodist, Wheelwright
Eliza Lawrence, age 23, b 1829 New Brunswick
Han McKenzie, age 50, 1802, New Brunswick*
Han Carbold, age 18 New Brunswick.
Saw Mill by Water Power, 1 story building, Saw 200,000 ft. per annum.
One story frame house.
Note3: Brother Jacob Lawrence's lot is beside him, also with a saw mill.
Note4: Birth location ditto of NB may refer his father Peter Lawrence's birth location. No children for John & Sarah are listed. Is Han Carbold a servant?

. 1859 Oct 12, Bargain & Sale, Purchased from Amos Thorne for £50, Lot 6, Con 1 Yonge Street West side. Part quarter acre.
Ref: Land Registration Office, York County.

Verify this John Lawrence
. 1861 Jun 21, West Riding of York, W P Howland nominated. A large & respectable meeting was yesterday held at the Albion Inn, St. Andrews for hearing from the late member of the Riding an account of his course in Parliament. [a long discourse!] Will serve from York Twp.: John Lawrence.

. 1862 May 5, York Twp. Council, 5th meting held on 26th ins. Present Maguire, Playter & Shepard. The Council order the sum of $3 to be paid to John Lawrence for the funeral expenses for a pauper child. Council than adjourned to meet at the Prospect Houston Mon. May 26th. Signed, John Willson, 45th Clerk.
Ref: Toronto Globe & Mail.

Obituary
. 1899 Mar 24, Friday - Lawrence, At his residence, Aurora, John Lawrence, eldest son of the late Peter Lawrence, in his 84th year.
Funeral on Tuesday, Mar 28th, at 8 o'clock a.m. train arrives at Union Station 10:10 a.m., thence to Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
Ref: Toronto Globe & Mail .

Ontario Land Registry North York Book 1, p48
Lot 5, Con 1 E Yonge Street
. 1797 Mar 12, Patent, Crown, Wm. Cooper, All 190 Acres.
. 1865 Mar 15, John Lawrence & Sarah M his wife, to James Metcalfe, to $8400, ALL
. 1867 Nov 4, Grant, John Lawrence et ux, to Township of York, $100, 2A.
. 1868 Oct 24, James Metcalf, to John Lawrence, $5000, ALL.
. 1870 Oct 3, Grant, Corp Twp. of York, to John Lawrence, A$100, part 2, 10 Acres
. 1884 Feb 6, Grant, John Lawrence et ux, to Geo W Banks, $00, Par 11, 4/00 Acres
. 1883 Dec 1, Mortgage, John Lawrence etux, to Geo W Banks, $800, Part 11A.
. 1888 Apr 6, Discharge Mort., John Lawrence, to Geo W Bank, $700, 11A.
. 1907 Nov 14, Grant, Franklin Lawrence, Samuel B & John W Lawrence, Executors of John Lawrence said Franklin, Samuel B, John W Lawrence & Minnie Redditt, to Jos A Montgomery, $47,000 ALL NE corner.
. 1910 Dec 14, Plan 1534, Dovercourt Land Building & Savings Co. Ltd. (Sarah A Harris, Franklin & S.B. Lawrence & J. Willson Lawrence,) Mortgages.

Lot 6, Con 1 East Yonge St., North York Book 2, p2
[i.e.North East side of Yonge & Lawrence Ave., Toronto]
. 1845 Dec 22, B&S, Peter Lawrence, to Jacob Lawrence, £2000, N &ESHalf, 105 A.
. 1846 Feb 18, Peter Lawrence et ux, to John Lawrence, £200, 2Acres
. 1847 May 31, B&S, John Lawrence et ux, to Peter Lawrence, £550 Part front part 2 Ac.
. 1883 Dec 13, Grant, John Lawrence etall, to Geo W Banks, $900TH A.

Lot 6, Con 1, West side Yonge Street, Land Registry Book 401, Metro Toronto, p 111-113 North York 97, p3-5: as well?
. 1845 May 9, Bargain & Sale, Peter Lawrence & Elizabeth his wife, to John Russell, £77 10 s., Part 2A.
. 1846 Feb 16, B&S, PL etux, to John Lawrence, £200,P 2 acre
. 1847 May 31 - B&S, John Lawrence et ux, to Peter Lawrence, £550, Front part 2ac.
. 1856 Dec 22, B&S, Amos Thorne, etux, to John W Lawrence, £50, Part quarter ac.
. 1858 Aug 17, Mortgage, John W Lawrence, to Rufus Skinner, £100, Part Quarter A. & Mort Discharged 1859 Oct 11
. 1859 Oct 10, Grant, John W Lawrence & Eliza his wife, to James Metcalfe, Part quarter acre.
. 1860 Jul 9, WILL, Peter Lawrence, SHalf, expo pt N part.
. 1860 Sep 29, B&S, Jos Beckett & Charlotte his wife, to John Lawrence, £9000, PS 104 ac.
. 1905 Oct 2, Plan, Frank Lawrence, Samuel B Lawrence, & J Willson Lawrence, Exors of John Lawrence
. 1909 Oct 19, Grant, F, SB & John W Lawrence, Exors of John Lawrence, sd, F, SB & JW Lawrence & Minnie Redditt, to Oris G Vanhorn, $35,033.50, SW Lot 10, subject to reservations.
. 1910 Jul 25, Plan, Melrose Realty Co., F., SB & JWillson Lawrence, Exors John Lawrence.

Lot 20, Con 1 West Yonge Street, North York Book 108, p3-5. [Yonge & Finch Ave. W]
. 1822 May 23 B&S Trust, Stillwell Willson et ux, to Wm. Allan, 5 shillings, ALL.
. 1854 Nov 8, B&S, Andrew Davis et aux, to Jacob Lawrence, £275, Part 1.
. 1863 May 1, Mort, James Hugo etux, to John Lawrence, $600, Part Acre;
. 1865 Mar 15, A.Mort., John Lawrence, to James Metcalf, $600, Part Acre;
. 1867 Feb 14, Grant, Andrew Davis, to Peter Lawrence, $525, Part 15 Acres;

Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

Birth:


Died:
- Yonge Street. Old Age, softening of the brain.

Buried:
Monument 40 & 41, (son PSJW).

John married Sarah Majorie MARGERY STREET in May 1848. Sarah was born on 28 Dec 1820 in Thorld, Lincoln Co., Ontario; died on 13 May 1899 in Toronto (Eglinton), York Co., Ontario; was buried in Cummer Burial Grounds, Willowdale. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. There are numerous duplicate Methodist baptisms for John & Sarah Margery Lawrence, but they bear the same name.
Verify, or where young children baptized at the same? - PJA 2010.

. 1899 Mary 13 - Died Lawrence, Suddenly the residence of her son, Franklin Lawrence, Eglinton, in her 79th year, Sarah Margery Street, widow of the late John Lawrence of Aurora, Funeral private
Ref: Toronto Globe & Mail.

. Burial Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Certificate 133500
Lawrence, Sarah Margery, Age 78 [1821], Born Toronto, Ontario,
Died 1899 May 13, Eglinton, North Toronto, died of Apoplexy,
Buried 1899 May 15, in Plot C, Sec 14, Lot 23.
Ground property of JWL Br F M Lawrence [John Willson Lawrence, brother F M Lawrence?]
Medical attendant: S R Richardson, Official Minister Rev R H Locke, Undertaker J Young.
Ref: Toronto Trust Cemeteries, Mount Pleasant Cemetery. - - -

Birth:
[Thorld is near Niagara Falls]. Ref: ON Death Cert. son Franklin Lawrence.

Died:
COD: Apoplexy. Died at home of son Franklin Lawrence.

Notes:

James Wm. is the son of Eleanor Beaton & James W Bridgeland.

Surveyor & civil servant, born Apr. 9, 1817 at or near York (Toronto), second son of
James W. Bridgeland, 1776 -Oct. 6 1844 & Eleanor Bentham, 1779-Sept. 14, 1827, d/o Jeremiah Bentham.
J.W. died Oct. 22, 1880 in Toronto. His parents came to York from Kent County, England in 1816. For some years the family remained in York, the father having obtained the position of the Court of King's Bench, & young James attended Thomas Appleton's common school. In 1828 the family purchased property in Downsview, Toronto north, where the sons & daughters grew up. Young James decided to become a land surveyor & in 1842 attended the summer term at Victoria College, Cobourg. He was apprenticed to John Stoughton Dennis & qualified as a provincial land surveyor on May 6, 1844. Soon after he commenced to practice, he was employed by the Crown Lands Department in making surveys in Canada West & he became a member of the staff of the Crown Lands Office on Jan. 22, 1856. His most important surveys were in the townships of Mornington (1848), Kincardine (1850) & Carden (1852); along the Muskoka River (1852) & Indian River (1853); on Rama Island (1860); & in the Huron & Ottawa territory (1861-2). His reports frequently have a distinct literary flavour. To describe land near
the Muskoka River, he wrote "would only be to repeat the tedious monotony of rocky barrens, swamps, marshes, & burnt regions; destitute of good water, good timber, in short of everything necessary to make settlement desirable or life supportable; seem from their scarcity - scarcely able to exist".
These reports were eminently sensible & won the approval of his superiors, as did no doubt his attitude towards employees who attempted to gain an increase in pay. To one of his subordinates he wrote: "The Strike you speak of should have been the immediate occasion for you to have discharged every man ..., I will not sanction a farthing of increase in wages."

After 1860 Bridgeland's duties lay chiefly in the field of colonization of roads, built by the government to attract settlers to the Georgian Bay & Ottawa area. His duties led him also to the mining districts & Indian lands north of Lake Superior. In 1864 when the superintendent of colonization of roads in Canada West, David Gibson, died, that office was discontinued but the duties were transferred to Bridgeland. After confederation he continued to perform the duties connected with the oversight of colonization of roads in Ontario - duties he would be relied on to perform with diligence & economy.

. 1859 June 11, James Bridgeland, a widower, married Martha Ann Jones (1832-1910) d/o Rev. Richard Jones & Mary Ann Wright.

Six children were born from this marriage:
Anna Sarah (1860-1941)
Albert James (1861-1865)
Mary Ella (1865-1944)
Martha Alice (1868-1868)
Josephine (1870-1953)
Mildred Katherine Bridgeland (1873-1949). - - -

Buried:
Mississauga, Peel Co.

James married Maria Rebecca DENNIS on 13 Jun 1849 in Humber River, Etobicoke Twp., (Toronto), Ontario. Maria was born in 1833 in Town of York (Toronto), York Co., Ontario; died on 11 Jun 1857 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Maria Rebecca is the daughter of Mary Stoughton, 1798, Kingston &
Joseph Dennis, b 1789 Pennfied., Charlotte Co., NB,
They resided Buttonwood, Humber River, Ontario.

. 13 June 1849: On Tuesday, 12th inst., James W. Bridgland of the Township of York, Surveyor,
married to Maria R., daughter of Joseph Dennis, of Buttonwood, on the River Humber by Rev. James Richardson.
Ref: The Globe, Toronto. - - -

Birth:
Alt Loc. Kingston, Ontario

Notes:

Married:
Tuesday