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- . Sarah Catherine Lawrence, daughter of John & Mary Lawrence was born on Wednesday about 4 o'clock in the morning on 8th Day Aug 1810. - On 5 July 1825, at York, mother Mary Rezeau Lawrence swore she saw her husband, John Lawrence when he wrote down their children's names & birth dates.
. 1825 July 5 - I hereby certify that Eliza Ann Lawrence & Sara Catharine Lawrence are personally known to me & I believe from this appearance that the time of their respective births as stated, is true. Signed, York. James Miles, JP.
. After their father died Eliza Ann & Sarah Catherine were put on the Compassionate Fund for £11 each in 1824.
. Brother John R Lawrence, Jr wrote during the 1837 Rebellion that Sarah C was not married yet & was waiting for Cousin Valentine Harden Tisdale to come, presumedly from, Norfolk Co., Ontario. At this time Sarah C. appears to having being living with her brother Abraham Perine Lawrence up in Gwillimbury N Township, near Aurora, ON.
X-Ref: John Rezeau Lawrence Jr. for complete transcription. - PJA
. 1850 - Sarah C Lawrence, Lot 42, Con 1. Ref: Directory of Inhabitants of York.
Note1: It is quite without exception for the 1850 Directory for Sarah Lawrence to have her own listing in the book & as well as with no designation such as Miss Lawrence. etc. Brothers Alexander & Charles C Lawrence resided in a separate house on the same Lot 42 Yonge Street. - PJA
. 1852 Census - Sarah C Lawrence, Lady, Age 35, b 1816 St. Johns, New Brunswick, English Church, living with brother Charles E Lawrence. (Single.) One story frame house & one-story frame shop or store. Mary Mulville, 19y., servant, b. 1833 Ireland.
. 1852 Agricultural Census, Vaughan Twp., Sarah C Lawrence:
Lot 42, Con 1, 1 Acre, 1 cultivated acres, Garden/Orchard 1 A, Potatoes .5 acre produced 10 bu., Pigs 3, Butter 50 pounds.
Note2: Sarah Catharine Lawrence, born 8 Aug 1850 N.B. Daughter of Lieut. John Lawrence, U.E. (Lawrence Avenue, Toronto) & sister of; Charles Earl Lawrence, 1802 NB - 19 Dec 1868 Richmond Hill, Lot 42, Con 1 WS Yonge St., Clothier factory & carding & fulling mill.
. 1859 Apr 21, Yonge Street. House & Lot For Sale:
That House & Lot situated on the road leading to Mr. Arksey's Mill, on the 1st. Concession of Vaughan, with in a few rods of Yonge Street, with a good rough cast house, stable, garden & a fine orchard.
For particulars apply to S. C. Lawrence on the Premises. Yonge Street April 21, 1859.
Ref: York Herald, 22 Apr 1859, p2, weekly to 9 Sep, 1859, p. 3.
[i.e. Just before the unsettling events to follow. - PJA]
Ontario Land Registry, Book North York 170, page 127
Lot 6, Con 1 EYS
. 1846 Jan 10 , Bargain & Sale, Chas E Lawrence et ux, to Sarah C Lawrence, £150, P Half Acre, 25 ch, W from NE angle.
. 1856 Apr 26, Mortgage, Sarah C Lawrence, to John Duncomb. £50 Pt half acre.
Ontario Land Registry Book 153, p80.
Lot 42, Con 1 West Side Yonge, Richmond Hill
. 1818 Jun 13, WILL, John Lawrence, to Mary Lawrence stall, All acres
. 1846 Jan 10, B&S, Chas E Lawrence, etux, to Sarah C Lawrence, £150, Pt Half Acres, NE angle.
. 1856 Apr 26, Mortgage, Sarah C Lawrence, to John Duncomb [a magistrate], £50, pt. Half acre.
. 1860 Aug 1, Letters remaining at Richmond Hill Post Office: Miss Lawrence.
. 1862 Jan 1 - 31st - Letters remaining at Richmond Hill Post Office: S C Lawrence, M Teefy, Postmaster.
. 1862 Aug 29, Miss L A Lawrence [G. A.?] & S C Lawrence.
Ref: York Herald Newspaper.
. 1861 Census, Vaughan, Vaughan Twp., brother CE Lawrence
S. C. Lawrence, born N.B., Church of England, Age 44 /1817, [which is incorrect.] Frame house 1.5 stories.
Willa Tullman, labour, Canada, Age 18, non-family member
John Gaven, labour, Ireland, RC, age 21, non-family member
Wm & Mar Menaugh, labours, Canada, age 28 & 27.
John Archibald, name is crossed out - Deaths in1860, 31, Kicked by horse. [presumably age 31].
. 1861 Agricultural Census, Vaughan Twp., York Co., Ontario
Sara C Lawrence, Con 1, Lot 42*, 1 acres, 1 Acres in 1860, 1 Acre Orchards or Garden;
Half Acres produced 20 bushels Wheat;
1 milch cow; 4 sheep; 40 lbs. Butter.
Note* Other part of Con 1 Yonge St. Lot 42 belongs to brother Charles E. Lawrence, A. Perine Lawrence.
Obituary
* 1866 Nov 23, Died at Richmond Hill; on Friday the 23rd instant, Miss Sarah Catherine Lawrence, aged 56 years.
* 1866 Dec 18 Tuesday- Auction Sales, Cash Sale of Household Furniture etc, on the premises of the late Miss Sarah Catherine Lawrence, Sale at 11 am. H Smelsor, Auctioneer.
Ref: York Harold newspaper, published 1866 Dec 14.
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. 1859 Sep 2, THE RICHMOND HILL TRAGEDY:
X-reference & continued from her nephew, William Henry Lawrence, eldest son of Charles Earl Lawrence.
MISS SARAH CATHERINE LAWRENCE, of Vaughan, on being sworn said:
I went to Mr. Moore's house on Saturday evening last, she had borrowed some articles of Jewelry from me on the Thursday previous to getting her likeness taken in & I called to get them, she was scrubbing the floor, it was immediately after sunset, she said to me "I thought you were dead", she said this I believe because I had been very sick; she asked me to go into the room & see Burns' as he was sick in bed; I did so; I heard her moving about in the kitchen; I heard a noise as if a person fell; I afterwards seen her on her hands & knees as if scrubbing, she appeared to fallen forward & then look towards me, I seen her face, she did not appear to have hurt herself. She was afterwards in the Cook-house.
I wanted to get my articles of jewellery & go home & thinking she was not able to get them I proposed getting them myself; I thought she was the worse of liquor! I have been to the house several times & never saw her that way before; I have never heard that she was in the habit of drinking; she attempted to go from the cookhouse into the dwelling house. She struck herself against the door; I saw no marks on her face then; she was using an iron pot for scrubbing out of; she did not complain of being weak or sick.
JAMES BURNS recalled: I remember Miss Lawrence coming in to see me; I heard no noise while she was there, Mrs Moore used a large binn for holding water for scrubbing on Saturday evening; then scrubbing in the bedroom.
* After hearing all the evidence bearing on the case & after careful deliberation, the following verdict was returned:
"That Mary Ann Moore came by her death from inflammation of the bowels, caused by violet blows & kicks inflicted by her husband, Robert Moore, on Saturday 27, August."
Ref: York Herald, Richmond Hill, 9 Sep 1859, p. 2. - Slightly abbreviated to limit duplication. Research & transcript by PJ Ahlberg 2015. - - - [1]
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1810 - 1866 (56 years)