LAWRENCE GOODMURPHY
1806 - 1891 (85 years)-
Name LAWRENCE GOODMURPHY Born 14 Feb 1806 Wexford, Ireland 
Gender Male Died 17 Dec 1891 Wellington, Hillier Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Person ID I26 Patrick Goodmurphy Family Tree Last Modified 2 Aug 2020
Father JOHN GOOD MURPHY
b. Abt 1782, Wexford, Ireland
d. Between 1842 and 1848, Wellington, Hillier Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada (Age 60 years) Relationship natural Mother DEBORAH DAVIS
b. 24 Feb 1783, Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland
d. Abt 1849, Warkworth, Ontario, Canada (Age 65 years) Relationship natural Married 1802 Ossory Diocese, Church of Ireland Family ID F23 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Lydia GARRATT
b. Abt Oct 1807, Hallowell Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
d. 15 Nov 1891, Wellington, Hillier Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada (Age 84 years) Married Abt 1826 Wellington, Hillier Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Children 1. SARAH ANN GOODMURPHY
b. 1827
d. 1827 (Age 0 years) [natural]2. RACHEL ANN GOODMURPHY
b. 1827
d. 1827 (Age 0 years) [natural]3. TOWNSEND GOODMURPHY
b. 1828
d. 1849 (Age 21 years) [natural]4. WILLIAM DAVIS GOODMURPHY
b. 8 Sep 1833, Hallowell Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
d. 21 Jun 1916, Vernon, British Columbia, Canada (Age 82 years) [natural]5. SOLOMON LAWRENCE GOODMURPHY
b. 1836, Belleville, Thurlow Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
d. 17 Mar 1895, Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada (Age 59 years) [natural]6. CALEB GOODMURPHY
b. 8 Feb 1839, Wellington, Hillier Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
d. 7 Jul 1905, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada (Age 66 years) [natural]7. THOMAS GOODMURPHY
b. 1840
d. 1861, Hallowell Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada (Age 21 years) [natural]8. JOHN GOODMURPHY
b. 1 Dec 1842, Hallowell Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
d. 17 May 1922, Gore Bay, Ontario (Age 79 years) [natural]9. RHODA GOODMURPHY
b. 12 Aug 1845, Wellington, Hillier Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
d. 8 Dec 1887, Stillwell, North Dakota (Age 42 years) [natural]10. DANIEL GOODMURPHY
b. 1847, Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
d. 1 Jun 1900, Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada (Age 53 years) [natural]11. LUCETTA ELIZA GOODMURPHY
b. 4 Oct 1850, Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
d. 23 Nov 1934, Bloomfield, Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada (Age 84 years) [natural]12. ANTHONY GOODMURPHY
b. 1852, Hallowell Twp, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
d. Between 1882 and 1891 (Age 30 years) [natural]Last Modified 2 Aug 2020 Family ID F11 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Lawrence arrived in Canada about August 1822 with his parents. The family had stopped at Kingston, Ontario , and there he was apprenticed to a man named Carl, to become a shoemaker.
The arrangement stipulated that Lawrence would apprentice for three (3) years, then when he was finished, he was to get a suit of clothes and some money.
Meanwhile his parents and siblings were to have meandered along towards the west, arriving at Smokeville (now Wellington).
The inhabitants at that time were few and far between, but just the same, they had two hotels where whiskey was sold.
Lawrence obviously completed his apprencticeship and headed for Wellington three years later. in 1825 or 1826 he met a Lydia Garratt at a Suree at the Sandbanks, and they were married sometime soon-after.
The Garratts were Quakers who had originated from Belfast and had emigrated to Upper New York State, then crossed over to Canada.
I found Lawrence on the 1840 Census for Murray Township. The Cenus records that there were a total of 7 in the family, all Quakers.
There were four (4) male children, two (2) adults, plus another female over 16 (unknown).
Next door was a Townsend Garratt and family, and a Thmas Garratt and family. Could be siblings of Lydia??
Lawrence took up the Quaker relgion for his family and set up a shoemaking shop in Wellington.
The 1851 Census has the family residing on Lot 11 of the 3rd Concession - Military Tract in Hallowell Twp - a farm made up of 114 acres.
The first two children, Sarah Ann and Rachel Ann were twins and died at birth according to Eliza Cooper.
Townsend and Thomas died of TB.
On Nov 28/1851,Lawrence purchased the North Half of Lot 11 on Conc 3 MT, from Thomas Waring and wife.
On April 28, 1864 Lawrence acuired 1/4 acre of Lot 1, Concession 1 in Hillier Twp, from Rufus Wilder.
On March 8, 1867 he sold the West Half (50 acres of his Hallowell Twp property) to his son Wm Davis, and on April 22, 1867 sold the Eest Half (other 50 acres) to his son Solomon.
On April 28, 1867 Lawrence sold the 1/4 acre on Lot 1 to his son John.
Solomon acquired 70 acres of Lot 1, Conc. 1, in Hillier Twp, on November 5, 1872 from Silas Reynolds & Charlotte Blakely.
Laurence and Lydia were still living at the time of the 1891 Census and lived on the farm at Lot 1 with Solomon and his wife Lydia Morriah Hutchinson.
Apparently Lydia was blind by 83 years of age (1889).
According to the Register of Births, Deaths, Marriages kept by Franklin Jones, the clerk for Hillier Twp., Lawrence and Lydia were registered as dying in the 1st Half of 1892.
An examination of the Death Register of the Ontario Archives has given me the exact dates.
Lawrence died on December 17, 1891, see record # 01538192, and Lydia died on November 15, 1891, see record # 01538292. Lawrence died of paralysis, and Lydia died of old age.
It is not know where they are buried but it is presumed to be in Wellington .
A View of Life in 1861 on the Family Farm
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In 1861, on Lot 11, Conc. 3 - Military Tract, Hallowell Twp, out of a total of 114 acres, Lawrence and his family had 75 acres under cultivation. 46 acres were growing products and 29 were in pasture.
39 acres supplied 700 lbs. of maple sugar in that year.
The cash value of the property was $3200.00.
The cash value of the farm equipment was $50.00.
On this property, the following products were produced:
Spring Wheat - 4 acres/ 100 bushels
Barley - 10 acres/ 400 bushels
Rye - 7 acres/ 210 bushels
Peas - 14 acres/ 350 bushels
Oats - 5 acres/ 100 bushels
Potatoes - 4 acres/ 450 bushels
Carrots - 200 bushels
Beans - 10 bushels
Hay - 4 tons
Wool - 65 lbs.
20 yards of full cloth
16 yards of flannel
The livestock consisted of :
4 steers
6 milk cows (300 lbs. of butter)
4 horses ( 2 colts)
25 sheep
2 pigs
In 1861, almost 1600 lbs. of pork was barreled and 11,200 lbs. of fish
For transportation, the family had one pleasure carriage valued at $10.00.
- Lawrence arrived in Canada about August 1822 with his parents. The family had stopped at Kingston, Ontario , and there he was apprenticed to a man named Carl, to become a shoemaker.