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- Sarah Lockwood is the daughter of Gersham Lockwood & niece of Lord John Millington England.
. 1804 March 8, license, William Marsh & Sarah MontgomeryAt St. James Anglican Church, Toronto.
. Like the Marshs & Montgomerys they lived on Yonge St. Stillwell Willson was John Willson, Sr.'s second child. He was born June 2, 1793 & died May 23, 1863. When Mrs. [Sarah] Stillwell Wilson attended her sister Sarah Marsh's funeral in 1883, she was 88 years old.
Ref: The ancestors & descendants of F. A. Marsh & Ivy Crites: containing ancestors in America from 1620 to the present with the origins of some English & German ancestors as early as 1480. By William Robert Marsh. Pub 1990.
. 1812 Jan 3, Mrs. Sarah Rogers (Timothy) left Newmarket to go to York to get some things she wanted to begin build their house. As we rode this 24 miles she look pleasant & told her wishes, the next day attend to sell & buy. After Sarah & Rogers had been there a while, went 6 or 7 miles up Yonge Street to William Marsh's for his wife was her relations & they used us well; but my wife was taken poorly & complained of chills, then an ague & pain between her breast & side, & her old relations was very kind & also was Sally their daughter; & I won soon went to York & brought Dr. Aspinwall; & everything was done that man could do. We had 4 child at home. It being very cold I was overmuch fatigued in attending upon her. …She died Jan 17 at my own house in Pickering. They were Quakers. Ref: Timothy Rogers: An Autobiography, 1756-1866, published 1937, p32. - - -
Obituary 1883
Reach was reported of Mrs Sarah Marsh, of Ridgetown, aged 104. She had been born in New Brunswick where her family had fled following the US revolution, coming to Canada in 198. In 1823 her husband chopped down the first reed & built the first house in Ridgeown. Of 13 children, 4 sons & a daughter survived. She was a sister of John Montgomery at whose Toronto district tavern, William Lyons Mackenzie had rallied his forces in the 1837 rebellion. - - -
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