Sarah Louise MONTGOMERY

Female 1779 - 1883  (104 years)


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  • Name Sarah Louise MONTGOMERY 
    Born 31 May 1779  Gagetown, Queens Co., New Brunswick Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Born on the George Farm, Gagetown.
    Gender Female 
    Died 31 May 1883  Ridgetown, Kent County, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • ON. Death Reg: Widowed. 'Aged 106, no disease' except old age, of course!
    Buried Trinity Anglican Church, Howard, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Buried on the slopes at Trinity. Ref: Ridgetown Women's Institute Papers.
    Person ID I481  John Willson, Piscataway, NJ and Ontario Family Tree
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2020 

    Father Alexander MONTGOMERY, Jr., U.E,
              b. Feb 1758, Greenwich, Fairfield Co., Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 3 May 1841, Town of York (Toronto), Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Mother Judith JUDA MYERS
              b. 24 May 1759, Phillips Manor, Yonkers, Westchester, NYC Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 16 Mar 1831, Town of York (Toronto), Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years) 
    Married 1779  New York, New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F54  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family William MARSH, .Jr
              b. 1766, Westchester Co., New York Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Apr 1855, Ridgetown, Kent County, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 89 years) 
    Married 29 Feb 1804  St. James Anglican Cathedral Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Alexander MARSH, Sr.
              b. 19 Jul 1810, Toronto, York Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 13 Sep 1887, Bothwell, Howard Twp., Kent Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
     2. Rebecca Ann MARSH
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2020 
    Family ID F335  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • 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. - - -