Frederick ELISHA LAWRENCE, .i
1848 - 1929 (81 years)-
Name Frederick ELISHA LAWRENCE Suffix .i Born 20 Mar 1848 Richmond Hill, Vaughan Twp., York Co., Ontario 
- Ref: Census 1901. Alt DOB: 12 Feb 1847.
Gender Male Died 3 Jun 1929 Brandon, Cornwallis Co., Manitoba Buried Brandon Municipal Cemetery - Buried with wife Martha Ann Clay. Monument reads: 1847-1929.
Person ID I583 Richard Patterson NJ & ON Last Modified 23 Jan 2019
Father Lieut. Col. Charles Earl LAWRENCE, . 1st, SUE
b. 27 Nov 1802, Saint John, Queens Co., New Brunswick
d. 19 Dec 1868, Niagara-On-The-Lake, Lincoln, Ontario (Age 66 years) Mother ELEANOR Mary Ellen Walkington CLAY
b. 1818, Hull, Yorkshire, England
d. 18 Nov 1853, Richmond Hill, Vaughan Twp., York Co., Ontario (Age 35 years) Married 31 Dec 1836 Richmond Hill, Vaughan Twp., York Co., Ontario - Yonge Street.
Family ID F79 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Martha Ann CLAY
b. 12 Jun 1853, Nottinghamshire, England
d. 9 Apr 1942, Brandon, Cornwallis Co., Manitoba (Age 88 years) Married 1 Jul 1885 Children 1. Clara Townley LAWRENCE
b. 7 Jul 1877, Uxbridge, Durham Co., Ontario
d. 23 Aug 1975, Carberry, Manitoba (Age 98 years)2. George Earl LAWRENCE, .iii
b. 6 Aug 1879, Willowdale (Toronto), York Co., Ontario
d. 8 Jun 1981, Haney, British Columbia (Age 101 years)3. Benjamin Leslie LAWRENCE, .ii
b. 18 Oct 1881, York Twp., York Co., Ontario
d. 7 Jan 1896, Brandon, Cornwallis Co., Manitoba (Age 14 years)4. Arthur Effingham LAWRENCE
b. 2 Jun 1884, Brandon, Cornwallis Co., Manitoba
d. 1940, Alberta, Canada (Age 55 years)5. Charles ALEXANDER LAWRENCE, .6
b. 9 Mar 1887, Brandon, Cornwallis Co., Manitoba
d. Feb 1976, Edmonton, Alberta (Age 88 years)6. BERTram Kemp LAWRENCE, .2
b. 27 Jul 1894, Brandon, Cornwallis Co., Manitoba
d. Jan 1993, Hamiota, Manitoba (Age 98 years)Last Modified 14 Dec 2014 Family ID F392 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Fred is the son Eleanor Clay & Charles Earl Lawrence.
. Frederick Elisha Lawrence was the youngest of the 6 Lawrence children.
. 1859 Dec 30 - Common School, List of prizes awarded. History, 3rd prize, Elisha Lawrence.
Ref: York Herald Newspaper.
. Daughter Clara Townley Lawrence was born at Uxbridge, Ontario & was 6 weeks old when her father took mother & I to the lumber camp at Green Bank, Reach Twp., where he had men working. Sometime later this bush property was destroyed by fire from sparks from a Hemlock stump on another man's property. We must have moved the to the East York, Toronto.
. Fred Elisha Lawrence made 3 trips to England in search of the alleged 'Lawrence-Townly fortune. When in England he stayed at grandfather Henry clays as they were relations. On his third trip over he married Martha Ann clay on Jul 1, 1875 & came back to Canada. They named Clara Towley Lawrence after Lawrence Towley Estate. {a non-existent scheme here only the lawyers were the beneficiary. - PJA)
. 1968, the 91 year old Clara T Lawrence also recalled hearing " father (Fred. Elisha Lawrence) saying that when his father (Charles Earl Lawrence) was sick in bed upstairs, (caused from a fall off a load of hay) that his second wife was trying to convince him when making out his will that she (Grace Royal Lawrence) needed everything to keep the younger family " (of two girls & one boy).
. Obituary. (Undated.)
LAWRENCE - At the General Hospital, Monday night. In his 82nd year, Frederick Elisha Lawrence. Funeral will be held from Campbell, Ferguson & Wrights parlor, Wednesday afternoon at 1 p.m. (Toronto papers please copy.)
Ref: Brandon Sun Newspaper, Manitoba, Canada. - - -
- Fred is the son Eleanor Clay & Charles Earl Lawrence.