Notes:

Anne Maria daughter of Mary Moore & Rev. Henry Wilkinson.

. Marriage Notices
25th inst., in York Tp. at the residence of the bride's father, Jacob, third son of Peter Lawrence & Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Rev. Henry Wilkinson, Chairman of the Toronto District, all of Yonge Street. By Rev. L Warner.
Ref: Christian Guardian, Toronto. 31 May 1848.

. Ontario Marriage 1848 May 25 License, married
Jacob Lawrence married Anne Maria Wilkinson, both of York
Witnesses: John Dennison & Mary Lawrence, ( ie. the sister of Peter L Lawrence ).
married by Rev. H L Warner, Wesleyan Methodist Church.
Ref: Ontario District Marriage Registers, 1801-1858 - - -

Birth:
Alt Name: Annie Marie

Anne married Jacob LAWRENCE, .III on 25 May 1848 in Denison (Weston), York Co., Ontario. Jacob (son of Major Peter Rezeau LAWRENCE, SUE and Elizabeth BETSY CUMMER, DUE) was born on 13 Dec 1821 in Eglinton, (Toronto), York Co., Ontario; died on 25 Aug 1885 in Sarnia, Lambton Co., Ontario; was buried in Lakeview City Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. Henry Peter Lawrence was born at the Lawrence Avenue farm & moved in 1873 to Watford where he work at the saw mill with his father Jacob & brother William. In 1875 he added a planning mill & then made staves & a heading milling. Additional staves were manufactured at Sutorville, Kingscourt & Warwick, Ontario. After the death of Jacob, the lumbering company was renamed M.A. Lawrence, after their mother.

. Henry was a discrete & generous family man. On December 26, 1902 Henry was taking a train home from Chatham when the train was wrecked at Wanstead, within sight of his former mill.

. 1906 - Henry P Lawrence, Long family bio. 1875 add a planing mill later destroyed by fire, & again rebuilt, later added a saw, stave & heading mill,. Wm. F continued the business & remove to Sarnia.
Commemorative biographical record of Co Lambton, Ont.

. Mr. Lawrence s early education was received at the place of his birth, Eglinton, Ontario. His business career really commenced at Wanstead, where he engaged in a saw-mill business with his father & his brother, William. In 1873 they settled at Watford & 2 years later added to the enterprises a planing mill, & still later a stave & heading mill. They also established stave & heading mills at Sutorville, Kingscourt & Warwick. After the death of Mr. Lawrence in 1902 the firm of Jacob Lawrence & Sons was dissolved & the Watford branch of the business was conducted under the firm name of M. A. Lawrence, the widow of Mr. Lawrence, in trust for the 2 youngest sons.

Mr. Lawrence was a man well fitted for extensive enterprises & became widely known in his line, though this was the result of his personality & not of any especial effort on his part. From the time he settled in Watford he took an active part in municipal affairs, serving at different times as a member of the Town & County Councils & as Reeve of Watford. He never thrust himself forward, but being an able man was looked to for many things & always proved himself worthy of any trust reposed in him. In private life as in public matters he was always a helpful friend, & while he did his duty to the full extent of his powers, he was never ostentatious or anxious to have his kindness known to any but the recipient. A public benefactor in the best sense, he was an ardent believer in temperance reform & took an active interest in the Referendum campaign, not long before his death.

. 1902 December 26, he had been at Chatham, Ontario, & had returned to spend a few hours with his family, leaving later on the train for Sarnia. The train was wrecked at Wanstead & he met death within sight of the place where he had made his first start in life. Being a most devoted family man, his death was indeed a sad loss to his wife & family & many marks of sympathy told of the high respect in which he was held by his neighbors.

. OPERATOR'S ERROR COST TWENTY-EIGHT LIVES; Flying Passenger Train Crashed Into Freight Train in Ontario. Thirty-five Persons Who Were Injured Suffered Terribly from Exposure. London, Ontario. Dec. 27 One of the most frightful railway disaster in the history of Canada occurred at 10.10 o'clock last night near Wanstead, a station on the Sarnia Branch of the Grand Trunk, 40 m. form this city, when Express No. 5, known as the Pacific Express, flying westward at the rate of 50 m/hr. & crowded to its capacity with passengers returning to their homes from holiday visits, crashed into an east-bound fright that was endeavoring to make a siding to get clear of the express, but failed ay a minute or two....est. 28 killed , 35 injured: dead: awrence, H P Watford, Ontario ...The darkness of night & the raging of a blizzard added honours of the wreck Last night it was delayed 2 hours by the heavy travel, & at Wanstead it was speeding to make up time....In the blinding snowstorm neither engineer saw the other train approaching. ... instead of receiving the duplicate order, the conductor of the express received a clearance order, telling him to run right through.
The telegraph operator at Wanstead heard the telegraph instrument click the message "Stop No. 5, Stop No. 5." Seizing a lantern the Wanstead operator dashed for the door & as he closed it behind him, he heard the awful crash of the collision half a mile up the track.
Ref: NY Times Newspaper dated 1902 Dec 28., Sunday. - - -

Birth:
b. Lawrence & Yonge St.

Died:
Plympton, ON. Train collision on G.T.R.

Buried:

Henry married Mary Ann KERR on 25 Oct 1880 in Watford, Lambton Co., Ontario. Mary was born on 18 Jan 1860 in Watford, Lambton Co., Ontario; died on c Oct 1918 in Watford, Lambton Co., Ontario; was buried in Watford Municipal Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Most of the Lawrence children attended the school at Eglinton Avenue., Toronto.

. 1861 Census, York Twp., York Co., Ontario  
Note1: At the time this area was called Eglinton, (Toronto), York Twp., York Co., Ontario. Eglinton Ave. is a bit of a stretch, being a few miles distant. The post office was at Eglinton. Previously this area running on both sides of Yonge Street was called Newtonbrook; later called Willowdale in North York, today it is a northern area in the city of Toronto.

. Agricultural Census 1861, York Twp:
1861 Jan 29, Toronto, oath by enumerator Robt. James Jr., states to the best of his belief the said & Personal & Agricultural Census are correct & true.

. My Enumeration Travel Extended from lot 6, on the East Side of Yonge Street* to the Town Line of Markham, First & second concessions of York Twp. In which there are 1 brick Primitive Methodist Church, acc. about 400 people; 1 English [Anglican] brick church, acc. 500; 1 Episcopal Methodist Church, brick, acc. 400; 1 Wesleyan Methodist Church, brick, acc 800, beside 2 schoolhouses. 3 flour mills capable of grinding a large amount of grain; 5 sawmill worked by water & one steam worked.
There are 2 stores, 3 taverns, land is generally good, most people are engaged in agricultural pursuits, land is heavy clay & good for wheat except for wheat owing to the midge the last few years, in many cases a spring crop failure. Crops last summer was much in grieved by a severe hailstones literally those having oats before they were reaped.  Signed, Robt. James Jr., Enumerator.

Note2: Lot 6, ES Yonge Street is the home of Wm. F Lawrence & residing with him is his widowed grandmother Elizabeth Cummer { sister to Mrs. Mary Ann Cummer Willson.

1894 Jun 30 -Paid $212.40, to Jacob Lawrence & Co., material for building council house
Ref: Dept. of Indian Affairs, Chippewas of Sarnia, Ont. #5.
Ref: Sessional papers of The Dominion of Canada, 1896.

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Birth:
Lot 6 Con 1 Yonge St. & Lawrence Ave.

Died:
Aged 70y 8m, 127 S Christina St. Died Arterio Sclerosis, 2 years, contributory Mitral Stenosis. 1 year

William married Eliza Jane CARROLL on 25 Sep 1877 in Sarnia, Lambton Co., Ontario. Eliza was born on 28 May 1855 in Brooke Twp., Lambton Co., Ontario; died in in Sarnia, Lambton Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Yonge St.

Died:
COD: Angina pectoris, arterioscliosis. Aged 75y 7m. 286 George St.

Mary married George Littleton BOWEN on 25 Nov 1880 in Sarnia, Lambton Co., Ontario. George was born on 4 Aug 1851 in London, England; died before 1901 in Sarnia, Lambton Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
as this part of Toronto was then called.

Maria married William RITCHIE on 5 Jun 1888 in Sarnia, Lambton Co., Ontario. William was born on 10 Dec 1857 in Watford, Lambton Co., Ontario; died in in Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Amelia Margaret, married.
1. 1887, Bert. J Baillie; child: Bertram Lawrence Baillie, 2 Jul 1888.
2. 1893, Thos. H Slater; Wit: Helen Kelly, Petrolia, Eliza Jane Lawrence, Sarnia
3. Chas. G Roehn of Detroit. - - -

Died:

Amelia married Bertram James BAILLIE, .1 on 11 May 1887. Bertram was born in 1863 in Willowdale (Toronto), York Co., Ontario; died on 9 Sep 1891. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Amelia married Thomas H. SLATER on 18 Sep 1893 in Sarnia, Lambton Co., Ontario. Thomas was born in 1863 in Nova Scotia, Canada; died on 26 Apr 1905 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Amelia married Charles G ROEHM on 15 Jun 1907 in Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan. Charles was born on 14 Jan 1841 in Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan; died in in Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
/resided.

Helen married Edward KELLY, .1 on 5 Sep 1888 in Sarnia, Lambton Co., Ontario. Edward was born on 18 Jun 1867 in Newmarket, York Co., Ontario; died after 1916 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Frederick Henry is the son of Mary Ann Kerr & Henry Peter Lawrence.

. Mr. Lawrence received his education at the High School in Watford & at Toronto University. For 3 years after his father' s death he devoted his attention to the business of M. A. Lawrence, & then established in business for himself at Echo Bay. He is a prominent Mason, belonging to the Knights Templar & the Shrine. - - -

Birth:
Village of Watford.

Died:
Died Suicide, hemotofic of L. jugular artery.

Frederick married Gertrude BROCK on 28 Apr 1906. Gertrude was born in Feb 1883 in Bruce Mines, Plummer Twp., Algoma District, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Roy is the son of Mary Ann Kerr and Henry P Lawrence.

Notes:

Henry Harold is the son of Mary Ann Kerr & Henry Peter Lawrence.

William Harold was a student at Toronto University.

1909 Jul 23 - Sault Ste. Marie, International Hotel arrivals, Ernest W Lawrence, Toronto.
Ref: Evening News, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. - - -

Notes:

Ernest Wilkinson is the son of Mary Ann Kerr & Henry Peter Lawrence.

Surrogate Court of the County of Lambton, Ontario
. Transcript of the LAST WILL & TESAMENT of Ernest Wilkinson Lawrence, late of the Village of Watford, Captain with this Majesty's Overeseas Force, deceased.
...Ernest W Lawrence of the City of Toronto, Captain in the 1st Central Ontario Regiment, 4th Cdn. Infantry Battalion. ...
I give all my estate real & personal as to one half thereof until my Brother William Harold Lawrence, of the Town of Alma, Michigan, & as to the other half thereof unto my Brother Frederick Henry Lawrence, Detroit.
Nominate executors John Cowan, Sarnia, Lambton co., Co., Council, & T G Mitchell, Waterford, Lambton Co.
I have hereunto set my hand at Witley Camp, Surrey, England 28 August 1918.
Signed, E. W. Lawrence.

. Province of Ontario, Probate, Court of Co. of Lambton
Be it Known that on the 16 Jan 1919, the last Will & Testament of Ernest Wilkinson Lawrence, Village of Watford, Captain with his Majesty's overeseas Forces, died on or about 1 Oct., 1918 at France & who at the time of his death had a fixed place of abode at the Village of Watford.

. Probate: Land in Saskatchewan, Life Insurance, Bank Account in Sarnia Ontario = Gross value of the estate at the date of deceased's death was $17,49.58
Saskatchewan Probate Estate Files, 23 legal pages. - - -

Birth:


Died:
Twp. 35. WWI.

Buried:
Warwick Twp., Lambton Co., Ontario

Notes:

Birth:


Buried:
Sarnia.

Edward married Ada Jane HANES on 11 Dec 1901 in Windsor, Essex Co., Ontario. Ada was born on 31 Dec 1879 in Dundas, Wenworth Co., Ontario; died on 17 Mar 1955 in Sarnia, Lambton Co., Ontario; was buried in Lakeview City Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

WM. R LAWRENCE married MAUDE F HENDERSON, b. Mar 1886, Ont. Resided at 280 George Street, Sarnia.
Daughter Mary Bowen and grandchildren are at 286 George St. Sarnia.

. 1911 Sarnia Census, Lambton Co.
. Wm. R. Lawrence, head, b. May 1883
Maude F, b. Mar 1886, Ontario.

. Mary Bowen, b. Jul 1856 Ontario, House
Harry Bowen, son, Aug 1884, Ont., machinist
Helen Bowen, dau., b. Mar 1895, Ont., florist.

. 1921 Jun Census Sarnia
Wm F Lawrence, age 61, b 1860
Eliza J Lawrence, 66, b 1855
Lawrence Ralph, age 38, b 1883
Lawrence Maude, wife, age 35, b 1886, Ontario
Lawrence, Wm. Adopted son, age 4, b 1917, Ontario. - - -

Birth:
Alt Loc: Sarnia, Lambton Co., Ontario

Died:
Married. COD: shock accident.

Buried:
Sarnia. Monument 185, buried with Jean Core.

William married Maude Evegeline HENDERSON on 16 Sep 1908 in Peterbourgh, Otonabee Twp., Ontario. Maude was born in 1886 in Peterbourgh, Otonabee Twp., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Aged 0 years.

Notes:

Died:
127 S. Christina St. D. Uremic poisoning, Cepeleptiform seizures, Nephitis 20 Y.

Notes:

Died:
Verify this Harry Bowen.

Buried:
Sarnia, ON.

Helen married James Ernest RICHARDS on 8 Apr 1924 in Sarnia, Lambton Co., Ontario. James was born in 1903 in Scarborough, York Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William MOFFAT. William was born in 1883 in Manitoba, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Ref: Census 1900

Notes:

. WW I Registration Card, 5 Jun 1917:
Bertram Lawrence Bailie, age 29, 973 Lothrope, Detroit, Michigan
Trade: Architect Supt., Donaldson & Meier, 1314 Penobscot Bldg.,
Wife & 2 children. Subject to Rheumatism.
Tall & stout, grey eyes, Black hair, Bald No.

. WWII Draft Registration Card. Apr 27 1942,
Bertram Lawrence Baillie, 1518 Starr Terrance, Peoria, Illinois.
Born Jul 2, 1888, Scaranton, Penn.
Next of Kin Mrs. Carrie H Bailie, address as above.
Employer Hiram Walker & Sons, foot of Evans St, Peoria, Illinois.
Height 6 Feet, 222 Lbs. Blue eyes, Red complexion, Grey hair. - - -

Died:
Aged 83.

Bertram married Carrie Hattie SCOVILL on 1 Jul 1911 in Pointe Du Chene, Michigan. Carrie was born on 19 Jan 1889 in Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:

Mildred married David Campbell AIKENHEAD on 19 Jun 1919 in Hartney, Manitoba. David was born in 1864 in Hartney, Manitoba. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:

Notes:

Birth:
103 S. Brock St.

Notes:

Died:
Aged 0 years.