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1861 personal census, Sombra Twp, Lambton Co., ON, transcribed by the Lambton Branch of the OGS:
Bury William, M, 68, born Ire, C of Eng, Farmer;
Margaret, F, 60, born UC, C of Eng;
Henry, M, 17, born UC, C of Eng;
Phillip, M, 26, born UC, C of Eng;
Catherine, F, wife, 21, born UC, Weslyan Methodist;
Milton, M, 3, born UC, Weslyan Methodist;
Olive, F, 1, born UC, Weslyan Methodist.

1871 personal census, Sombra Twp, Lambton Co., ON, F1-51:
Bury William, M, Married, 82, born Ireland, origin: Irish, C of Eng'd, Farmer;
Margaret, F, Married, 73, born Ireland, origin: Irish, C of Eng'd.

Headstone Sutherland Cemetery, Moore Twp, Lambton Co., ON, transcribed by the Lambton Branch of the OGS:
William Bury died June 13, 1873 aged 80 yr's 11 mo's & 13 d's.
Margaret wife of William Bury died June 8, 1873 aged 73 yr's 5 mo's & 8 d's.

The Bury Bulletin, 1952, p. 31:
In the year 1818 William Bury, J. C. Bury's only son by his first marriage to Dorothy Sherwood, emigrated to Canada from Ireland, landing in Quebec City. In the same year the Oughton family from County Wexford, Ireland, landed at Quebec, and there William Bury met the 18 year old daughter of the family, Margaret Oughton. William and Margaret Oughton Bury were married at St. Andrew's Anglican Church in Quebec City on June 5, 1818 by the Reverand Alexander Sharpe and remained in Quebec for a few years. There first three children, John, Esther and Dorothy were born there. Before 1826, however, William Bury and his family had joined the Bury colony at Clearville. In that year William is recorded as the owner of a grist mill on the banks of Clear Creek.
David Baldwin's Inn, begun in 1825, stood then on the north side of Talbot Street not far from the Creek. There, on Jan. 7, 1828, was held Orford's first "town-meeting". William Bury was named Constable and John Darling Bury, roadmaster. In 1829 William Bury disposed of his Clearville property and on Oct. 30, of the same year purchased the north half of Lot B in the 13th concession of Sombra township on the St. Clair River and moved his family there...

The Johnston Papers, by Jacqueline James Johnston, Lambton Settlers Series Volume 1, Early Days Along the St. Clair, published by the Lambton Branch of the OGS (These articles were originally published in 1948-1949 as part of the Lambton Centennial Series in the Sarnia Observer):
William Bury Entertains
...Margaret Houghton was a girl of 18 when William Bury won her heart in 1818, and when she died on 8 June, 1873 he saw no reason to go on with life. He buried her in consecrated ground in Trinity churchyard, Sutherland (now Mooretown). As he stood by the open grave after the long journey for the funeral cortege from Sombra, he told Margaret Houghton in the presence of their children that he would join her soon. Five days later dust rose on the River Road as another funeral came up from Sombra...For 44 years he and Margaret Houghton had lived on its [St. Clair's] banks, and as the sun went down behind the river's American shore on the evening of June 13, 1873, the two of them were lying side by side under an oak tree on Sutherland Hill within sight of the St. Clair...