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Lovell
Harrison
Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 357-358:
Thomas Harrison, a retired gentleman of County Kent, and for thirteen years the efficient keeper at the light-house at Rondeau, is a native of the village of Morpeth, where he was born Oct. 16, 1817, a son of Lovell and Margaret (Ruddle) Harrison, who came hither from Nova Scotia in 1815, where the former was born, a son of John Harrison, a native of England, who had settled in Nova Scotia many years before. Mrs. Margaret (Ruddle) Harrison was a native of Ireland, and a daughter of Thomas Ruddle, who came from Ireland at the beginning of the American war of 1812, and was taken prisoner by a British privateer, and carried to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Lovell Harrison and wife were married in Nova Scotia and on coming to Ontario, settled on land selected through Col. Talbot, in Lot 88, on the Talbot Road, North. Here he built a log cabin in the woods where he was one of the very first settlers, and he spent his whole life in clearing up a farm. Both he and wife, the latter his very able helper, died in the old home, his life ending in 1842, in his prime, while his faithful widow survived until 1880, dying at an advanced age. Their children were: (1) Lovell was born in Howard. (2) John James, born in 1816, settled on the 7th Concession, where he died; he married a Miss Calbery and left two daughters, who are still living. (3) Thomas. (4) Charlotte, born in 1820, married Edward Bury, of County Kent, and they resided near the Lake Shore in Howard, where he died. (5) William Harrison, born in 1826, married Jane Flook, of Chatham, and they lived for some years on a part of his father's farm on the lake shore, and then moved to Port Huron, State of Michigan, where he purchased a farm, where he still resides. They have five children, Frank, Annie, Thomas, Charlotte and Letitia. (6) Margaret, born in Howard in 1828, married William Money, and settled near Rondeau, on the line of Harwich, where both died, leaving children, P. L., of Cleveland; James A., of Canada; William I., a teacher of Canada; and Sarah, since deceased. (7) Robert, born in Howard in 1831, married Nancy Nicholas, a native of Scotland, and settled in Howard, where he spent many years as a thresher and farmer. He died at his home in 1887, survived by his wife and the following children, all residents of Ridgetown: Lovell, William, Margaret, Archie, Mary and Duncan.
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