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The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West, Volume 14, Western District 1786-1856, Compiled by Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai, Global Heritage Press, Milton:
Marriages by Rev'd Charles Stewart, Baptist Minister, Gosfield (p. 88):
Jem Lamarsh, to Jane Gibson, both of Mersea Twp. 1 Feb. 1845, by banns. Rev. Stewart. Wit. William Pratson and Elizabeth Pratson.

The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West, Volume 14, Western District 1786-1856, Compiled by Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai, Global Heritage Press, Milton:
Births Registered by John Kennedy, Clerk, Township of Mersea:
Male, born 20 Sept. 1845, son of John and Jane Lamarsh.
Male, born 5 Oct. 1853, son of John and Jane Lamarsh.
Male, born 5 Apr. 1854, son of John and Jane Lamarsh.
Male, born 27 Mar. 1856, son of John and Jane Lamarsh.

1861 personal census, Mersea Twp, Essex Co., ON, 2-2:
Lamarsh John, M, Married, married in 1840, 41, born U Canada, C of England, Esq;
Jane, F, Married, married in 1840, 37, born England, C of England;
Josuha, M, Single, 16, born U Canada;
Mary A., F, Single, 14, born U Canada;
James, M, Single, 12, born U Canada;
Edward, M, Single, 11, born U Canada;
John, M, Single, 7, born U Canada;
Oliver, M, Single, 5, born U Canada;
George, M, Single, 4, born U Canada;
Peter, M, Single, 2, born U Canada.

1881 personal census, Mersea Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Lamarsh John, M, Married, 58, born Ont, origin: French, Church of England, Farmer;
Jane, F, Married, 56, born England, origin: English, Church of England;
Edward, M, 30, born Ont, origin: French, Church of England, Farmer;
Mary Ann, F, 33, born Ont, origin: French, E Methodist;
John, M, 27, born Ont, origin: French, Farmer, Church of England;
Peter, M, 21, born Ont, origin: French, Church of England, Farmer;
Lucy, F, 18, born Ont, origin: French, Church of England;
Jane, F, 16, born Ont, origin: French, Church of England;
Joseph, M, 14, born Ont, origin: French, Church of England, Farmer.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 30-32:
Lamarsh. The well-known family in Mersea Township, County of Essex, bearing the name Lamarsh is of French stock. The name was originally spelled La Marshe, but after the emigration to Canada it gradually came to be written generally Lamarsh.
     The first to come to America was Samuel La Marshe, a native France, who, on reaching manhood located in the Province of Quebec, Canada. Later he removed to Kingston, Ont., and still later to Amherstburg. His last location was Gosfield township, County of Essex, where he died. During the war of 1812 he served in the Bristish army. Of his eight children, several settled in the United States. Among them were: Samuel, who died in Ohio; John, who died in Mersea township; Joseph, who attained the age of ninety-four years, and passed away in Gosfield township; Elizabeth, who married Peter Malott, of Gosfield township; and Rachel.
     John Lamarsh, son of Samuel, the emigrant, was born in Kingston, Ont., and was brought to the County of Essex by his parents in 1801. They located at Fort Malden, now Amherstburg, and later removed to Gosfield township. He, too, played a soldier's part in the war of 1812, and after its close settled in Mersea township, where he drew a tract of 200 acres of the Col. Talbot grant, on Talbot street. This tract was then an unbroken wilderness, but his pioneer spirit was undaunted by the mighty task of preparing a home and clearing a farm there. He built a log house, and resolutely bent his energies to the cultivation of his land, in which he was eminently successful, in time becoming one of the large landholders of the county. Besides his home farm, he also owned a tract of 200 acres where the town of Wheatley is now, half of which is owned by his grandsons. He attained the ripe age of seventy-eight years, and was buried in the Roache cemetery on Talbot street. His education for the day and locality was fair, and he was looked upon as one of the leading men of his township, having been appointed commissioner of the township by the government, and holding other town offices. Politically he was one of the first Liberals in the township, and he was always well posted on current topics. He belonged to the Methodist Church. His wife, Mary Ann Burke, was born in Quebec, a daughter of James Burke, of Ireland, whose wife was a Frenchwoman. Mrs. Lamarsh lived to the age of eighty-one and was buried by the side of her husband. Originally she belonged to the Catholic Church, but she afterward joined the Methodist faith with her husband and children, and she was ever a noble Christian woman, cheerfully bearing the privations of life in the wilderness that she might do her share toward winning a life for her children. To John and Mary Ann Lamarsh were born eleven children, as follows: Ann, deceased, who married Morris Roache, of Mersea township; Elizabeth, deceased, who married Benjamin Quick, of Mersea township; John (2); James, deceased; Mary Jane, who married Matthew Howard, and died in Michigan; Robert, a well-known farmer of Mersea township; Nancy, who married William Roache (now deceased), and makes her home in Mersea township; William, a farmer on part of the homestead; Peter, who also farms on the homestead; Margaret, widow of Alexander Gunn, of Mersea township; and Joseph, deceased.
     John Lamarsh (2), son of John, was born at the old home on Talbot street in 1821. As schools were few and teachers incompetent, his educational advantages were hardly worth mentioning, but as he had a studious and acquisitive disposition, he improved his opportunities, and by reading and observation became well-informed. He remained with his father until early manhood, when he settled on ninety-four acres of the farm which now adjoins the town of Wheatley, and building a log house proceeded to clear his land. Later, as he prospered, he so improved the place, with a brick house, substantial barns and outbuildings, that he had one of the best farms of the township. He devoted his time to general farming and stock raising. Like his father he was a staunch Liberal, and for many years he was a justice of the peace. He was a lieutenant in the militia, and was a volunteer in the rebellion of 1837-38, being stationed at Sandwich and Amherstburg. He was a communicant of the Church of England. John Lamarsh married Jane Gibson, a native of Northumberlandshire, England, who is still living on the homestead, and to this union were born fourteen children: Joshua, of Detroit, Michigan; Robert, who died in infancy; Mary Ann; James, of Romney township; John, a prominent man of Romney township; Oliver and Arthur, both also of Romney township; Peter; Lucy, who married John J. White, a manufacturer of Wheatley; Helene, widow of Oliver Hillman; a daughter that died in infancy unnamed; and Joseph, residing on the homestead. John Lamarsh (2) died in September, 1899, aged seventy-eight years, and was buried in the cemetery at Wheatley.
     Peter Lamarsh was born on his father's farm near Wheatley, Nov. 25, 1859, and remained at home with his parents, attending the public schools. When his father retired from farming he gave to Peter the north half of the farm, a tract of forty-seven acres, on which the latter built a house and good barns. There he has made his home, engaging most successfully in general farming and stock raising. He was the first importer of Duroc Jersey swine, which he bought in Philadelphia in 1889, and exhibited at the Toronto fair in 1891. Since then he has raised them in large numbers, shipping them all over the Dominion, as far east as Nova Scotia, and in the States to Rhode Island and elsewhere in New England. All his stock is thoroughbred, and he has made a careful study of all things pertaining to their successful and scientific care.
     Like all his family Peter Lamarsh has always been a staunch Liberal, and he has been, since casting his first vote, an earnest worker in his party. He was appointed by the government inspector of fisheries for the district comprising the Counties of Kent, Essex, Lambton and Elgin, and office he has filled to the credit of himself and the very great satisfaction of the public. In 1901 he was elected to the county council for Mersea township and Leamington district No. 4, and he was re-elected in 1903, a fact which attests well to his faithful care of the interests of his constituents. He is domestic in his tastes, and is devoted to his home and family. His character is upright, and he receives the merited esteem of all classes of people.
     In Mersea township, in September, 1884, Peter Lamarsh married Adelaid Lounsbury, daughter of Ephraim and and Emma J. (Cooper) Lounsbury, of Romney township, County of Kent. She is an active worker in the Methodist Church, and, while he is not a member of any denomination, Mr. Lamarsh ably and liberally seconds his good wife in all her church work. Six children have come to them, namely: Edgar, Herbert, Wiona, John, Evaline and Hume.

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Samuel La Marshe 1765-   Elizabeth Cabot Bodar    
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John Lamarsh 1790-1868   Mary Ann Burke 1800-1881
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John Lamarsh 1821-1899