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F Elizabeth Lamarsh

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Information from Heather Duff, Cox, Gow, Duff, Dobbyn, Etc., RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.

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.

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...
     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... 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 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...
     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...

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John Lamarsh 1790-1868   Mary Ann Burke 1800-1881    
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John Lamarsh 1821-1899   Jane Gibson 1824-1908
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Elizabeth Lamarsh 1855-