1881 personal census, Mersea Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS Can 1881
census household record:
Maney Robert, M, Married, 41, born Scotland, origin: Scottish, Wesleyan
Methodist, Farmer;
Isabell, F, Married, 35, born Ont, origin: English,
Wesleyan Methodist;
Emily, F, 14, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Wesleyan
Methodist;
Annie, F, 12, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Wesleyan Methodist;
Alice, F, 10, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Wesleyan Methodist;
Jesse,
F, 8, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Wesleyan Methodist;
William, M, 6, born
Ont, origin: Scottish, Wesleyan Methodist;
Thomas, M, 4, born Ont, origin:
Scottish, Wesleyan Methodist;
John, M, 2, born Ont, origin: Scottish,
Wesleyan Methodist;
Kinsmana Hanah, F, 19, born Ont, origin: English,
Baptist, School Teacher.
1901 personal census, Mersea Twp, Kent Co., ON, K2-5:
Manery Robert, M, Married, 15 Sept 1839, 61, born Scotland, immigrated 1841,
origin: Irish, Can, Meth, Farmer;
Mary I., F, wife, Married, 25 Dec 1847,
53, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth;
William H., M, son, Single, 27
Sept 1874, 26, born Ont, origin: Irish, Can, Meth, Farmer's Son;
Jessie
B., F, daughter, Single, 9 Aug 1872, 28, born Ont, origin: Irish, Can, Meth;
Thomas J., M, son, Single, 23 Dec 1876, 24, born Ont, origin: Irish, Can,
Meth, Farm Lab;
John, M, son, Single, 10 Dec 1878, 22, born Ont, origin:
Irish, Can, Bapt, Tailor;
Charles L., M, son, Single, 24 Feb 1885, 16,
born Ont, origin: Irish, Can, Meth, Farmer's Son, 5 months in school;
Ruby N., F, daughter, Single, 29 May 1888, 12, born Ont, origin: Irish, Can, Meth, 10 months in school;
Francis A., M, son, Single, 22 Feb 1890, 11, born Ont, origin: Irish, Can, Meth, 10 months in school;
Mary V., F, daughter, Single, 23 May 1892, 9, born Ont, origin: Irish, Can, Meth, 6 months in school;
Mary J., F, mother, Widowed, 14 Sept 1814, 86, born Ireland, immigrated 1845, origin: Irish, Can, Meth.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H.
Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 577-579:
Robert Manery, postmaster at Hillman, and a well-known farmer of Mersea
township, County of Essex, where he is widely known as one of the loyal and
upright citizens of Ontario, is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, born Sept. 15,
1839, son of William Manery.
William Manery was born in County Tryone, Ireland,
and there he passed his youth and young manhood. He learned the trade of
weaver, and then went to Scotland, where his ability won him employment in the
weaving of the famous shawls for which that country is noted. In his new home
he married Annie McGill, who bore him three children, William, James and
Robert. She died shortly after the birth of the third child, and the father,
foreseeing wider opportunities for himself and his children in the New World,
determined to come to America. Accompanied by his little ones and a maiden
sister he left Scotland on a sailing vessel, in 1841, and after several weeks
on the water, reached Quebec. Coming thence to Ontario, he located near
Hamilton, in the County of Halton. Finding no opportunity in the little
developed country for his trade, he abandoned it, and engaged in lumbering,
for many years owning and operating a sawmill, and he also engaged in farming.
In 1870 he came to the County of Essex, and located on a 200-acre tract in
Mersea township, with his son James, and he remained there several years, but
spent his last days in Leamington, dying there in 1885. His remains are buried
in Lake View cemetery. In his political views he was a stanch adherent to
Conservative principles, and while in the County of Halton served as school
trustee. Before coming to America he had been a member of the Church of
England, but in Canada he joined the Methodists. His second wife was a Miss
Moffitt, and his third Mary Jane Manery, who bore him one child, Annie (who
married William Davidson), and who survives, making her home in
Leamington.
Robert Manery was but a year and a half old when his father brought him to the New World. Deprived of a mother's fostering care, his
childhood's path was a thorny one. His education was limited to the district
schools of a newly opened country, and was most primitive. He made excellent
use of his opportunities, however, and being naturally thorough in all he did,
he learned well the little taught in school, thus laying a good foundation for
the wider education he has gained through reading and observation. From a very
early age he assisted his father in the sawmill and on the farm. In 1872 he
came to Mersea township, where he purchased fifty acres of land, at six
dollars per acre, on Lot 18, Concession 2. There were no roads and few
settlers in his vicinity, but with the work of clearing his land he had no
time to miss associates. He built a log house, 18 by 26, containing three
rooms. To this home he brought his young wife, who bravely faced the hardships
of the wilderness. By incessant hard work, close economy and strict attention
to business, he succeeded in clearing his land, and in improving it with fine
barns and outbuildings, and in 1898 he erected a commodious brick dwelling.
The farm is well cultivated, and its neat appearance shows well the thrift and
personal care of the owner. His home is the most pretentious in the
Concession.
Just at the time when Mr. Manery saw the end of a
life of toil, and found himself able to rest, serene in the comfort of a
well-earned holiday, he was, on Jan. 25, 1903, stricken with paralysis, and
since then he has been confined to the house, dependent on others. He has
suffered much pain, but he bears it with Christian fortitude, and in his
darkest hours finds ever at his side the faithful wife, whose devotion has
never faltered through the days and years of toil, privation and suffering.
She has, indeed, borne her part, and now is the unwearying nurse and comforter
in his hour of physican pain and helplessness. In this she is assisted by a
loving daughter, who is untiring in her ministrations to the wants and wishes
of her parents. In 1893 Mr. and Mrs. Manery visited the World's Fair in
Chicago.
Like his father, Mr. Manery is a Conservative, and
has always taken a deep interest in public affairs, especially in the
advancement of the schools. He is a firm believer in education, and he feels,
too, that in the school room, as well as in the home, must be instilled the
lessons of loyalty and patriotism that make good citizens, faithful and true
to their country under all circumstances. He, himself, is intensely patriotic,
devoted to his country as a British subject. He was school trustee at Hillman,
and he, for many years, served as a member of the township council. During his
term improvements were made in the roads and bridges, and he was one of the
supporters and advocates of the drainage of the Point Pelee Marsh. Mr. Manery
served as deputy reeve, which gave him a seat on the county council board for
three years. He belongs to the Loyal Orange Association, and filled the office
of master of the order at Hillman. He is a member of Imeson Lodge, always taking
a deep interest in the work of the association. Loyalty forms the keynote of
his character; whatever he believes to be his duty, that he straightway
endeavors to perform, and he can be relied upon implicitly when once his
promise has been given. In the business world, and in public and private life,
he has shown himself to be a man of the highest integrity, consistent always
in following the principles he advocates.
In 1882, Mr. Manery was appointed postmaster at
Hillman, and since then has filled that office to the utmost satisfaction of
the people. For some years he was a correspondent for the Windsor Record, but
since his health failed he has given it up.
In 1865, in the County of Norfolk, Ont., Mr. Manery
was united in marriage with Mary Isabel Tester, daughter of Henry Tester, and
sister of Mrs. C. L. Wingrove, of Mersea township. Thirteen children blessed
this union: (1) Emily Jane, who married Isaac Livingstone, and lives in
Leamington, has six children, Robert, Ella, Frederick, Ethel, Blanche and
Percy. (2) Eliza Jane, who married Rueben Fox, has four children, Orrin R.,
Ernest, Basil and Walter. (3) Alice Mabel married James Hutchinson, of
Gosfield, and has four children, Stanley, Clarence, Gertrude and Prosper. (4)
Jessie is at home caring for her parents. (5) William Henry married Pearl
Fulmer, of Colchester, Ont. (6) James Thomas, married Myrtle Fox, and has one
daughter, Lina F. (7) Charles is the next in the family. (8) Lula Maude
married Everett Fox, of Mersea township, and has one son, Clifford. (9) John
is a tailor in Leamington. (10) Ruby, (11) Frank, (12) Dell, and (13) Cora
Belle, died in infancy. Both Mr. and Mrs. Manery are members of the Methodist
Church, and are active in all its good work. They are kind and charitable, and
extend a helping hand to the sick and needy. It is given to but few people in
the world to be as highly esteemed and so universally beloved.
Robert
Manery
Emily Jane Manery ca 1867-
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