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.
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