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M James Kerby

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Information from Vince & Sylvia Munro (Kerby History, dymndman.tripod.com) and Douglas Hier (Hier Family Tree, Genealogy.com).

Between 1812-1818 rose Cpt-Maj-Col. Died of cholera.

The register of St. Mark's and St. Andrew's Churches in Niagara, from Bill Martin's site, originally published by the Ontario Historical Society.
[These ... were baptised at the Falls.]
Baptized 1816 August 7. Andrew Todd Kirby, of John and Eliza.
Baptized 1816 August 7. Mary Margaret Clarke Kerby, of James and Jane.

Register of St. Paul'S Church, Waterloo, Township of Bertie, 1836, from Bill Martin's site, originally published by the Ontario Historical Society:
1836 March 20th John Borlase Warren of the Township of Bertie, Bachelor, and Mary Margaret Clarke Kerby of the same place, Spinster, were married, by license on the twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, by me John Anderson Rector of Waterloo.
In the presence of Wm Smith and Wm Anderson C .
[John Borlase Warren was a son of Lieut. Colonel John Warren, member of the Legislative Assembly for Haldimand who died in 1832. Miss Mary Margaret Clarke Kerby was the eldest daughter of Colonel James Kerby, born in 1814 and named after Mrs Thomas Clarke, who was a daughter of Dr Robert Kerr and a granddaughter of Sir William Johnson.]

1851 personal census, Bertie Twp, Welland Co., p.23
Kerby James, M, Widowed, 67, born Detroit U.S., C of England, J.? R.;
Warren Mary M, F, 38, born Queenston, C of England;
Grant, M, 14, born Bertie, C of England, Couburgh?;
Anna, F, 13, born Iraquois?, C of England.

Brantford Conservative Expositor, 27 June 1854:
Died - At Fort Erie, C.W., on the 20th inst., after a short illness, Col. Kerby, Collector of Customs at the above named place.

Graves and Inscriptions in the Niagara Peninsula, Part 2 (by Janet Carnochan),
from Sandy Cline's site (Niagara History - Publications of the Niagara Historical Society and other publications):
FORT ERIE.. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH.
"Sacred to the memory of Col. the Hon. Jas Kerby, 2nd Lincoln Militia, died June 20th 1854, aged 69. He was a faithful subject of the Crown and for his gallantry during the war of 1812 received the thanks of his country and was presented with a valuable sword by the Leg. Assembly of U.C. In private life he was esteemed for his amiable qualities, his generous and benevolent disposition and for his exemplary character as a parent, a friend and a Christian."

Introduction to the Register of Saint Paul's Church at Fort Erie, 1836-1844, by Brig.-General E. A. Cruikshank, LL.D., F.R. Hist. S., from Bill Martin's site, originally published by the Ontario Historical Society:
On the conclusion of peace the ferry below the Fort Erie rapids to the village of Black Rock on the opposite bank of the river had been reestablished and several stores, taverns, and other buildings were erected near the ferry-wharf and the mills at the rapids, forming a small straggling village, which became a place of considerable trade and about 1816 received the name of Waterloo. The most notable resident then was Lieut. Colonel John Warren, who besides being commandant of the local regiment of militia, was a Justice of the Peace, a Judge of the Court of Requests for the trial of small civil causes, and had succeeded his father as collector of customs and lessee of the ferry... Other persons of consequence were Benjamin Hardison, a magistrate and owner of a considerable tract of land, who had been a member of the assembly, William Stanton, deputy assistant commissary general, and Alexander Douglas, a prosperous merchant.
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It would appear that a temporary building was soon erected, for Mr. Leeming records baptisms at Waterloo church on 3 August, 1823, and again on 4 July, 1824. However this may be, on 15 June, 1824, Colonel James Kerby, who had lately removed from Queenston to Fort Erie and taken charge of the mills, wrote ... to Major Hillier, secretary to Sir Peregrine Maitland [request for stone from around the garrison for the foundations of the church]...
Some time in 1828, the Reverend John Anderson took charge as resident missionary. In the course of the same year Colonel Kerby addressed this memorial to Sir John Colborne, who succeeded Maitland as Lieutenant Governor. "The Memorial of James Kerby in behalf of the congregation of the Episcopal Church at Waterloo, near Fort Erie, in the District of Niagara [request to import an organ without duty]...
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In 1834 Colonel Kerby presented the church with the solid silver communion service, which is still in use. Kerby was then, and until his death, twenty years later, the most distinguished and faithful adherent of the church. After winning notable distinction as an officer of militia in the war with the United States, he had taken an active part in public affairs as town warden, justice of the peace, Judge of the Court of Requests, commandant of a militia regiment and member of the pensions board. He had become the proprietor of the Fort Erie mills, where ship loads of wheat, brought down from the London and Western districts, were converted into flour and exported to Montreal. In 1831 he was appointed a member of the legislative Council, and in 1834, collector of customs at Fort Erie.
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John Warren, the elder, William Stanton, and Benjamin Hardison all had large families, who intermarried and formed a sort of local aristocracy. Kerby's eldest daughter married a Warren and her sister married a Hardison. ...
A long and bitter wrangle in parliament and in the press culminated in an armed insurrection which was quickly overcome by the loyal militia. From December, 1837 to July, 1838, the deserted and dilapidated barracks at Fort Erie and other hastily improvised quarters at Waterloo were occupied by the "Queen's Niagara Fencibles," recruited and commanded by Colonel Kerby, in constant apprehension of an invasion from the opposite shore. After its disbandment, detachments of the sedentary militia were called out for the defence of the frontier. These were relieved by the 10th Provisional Battalion, also recruited and commanded by Colonel Kerby, which garrisoned Fort Erie and Waterloo from November, 1838, until May, 1839. ...
The cessation of internal and foreign conspiracies to overthrow the government was succeeded by an epidemic of smuggling from the United States, which Colonel Kerby's energetic exertions as collector of customs did not always succeed in checking, and on at least one occasion required the support of a detachment of soldiers to enforce a seizure. Popular sympathy was largely on the side of the smugglers, who often crossed Lake Erie on the ice.

Overzicht van de stamboom

Thomas Kerby †1759   Mary Walker †   James Donaldson   Isabella Maybor
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John Kerby 1755-1806/   Ellison Donaldson 1760-1839
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James Kerby 1785-1854