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M John Colbrook Bury

Heiraten und Kinder

Notizen

Hinweis zur Person

The Parish Register of Kingston, Upper Canada 1785-1811, Edited with Notes & Introduction by A. H. Young of Trinity College Toronto for the Kingston Historical Society, Kingston, Ont; British Whig Publishing Company Limited, 1921.
Baptisms 1808, 1809:
Beury Philip, S. of John Beury, Elizabeth Beury; Sp: George Oliver, Maryann Mitton; 9th October.
Beury Martha, D. of Do., Sp Do; 9th October.
Beury John, D. of Do., Sp Do; 9th October.
Beury Jane, D. of Do., Sp Do; 9th October.
Beury Richard, D. of Do., Sp Do; 9th October.

Bury Cemetery, Orford Twp, Kent Co., ON, transcribed by the Kent Branch of the OGS:
In memory of John Bury who died March 6, 1850 aged 86 yrs.
In memory of Nancy, wife of - who died July 15, 1850 aged 32 yrs. 2m. & 11 d.
In memory of Richard Bury who -
also Elizabeth his daughter who died July 2, 1841 aged 5 mos.
In memory of Jane wife of (John Metcalff?) who died Feb 22, 1853 aged 67 yrs.

The Bury Family by J. M. Warwick, Lambton Settlers Series Volume 2, More Early Days Along the St. Clair, published by the Lambton Branch of the OGS (These articles were originally published in 1948-1949 as part of the Lambton Centennial Series in the Sarnia Observer):
... For the story of his [John Colbrook Bury's] life we are indebted to still another of his sons, Edward Bury of Morpeth, born at Clearville on August 31, 1816, one year after his father's call at Sarnia Bay. Edward was the first white child born in Orford township and wrote his journal in 1884...Edward Bury's descendants still live on Lake Erie shore, scattered between Morpeth and New Glasgow on the lake's Canadian bank; and in Cleveland, Ohio, on the other side.
Edward Bury's journal begins thus: "John Colbrook Bury was born in London, England at No. 52 Cheapside, on March 6th, 1764, A.D. at 4 a.m. He died at Clearville, Kent County, Ontario on March 6th, 1850 A.D. at 4 a.m...
The journal goes on to say that "John Colbrook Bury was the third son of William Bury, an officer of the British Army stationed in London at the time of J.C.'s birth in 1764. He had one sister Harriet. His oldest brother, George Bury was also a British officer who later settled on the Island of Rhodesia in the Greek Archipelago. The second son, Richard, died when quite young. Harriet Bury married a man by the name of Archer and lived at a place in Wales called, I think, Bury Windon. She was 97 years of age when I heard from her last, many years ago, and wrote a plain steady hand. My Uncle George was 98 when I heard from him long since and healthy. He told me that he stood six feet three inches then. My father's mother died when he was a child."
The journal also recounts John Bury's early education in English schools and his apprenticeship as a young man to a London architect. During this apprenticeship, the master architect was engaged in the building of a residence in Old Kilbride Parish in County Wicklow, Ireland, on the estate of George Sherwood...[He was] drawn to the attention of the owner's daughter, Dorothy Sherwood, whom he promptly married.
In Old Kilbride, John and Dorothy became the parents of four children: Martha, born 23 May, 1789; Isabella, born 5 May, 1790; Elizabeth, born 29 April, 1792; and William (later William Bury of Sombra) born 27 June, 1793.

John C. Bury's First Wife by M. Teskey U.E., Lambton Settlers Series Volume 2, More Early Days Along the St. Clair, published by the Lambton Branch of the OGS (These articles were originally published in 1948-1949 as part of the Lambton Centennial Series in the Sarnia Observer):
Documentary evidence in John Colbrook Bury's own hand is still in existence, showing which part of the New World was the first home of himself...This 123-year-old and yellowed document states that a fifth child, Anne, was born at New York City on April 21. 1795.
...John Bury sent his wife and young family on what was intended to be a reunion with the Sherwoods...On the long trip back to Ireland by sailing vessel Dorothy Sherwood Bury developed what the ship's doctor diagnosed as "quick consumption." She lived out the voyage however, but died among her own fold in giving birth to her daughter, Lydia, who first saw the light of day on June 18, 1796. Many a long year was to elapse before John saw any of his brood again, and one of them, Lydia, he never saw in his life.
...He decided to remove immediately to Canada and chose the trail along the banks of the Susquehanna River as the shortest and quickest route. Reaching the Buttermilk Falls, near the pioneer Pennsylvania settlement of Logantown ... he decided to settle here temporarily...here he met Elizabeth Traver, destined to be his second wife...
Before leaving the story of the first Mrs. Bury behind, some story of her many Bury descendants should be recorded for history. Through her daughter Isabella Evans, a host of Evans descendants are spread across the length and breadth of Canada. From her only son, William Bury, through his ten children, came a line that has increased the population on both sides of the St. Clair river, extending to Ohio and Oklahoma in the U.S. and to the far western provinces of Canada...From Dorothy Sherwood Bury's youngest daughter Lydia springs the Manifold line - a great host of Lampmans, Ridleys, Hamils and Cummings of Kent County, Windsor and Detroit. [Note: The Bury Bulletin, 1952, states Elizabeth Bury married Hoaxhead Manifold]

J. C. Bury's Second Marriage by J.M. Warwick, U.E., Lambton Settlers Series Volume 2, More Early Days Along the St. Clair, published by the Lambton Branch of the OGS (These articles were originally published in 1948-1949 as part of the Lambton Centennial Series in the Sarnia Observer):
Elizabeth Traver, second wife of John Colbrook Bury who charted the shores of the St. Clair in 1815, was a native of Pennsylvania. According to the Journal of her youngest son Edward Bury, she was born in the neighbourhood of the Buttermilk Falls on the Susquehannah River in the year 1772. Her mother was widowed when Elizabeth was a small child...
John Bury sold his now completed mill on the Susquehannah in 1797 and the same year married Elizabeth Traver. Elizabeth Traver Bury's first child and her husband's seventh, Philip Bury, was born at Logantown on January 12, 1798. The next child Martha Bury, destined to become Mrs. Joseph Stover of Sombra, Ontario, was born there on October 17, 1799. A daughter Mary arrived on August 12, 1801 but was drowned in an accident on the Susquehannah less than a year later, on April 27, 1802.
Shortly thereafter, John Colbrook Bury, having in the meantime built on contract a series of grist mills in Pennsylvania, decided to push on to his Canadian destination. The Bury's, with the youngsters Phillip and Martha arrived in Kingston, Upper Canada, late in the year 1802. Here, on March 8, 1803, was born another girl, also baptized Mary, who would later as Mrs. Cole live for a time in Sombra on the Stanley line and finally move with her husband to Sanilac, Michigan, north of Port Huron.
Here also was born John Darling Bury on August 18, 1804. He was destined, after a short term as a municipal officer of Kent County, to emigrate to Berrien County in Michigan, become one of the first municipal officers there and well known dairyman of the county...
...In the year 1804 John Colbrook Bury, his wife and a family now increased to four, headed westwards to what is now Brant County...By the end of the year 1806 they had arrived at Malcolmtown (now Scotland) in Oakland township, Brant County.
Here, on February 10, 1907, Jane Bury, later Mrs. Angus McDonald of Port Lambton, first saw the light of day. Richard Bury was added to the family on March 10, 1808. Years later Richard married Katherine McIntyre of New Glasgow, sired Richard, Colin, Daniel, Mary and Elizabeth and died while still a young man...
On November 3, 1809 at Malcolmstown, Elizabeth Traver Bury became the mother of her eighth child, Elizabeth, destined to become Mrs. Alexander Kerby of Courtright, Ontario. On the 23 February, 1811 William Bury was born, named for his older brother, the son of his father's first wife, Dorothy Sherwood. This youngster died on the 22nd of September, 1813 at Malcolmstown.
Before he died, however, the nineteen year old half brother for whom he was named had come from Ireland and joined the Burford Milita as a lieutenant. He was fighting the Americans in the War of 1812 when the two and a half year old child was buried. John Colbrook Bury, too, joined the Royal Standard and both father and son fought at Lundy's Lane, William winning his captaincy on that field...
During the war, two other children were born to John Colbrook Bury and Elizabeth Traver at Malcolmstown. George arrived on September 13, 1812, and Anne, later Anne Oxley of Kent, was born on December 18, 1813.

John Bury Settles Down
...John Colbrook Bury made up his mind to settle at the mouth of Clear Creek in Orford township on Lake Erie shore..."[He] had the names of himself and two of his sons entered for lots number 59, 60 and 61 along the Talbot Road, 200 acres each."
J. C. Bury wound up his affairs at Malcolmstown and in the spring of 1816 arrived by boat with his wife, Elizabeth Traver Bury, and their family...
...Edward Bury first saw the light on August 31, 1816 on the stroke of midnight. He was the first white child born in Orford township, Kent County, Ontario - the 18th child of John Colbrook Bury and the 12th child of Elizabeth Traver...

Dispersal of the Burys by J.M. Warwick, U.E., Lambton Settlers Series Volume 2, More Early Days Along the St. Clair, published by the Lambton Branch of the OGS (These articles were originally published in 1948-1949 as part of the Lambton Centennial Series in the Sarnia Observer):
On April 25, 1818, John Colbrook Bury and Elizabeth Traver ... became the parents of a daughter...Dorothea Sherwood Bury...She married Richard Wade of Morpeth, west of Clearville on the Talbot Road and became the mother of six children...
Dorothy Bury, mother of the Wades, was the last but one of the Bury brood. On September 2, 1820 another girl, Elsy was born at Clear Creek...She died as a child.
John Colbrook Bury's father had told him that he was born at four o'clock on the blustery morning of March 6, 1764 in London, England. He died 86 years after, to the very minute - March 6, 1850 at 4 a.m. in his home at the mouth of Clear Creek in Kent County in Upper Canada...
Elizabeth Traver Bury, his widow, took up her residence with her son Edward at Morpeth and lived eight years more. Four days before Christmas, 1858, the 86 year-old Bury matriarch died...Elizabeth Traver was buried beside her husband on the hillside at Clearville on Christmas Day, 1858...