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M William Bury

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Por parte de John Colbrook Bury 1764-1850

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1861 personal census, Sombra Twp, Lambton Co., ON, transcribed by the Lambton Branch of the OGS:
Bury William, M, 68, born Ire, C of Eng, Farmer;
Margaret, F, 60, born UC, C of Eng;
Henry, M, 17, born UC, C of Eng;
Phillip, M, 26, born UC, C of Eng;
Catherine, F, wife, 21, born UC, Weslyan Methodist;
Milton, M, 3, born UC, Weslyan Methodist;
Olive, F, 1, born UC, Weslyan Methodist.

1871 personal census, Sombra Twp, Lambton Co., ON, F1-51:
Bury William, M, Married, 82, born Ireland, origin: Irish, C of Eng'd, Farmer;
Margaret, F, Married, 73, born Ireland, origin: Irish, C of Eng'd.

Headstone Sutherland Cemetery, Moore Twp, Lambton Co., ON, transcribed by the Lambton Branch of the OGS:
William Bury died June 13, 1873 aged 80 yr's 11 mo's & 13 d's.
Margaret wife of William Bury died June 8, 1873 aged 73 yr's 5 mo's & 8 d's.

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... Edward was the first white child born in Orford township and wrote his journal in 1884...
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 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.
Before leaving the story of the first Mrs. Bury behind, some story of her many Bury descendants should be recorded for history... 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.
William's oldest son John married first Mary Ann Lampman of Kent County and secondly Sarah Ellis of Sombra township, the latter a descendant of the Loyalist family of Devins, settled for 157 years in York County. The second son, Thomas, married Lucinda Roberts of Sombra, and Bury's in Sarnia and Windsor, Hollands at Marine City and Youngs of Brantford stem from him. Phillip Bury settled in Oklahoma and his descendants reside there still. Henry Bury married his second cousin once removed, Martha Lark of the Stover branch. His one surviving daughter lives in Kent. Esther Bury married Arthur Wellington Watson, born as the Battle of Waterloo was being fought. Dorothy Bury became the bride of Lambton's second warden, Alfred P. Toulmin. Martha Bury married Abram Smith, Sombra's first merchant. Jane became Mrs. Johnson and the ancestress of the present Harsens of Harsens Island and their kin. Margaret Bury became Margaret Knight and the Miller clan from Marine City stem from her. Mary Bury, youngest of William's daughters and the beauty of the family, married Captain Mart Swain...

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):
... 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...

The Bury Bulletin, 1952, p. 31:
In the year 1818 William Bury, J. C. Bury's only son by his first marriage to Dorothy Sherwood, emigrated to Canada from Ireland, landing in Quebec City. In the same year the Oughton family from County Wexford, Ireland, landed at Quebec, and there William Bury met the 18 year old daughter of the family, Margaret Oughton. William and Margaret Oughton Bury were married at St. Andrew's Anglican Church in Quebec City on June 5, 1818 by the Reverand Alexander Sharpe and remained in Quebec for a few years. There first three children, John, Esther and Dorothy were born there. Before 1826, however, William Bury and his family had joined the Bury colony at Clearville. In that year William is recorded as the owner of a grist mill on the banks of Clear Creek.
David Baldwin's Inn, begun in 1825, stood then on the north side of Talbot Street not far from the Creek. There, on Jan. 7, 1828, was held Orford's first "town-meeting". William Bury was named Constable and John Darling Bury, roadmaster. In 1829 William Bury disposed of his Clearville property and on Oct. 30, of the same year purchased the north half of Lot B in the 13th concession of Sombra township on the St. Clair River and moved his family there...

The Johnston Papers, by Jacqueline James Johnston, Lambton Settlers Series Volume 1, 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):
William Bury Entertains
...Margaret Houghton was a girl of 18 when William Bury won her heart in 1818, and when she died on 8 June, 1873 he saw no reason to go on with life. He buried her in consecrated ground in Trinity churchyard, Sutherland (now Mooretown). As he stood by the open grave after the long journey for the funeral cortege from Sombra, he told Margaret Houghton in the presence of their children that he would join her soon. Five days later dust rose on the River Road as another funeral came up from Sombra...For 44 years he and Margaret Houghton had lived on its [St. Clair's] banks, and as the sun went down behind the river's American shore on the evening of June 13, 1873, the two of them were lying side by side under an oak tree on Sutherland Hill within sight of the St. Clair...

Introduction to the transcription of the Riverside Cemetery, Sombra Twp, Lambton Co., ON, by the Lambton Branch of the OGS:
On October 10, 1829, William Bury purchased 100 acres on the North half of Lot B of Concession 13, Sombra Twp. He paid 85 Pounds and 10 shillings to Samuel Maxwell of York, Upper Canada for this property.
William Bury also purchased Lot A (200 acres) on the same concession (Registered January 14, 1840).
The land abstract records for Lot B (Document #86) indicate that on March 29, 1852, William Bury, a trustee of the M.E. Church donated part of a half acre to the Trustees of the M.E. Church. (The actual document could not be located).
The History of Sombra United Church (p.4) contains a letter printed in the Christian Guardian (January 28, 1852), which was written to the editor of that publication by James H. Burr.
"On the River St. Clair, about five miles from Wilkesburg (*Wilkesport), is an Episcopal Methodist Mission, and a new frame Chapel, lately erected, well attended on the Sabbath."
At some point this church was burned, however the surrounding property was maintained as an early burial ground from those early days until the present. In more recent years additional land has been purchased.

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John Colbrook Bury 1764-1850   Dorothy Sherwood 1768-1796
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William Bury 1793-1873