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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, S. of Do., Sp Do; 9th October.
Beury Jane, D. of Do., Sp Do; 9th October.
Beury Richard, S. of Do., Sp Do; 9th October.

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):
...John Bury sent his wife and young family on what was intended to be a reunion with the Sherwoods...[she] 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 [John Colbrook Bury] 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...

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. This was the girl whose naming testifies to the broadness of her mother's outlook. No daughter of John Colbrook Bury's first wife had been named Dorothy for her mother, Dorothy Sherwood. The second wife, Elizabeth Traver went the whole way and called her baby 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...