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V Jane Bury

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Huwelijken en kinderen

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Van 's kant John Colbrook Bury 1764-1850

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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.

1881 personal census, Sombra Twp, Lambton Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
McDonald Jane, F, Widowed, 74, born USA, Weslyan Methodist;
Margeret, F, 38, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Weslyan Methodist, School Mistress;
Doratha, F, 33, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Weslyan Methodist;
Duncan, M, Married, 32, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Weslyan Methodist, Farmer;
Mary, F, 27, born USA, origin: Scottish, Weslyan Methodist;
Annie, F, 4/12, born Nov, born Ont.

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... ...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...
Here also was born John Darling Bury on August 18, 1804...
...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...

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):
... Now history records that William and Phillip were but two of John Colbrook Bury's twenty children; and besides William Bury of Sombra, four other children of John Bury brought his blood-line to Lambton and perpetuated it until today. The other four were daughters. First there was Jane, named for himself and the darling of his heart. She came to Lambton to visit her brother William and met his Port Lambton neighbour, Angus McDonald from the Isle of Mull. She and Angus became the forbears of a host of McDonalds, Harts, McLeans, McGregors, McSweeneys, McPhails and others who have colored the history of both sides of the river.

The McDonald Family by Helen McDonald Wreath, 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):
...Angus McDonald threw school-teaching into the Snye and headed for Amherstburg to learn a more profitable vocation. He apprenticed himself to a tannery there...Angus McDonald built the river-front's first tannery in 1818...
Jane Bury, daughter of John Colbrook Bury and Elizabeth Traver, born in 1797 at Scotland, Oakland township, Brant county...daughter of an educated Englishman, was impressed by Angus' mind...Presbyterian Angus and Anglican Jane were married by a Methodist missionary, the Rev. James Evans...

The McDonalds of Port Lambton
The first child of Angus and Jane was Elizabeth, born in 1830 and named for her grandmother Bury down in Kent. She grew up and married Samuel Hart and lived first in Sombra Village. Later the Harts came into possession of part of the McDonald holdings at Port Lambton and the sixth generation of Harts live there still. Another daughter Catherine, arrived in 1831. She lived to become the bride of Donald Gilean McLean of Lobo township in Middlesex county and lived there until she moved with her husband to Michigan...
The third child of Angus and Jane McDonald was another daughter, Mary, born in 1834. She married Richard Cole of St. Clair, Michigan, and resided with him near that town and later at Oxford in the same State. They had one daughter, Susan Cole, born in 1854.
Margaret McDonald, born in 1836, fourth daughter of the McDonalds, became a school teacher and never married...
Martha McDonald, born 1838, married Duncan Gregor McGregor and lived at Algonac, later moving to Bay City, Michigan, where her daughter still lives.
Jane McDonald arrived in the McDonald menage in 1840. She married John McSweeney of Smith's Creek in St. Clair county, Michigan, who later became a Detroit merchant. The McSweeneys are still well-known in Detroit...
The seventh McDonald child and first son was William Richard, born in 1842. William married Eliza Chambers and lived for some time in Sombra township. He moved to the Canadian West and homesteaded in Manitoba. He died at a comparatively early age and his family returned to Ontario, taking up residence at Dresden, in Kent County. Later his daughters moved to Detroit, Michigan. William's two daughters Miss Jessie McDonald and Mrs. Margaret Crawford still spend their summers in a Port Lambton cottage on the banks of the St. Clair river.
Dorothy McDonald was added to the family in 1846. She never married...
Duncan Angus McDonald, born in 1848, married a member of two of the earliest families to settle on the American shore of the St. Clair. Mary Elizabeth Cottrell was the daughter of George Cottrell and his wife Archange Minnie. Cottrellville township in St. Clair county was named for his family. The Minnie family had arrived in North America from France with General Lafayette at the time of the American Revolution...
Maurice Minnie of Sombra and his brother Lewis Minnie are members of the same family and at the same time members of the Bury clan through their mother who a grand-daughter of William Bury of Sombra. Born Mary Elizabeth Smith some 93 years ago she died in Cleveland in the summer of 1948.
Duncan Angus McDonald's move to Michigan came with the sale of the family farm north of Port Lambton in 1899.
Duncan Angus and his wife were the parents of five children, all daughters. They are Anna Grace McDonald; Marietta McDonald, now Mrs. Arthur Kiddle; Jennie Gertrude McDonald, Mrs. W. Wallace Hazen; Edna Lois McDonald, Mrs. Watson Frank Walker; and Helen Catherine, now Mrs. Thomas Wreath of Sombra.
Florence McDonald, born in 1850, was the youngest and last child of Angus McDonald of the Isles and his wife Jane Bury. She later married Wilson Brooks McGregor and lived in Cottrellville township on the American shore of the St. Clair, later moving to St. Clair, Michigan.
Besides the ten McDonald children who reached maturity there where two others who died young, both of them boys and both of them named Angus. One of them died in infancy and one at the age of four years.

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John Colbrook Bury 1764-1850   Elizabeth Traver 1772-1858
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Jane Bury 1807-1898