Pat & Corinna’s Family History - Person Sheet
Pat & Corinna’s Family History - Person Sheet
NameJane Henry 
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442BirthJun 1801, Faughts, Parish of Calry, County Sligo, Ireland
Immigration1831, Canada
Death3 Nov 1893
BurialStrathroy Cemetery, Strathroy, Ontario, Canada
ReligionWesleyan Methodist
FatherDavid Henry
Spouses
Marriage28 Sep 1818
ChildrenEliza Ann (1819-1896)
Mary (1822-1849)
Anna Maria (1824-1896)
Thomas Henry (1826-1863)
Margaret (1828-1891)
Robert (1830-1855)
Ann Jane (1832-1911)
William Henry (1835-1911)
Matilda (1837-1885)
Samuel (1840-1888)
Louisa (Died as Infant) (1843-1844)
George David (1846-1920)
Notes for Robert & Jane (Family)
Robert and Jane lived in Ireland in the Townland of Tiraree, Parish of Kilmorgan, County Sligo - 11 miles from Sligo, and 2.5 from Ballymote. Their first six children were born there and accompanied their parents when they moved to Canada in 1831.
After a voyage of six weeks, the family settles in Albion Township, Peel County, Ontario, where they remained for some thirteen years. Robert is said to have taken a prominent part in the Rebellion of 1837-1838 on the side of the Loyalists. However, he helped one of the rebels, his brother-in-law McDougall who was supposed to be hanged. Robert and some other men changed the names of some of the witnesses.
In 1844 the family moved to London Township, Middlesex County, and settled on the 200 acres of Lot 3, Concession 4. This was a beautiful location, situated on the banks of the Thames River. The 1852 Census (recorded 2 february 1852) gives the following information:
“Under cultivation 40 acres - 30 under crops, 10 under pasture
Wooded or wild - 160 acres
Livestock:
- 2 bulls, oxen or steers
- 1 milch cow
- 1 calf or heifer
- 2 horses
- 60 sheep
- 8 pigs”
By 1861 90 acres had been cleared, 130 by 1870.
At some point, possibly around 1867, Robert retired from active farming and turned the operation of the farm over to his son Samuel. In 1870 or early 1871, Robert and Jane moved to Metcalfe Township where they retired on the farm of their daughter Margaret and son-in-law Thomas Hughes on Lot 9, Concession 2. It would seem, however, that Robert was interested in land in Metcalfe long before this as in 1851-52, writing from Katesville in Metcalfe, he petitioned for a grant of land (Lot 9, Concession 1) which was unoccupied. However, a squatter was later discovered there, and Robert was to write to the Crown Lands Department as follows:
“... about 3 weeks after my application a Drunken little Fellow of the Name of James Hanna come and put up a Shannty on one Corner of the lot and chopped down some 4 or 5 acres. When you wrote to me to bring a learned Lawyer to report on the same I acted as you directed and paid Mr. Peters £22 to come from London for that purpose. I recd your Reply afer his report signifying that Hanna should get one Hundred that I might have the other. So I went to do some labour on the other when this Hanna swore if I did that he would take my life he said you gave him the whole and he would keep it = therefore I would request you to wright to him to prevent him from having anything to do with the other 100 and Direct to Katesville to him. I offered to pay hin for all his costs and labour or for him to pay me back what cost I was at and he would do neither but wishes to take it by this sort of Bullying. I hope you will Interfere a little in this way please let me know how I shall act in his case as I do not wish to have my name brought in question with such. I will with anxiety wait your reply.” (all spelling, capitalization and punctuation as in the original.)
In 1862, Robert asked the Commissioner of Lands to put them title to the west half of Lot 9, Concession 1 in the name of his daughter, Anna M. Swayzie, then a widow who had lived on this land for some seven years. Initially the wrong deed was sent, and Robert speculated that the mistake must have come about because of an official “whoes thoughts ware on Election at the time.”
Robert died at the home of his daughter Margaret 2 November 1882. He had made a will some years earlier in which he left all his property, both real and personal, to his wife Jane and daughter Anne Jane with his son George David Lougheed and son-in-law Richard Bradshaw as executors.
Following her husband’s death, Jane moved to Petrolia where she lived with her son George David and his wife until her death 3 November 1893. Her obituary in the Petrolia Advertister includes the following:
“An earnest Christian from her youth, the Bible her constant companion and guide, she passed peacefully away at last, in the full possession of all her faculties, leaving behind her pleasant and endearing memories and a bright and brilliant testimony of the blessed hope of a future life beyond. The vacant chair will long be affectionately remembered - a fond mother is gone.”
Robert and Jane were Wesleyan Methodists. They are buried together in Strathroy Cemetery, Strathroy, Ontario - West 1/2 of Lot 384 [1868 survey]. There is no marker.
After a voyage of six weeks, the family settles in Albion Township, Peel County, Ontario, where they remained for some thirteen years. Robert is said to have taken a prominent part in the Rebellion of 1837-1838 on the side of the Loyalists. However, he helped one of the rebels, his brother-in-law McDougall who was supposed to be hanged. Robert and some other men changed the names of some of the witnesses.
In 1844 the family moved to London Township, Middlesex County, and settled on the 200 acres of Lot 3, Concession 4. This was a beautiful location, situated on the banks of the Thames River. The 1852 Census (recorded 2 february 1852) gives the following information:
“Under cultivation 40 acres - 30 under crops, 10 under pasture
Wooded or wild - 160 acres
Livestock:
- 2 bulls, oxen or steers
- 1 milch cow
- 1 calf or heifer
- 2 horses
- 60 sheep
- 8 pigs”
By 1861 90 acres had been cleared, 130 by 1870.
At some point, possibly around 1867, Robert retired from active farming and turned the operation of the farm over to his son Samuel. In 1870 or early 1871, Robert and Jane moved to Metcalfe Township where they retired on the farm of their daughter Margaret and son-in-law Thomas Hughes on Lot 9, Concession 2. It would seem, however, that Robert was interested in land in Metcalfe long before this as in 1851-52, writing from Katesville in Metcalfe, he petitioned for a grant of land (Lot 9, Concession 1) which was unoccupied. However, a squatter was later discovered there, and Robert was to write to the Crown Lands Department as follows:
“... about 3 weeks after my application a Drunken little Fellow of the Name of James Hanna come and put up a Shannty on one Corner of the lot and chopped down some 4 or 5 acres. When you wrote to me to bring a learned Lawyer to report on the same I acted as you directed and paid Mr. Peters £22 to come from London for that purpose. I recd your Reply afer his report signifying that Hanna should get one Hundred that I might have the other. So I went to do some labour on the other when this Hanna swore if I did that he would take my life he said you gave him the whole and he would keep it = therefore I would request you to wright to him to prevent him from having anything to do with the other 100 and Direct to Katesville to him. I offered to pay hin for all his costs and labour or for him to pay me back what cost I was at and he would do neither but wishes to take it by this sort of Bullying. I hope you will Interfere a little in this way please let me know how I shall act in his case as I do not wish to have my name brought in question with such. I will with anxiety wait your reply.” (all spelling, capitalization and punctuation as in the original.)
In 1862, Robert asked the Commissioner of Lands to put them title to the west half of Lot 9, Concession 1 in the name of his daughter, Anna M. Swayzie, then a widow who had lived on this land for some seven years. Initially the wrong deed was sent, and Robert speculated that the mistake must have come about because of an official “whoes thoughts ware on Election at the time.”
Robert died at the home of his daughter Margaret 2 November 1882. He had made a will some years earlier in which he left all his property, both real and personal, to his wife Jane and daughter Anne Jane with his son George David Lougheed and son-in-law Richard Bradshaw as executors.
Following her husband’s death, Jane moved to Petrolia where she lived with her son George David and his wife until her death 3 November 1893. Her obituary in the Petrolia Advertister includes the following:
“An earnest Christian from her youth, the Bible her constant companion and guide, she passed peacefully away at last, in the full possession of all her faculties, leaving behind her pleasant and endearing memories and a bright and brilliant testimony of the blessed hope of a future life beyond. The vacant chair will long be affectionately remembered - a fond mother is gone.”
Robert and Jane were Wesleyan Methodists. They are buried together in Strathroy Cemetery, Strathroy, Ontario - West 1/2 of Lot 384 [1868 survey]. There is no marker.