Meredith Lavery

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-109913P
• Residence: 1852, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical Church
• Occupation: 1881, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1911, Linwood, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1911, Linwood, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1921, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Meredith — Margaret Lloyd Williams. Margaret (daughter of William Whaley Williams and Sarah Jane Price) was born 6 Sep 1857, , Ontario, Canada; died 3 Apr 1932, Maryborough Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Glenallan Union Cemetery, Glenallan, Wellington, Ontario. [Group Sheet]

1. Stewart E. A. Lavery was born 16 Nov 1878, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1935; was buried , Glenallan Union Cemetery, Glenallan, Wellington, Ontario.
2. Thomas W. G. Lavery was born 2 Aug 1880, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
3. Wilbert Mills Lavery was born 29 Dec 1881, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1942; was buried , Fairview Cemetery, Listowel, Wallace Township, Perth County, Ontario, Canada.
4. Meredith Darwin Lavery was born 16 Apr 1884, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
5. Ralph Alexander Lavery was born 15 Apr 1886, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1958; was buried , Glenallan Union Cemetery, Glenallan, Wellington, Ontario.
6. Mabel Gertrude "Gertrude" Lavery was born 2 Jun 1889, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
7. Edna Jane Lavery was born 8 Oct 1891, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 19 Feb 1967, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Glenallan Union Cemetery, Glenallan, Wellington, Ontario.
8. Allan Pemberton Lavery was born 1 Jul 1892, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 28 Dec 1968, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Glenallan Union Cemetery, Glenallan, Wellington, Ontario.
9. Ada Maggie May Lavery was born 30 Sep 1893, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
10. Earle Clifford Lavery was born 2 Sep 1895, Dorking, Peel Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died 2 Sep 1918, Arras, , Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; was buried , Sun Quarry Cemetery, Cherisy, Pas De Calais, France.
11. James Stanley "Stanley" Lavery was born 8 Jan 1897, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-109917
• Occupation: 1852, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1852, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Map: 1861, Wellesley Township - West Concession 14 Lot 03, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical Chuch
• Retired: 1881, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Pioneer Farms - The R. Lavery Farm

In 1847 Meredith Lavery with his wife Kathrine Burke, came from Ireland and took up a portion of Crown Land on the farm now owned by M. Brenner, Con. 14 Wellesley township, Waterloo Co. He stayed there two years and then moved a few farms west and about ¾ miles from Dorking in Apr 1849, just 100 years ago. His grandson Ralph Lavery resides on the same farm. Merdith Lavery was at one time offered the farm now owned by John Kraemer for 100 lbs. of flour, but flour had to be carried on the shoulder from Waterloo over twenty miles distant, and over a blazed trail through the bush, a feat which Mr. Lavery did whenever flour was needed. He considered it too high a price to pay for a farm.

He built a shack for his oldest son Jack, on the farm now owned by James Beatty, but the son did not go there to live, he became a blacksmith. Mr. Lavery's first team of oxen was paid off with maple sugar which his wife made.

He was the first settler west of Tabberts corner. Wolves were plentiful and a torch had to be carried after dark if anyone ventured outside. The children alone one night, huddled around the fireplace in fear, because the wolves were howling outside. The log-house stood near the road on the west half of the present farm. Mr. Lavery sold his east fifty acres to Mr. Eastrip who build a log house farther back from the road, near where their present buildings now stand and Mr. Lavery's son, Meredith bought back the fifty acres when he took over his father's farm and lived in the log house.
In 1894 he moved the barn near the road back beside his own, forming a good bank barn. In 1901 he built the present brick house as it stands to-day with the exception of re-modelled verandahs in 1946, by the present owned who came into possession in 1917.

Plans are being made for a Lavery reunion this summer 1949 to celebrate 100 years possession by the Lavery family.

It is the only farm in the community still owned by the same family as that , which took it out from crown lands.
Dorking Women's Institute
Region of Waterloo Library

Meredith — Catherine Burke. Catherine was born 1813, , Ireland; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Catherine Lavery
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-109918
• Residence: 1852, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical Church