Meredith Lavery^[1]

1807 - 1891  (84 years)

• Name	Meredith Lavery
  Born	1807	, Ireland   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1852	Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Farmer
  Residence	1852	Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Church of England
  Map	1861	Wellesley Township - West Concession 14 Lot 03, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  Residence	1861	Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Evangelical Chuch
  Retired	1881	Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-109917
  Died	28 Oct 1891	Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I109917	Generations
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2025

  
  

  Family	Catherine Burke,   b. 1813, , Ireland ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. John Lavery,   b. CALC 18 Jun 1840, Sligo, Sligo Co., Ireland ,   d. 18 Feb 1890, Ayr, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age ~ 49 years)   2. Mary Lavery,   b. 1841, , Ireland ,   d. 19 Aug 1917  (Age 76 years)   3. Ann Lavery,   b. 1842, , Ireland ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Catherine Lavery,   b. 18 Jul 1845, Blanshard Twp., Perth Co., Ontario ,   d. 10 Oct 1928, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 83 years)   5. James Lavery,   b. 1847, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Meredith Lavery,   b. 7 Feb 1849, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 15 May 1926, Peel Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 77 years)   7. Thomas Lavery,   b. 1851, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   8. Stewart Lavery,   b. 6 Aug 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 2 May 1926, Brantford, Brant Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 64 years)
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2025
  Family ID	F27966	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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

  
  

• Sources

  [S5] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - 1858-1869 Marriage Register. John Lavery, 23, r. Galt, b. Co Sligo Ireland, s/o Meredith & Catherine (Burke), married 25 June 1862 Janet Kingsbury, 22, r. Galt, b. Kingston CW, d/o Edward & Catherine (Cochrane) [S113] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wellesley Twp. - 1881, Division 5 Page 8. [S242] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wellesley Twp. - 1851, Div. 4 Page 2. [S855] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wellesley Twp. - 1861, Div.1 Page 1. [S498] Map - Tremaine's 1861 Map of Waterloo County.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1807 - , Ireland Occupation - Farmer - 1852 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Church of England - 1852 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Evangelical Chuch - 1861 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Retired - 1881 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 28 Oct 1891 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth