William Foreman (1820-1900)

My husband's 3rd great-grandfather William Foreman (1820-1900) was born in England in 1820 

and emigrated to Ontario where he acquired 100 acres of land in Wellington County 

and lived as a farmer until the day he died.  

William Foreman married Mary McCauley on Christmas Eve of 1845. In 1854 William Foreman was given the Crown Patent for Lot 11, Concession 6 in Wellington county.

Source: OnLand Records; Historical Books; Wellington; Peel

Source: Fisher and Taylor's Wellington County Directory and Gazetteer, 1875-1876

Source: Canadian County Atlas Digital Project; McGill University

William and Mary's Six Children 

William and Mary (McCauley) Foreman had six children on their farm in Wellington county. Only the youngest son Daniel (1862-1938) remained in the area and is buried in the Drayton Cemetery with his father. The other children moved to the Bruce, Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario and Red Deer Alberta.

1. John Foreman married Sarah Speirs (17 Dec 1874, Peel, Ontario) and they remained on the Wellington farm until his father William Foreman passed away in 1900. John moved to the Bruce peninsula where he died in 1925. At the Bruce County Museum there is a 28 page booklet on the descendants of John and Sarah (Speirs) Foreman. Their children:
• John Harold Foreman married Hannah Matilda Burt in 1903 (Bruce, Ontario)
• Adam Speirs Foreman (see photo below) married Lily Pearl Garland in 1909 (Bruce, Ontario)
• Neil Foreman died at 26 years of age from tuberculosis
• William Foreman died at 18 months of age.
• Nancy Susan Foreman
2. Mary Jane Foreman died at 23 years of age in 1873. The informant on her death certificate was her uncle William Dixon (Lot 5 Con 3, Chingacousy, Peel)
3. Emily Foreman married George Frederick Hind in 1873 in Arthur, Ontario and she died in Toronto in 1939. Their children:
• Sarah Hind married Hiram Jarvis in 1896 (Drayton, Ontario) and their five children were born in Brantford and Hamilton Ontario and Los Angeles. Hiram Jarvis was a Real Estate agent, house carpenter and he died in Los Angeles in 1949.
• George Hind married Mary Ann Adams in 1904 in York, Ontario
• Fred Hind married Lillian Pearl Smith in 1910 in York, Ontario and they had two children
4. William H. Foreman married Martha Ann Moore. William died in Alberta, Canada. I have written previously in detail about the family of William and Martha (Moore) Foreman at this link https://moynahangenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/12/william-and-martha-foremans-family_14.html
5. Susan Foreman married Thomas Clemence (aproximately 1880 Drayton, Ontario) and Susan died in Hamilton in 1936. Even though the death certificate did not stipulate that the heat wave of July 1936 caused her death, Susan's name appeared in the The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec, Quebec, Canada) 13 Jul 1936 newspaper including her the death toll of 175. They had three children:
• John D. Clemence painted a portrait at 15 years of age that is held at the Wellington Archives and Museum.He lived with his parents in Drayton (1881) and Ottawa (1901),
  before marrying Elizabeth Taylor in Halton County in 1905. By that time
  he was living in Hamilton. In 1926, while living in Burlington, he
  applied for American and Canadian patents for a stapling device that
  he'd invented, designed for fastening containers such as fruit baskets
  (U.S. patent received 1927; patent drawings signed by J.D. Clemence).
  He's alternately described on government records over the years as a
  barber, woodworker, and machinist.
• Thomas H. Clemence married Margaret Elliott in Sault Ste. Marie Michigan
• Emma M. Clemence married William Sheriday Semple in 1907 (Hamilton)
6. Daniel Foreman married Mary Marilla Bowman and died in Wellington in 1938 being the only other Foreman of William's six children buried in the Drayton Cemetery in Mapleton. https://billiongraves.com/grave/Daniel-Foreman/2543440 They had five children:
• Oscar Arlee
• Mary Pearl
• Justin Cecil
• Orval Earl
• Daniel

William Foreman's Second Marriage

After William Foreman's first wife Margaret McCauley died in 1878, he remarried in 1886 to Jane Blake. On the marriage record, William is recorded as 60 years old and Jane was recorded as 39.

Their daughter Priscilla was born in 1889. Priscilla married Alonzo Lewis in 1908 (Wellington, Ontario). They had four children:

• Norman Harold
• Hazel Jane
• Florence Pearl 
• Evelyn Phyllis

Photograph of Alonzo and Priscilla Lewis with children Norman, Evelyn, Florence and Hazel, ca. 1920. https://wcma.pastperfectonline.com/archive/A95F4FAF-A268-44C9-A765-450738279560

Photograph of Alonzo and Priscilla Lewis with children Norman, Evelyn, Florence and Hazel, ca. 1920. The Lewis family lived in Maryborough Township.   https://wcma.pastperfectonline.com/archive/4E68C2A1-B3A5-4552-80E6-442210512912

Source: Wellington County Museum: A1989.139 -

W. Foreman family tree, Peel Twp., ca. 1890

Drayton Cemetery 

William Foreman's Final Place of Rest

Source: https://billiongraves.com/grave/William-Foreman/2563759

Williams Eldest Son John Foreman (1848-1925)

John Foreman married Sarah Spiers moved to the Bruce following William Sr.'s death in 1900.
This is a picture of them on their 49th anniversary.

Source: Bruce County Museum http://www.brucemuseum.ca/

Bruce County Museum http://www.brucemuseum.ca/

With thanks for the online archive of the following two county Museums

1. Wellington County Museum https://www.wellington.ca/en/museum-and-archives.aspx
2. Bruce County Museum http://www.brucemuseum.ca/
3. Bruce County Historical Society http://www.brucecountyhistory.on.ca/