Person:Robert Laing (3)

Robart (spelled thus by census taker) Laing, age next birthday = 7. This family has 1 male child attending school, 2 female children attending school; 1 child died in 1851. Family lives in a log house, single story, 1 family in the house. SOURCE: Ancaster twp, dist 2, page 141, 1851 census, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Cnd; Film SLC 0283613. "This part of twp lying north of the Macadamized road." < Samuel & Charlotte had 9 children: Edna, b. Dec 7 1838 at Jerseyville, Wentworth Co., Ontario; Emma d. in childhood; Elizabeth Ann b Aug 3 1840; Robert Coursen b. June 25 1846; Jennie M., b. Feb 11 1848; George Miller b. Nov 16 1850, d. June 17 1898; Aaron G. b. Apr 5 1852; Clara d. in childhood; Ida Violetta b. Dec 1 1860 d. unmarried July 29, 1888. From "The Lundy Family & Their Descendants" by W. C. Armstrong.

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In 1792, Edith Lundy married Samuel Laing. They had 10 children (one of whom, Joseph C. Laing, married Anna Coursen Bunting). Their son, Samuel Webster Laing married Charlotte Miller in 1836 - they had 9 children. Their son (my grandfather) Robert Coursen Laing born 1846 married Josephine Van Sickle in 1874 and they had 6 children. Their son (MX father) Elbert George Laing born in 1878 married in 1903 to Reitha Lenore Allen mother).