FAMILY OF HUMPHREY (died 1869) and ISABELLA MAC LAURIN (died
1866), age 68 years). Peter (died 1886, age 64) married Mary Milligan.
Family were Archibald, Robert, John, James, William, Henry, Arthur,
Isabelle and Mary. Robert married Anne Glover. They had two daughters -
Annie and Isabelle. Annie married John MacDonald, family were Sophie,
Dot, Mamie and Robert. Isabelle married Mark Best; their family were Otto,
Henry, George and May - Isabel married Andrew MacGregor. They had
one son, William Humphrey who married Mary Crawford MacLean. Family
were Isabel (married Roy E. MacLean); Archibald K. (married Violet Lyle);
James, (married Eva Manderson); Lena, (married Fred Parker); Barbara
(married Allan Tate); Doris (married Clarence Carr); Charles Andrew died
1917, age one year. Margaret - married Donald MacLean. One daughter
Isabella Fullerton, married to Robert Beairsto. Mary Crawford, (died 1899,
age 74) married Archibald Kennedy (died 1909, age 88 years). John/
married Jane MacLean. Barbara, spinster, died 1911.
Pages from the Past
Humphrey and Isabella Fullerton MacLaurin arrived in
eastern North America around 1834 from Kilcreggan (near
Greenoch), Scodand with at least five of their eight children.
By 1846, they had acquired what was known as the "Ferry
Farm" on Grand River in Lot 16. This they purchased from
James Yeo by building a ship. Humphrey was a shipbuilder
and carpenter as well as a farmer.
Their family, Robert(Anne Glover),
John (Jane MacLean),
Mary (Archibald Kennedy),
Margaret (Donald MacLean, Jane's brother, see
Laughlin MacLean),
Barbara (unwed),
Isabelle (Andrew MacGregor, see MacGregor History), and Peter (Mary
Milligan) are all buried in Lot 16 United Church Cemetery.
No records were found for a young child named James who
died. Robert and Anne's daughter, Annie (John Mac-
Donald) was the first treasurer of the Lot 16 WMS.
Their son Peter, who married Mary Milligan, daughter
of Robert, the Presbyterian elder and builder of the first
sanctuary on the present site, is the direct ancestor of the
MacLarens who stayed in Lot 16. Peter and Mary had nine
children, three of whom remained in Lot 16.
Lot 16 and its People