WHO were the x-great grandparents of David Harmon LENT and Anne Eleanor FRANCEY?
WHEN were they alive?
1 David LENT c1767- 17 June, 1855- b. Westchester County, New York. d. Hamilton Township, (Cobourg) ON.
Came to Ontario in 1788
+Ruth WILLIAMS c1774-3 July, 1843 -b. New York, USA.(?) d. Hamilton Township, (Cobourg) ON.
2 John LENT Apr. 1802-16 May,1884 -b. Hamilton Township, ON. d. Hamilton Township, (Cobourg) ON.
+Margaret BRECKENRIDGE 1804- 25 Feb. 1875 -b. PQ d. Hamilton Township, ON.
3 John B. LENT 1834- 8 Oct. 1913 -b. Hamilton Township, ON. d. NY, USA.
+Margaret Rebeckah COONS 21 July, 1835- 28 Aug, 1912 -b. Iroquois, Matilda Twp. ON. d. Salamanca, NY, USA.
4 David Harmon LENT 18 June(?),1858- 19 Aug. 1938 -b. Hamilton Township, ON. d. Smithfield, AB
+Annie Eleanor FRANCEY 21 July, 1865- 16 June, 1930- b. Baltimore, ON. d. Smithfield, AB
5 Freida Viola LENT 24 Mar. 1898- 27 Oct. 1992 -b.Thessalon, ON. d. Mayerthorpe, AB
+Edwin John WOOLLARD 15 June, 1886- 7 Dec. 1966- b. Port Credit, ON. d. Stony Plain, AB
6 Edwin Harry WOOLLARD 9 Oct. 1919- 25 January, 2005 b. Wabamun, AB, d. Edmonton, AB.
+Gertrude Evelyn CAMPBELL 8 Feb. 1918- 29 June, 1997 - b. Monitor, AB d. Stony Plain, AB
7 Edwin Grant WOOLLARD 1946- b. Edmonton, AB
+Denise Kay WORSLEY 1946- b.Medicine Hat, AB
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The family is probably descended from Dutch settlers who landed in New Amsterdam about 1638.
I have so far not found a direct connection to the New York Lents.
David Lent left New York in 1788 with his sister Catherine and her husband Charles Justin McCarthy and went to Ernesttown, in the Bay of Quinte area of Lake Ontario. There he married Ruth Williams, the daughter of a United Empire Loyalist, in 1800. Sometime before 1802 they moved to Hamilton Township, Northumberland County, where all of their children were born, the last(Charles) in 1821. They were settled near Cobourg, Ontario by 1804 (Lots 17 and 18 Concession 1) and there are records of land purchases in 1817. In 1824 David bought Lots 18 and 19(c. 400 acres), Concession 3 in Hamilton Township, three miles north of Cobourg, where the Lent family lived for some 70 years. (AREA MAP)
David Lent and Ruth Williams Lent are both buried in Lent's Cemetery, on the southwest corner of Lot 19, Con. 3, Hamilton Twsp., which was donated as a burial ground by the family in the 1830s.
(Censuses, Hamilton Township - 1804 - 1848)
My great-grandfather David Harmon Lent (PHOTO) left Ontario with his wife and six children in 1898, to come to the North-West Territories of Canada as a teacher and Methodist missionary.
They first came to Gleichen, east of Calgary, for two years. After talking with Rev. John McDougall in Edmonton David moved to teach at Paul's Band on White Whale (Wabamun) Lake in 1900. Two years later the school was closed as all the reservation children were sent to residential schools at Red Deer and later St. Albert.
The family established a homestead on the Lac. Ste. Anne Trail in 1902, (SW4-53-3-W5) (patent #98742 granted 27 June, 1906) and Grandma Lent and the children stayed there while David travelled widely as a teacher and preacher all over the West. He was the first teacher at White Whale School #746 at Mewassin in 1904, at Wabamun School (later Smithfield #1309) in 1905 and at Woodland #1832 in 1909. In 1914 he was in Griswold, Manitoba. He returned to Duffield in 1915-16 to campaign in the provincial election as a Temperance candidate. He taught at the Lucknow School #1946 in 1919-20 and in Edson for a while. He must have been home from time to time as they had a total of twelve kids.
Grandma Lent's brother Fred Francey and her parents (John and Mary Francey) came from Ontario and homesteaded the quarters to the east, (SE4-53-3-W5) and the north, (NW4-53-3-W5) (patent #162465 granted 2 December, 1912).
Because of the location the Lent house was handy as a stopping-house (like a truck stop) along the trail for freighters. When the railway came through in 1911 this business disappeared so Annie opened a restaurant in the new railway hamlet of Duffield.
The oldest son (Louis Llewllyn) went off to the First War and when he came back trained as a steam engineer and worked on the Coal Branch for many years in that trade until the mines closed and he retired. Maida was a nurse, Ada a teacher, Roy was farmer and politician for many years after he graduated from the Vermilion School of Agriculture. David followed the itchy footsteps of his father and went north to be a prospector and trader.
D.H. Lent - Letters to the Mirror newspaper
D.H. Lent - Campaign Literature - 1916
LENT FAMILY - by Joan Lent
Our U.E. LOYALISTS - Breckenridge/Carman/Coons/Lawrence/Williams/Wright.
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