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From - Looking Backward by Robert Edwin Gunton, P. M, June 22nd 1933 -
...The said Isaiah Jarvis and his wife were the maternal grandparents of the writer of these memoirs of the Jarvis family. My grandfather was a plasterer and stone mason by trade but in wintertime he made and repaired shoes for his own family and others. The writer does not remember having his shoes repaired by anyone except grandfather until he was twelve years old. We then lived on the banks near Vittoria Creek, and I remember seeing my grandfather running off lime and burying it in the ground in the Fall of the year for next Spring's plastering (and it was good plaster they put on in those days). I have often repeated the story of seeing a house that my grandfather had plastered, that had been totally destroyed by fire, with the plaster still on the ceiling. This may sound somewhat like an exaggeration. The plaster in question was in the angle of two brick walls and supported on the side by the plaster on the side walls, and measured out about six feet each way, containing about eighteen square feet. It was about an inch thick, known as what is called three-coat work. It was very hard and required a considerable blow to knock it down. Mechanics in those early days understood some chemistry that they learned by experience.
Resourceful as my grandfather was, he did not equal that of my grandmother, who dominated the home, and we always knew and had their home referred to as the home of Grand-mother or Mrs. Jarvis, as the neighbours called it, not Grand-father's...
...Of my grandfather's family I know very little. Uncle Isaac told me that his grandfather's name was Isaac and that they originally came from the State of New Jersey about the year 1812. When Uncle Isaac was a boy, his grandfather and grandmother came from New Brunswick to visit their son, Isaiah, his father, and brought all their worldly possessions, intending to stay. His memory of them was that they were well dressed and refined, and were reported to have a large amount of money with them, which they kept carefully hidden away and refused to invest. They stayed only a short time and then went back to their old home...
On the 1852 Census of Charlotteville, Norfolk, Canada West are:
Isaiah Jarvis, Mason, Born United States, Baptist, Married, Aged 48, Male
Olive Jarvis, Born United States, Baptist, Married, Aged 43, Female
Isaac Jarvis, Laborer, Born Canada, Baptist, Single, Aged 20, Male
Sarah A. Jarvis, Born Canada, Baptist, Single, Aged 17, Female
Andrew Jarvis, Born Canada, Baptist, Single, Aged 13, Male
Eliza Jarvis, Born Canada, Baptist, Single, Aged 11, Female
Norfolk Deaths, Charlotteville - Isiah Jarvis, October 31st 1877, Male, Aged 74 Years, Mason, Born Long Island, U. S., Cause of Death Dysenty, Duration 3 Days, Physician Dr. W. Innes, Informant Dr. W. Innes, Registered November 1st 1877, Baptist, John Machon Division Registrar of Charlotteville
Norfolk Deaths, Charlotteville - Olive Jarvis, October 1st 1880, Female, Aged 71 Years, Widow, Born New Brunswick, Cause of Death Hypostrophy of the Heart and Dropsy, Duration 1 Year, Physician Dr. Kennedy, Informant Dr. Kennedy, Registered October 4th 1880, Baptist, John Machon Division Registrar of Charlotteville
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Rainham Builders
1803 - 1877 (74 years)