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1808\u20131845<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Third Generation:<\/strong> William Warner < William Warner<\/a> < William Warner<\/a>

My 3rd great grandfather<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Warner was the son of William Warner<\/a> and Hannah Benson<\/a> of the village of Howden, in Yorkshire, England. He was born in Howden in in the first part of 1808, and baptized on May 4 of that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William came with his parents to what was then Lower Canada (now Quebec) sometime between 1825 and 1830. The family settled, and gradually cleared and built a farm, on a piece of wilderness land in the township of Frampton, south of Quebec City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William married Sarah Leitch<\/a> in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Quebec City, on July 31, 1832. He was twenty-four and she was about twenty-seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marriage Record of William Warner and Sarah Leitch (second item on left-hand page)
Institut G\u00e9n\u00e9alogique Drouin; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Drouin Collection<\/em>; Author: Gabriel Drouin, comp.<\/em> (click image to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As far as we know, William and Sarah had five children, of whom only two, James<\/a> and Hannah<\/a>, would survive to adulthood. William and Sarah’s known children were as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. William Warner<\/a><\/li>
  2. Sarah<\/a> Warner<\/a><\/li>
  3. James Warner<\/a><\/li>
  4. Hannah Maria Warner<\/a><\/li>
  5. William B Warner<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Sometime between 1833 and 1836, the couple moved from Frampton to Montreal, where three of their children, Sarah, Hannah and James were born. About 1840, they all moved from there to Yorkville, Ontario. Yorkville is now almost in the heart of downtown Toronto, but it was then a prosperous village a few miles north of the city limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    William died of tuberculosis (what was then called “consumption”) at the end of May in 1845, at the age of thirty-seven. He left Sarah<\/a> a widow with two small children, James<\/a> (eight) and Hannah<\/a> (six). Sarah was about forty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    He was buried in the York General Burying Ground on June 1, 1845. The cemetery was at the corner of Yonge Street and Bloor Street (now one of downtown Toronto’s busiest intersections) and was popularly known as “Potters’ Field,” because it was the first cemetery in Toronto that was not affiliated with any specific religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    William Warner’s burial record at the York General Burying Ground (13th line from top)
    Toronto Trust Cemeteries; Toronto, Canada; Cemetery: Potters’ Field Cemetery<\/em>; Volume: 01<\/em>; Year Range: 1826-1850<\/em> (click on image to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    The burying ground was closed ten years later and all the remains were gradually removed, over the following two decades, to other cemeteries in the city. William’s remains were moved to the Toronto Necropolis Cemetery, where he was reinterred, on October 25, 1873, in Section P, Plot 74.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    William’s burial record at the Toronto Necropolis Cemetery (7th line from top)
    Toronto Trust Cemeteries; Toronto, Canada; Cemetery: Necropolis Cemetery<\/em>; Volume: 04<\/em>; Year Range: 1869-1873<\/em> (click on image to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    William and Sarah’s Remarkable Journey, 187 Years Ago this Christmastime<\/a><\/blockquote>