William Lane
#1157, (circa 1797 - before 1871)
Citations
- [S140] Cecil J. Houston and William J. Smyth, Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement: Patterns, Links and Letters (Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1990), Timothy Lane, of Cork Ireland, first to apply to the "committee for settling emigrants" (Jan 1821). Granted 160 acre plot on the north side of the [Cape Tormentine New] road. Aeneas Lane (his bro.) granted 190 acres on the opposite side. Res. with Trenholmes while building their homes. William Lane (their bro.), no land grant, marr. widow Trenholme. (pp. 197-200).
- [S83] 1851 Canada Census (Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia). William (54), widow, farmer, b. Ireland, entered Colony Jun 1822.
- [S144] Linda Evans, Melrose: An Irish Village Transplanted in New Brunswick, online www.newirelandnb.ca, "The Lanes came from Ballynamuck (sometimes spelled Bally-na-moche), parish of Murragh (known then as Moragh) in West County Cork. It is located a few kilometres southwest of the Anglo-Irish town of Bandon. Many more related families would follow them." and "Rev Savage, in his book suggests that the Lanes only came to Melrose after the Great Fire of 1825 in Miramichi. However, they had location tickets to the land grants in Melrose in 1821 and so they probably came to Melrose before the fire."
- [S79] Rev. Edward Savage, The Story of Melrose, Westmorland County (copy from Université Saint Joseph Archives, Moncton), transcription online http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbwestmo/history.htm, p. 6. "Before their farms were ready for occupation they lived on a portion of the Trenholm farm. Here William met his fate, marrying an elderly lady - Mrs. Trenholm, the widow of their temporary landlord. [William Lane was about 36 and Katharine (Seaman) Trenholm was about 46 when they married.] After her death he married another Protestant Eliza Mitton. He was slow in taking up his farm, so he did not live near his brothers."
- [S1600] New Brunswick Marriage Registers 1789-1889, online FamilySearch.com, Westmorland 1835-1856, img. 275/336, p. 441, no. 3318. William Lean and Eliza Mitten, both of Botsford, marr. 19 Oct 1852 by John Trenholm, J. P.; witn. William B Allen and Richard Mitten.
- [S79] Rev. Edward Savage, The Story of Melrose, p. 6. William Lane marr. (1) widow Trenholm and (2) Eliza Mitton, both Protestants.
- [S520] VWH, Wife Elizabeth is wid. in 1871 census.
- [S84] 1871 Canada Census.
- [S42] 1881 Canada Census. She appears in the same household as Elizabeth (Mitton) Lane and children so this is only a possible daughter of William and Elizabeth.
- [S560] New Brunswick Department of Health Certificate of Registration of Death (Form C.-3), No. 11658. James Tweed Lane, b. Malden NB 29 Dec 1860, son of William Lane, b. Ireland, and Elizabeth Mitton, b. Bayfield NB; carpenter, res. Botsford, Westmorland Co. NB, husb. of Frances Sweeney; d. Botsford, Westmorland Co. NB, 2 May 1937, age 76y 4m 3d, cancer of jaw; inf. Harold Lane, son, res. Bayfield NB; bur. Melrose Cemetery 4 May 1937, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, online http://archives.gnb.ca