1. Mary Townley was heir to a coal fortune. She and John Larwence ran away
from England and were married in Boston before the American Revolution.
They remained loyal to the English king and were given land in Canada where
they went to live. The coal fortune reverted to the crown.
2. There may have been another generation between the two John Lawrences.
The older one was married before 1776 and the younger was born in the 1800s
in Niagara District, Canada.
3. Grace Stewart was heir to a Scottish title, but because of the distance
relatives assumed it.
4. John and Anne lawrence came to California in the Gold Rush. The photo
taken of them on their 60th wedding anniversary is still in the possession of
Angela Campbell Backman.
5. She died as a young woman.
6. At the wedding of Ellen Jane Lawrence and James Campbell, James' sister
and brother, Mary and Alexander, met Ellen Jane's brother and sister, Peter
and Sarah. Later these couples married. Ellen Jane was heard to remark in
jest that if she knew they were going to do that she never would have invited
them to her wedding. The children of the double relationship appear only on
the Lawrence side of the family tree and are not repeated on the Campbell side.
7. Ellen Jane was born in Wellington County Canada on April 13, 1834. She
died in Pittsburgh PA. on July 18, 1907. In her time relatives got together and
sent a well known Canadian lawyer first to Boston and then to England to
verify the information contained in footnote 1.
8. Emma and Frank Barrett lived in their home in Alameda CA until their
death.
9. William Campbell was of no relation to his wife's family. He was Irish and
she was Scottish.
10. When Stewart L. Campbell was born his parents gave him the second name
of Litch for the Doctor who delivered him. Later in life Stewart was baptized in
the Catholic faith and took the name of Lawrence which he always used as his
second name. h 1898 Stewart went to the Klondike gold-rush. The diary he
kept at that time is still available.
11. Margaret Grace Campbell's husband, William Gulick, was a photographer
and for this reason the family still has a number of the family photos taken at
that time.
12. Harold died as a child.
13. Anne Barker married Robert Barker (a distant cousin). She died in
childbirth along with the baby. Later Robert Barker married Anne's sister,
Grace.
14. Elsie and Nora Barker married brothers, Ivan and Paul Bauer.
15. Donald Bell was assumed dead in the Korean war when the plane in which
he was navigator went down. He left his wife, Kathleen and baby son,
Stephen. 20 years later Kathleen married Earl Cavanaugh.
16. Margaret O'Connor's sister donated the side altar at St. Basil's church,
Brantford, Canada. (It was still there in 1950. In 1989 the church had been
remodeled but portions of the side altar were still there.)
17. Born in Ireland.
18. Patrick married and settled in Boston.
19. Owen disappeared but later relatives heard from his daughter and he had
settled in Scotland.
20. Catherine was born 3/6/1855 and died as a young girl. There is still a photo
of her taken after her death. She is buried in Brantford Canada.
21. There are still letters existing written to Sr. DeSales in April 1906 by her
sister, Margaret who was living in Berkeley Ca. and experienced the big
earthquake.
22. Margaret O'Connell Campbell was baptized in St. Basil's church in
Brantford Ontario, Canada 12/31/1865. She was orphaned at an early age and
spent the rest of her youth living with one family after another. As a young
woman she supported herself as a dressmaker and lived with Ellen Jane
Campbell where Margaret met her future husband, Ellen Jane's son, Stewart.
The remainder of the family tree for Margaret and Stewart is not repeated
here as it is on the page with the Campbell family tree.
23. Died in childhood.
24. Emmett, Bess, Nita and Charles O'Connell and their descendants live in the
Chicago area.
25. Edward Toohey married 3 times (the second time to Catherine Creahan) He had
more children other than those listed here.
26 Catherine Toohey was born near Monivea Co. Galway. She could not read nor
write but she ran a milk business in Penn. Her husband read to her.
27. The marriage took place in Athenrid, Co. Galway, Ireland Aug. 1864.
28. Michael was born in Monivea, Co. Galway, Ireland. He went to New York and
worked until retirement for the B and O railroad as a track foreman. He moved with
the railroad to Penn. and settled in Kiefertown, PA. Later he built 4 houses in
Scottdale (one for each of his 4 daughters)
29. John remained in Ireland.
30. Annie and William Ryan lived in New York.
31. Tom lived in Texas.
32. James McGee was born in 1861 in Kilpatrick Scotland, lived in Co. Durham near
Newcastle-on-Tyne. At age 15 he came to the U.S. to Sutterville, PA and worked as a
miner. Later he owned a store and sold tea in Mt. Pleasant, PA.
33. Dennis's descendants settled in San Antonio Texas.
34. Lived in England.
35. Lived in England
36. Jack Wynn changed his name from McGee to Wynn and moved to Alabama. Later
he and his family lived in Uvalde, Texas. His descendants were still there in 1964.
37. He lived in Monessen, PA.
38. Margaret Clancy was born near Monivea, Ireland and was baptized in Athenrie.
39. John married and had one daughter. He died at a young age.
4O. The twin girls died in childhood.
41. Veronica burned to death in a fire when she was still a child.
42. Joseph died at age 15.
43. Clancy died at age 5.
44. Margaret Condon McGee had one son by a previous marriage. (Robert Vickery of
Malibu, CA)
45. Ralph Campbell is on page 2 of the Campbell family tree.