Ruth E. Law

The "triple connection" covers three Blacks who married three Van Cleafs and lived in Ontario. John Black (1788-1857), son of John Black and Mary Wilson, married Helen Hunter and emigrated in 1817 from Scotland to Prince Edward County, Ontario. John Van Cleaf (d.1844), grandson of a Dutch immigrant to Staten Island, emigrated from New York to Bloomfield, Ontario and married Hannah Hubbs (who had several generations of ancestors in New York). Descendants...

John Van Clief emigrated from The Netherlands to Richmond, Staten Island, New York and married Sarah Marshall. A grandson, John Van Clief (1790-1845), emigrated from the United States to Bloomfield, Ontario, and married Hannah Hubbs. Descendants and relatives lived in Ontario, Manitoba and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Michigan, Illinois, California and elsewhere in the United States. Includes some Hubbs ancestry in New York.

Deals primarily with the Ives of Canada, beginning with the family of Dr. Elam Burr Ives (1778-1848) and Lucinda Hamlin Follett (1779-1848), who were married in 1810 and lived near Colborne, Ontario, and whose descendants have spread throughout Canada. The Ives in the United States begin with William, who was born in England about 1607, came to Boston in 1635, married a woman named Hannah, and later founded Quinnipiac Colony in Connecticut.

Francis Purdy was born in England and was living at Fairfield, Conn. in 1635. He married Mary, daughter of John Brundage of Ipswich, Suffolk, England and Rachael Hubbard, who was the daughter of James Hubbard and Naomi Cook of Mendelsham, Suffolk, England. Francis (d.1658) and left six children. His wife remarried after his death to John Hoit. Because some family members were Loyalists, they relocated in Canada. Others eventually settled in North...

Ancestors and descendants of Henry Edward Law who left England in 1890 at age nine and came to Canada. He married Ada Lena Gage in 1907. He is descended from Thomas Law of Surrey County, England who lived in the early 1800's.

Benjamin Thorne Gage (1793-1841) was the son of John Gage (1761-1823) and Mary Hallet of Uplyme, Devon, England. He married Elizabeth Bartlett (b.1802) in 1826. They moved from Uplyme to Axmouth at the time of the marriage. Their son Richard Barton Gage (1834-1927) emigrated to Canada in 1852 and settled at Bath, Ontario. He married Jennifer Edwards in 1858. They raised six sons. Other family members lived at Kingston, Brampton and elsewhere. Eight...