Individual Details

*Thomas Love

(18 Feb 1805 - 5 Dec 1847)

Response to inquiry of Old St. Paul's Church Historian as to the significance of Thomas and son's headstone laying down next to the church building seems that the "coffin style" stone was typical of the time, and the proximity to the church building was the result of a later addition which came right up to the plot.
Per OSP Church Historian Shirley Woodall email on 9/29/17: " I shall attempt to tell you what I can re: Thomas Love & son stone. When Old St. Paul`s was built in 1834 it was Georgian in style. In 1851 the wings were added along with window changes & it became Gothic in style, prior to this the chancel was added in 1843 & this is the church we have to-day. About your family stone, we are just guessing that your family had a plot before any additions. The coffin-like stones were popular at that period of time as animals would graze in the cemetery. There are over 700 persons buried in OSP cemetery and has been closed since 1871. The Anglican Church cemetery has been on Vansittart Ave since then .Many of the tombstones at the church we can no longer read as the age & weather has taken its toll and too not everyone of the 700 plus have markers, possibly once wood ones which soon decay. I hope this answers some questions. Take care--------Sincerely Shirley Woodall (skoty@rogers.com) OSP church historian"

Events

Birth18 Feb 1805Bedfordshire, England
Marriage10 May 1835Blenheim, Oxford, Ontario, Canada - *Ann M Lazenby
Death5 Dec 1847Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada
BurialSt Pauls Anglican Cemetery, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada

Families

Spouse*Ann M Lazenby (1811 - 1891)
ChildMary Ann Love (1837 - 1915)
Child*Thomas A Love (1839 - 1925)
ChildLouisa Victoria Love (1844 - 1925)
ChildCharles John Love (1846 - 1914)
ChildArthur Love (1848 - 1850)

Endnotes

1. Thomas S. Shenston- with additional handwritten entries added by family members, Private Family Register of the Shenston and Lazenby Families- personal copy owned by Ann M (Lazenby) Love (Brantford, Ontario, Canada: Published and Printed by Thomas S. Shenston, 1864), 18 Feb 1805 Thomas Love born.

2. Ancestry.com and Genealogical Research Library (Brampton, Ontario, Canada), Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1935 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; District Marriage Registers, 1801-1858; Series: MS248; Reel: 3.

3. Thomas S. Shenston- with additional handwritten entries added by family members, Private Family Register of the Shenston and Lazenby Families- personal copy owned by Ann M (Lazenby) Love (Brantford, Ontario, Canada: Published and Printed by Thomas S. Shenston, 1864), May 10 1835 Thomas Love married Ann Lazenby.

4. Genealogical Research Library, Ontario, Canada, Canadian Genealogy Index, 1600s-1900s (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005).

5. Genealogical Research Library, Ontario, Canada, Canadian Genealogy Index, 1600s-1900s (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005).

6. Thomas S. Shenston- with additional handwritten entries added by family members, Private Family Register of the Shenston and Lazenby Families- personal copy owned by Ann M (Lazenby) Love (Brantford, Ontario, Canada: Published and Printed by Thomas S. Shenston, 1864), 5 Dec 1847 Thomas Love died.