DRURY, Margaret: 1823 - 1892
HART, Eliza: 1826 - 1888
Margaret Chalmers Drury and Eliza Chalmers Hart were the daughters of Peter and Margaret Chalmers. They were sisters to James Chalmers (Tile # 18), William Chalmers (Tile # 19), Peter and Thomas Chalmers (Tile # 21).
Margaret Drury
Margaret Chalmers Drury and Eliza Chalmers Hart were the daughters of Peter and Margaret Chalmers. They were sisters to James Chalmers (Tile # 18), William Chalmers (Tile # 19), Peter and Thomas Chalmers (Tile # 21).
Margaret Chalmers married Charles Drury (1819-1895) while still living in Ireland. Emigrating from Ireland sometime after 1850, they joined Margaret’s parents and brothers who had arrived a few years earlier, and settled near them in Adolphustown. At the time of emigration Margaret and Charles had three children, John, William and Margaret, all of whom had been born in Ireland. Daughters Matilda and Eliza Jane were born in Canada soon after the family settled here. Charles Drury is listed as head of a family living on a farm in the area on the Adolphustown / Lennox censuses of 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891. At the time of the 1881 census, Margaret Drury’s widowed mother, Margaret Chalmers, aged eighty-five, matriarch of the large Chalmers family, was living with them.(1) Margaret Chalmers died in 1884 and was buried beside her husband Peter Chalmers and their son Thomas Chalmers in the St. Alban’s Cemetery.
Margaret Chalmers Drury died eight years later, in 1892, at the age of sixty-nine. She and her husband, Charles Drury, who died three years after his wife, are also buried in St. Alban’s Cemetery where their names are inscribed together on a headstone.
Eliza Hart
Eliza Chalmers was born October 3, 1826. She was the daughter of Peter and Margaret Chalmers Senior and sister of Margaret Chalmers above. Eliza Chalmers married widower Thomas Hart, October 3, 1876, in Adolphustown. The marriage took place in St. Paul’s church; the predecessor of St. Alban’s, and was solemnized by Reverend Thomas Harding with John Drury and Thomas Chalmers serving as witnesses.(2) Thomas Hart was born in 1810 in England. They married when Eliza was fifty and Thomas sixty-six. Eliza and Thomas Hart are listed on the 1881 census for Hastings North District, Sub District, Madoc. Thomas Hart’s occupation is listed as farmer on that census.(3)
Eliza Hart, nee Chalmers died in 1888.
1. 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 Canadian Census Household Record, via www.familysearch.org.
2. Marriage records of Reverend Robert Harding (Anglican Diocese Archives, Kingston, Ontario).
3. 1881 Canadian Census Household Record, via www.familysearch.org.