from Bonny Campbell BEGIN Apr 09 2026 10:59AM -0400 ... daughters of John Lake of Sidney Twp, Hastings County, Ontario and his wife Elizabeth Sharrard. There were two daughters Phoebe Lake and Permelia Lake. Phoebe was born 18 Apr 1809 in Madoc Twp, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. She married Jeptha Bradshaw 19 Dec 1826 in Madoc where they continued to live. Permelia Lake was born 29 Dec 1818 in Sidney Twp, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. She married William Ashley of Foxboro ,about 1835. The family were on the 1851, 1861 and 1871 census. On the 1871 census, Permelia was listed as German and was noted as being unable to read or write. In Feb 1869, Permelia marked an X on a land document where she and her husband William Ashley, sold part of their property on lot 2, conc 5, Thurlow Twp, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada to their son Charles W Ashley. Phoebe and Permelia had several brothers of which one was a James Lake born around 1812. James Lake married Eliza Ann Deen( or Dean) who was a couple of years older than him. I found the baptism of Eliza Ann Deen in a very large old original book called Early Methodist Baptisms of Smith Creek Circuit at the Belleville Library about 20 yrs ago. Eliza Ann Deen (had her incorrectly as Elizeran), was baptized on the same day as her brother Adam Acker Deen who was born 1811. Adam was my ggg grandfather. The parents of Eliza Ann Dean and Adam Acker Deen were listed as Isaac and Caty Deen in that old baptism book. Caty was Catherine Acker, born about 1787 like Isaac Deen. Caty was the daughter of Adam Acker and Mary Brill who left Dutchess County, New York to settle on property which is now just within the city boundary of Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. We found the Will of Adam Acker recently and he named all his children, including Catherine. I have dna Acker matches. Adam Acker was a direct descendant of the Eckert/Eckhardt family that settled in Dutchess County, New York in 1820 as Palantine Germans. The original stone house still exists in New York and is occupied by an actress from Toronto (an Ontario Acker went there). In April 1853, my 4th grandfather Isaac Deen born 1787, did his Will. He named his wife as Elizabeth, not Caty or Catherine. Who was she? Caty was alive around 1823 when their youngest daughter Lavisa was born, who was also named in Isaac's Will. When Lavisa married, she named Isaac and Catherine Dean as her parents on the marriage record. Why did Isaac name Jeptha Bradshaw and William Ashley as the executors of his estate just prior to his death in June 1853? I thought that it was because they were brothers in law of his daughter Eliza Ann Deen, wife of James Lake. I found an Elizabeth Dean on the 1861 census (age showed birth about 1787) who was near a Catherine Lessard (wife of Richard Lessard and Catherine's maiden name was Asseltine). Was this Elizabeth Dean originally Elizabeth Lessard( who had married a David Powers in Kingston) a known sister of Catherine Lessard. HOWEVER, my cousin was researching the Lake and Sharrard families as her relative was a sibling of James, Phoebe and Permelia Lake. This cousin was not on my Dad's Dean side, but rather from my Hall side of Port Hope, Ontario. My Hall uncle (her father) though married his Phillips wife from Hastings County. My cousin made the point that the Ashley family were listed above Catherine Lessard (nee Asseltine). She concluded that Elizabeth Dean was living with the Ashley family, not the Richard and Catherine Lessard family. Also, Isaac Dean was witness to land transactions for his stated wife Elizabeth Dean. This land was in Uxbridge that Elizabeth Sharrard had been granted as a daughter of the United Empire Loyalist William Sharrard. From my cousin's very thorough research, it appeared that Elizabeth Sharrard never occupied that land but her brothers did. She appeared to have stayed in Sidney Twp, Hastings County, Ontario with her husband John Lake. She was widowed young when John Lake died but did not marry Isaac Dean( Deen) until at least after the 1823 birth of Isaac Deen and Caty Acker's youngest child Lavisa. Did Caty Dean die in childbirth? That remains unknown.. What is known is the Isaac Dean was in the Hastings Militia, was in the War of 1812 and was an innkeeper at the time of his death in June 1853. The remains of a log cabin foundation and a well were found by the man that I met that owned the parcel of land on Hwy 37 near Flatrock Rd. Much of Vanderwater Conservative Area was also originally Isaac Dean's land. Isaac Dean's youngest son Jabez Smith Dean born 1813 was in the USA in 1853 as he had gone there for work as a carpenter and became caught up in the Civil War in a Wisconsin Regiment. Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 22:08:05 -0400 My first cousin solved that Elizabeth, second wife. I sent you the Uxbridge land documents before. Isaac's youngest daughter Lavisa did marry and have children  but she made the news in two newspapers. I think one was the Belleville Intelligencer as she had a waist measurement of 72 inches, yes 6 ft and was known as the heaviest woman in the county. That is why I wondered if her mother died in childbirth and Lavisa perhaps suffered  with depression.  END from Bonny Campbell May 19, 2026 BEGIN Children of John Lake of Sidney and a Elizabeth Sharrard:   William Lake married Elizabeth Simpson 10 Aug 1845 in St Thomas Anglican Church in Belleville, Ontario. On the 17 May 1850, he bought land near Latta Mills in Thurlow Twp, Hastings County, Ontario. It was conc 6, Lot 6, west half, 100 acres. They eventually moved to Purdy, Ontario before going to Wheatland , Michigan. William Lake died in Wheatland and is buried there. William's widow, Elizabeth nee Simpson, came back to St Ola, Hastings County, to live with her daughter Emily (Lake) who was married to Charlie Barager. Elizabeth died of dropsy while living on conc 4, lot 17 in St Ola, Limerick Twp, Hastings County, Ontario. Emily Barrager, nee Lake, had been born in Latta Mills in Thurlow Twp. William Lake and Elizabeth, nee Simpson had a son James A Lake (James Albert Lake who married a Selena Jury). There was an article on the 19 Oct 1894 in the newspaper the Yale Expositer, Yale Michigan on page 5, mentioning that James A Lake, a supervisor of Wheatland -- visited his uncle J D Bradshaw one evening this week. This J D Bradshaw was John Dean Bradshaw, a son of Phoebe Lake (daughter of John Lake of Sidney Twp and Elizabeth Sharrard). My Issac Dean also left money to John Dean Bradshaw in his Will. This was the clue that made my 1st cousin finally connect her Lake family to John Lake of Sidney Twp. Phoebe Lake had married Jeptha Bradshaw in 1819. Jeptha Bradshaw was an executor of my Isaac Dean's Will as well as William Ashley who was married to Phoebe Lake's sister Permelia Lake. ** Another daughter of John Lake of Sidney Twp and Elizabeth Sharrard was Sarah Lake who married Jacob Denyes in 1817**. William Lake and Elizabeth Simpson also had a son John "Harvey" Lake. A few extra notes-   In a book " Past Years in Pickering ", it mentioned that Elizabeth Lake, nee Sharrard, lived her life in Sidney Twp and died there. In 1870, Phoebe Bradshaw, nee Lake and wife of Jeptha Bradshaw, was living in Michigan with a daughter Permelia Thomas. Somehow, the land that John Lake, of Sidney, originally received after his petition of 1811, was not in Sidney Twp, but he did settle in Sidney Twp. In the 1851census of Thurlow Twp was a Victor Bradshaw as well as Wm Lake farmer 29, Elizabeth * nee Simpson) 29, born in England. John Harvey Lake (fruit tree salesman) born 7 Aug 1845, Emily A Lake and William D (Denyes) Lake. Hillman, Montgomery County. END