Henry Lever’s House on Rochester Street — Sherri Iona

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Henry Lever’s House on Rochester Street — Sherri Iona

Here is another for a question. Does this house still exist? Not far from you on Rochester. My great great grandfather Henry Lever built it with his brother. I don’t recognize the names of the people in the picture, taken after 1906.

Yes Sheri it does!!!

I have a letter written by Henry in 1897 to a minister in Scotland requesting his help regarding a legal claim to the Lever estate in Manchester England. Actually just found, he built it with his son Reynolds Lever. They called him Ren.

Name:Henry Reynolds Lever
Gender:Male
Age:63
Birth Date:24 Jul 1881
Birth Place:Youlbourn Ontario
Death Date:16 Jun 1945
Death Place:Carleton Place, Lanark, Ontario, Canada
Father:Henry Lever
Mother:Mary Lever
Spouse:Cate Caroline Hardie
H Reynolds Lever
BIRTH
1882
DEATH
1945 (aged 62–63)
BURIAL
United Cemeteries
Beckwith, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada  Show Map
PLOT
Pine Grove East

Back row Wesley and Reynolds Girls: Elsie (my great grandmother) and Maud Front: Forest(I think) Parents: Mary (McKitrick) and Henry Lever My great grandparents Elsie (Lever) and Robert Powell lived on Sarah St. Their daughter Olive was a long time French teacher at CPHS. She and her sister lived most of their lives there.

Alana Lever Flint is my cousin. Her grandfather was Ren Lever, who built and lived in house on Rochester

Should be spelled McKittrick

Carrie (Caroline) was Ren’s wife and Norma is daughter-The son I have as Forest should be Lowe Cleveland Lever

Thanks Sherri! I added all the ancestry stuff and a clipping I found..:) Linda


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Henry Lever
BIRTH
1843
DEATH
1923 (aged 79–80)
BURIAL
United Cemeteries
Beckwith, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada  Show Map
PLOT
Pine Grove East
Name:Mary Lever
Gender:Female
Marital Status:Married
Age:49
Birth Year:abt 1842
Birth Place:Ontario
Residence Date:1891
Residence Place:Carleton Place, Lanark South, Ontario, Canada
Relation to Head:Wife
Religion:Methodist
Can Read:Yes
Can Write:Yes
French Canadian:No
Spouse’s Name:Henery Lever
Father’s Birth Place:Ireland
Mother’s Birth Place:Ireland
Neighbours:View others on page
Household MembersAgeRelationshipHenery Lever49HeadMary Lever49WifeWesley M Lever15SonElse F Lever14DaughterEssie M Lever11DaughterHenery R Lever10SonLowe C Lever5Son
The Ottawa Journal
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
17 Jul 1911, Mon  •  Page 1

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CLIPPED FROMThe Ottawa JournalOttawa, Ontario, Canada22 Mar 1906, Thu  •  Page 7

About lindaseccaspina

Before she laid her fingers to a keyboard, Linda was a fashion designer, and then owned the eclectic store Flash Cadilac and Savannah Devilles in Ottawa on Rideau Street from 1976-1996. She also did clothing for various media and worked on “You Can’t do that on Television”. After writing for years about things that she cared about or pissed her off on American media she finally found her calling. She is a weekly columnist for the Sherbrooke Record and documents history every single day and has over 6500 blogs about Lanark County and Ottawa and an enormous weekly readership. Linda has published six books and is in her 4th year as a town councillor for Carleton Place. She believes in community and promoting business owners because she believes she can, so she does.

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