She was the 8th child of 10, born to Allan Brown Kerslake and his wife Barbara Jane McWilliams. Her father, Allan Brown Muir, was a native of Ayrshire, Scotland, born there 29 Apr 1814 (1,2), and her mother was born 24 Dec 1825 in Burford, Brant, Ontario, Canada (3). Barbara’s parents, William McWilliams and Elsje Van Wormer, were Loyalists who were married at the Helderberg Church in Guilderland, Albany, New York on 12 Sep 1812 (4). They had two children baptized in New York, and then moved to Burford in 1816, where their 10 other children were born. Barbara’s father was Irish and her mother was Dutch.
Jannette was born 27 Sep 1855 in Oxford, Ontario, Canada (2, 5) and married young, at age 16, to Robert William Kerslake on 15 Feb 1871 at Brantford, Brant, Ontario, Canada (5). Robert was the son of Richard, probably born Feb 1854 in Ontario, Canada (2, 5, 6). Jannette and Robert had three children, namely Charlotte Luella “Lottie,” my 2nd great-grandmother; Allan Brown Kerslake, born 3 Aug 1876 in East Oxford, Oxford, Ontario, Canada (7), married Jessie Orilla Hart-Hyerstay 18 Oct 1897 in Vancouver, Clark, Washington (8), died 21 Feb 1952 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon (9); and Richard M. who was born 20 Aug 1878 in East Oxford (1, 2) and died 20 May 1881 in Brantford of Scarlet Fever (1).
Lottie was born 21 Sep 1873 in Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada (10) and on 19 Jul 1893 in East Oxford (11) married William Thomas Utting, who came from an interesting London, England family. He was the son of Henry James Utting and Sarah Elizabeth Bayley. They had 11 children, the first born was Kate, who’s birth was registered in the 4th quarter, 1854 in Shoreditch, London (12) and was baptized 9 Sep 1855 at St Mary Magdalene in St Pancras, London (13). This was about 2-1/2 years before Henry and Sarah married, on 21 May 1857 at St Pancras (14)! Kate was the only child who remained in England, living with her paternal grandmother, Catherine Weeks King Utting, until her death at age 20. She was buried 13 Nov 1874 at St Pancras (15). The rest of the Utting family immigrated to Canada 12 Sep 1873 on the ship “Scotland” (16). Lottie died 6 Sep 1950 in Portland (9).
Robert and Jannette were Methodists (17), and with their two children immigrated to Multnomah County, Oregon in 1886 (6). Robert was a Teamster in Canada and a farmer in Oregon (6, 17). Per family lore, Jannette’s middle name may have been Lydia, and she died of “tainted water.” Jannette was buried 1 Jan 1893 in the Mountain View Cemetery in Corbett, Multnomah, Oregon (2, 18). I believe she died the same day as her gravestone gives her death year as 1893. She was only 38 years old.
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| Mountain View Cemetery, Corbett, OR |
Sources:
1. Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938, 1943-1944, and Deaths Overseas,
1939- 1947, ancestry.com
2. Grave Marker
3. Ontario, Canada Deaths, 1869-1934, ancestry.com
4. Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York, Volume VIII,
Frank J. Doherty, 1990, americanancestors.org
5. Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1857-1924, ancestry.com
6. United States Federal Census
7. Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1909, ancestry.com
8. Washington, Marriage Records, 1854-2013
9. Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998
10. Ontario, Canada Births, 1832-1914, ancestry.com
11. Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927, ancestry.com
12. England & Wales Births 1837-2006, ancestry.com
13. London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms,
1813-1917, ancestry.com
14. London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921, ancestry.com
15. UK, Burial and Cremation Index, 1576-2014, ancestry.com
16. Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935, ancestry.com
17. 1881 Census of Canada, ancestry.com
18. Oregon Metro Cemetery Records,
https://www.oregonmetro.gov/cemeteries/search-cemetery-records
19. Decree for Registration of Birth #539 for husband Robert William Kerslake,
Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, County of Multnomah, personal holding
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