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     Henry St. John Jarvis. A merchant of Toronto.¹ He was born on 14 April 1868.¹ He was the son of William Dummer Jarvis and Margaret Ranney.¹

     Herbert Murray Jarvis was born on 18 May 1848.¹ He was the son of George Murray Jarvis and Elizabeth Arnold Jarvis.¹ Herbert Murray Jarvis married Alice Yielding on 22 December 1875.¹

     Isabel Grace Jarvis was the daughter of Charles Frederick Jarvis and Mary Ann Graham.¹

     Laura Matilda Jarvis was the daughter of George Murray Jarvis and Elizabeth Arnold Jarvis.¹

     Louisa Jarvis was born on 16 December 1831.¹ She was the daughter of William Botsford Jarvis and Mary Boyles Powell.¹ Louisa Jarvis married Augustus Nanton.¹

     Margaret Jarvis married Samuel Burrill.¹

     Maria Mabel Jarvis was born on 30 November 1867.¹ She was the daughter of William Dummer Jarvis and Margaret Ranney.¹ Maria Mabel Jarvis died on 15 August 1869 at the age of 1.¹

     Mary Boyles Jarvis was the daughter of George Murray Jarvis and Elizabeth Arnold Jarvis.¹

     Mary Caroline Jarvis was born on 27 March 1832.¹ She was the daughter of Colonel Samuel Peters Jarvis and Mary Boyles Powell.¹ Mary Caroline Jarvis died on 5 November 1890 at the age of 58 unmarried.¹

     Mary Louisa Jarvis was born on 7 April 1861.¹ She was the daughter of William Dummer Jarvis and Margaret Ranney.¹ Mary Louisa Jarvis died on 23 January 1864 at the age of 2.¹

     Mary Powell Jarvis was born on 31 October 1888 in Hamilton, Ontario.² She was the daughter of Edward Æmilius Jarvis and Elizabeth Margaret Harriet Augusta Irving.¹ Mary Powell Jarvis married Dr. George Victor Bedford, son of James Joseph Bedford and Helen Studer, on 10 May 1921 in St. James' Cathedral, York.³

     Mary Æmilia Jarvis was born on 17 September 1851.² She was the daughter of William Dummer Powell Jarvis and Diana Irving.¹ Mary Æmilia Jarvis married Arthur Harry Brymer Piers, son of William Stapleton Piers, on 27 December 1877.¹

     Mildred Blennerhassett Jarvis was the daughter of Herbert Murray Jarvis and Alice Yielding.¹

     Ralph Munson Jarvis was the son of Munson Jarvis.¹

     Robert Ashby Jarvis was born in 1902.¹ He married Claudia Mary Sewell, daughter of Stephen St. Alban Sewell and Clara Priscilla Lepper, in 1925.¹ Robert Ashby Jarvis and Claudia Mary Sewell were divorced in 1939.¹ Robert Ashby Jarvis died in 1969.¹

     Lt. Colonel Robert Edward Colborne Jarvis was born on 4 March 1842.¹ He was the son of William Botsford Jarvis and Mary Boyles Powell.¹ He entered the army in the 100th Prince of Wales' Royal Canadian Regiment (later the Leinster Regiment), he exchanged into 67th, in which he was Captain; was attached to Staff College at Sandhurst. Served with the Red Cross Ambulance Corps throughout the Franco- Prussian War, and was awarded by the French Government, in recognition of his services at that time, one of only two gold crosses made. He was also in Lord Roberts' staff through the Afghan War and took part in the celebrated march through the Khyber Pass. He retired as Lt. Colonel.¹

     Samuel Jarvis was born in 1720. He married Martha Seymour. Samuel Jarvis died in 1783. He was Town Clerk of Stamford, Conn., 1760-1775. He and his sons were Royalists during the Revolutionary war.²

     Samuel Peters Jarvis was born on 9 February 1869.¹ He was the son of Charles Frederick Jarvis and Mary Ann Graham.¹

     Samuel Peters Jarvis was born on 24 July 1903 in Oakville, Ontario.¹ He was the son of Edward Æmilius Jarvis and Elizabeth Margaret Harriet Augusta Irving.¹

     Colonel Samuel Peters Jarvis was born on 15 November 1792 in Newark (Niagra-on-the-Lake), Canada.^2,4 He was the son of William Jarvis and Hannah Owen Peters.³ Colonel Samuel Peters Jarvis married Mary Boyles Powell, daughter of Chief Justice William Dummer Powell and Anne Murray, on 29 October 1818 in York, Ontario, in the evening (1 Oct. 1818 being the date of the marriage bond). The service was conducted by the Rev. Dr. Strachan.⁵ Colonel Samuel Peters Jarvis died on 6 September 1857 in Toronto at the age of 64.^2,4

Col. Samuel Peters Jarvis. who was second of the name, the first having died in youth, born Newark, Upper Canada. He was noted, even when quite young, having been adopted as a Missisaga Indian; he was a famous shot. He practised law; was Clerk of the Crown in Chancery; and Chief Superintendent of Indian affairs. He served in the war of 1812, and was present at the taking of Detroit (medal and clasp) and at the battles of Queenston Heights, Lundy's Lane, and Stony Creek. After Stony Creek he was in command of the escort of the captured American General Winfield Scott, he saved the latter from being killed by the Indians. During the Rebellion of 1837, he raised and commanded another regiment of Queens Rangers, and was present at the affair of Montgomery's Tavern, and at the cutting out of the "Caroline" on the Niagara River. He was Judge Advocate in the trial of the Fenian prisoner General Sutherland. As a youth he shot a son of Surveyor General Ridout in a duel, near the N. W. corner of Yonge and College Sts, Toronto, but was exonerated on the field. He attacked William L. Mackenzie's printing office and threw the type into Toronto Bay, because of an article in the latter's paper on the "Family Compact," in which the female members of his family were introduced. Jarvis Street was named after him. He had five sons and four daughters.⁶

     Major-General Samuel Peters Jarvis C.M.G. was born on 23 August 1820.¹ He was the son of Colonel Samuel Peters Jarvis and Mary Boyles Powell.¹ Major-General Samuel Peters Jarvis C.M.G. married Renee Wilson on 16 February 1850.¹ Samuel's death was registered in the quarter ending March 1905 in the Axbridge, Somerset registration district; s.p.²

General Samuel Peters Jarvis was educated for the law, but, owing to his being instrumental in saving the life of Lord Morpeth, while bathing in the Georgian Bay, he obtained through the latter, and by the help of Lord Wellington, a commission as Ensign in the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment, but later exchanged to the 82d at Halifax, and served with it through the Indian Mutiny, He was at the Relief of Lucknow and many other engagements (medal, clasp, and brevet majority); was sometime Adjutant of the Staff college at Sandhurst. Retired from his regiment and accepted appointment as Assistant Adjutant General of the Militia in Canada with rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In the first Riel Rebellion he took command of the Ontario Battalion, and was in supreme command until the arrival of Lord Wolseley; was Commandant of the garrison at Fort Garry until the withdrawal of troops from Manitoba, when he was created a C.M.G. and gazetted, 1875, Colonel in the Imperial Army; in 1878 was sent on a special service to South Africa and was in command of the Colonial troops in the Kaffir War (medal and clasp); later retired with rank of Major General.³

     Sarah Harriett Jarvis was born in May 1836.¹ She was the daughter of William Botsford Jarvis and Mary Boyles Powell.¹ Sarah Harriett Jarvis married Lewis William Ord, son of Major Robert Hutchison Ord R.A.K.H., on 24 June 1854 in Cathedral of St. James, Toronto.¹

     Sidney Berdoe Jarvis was born on 6 November 1854.¹ He was the son of George Murray Jarvis and Elizabeth Arnold Jarvis.¹ Sidney Berdoe Jarvis died on 2 February 1868 at the age of 13.¹

     Stephen Jarvis married Amelia Glover.¹

     William Jarvis was born in 1756 in Stamford, Connecticut.¹ He was the son of Samuel Jarvis and Martha Seymour.¹ William Jarvis married Hannah Owen Peters, daughter of Rev. Samuel Peters D.D., in 1785.² William Jarvis died in 1817 in York, Ontario.

William (Mr. Secretary) Jarvis, the founder of the family in Upper Canada. He served as cornet in the first (American) Regiment or Queens Rangers Dragoons under Lieut. Col. John Graves Simcoe; he was wounded at Brandywine. On the withdrawal of the British troops from the American Colonies, he went to England, and took a commission in the Army; in 1792 was appointed Secretary and Registrar of Upper Canada - hence his appellation. He and his family sailed in the troopship Henicker to Sorel, Quebec, and were nearly wrecked. He settled at the new capital, Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake). He was Grand Master Mason; all the early Masonic warrants in Ontario bear his signature and are known as the "Jarvis Warrants."²

     Hon. William Jarvis married Mary Pepperrell Sparhawk, daughter of Nathaniel Sparhawk and Elizabeth Bartlett, in March 1808.¹

     William Botsford Jarvis. Sheriff of the Home District. He was born on 4 May 1799 in Fredericton, New Brunswick.² He was the son of Stephen Jarvis and Amelia Glover.² William Botsford Jarvis married Mary Boyles Powell, daughter of William Dummer Powell and Sarah Stevenson, on 22 November 1828 in York at the residence of Samuel P. Jarvis.² William Botsford Jarvis died on 26 July 1864 in Toronto, Canada West, at the age of 65.²

     William Dummer Jarvis was born on 4 August 1834.¹ He was the son of William Botsford Jarvis and Mary Boyles Powell.¹ He was a lieutenant, 12th Regt., afterwards Lt. Colonel, 12th York Ranger. He lived for some time in Toronto and then moved to Manitoba, where he was an inspector in the N.W. Mounted Police.¹ William Dummer Jarvis married Margaret Ranney, daughter of William Parker Ranney.¹