At age 5, Caroline came to Canada with her family in 1832. Read about this journey at this link... Joseph and Sarah Come to Canada
On December 26, 1845, Caroline married George Parsons M.D. (born c1808 in England).
Caroline and George had these children : Jabez, Annie, Monica, Alice, and Caroline.
The census of 1851 for Canada West, York County, York Township shows George (M.D., Unitarian, age 44) with Caroline (age 24), an unreadable-named Parsons (age 15), and Jabez (age 7). No mention of Annie Parsons (who would have been about three years old) or Monica Parsons (a newborn). This raises the question of what relation the fifteen-year-old might be, since Caroline would have only been nine at the time of that birth (perhaps a child of George's from a previous marriage).
The census of 1861 shows little more. George, Caroline, Jabez, Esther Longhurst (age 23), and Joseph Longhurst (Caroline's father, but not the mother Sarah).
(See details from the 1871 census below.)
George Parsons M.D. died January 30, 1869, in Fullarton Township, Perth County, Ontario.
Caroline M. Longhurst died August 4, 1896 in Toronto, Ontario. Record of death. Cause of death - chronic pleurisy (an inflammation of the tissues, pleura, surrounding the lungs and lining the rib cage).
Both George and Caroline are buried in Avonbank Presbyterian Cemetery near Stratford, Ontario. (More details and directions to the cemetery are available here...)
A record at familysearch.org for Caroline is https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9NQX-BVW.
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To read more about this couple, please go here...
- born c1845
- age 7 on the 1851 census
- age 17 on the 1861 census
- age 26 on the
- If searching the 1871 census, find Caroline (age 45) on the bottom of page 45, then look above to find Jabez and family. Joseph Longhurst appears top row on page 46.
- On page 45, Jabez (age 26) and Margaret (age 24), George (age 5), and Ann (age 3) are legible. Jabez' mother Caroline follows (age 45).
- Jabez was married June 19, 1868, in Perth County, Ontario, to Margaret Muir (born 1849, daughter of John Muir and Ann Barry)
- children :
- George Parsons
- born 1866
- Anne Parsons
- born 1868
- Eunice Parsons
- born 1871
- Pierce Parsons
- born 1875
- Ethel Parsons
- born 1881
- Jabez Parsons died in 1917, in Wayne County, Detroit, Michigan
- born c1848
- (needs verification)
- born c1851
- (needs verification)
- born c1853
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- died 1977 ?
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The gravestone reads...
Geo. Parsons, M.D. Died Jan.30, 1869, aged 61 years. His wife Caroline Langhurst, died Aug. 4, 1896, aged 68 years.
They are buried beside Caroline's parents Joseph and Sarah, or more appropriately said, the parents are buried beside Caroline and George. (They had been living on the Parsons property for some time.) Sarah had died in 1863, so she was the first to be buried. Joseph died in 1877.
Details of the burial site, Avonbank Cemetery, can be found here...