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Hi Leslie,
I just happened to check my enquiries today and found you had replied. This is the 2nd time the message boards did not notify me that you had sent mail. I will give you my email address. I am usually quite punctual with correspondence, so i am sorry to take so long.
mccahill@xcelco.on.ca
I noticed that there were supposed to be 8 children in the family. I don't know who #8 is. Maybe someone died in infancy. The Laphams were notoriously bad at keeping records and registering births, deaths & marriages so it is hard to say. Most of my information comes from piecing the census records together. They also loved to call each other by middle names and nicknames so the names you have could well be what they were calling each other.
I have seen the Flint names in the Historical Atlas for Whitby. The one Flint had a woolen mill on his property. I always wondered if that was the mill where the Augustus Lapham family worked. It wasn't far from Columbus. It made sense to me that Mary Ann Flint's family might take them in and find them work when Mary Ann was widowed with all those young kids. Years ago I wrote a museum and library in the Whitby area to see if they had info on any Flint mills but they didn't. I would have thought that would be something that a museum would have interest in.
Your family has certainly done a lot of research. You are fortunate to have that information. No one in our family tackled the Laphams. I had actually given up on them until about a year ago when someone from a historical society was redoing the Ravenswood cemetery book and asked for some help. The cemetery was given by the Laphams and was on a corner of their farm in Ravenswood. I would have never found Mary Ann Flint's last name if it wasn't for the write up about her son Augustus who was in Kansas.
My daughter took a job painting at Queen's this summer so we plan to head to Kingston at some point. We've enjoyed our holidays there. Quite frankly it would be nice to go alone and spend some quality time in the Stauffer Library. They have some great resources.
Of the Laphams that stayed in the Whitby area I was only able to find Eugenia's burial. Any ideas where the rest of them or where Mary Ann Flint's family is buried? The OCFA doesn't seem to have a lot of cemetery information for Whitby area (or the Uxbridge area where I have another Lapham mystery). I found Eugenia by pure accident when I was looking for some Byer/Boyer families in the Pickering/Whitby area.
Thanks again for your reply. Talk to you soon.
Best regards,
Janis
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