Violet Matilda Harvey is the eldest child of Joseph Charles Harvey and Anna Maria Bates, and the first naturalized Canadian in the Harvey family. She was born in Dummer Township and moved about 1870 to the first Joseph Harvey homestead on Coon Lake Rd., in Burleigh Township of Peterborough County.
Violet would go on to survive the deaths of her next seven siblings who are all buried in Burleigh. The sibling gap would extend to Geoffrey who would be the first of a group of six Harvey boys (Ernest, Vivian, Bernal, Eric, & William) to rough it in the woods.
Nineteen years after moving to Burleigh and not far up the road towards Apsley, Violet would marry Allen Church from Mount Julian, a small settlement on the north shore of Stoney Lake. It is likely they had known each other since childhood. They would raise their family in the Mount Julian area.
Violet Matilda Harvey
Born on October 9 1866, in Dummer Township, Peterborough Co, ON CAN, and died June 29 1940, Burleigh Township, Peterborough Co, ON CAN. She is buried in Lakefield Cemetery, Smith Township, Peterborough Co., ON CAN.
Married on September 11, 1889 in Lakefield, Peterborough Co., ON CAN
Allen Homer Church
Born on February 14, 1866, and died on November 1,1950 in Mount Julian, Burleigh Township, Peterborough Co., ON CAN. He is buried in Lakefield Cemetery, Smith Township, Peterborough Co., ON CAN.
010104-89 Allen Homer CHURCH, 34, farmer, Canada, Burleigh Tp., s/o Oliver & Maturah, married Violet Matilda HARVEY, 22, Canada, Burleigh Tp., d/o Joseph & Maria, witn: George COCKBURN & Ada WARREN both of Lakefield on Sept. 11, 1889 at Lakefield*
Her Father & Mother:
Joseph Charles Harvey (1845 – 1920) & Anna Maria Bates (1848 – 1900)
Their Children:
Oliver Harvey Church (December 12, 1891 – April 11, 1966)
· Married Hazel May Walsh (1892 – June 24, 1949) on March 1, 1916 in Burleigh Township, Peterborough Co., ON CAN
Oscar Fuller Church (May 27, 1893 – May 10, 1962)
· Married Nellie Newell (1893 – ?) on October 13, 1907 in Muskoka District, ON CAN
· WW1 Veteran – April 21, 1917
· Children: Donald Francis Church (1917 – 2000)
Kenneth Joseph Church (May 14, 1895 – June 18, 1970)
· Married Julia Louisa Wilson (February 22, 1900 – March 24, 1959) on January 2, 1918 in Burleigh Township, Peterborough Co., ON CAN
· WW1 Veteran – January 7, 1918
Frank Israel Church (May 17, 1897 – October 9, 1930)
· WW1 Veteran – June 15, 1918
Emiley Amelia Church (April 1, 1899 – 1990)
· Married Victor Shewen (1892 – 1932) on May 9, 1916 in Lakefield, Peterborough Co., ON CAN
· Her grandmother Emiley Amelia Harvey’s namesake
William Alexander Church (January 15, 1901 - December 11, 1970)
· Married Ella Brown (1895 - October 28, 1977) on December 12, 1928 in Picton, Prince Edward Co., ON CAN
· Married Charles R Lindsay (March 6, 1907 – January 12, 1947) on December 2, 1937 in Rochester, Monroe Co., NY, USA
Matilda Church (September 1905 – ?)
