Who's Who at Port Hope Meeting Room, ON

• Port Hope Meeting Room, Port Hope, Durham Co., ON (EB) 1839-1909; (TW-eb) 1909-1944+
  • @ Pengelly Landing 1839-1879

Notable Families

Scriven family

In 1857, Joseph Medlicott Scriven relocated from Clinton, ON to Bewdley, which is near Port Hope. He joined the household of a retired naval officer named Robert Lamport Pengelly, as a tutor, presumably for his children. While here, Scriven became engaged to Pengelly's niece, Eliza Catherine Roach, who became ill and died in August 1860. In the late 1860's or early 1870's, he left the Pengelly residence for a cottage in Port Hope, where he remained until his death in 1886. Also see Pioneering Spirit.

• Joseph Medlicott Scriven 1857-1886

Willis family

As early as 1881, John L. Willis and his parents (and siblings) were in fellowship with the Saint John Meeting Room in New Brunswick. John's parents remained in Saint John, and John relocated by 1885 to Toronto where he was married while in fellowship with the meeting room there, and moved again to Port Hope about 1889 when he was serving as a Royal Bank manager until being assigned in 1906 to oversee a branch in Toronto where he retired before going in 1919 to Asia to join his son George Christopher Willis.

• John Livingstone Willis 1889-1906 (b. 1862 St. John, NB - d. 1934 Yeun Kong, Ch.)
• Anna Frances Boulton Willis 1889-1906 (b. 1859 Ailsa Craig, Luxembourg - d. 1929 Yeun Kong, Ch.)
  • George Christopher Willis 1889-1906 (1889-1973 Toronto, ON)
  • John Somerville Willis 1891-1906 (b. 1891 Port Hope, ON). Wife (1924 @ Toronto, ON): Mary C. Fleck Willis (d. 1929 Indianapolis, IN). John & Mary were both registered as Presby. in 1924 at their wedding.