Lucinda Vrooman
ID # 1310, (1832-)
| Father | Arents Schuyler Depeyster Vrooman (1789-) |
| Mother | Mary Douglas (1792-1858) |
| Birth | Lucinda Vrooman was born in 1832. |
| Marriage | She married Peter Drake on 1 November 1854 at Oxford Co., Ontario. MS248 reel 1, Vol. 2, page 237 Brock District Marriage Register Extracted from a list of marriages solemnized by Edward Topping, a minister of the Baptist denomination in Woodstock between October 18, 1854 and October 18, 1855. Peter Drake and Lucinda Vrooman, both of East Oxford, on November 1, 1854, by banns. Witnesses Harry Almas and Matilda H. Topping Typically, for a district marriage register, the parents's names are not given. Harry Almas just may have been Lucinda's brother-in-law. See notes under Lucinda's father, Arents Schuyler Depeyester Vrooman. As of 1849, the old Brock District had ceased to exist and Woodstock was the county seat of the new county of Oxford. It appears that a county marriage register was not yet in use. Indeed, for other counties, the era between the end of the districts and the inception of county marriage registers - 1854 included - was a blank for marriage registrations. The clerk at Woodstock must have been a bright light, for he just continued to use the old Brock register for some years and so we are fortunate to have records, such as the Drake-Vrooman marriage shown above. There was another Vrooman family in Woodstock in early years, but we can be in no doubt that Lucinda Vrooman Drake was the daughter of Arents, for he was with Peter and Lucinda in Ensley, Newaygo County, Michigan, in the 1870 U.S. census. |
| Note | She Lucinda appears as 'Lucina' with her parents in the 1851 census at Garafraxa. We do not know why Lucinda was in Oxford East Township (probably Woodstock), Oxford County in 1854 at the time of her marriage to Peter Drake. We find Peter Drake purchasing the south west half (100 acres) of lot 19 on concession 2 in Garafraxa Township in Wellington County in 1856. The Abstract Index for this lot shows a piecemeal sale of the lot beginning in 1859 by Peter Drake and wife. Since the record involves mortgage transactions, the path of their divestment isn't clear. The 1861 agricultural census for Garafraxa shows Peter still in possession of this half lot, but Peter and Lucinda do not appear there in the every person census, nor are the found elsewhere to this point. By 1870, they are in Ensley, Newaygo County, Michigan, and with them is Lucinda's father, Aaron D. Vrooman, age 82. Reading the marriage registration, it would be tempting to link Lucinda to the Vroman family in East Oxford. They are likely distant cousins, though this has not been researched. John Vroman was born in Oswego, New York, according to his death registration, and it seems likely that this is the John Vroman, or Vrooman, who with William of the same surname swore the oath of allegiance in 1828 in Haldimand Township in what became Northumberland County. It is believed that the family were early settlers in the area, but that John moved west settling in the Woodstock area. Lucinda Vroman and Peter Drake were married by Edward Topping, Topping's wife Matilda being a witness, and Topping was the enumerator for the 1851 census which enumerated the John Vroman family. Still, based on the evidence of the sojourn of Lucinda and Peter in Garafraxa, the fact that Emmerson Vrooman, son of Eliza Smith and James Vrooman, was with them in 1880 in Newaygo, Michigan, and that Aaron (Arents) was with them in 1870 in the same place, we must take it that Lucinda is Arents' daughter. (See notes for Lucinda's father, Arents. These notes include Elizabeth Vrooman, a probably daughter of Arents, and her husband Henry Almas. Harry Almas was a witness at the marriage of Peter and Lucinda and he and Elizabeth resided in Oxford East Township in Oxford County. The evidence isn't solid, but Elizabeth was probably Lucinda's older sister.) No evidence has been found that Lucinda and Peter had children. |
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