Eliza
Margaret Moore was the daughter of David
Moore (1775-1845) and Anne Ramsay (1776-1847). She was born in Upper Town,
Co. Donegal, Irelan d 1 September 1816. She married Charles
Willoughby, 2 December 1857. Margaret
was living in Eramosa when they were married in 1857 (the 2nd of December) in
Guelph by the Rev. Robert Torrance at a wedding witnessed by Willoughby cousins,
William and Ann Maud.
Charles' first
wife Sarah (Langrill) was then deceased. Charles and Margaret had a son: John James Willoughby (b
ca 1861 at Rockwood ON, likely at the Willoughby farm at Conession 6 Eramosa). Margaret
thus became the step-mother of the children of Charles
Willoughby and his first wife Sarah
Langrill: William, Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth and Charles W.
Margaret
was murdered. She died tragically
at the hands of her husband Charles in February of 1871, in their farm house at Concession 6, Lot 6, Eramosa
Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario. He was held to be criminally insane and incarcerated
at Rockwood Asylum, Kingston, ON (according to newspaper accounts of the time)
- or Hamilton, ON (as one family story has it; he died at the hospital for the
criminally insane on Queen Street, Toronto). Margaret Willoughby is buried in
the Presbyterian Church cemetery, at Eden Mills, Ontario. There are records
concerning this tragedy in the Acton Newspaper and in the Mt. Forest 'Confederate.'
Again,
the son of Margaret Moore and Charles Willoughby was John James Willoughby (b.
ca 1861, Rockwood, ON - d. 30 Oct 1918, Lot 6 Concession 2, Aspiden, Stisted Twp., Muskoka, ON). He
married Mary Webber of Devonshire, England (27th of January 1887, St. George's
Church, Lancelot, Muskoka District, Ontario. Their children were: Ada (b. Stisted
Twp. 24 November 1888) - m Percy D. Johnson, 21 Oct. 1914; John James (b. Stisted Twp. 19 October 1890, killed in WWI); Ronald
(b. Stisted Twp. 14 Februay 1892), William H. (b. Stisted Twp. 24th of December
1893), Mary (b. Stisted Twp. 11 February 1896), Florence Mabel ((b. Stisted
Twp., 19 December 1898) and Clarence (b. 12 June 1902, Stisted Twp.).