The Lennox Inn, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia |
John Lennox married Ann Margaretha Schupp, the daughter of
German immigrants to Lunenburg, in the St. John Anglican church, just a few
houses away from his inn. He had six
children. They lived in a smaller house
on Fox Street across the street from the inn.
St. John's Anglican Church where John Lennox married Ann Margaretha Schupp |
The house where the Lennox family lived across the street from the inn |
In his 1817 will, John Lennox, innkeeper, named his wife,
son William and daughters Anna Barbara Chamberlain, Isabella Lennox, Sarah Lennox and
Lucy Lennox. This will and the
inventory of his estate were valuable resources for the restoration of this
colonial building. During the restoration the owner found John Lennox’s
signature on a beam, and an order from Halifax for a list of rums and
wines. The modern day “innkeeper”, Bob
Cram, showed me these things on our tour of the Inn. It was a wonderful experience to sleep in my
ancestor’s tavern!
His daughter, Sarah, married Bremner Frederick Bollman, the
son of the town doctor, and they named
their daughter, my great great grandmother, Ann Margaret “Annie”, after her
mother. Annie and her husband, the music professor Caleb Rand Bill, removed to
Salem, Massachusetts.
My Lennox genealogy:
Generation 1: John Lennox, born about 1765 in Stirling, Scotland,
died 1 October 1817 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia; married on 19 March 1797 in
Saint John’s Anglican Church in Lunenburg to Ann Margaretha Schupp. She was the daughter of Johan Justinas Schupe
and Anna Margareta Finck, born 18 September 1773 in Lunenburg. They had six
children.
Generation 2: Sarah Elizabeth Lennox, born 16 February 1805
in Lunenburg; married first to Martin Ernst and had one child; married second
to Bremner Frederick Bollman, son of Dr. Johann Daniel Bollman and Jane
Bremner. They had three children.
Generation 3: Ann
Margaret Bollman m. Caleb Rand Bill
Generation 4: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson
Generation 5: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise
Roberts (my grandparents)
For more information:
The Lennox House (built by John Lennox, innkeeper and across
the street from his inn, on the corner near the St. John Anglican Church in
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia) http://www.edmundbrownless2.de/lennoxhouse.html
The Lennox Inn, 69 Fox Street, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia http://www.lennoxinn.com/
My blog post
about the Lennox Inn:
A 2013 blog
post by Jean Knowles, about the Lennox Inn:
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