Hannah Owen Peters Jarvis 

Coverage Dates: 1842 to 1845

County: Lincoln

Township: Niagara

Lot: 6

Concession: Broken Front

Gender: Female

Year of Birth: 1763

Year of Death: 1845

Ethnicity: English

Religion: Church of England

Occupation: Gentlewoman

Relationships: 

Husband: William Jarvis (deceased), UEL
Son: Samuel Peters Jarvis
Daughters: Hannah Owen (married Alexander Hamilton), Maria/Mary (married George Hamilton), Elizabeth Ann (married William B. Robinson), Augusta

Archive: Archival and Special Collections, University of Guelph

Posted on Rural Diary Archive: Yes

Age During Diary: 79-82

Coverage: 4 years

Biography: Transcribers beware – this is not for the faint of heart! But if you like a dramatic story, you will find this diary grips your imagination. Hannah once mingled with the elite and had servants and slaves but by the 1840s, she is reduced to poverty. She is caring for her daughter and nine penniless grandchildren who reside in Willowbank, now a designated heritage site. In this declining mansion home, she scrubs, mends and cooks. “Society” people sometimes grace her pages, and her cookbook survives at the University of Guelph