Good Morning,

I am a G Granddaughter of Roger Lever.
It was always my understanding that Roger, the youngest of James and Mary Lever's children, was born aboard ship coming from England. The ship docked in Philadelphia, PA and that is listed as the place of birth for baby Roger.

Joan Burchell noted in her book "Our Lever Family Tree" that Roger was married Nov. 30, 1840 (by publication of banns) to Nancy Christener of Etobicoke. Rev. John Culham, Wesleyan Minister, performed the ceremony. The witnesses were John Hall and James Lever.
Family members "understood" that Nancy & Roger had no children but in the 1851 Census, they were listed with a ten year old Hana Hervy Lever? (Lever was shown with Ditto Marks - a curse for any genealogist!) They were residing on lot 13, Conc.5,, (next to James father and mother, and brother James Jr. and his family).
Was Hana their daughter? A page torn from Roger's Bible shows the date "August 4, 1841" written in Roger's own hand as the last entry prior to the record of his marriage to Rebecca. Was this Hanna's birth Record? If so what happened to her after Nancy died?

Joan Burchell compiled her book from available information as of 20 March 1991.

It is believed that Roger and Rebecca married 13 Dec. 1853 (Rebecca Holley born October 1831, Caledon Twp, County Peel) daughter of Andrew Holley of Weston, Ontario.
The obit for Roger in the Flesherton Advance 7 September, 1893, states Roger was twice married, with no issue by his first wife.

My Mother Ida Margaretta Lever (daughter of Thomas Roger Lever, and Granddaughter of Roger Lever) had always been told they were related to William Heskith Lever (Lord Leverhulme) founder of Lever Brothers, b. Sept. 19, 1851, Bolton, s/o James Lever b. 1809 and Eliza Heskith.

Our James Lever (Roger's father) was a Master Taylor with a British Regiment, and Joan Burchell said the grandfather of Lord Leverhulme manufactured quilts and counterpanes and was at one time Quartermaster of the local militia.
The two men would have been of the same generation (our James b. 1769). They were both from the Bolton area, so could quite possibly be related.

Roger & Rebecca had ten children. My grandfather Thomas Roger was their seventh child.

Sharon Nolan Dredge