tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502733546491041083.post6341891522881767976..comments2024-02-24T12:50:52.844-05:00Comments on Ian Hadden's Family History: A Canadian Senator in the FamilyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830769690458493191noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502733546491041083.post-21021565486511650572012-10-21T13:49:06.689-04:002012-10-21T13:49:06.689-04:00Hello, my great-great grandmother was Mary Merner,...Hello, my great-great grandmother was Mary Merner, a younger sister of Samuel Merner. The Merners and their ten children including Samuel and Mary sailed to North America in 1837 and landed in Buffalo, N.Y. They then travelled by covered wagon to New Hamburg. Mary married Joseph Laschinger, a German from Baden-Baden who had emigrated with his family to Upper Canada a few years ealier. The Laschingers were a prominent family in New Hamburg and her grandson, Edmund Herbert Laschinger was a prominent figure working in the Laurier Government who later became a leading financier in Toronto during WWI. I am his grandson and live in Prescott, Ontario. Fraser LaschingerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502733546491041083.post-406963981504836812010-08-21T15:47:23.037-04:002010-08-21T15:47:23.037-04:00Wow, Ian..what an intriguing story. Good for you f...Wow, Ian..what an intriguing story. Good for you for being so inquisitive! I always knew you had politics in your blood-line :-)<br /><br />AnelaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com