Rev Aquilla Lucas

I recently found some history on an ancestor of mine, Aquilla Lucas, and traced his roots to your fine community. I am enjoying the discovery and a strange sense of kinship with a far-away land and its people. Below is a record obtained via Ancestry.com:

Aquilla Lucas was born in Old Weston, Huntingdonshire, England on the 5th of Oct 1847. In 1860 he taught a class of boys in his father's Sunday School in his home community. His trade was as a tailor and in 1870 he went to London to work. Whilst living in London he was invited to go to Canada to enter the Ministry. Aquila was ordained in 1875 in Charlottetown. In August of the same year, he married Harriet Bridges.
Aquila served circuits in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. From 1891--1904 he was on leave of absence to be Field Secretary of the New Brunswick Sunday School Association, and from 1906 to 1914 he was abroad in the interests of the International Sunday School Association as Field Secretary in the West Indies and Central and South America . In 1913 he purchased a small garden farm outside London, Ontario, and eventually retired there in 1914. Later his two unmarried sons purchased a large market garden farm and greenhouse plant outside the city of London and he and Mrs. Lucas with one daughter went to live with them. It was whilst living there that he died on Wednesday September 15th 1926 aged 79. He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, London, Ontario, on the 17th.


The mother, Mary Isabel Lucas, of my father, Robert Bridges Martin, is my connection with Old Weston.

I also am a minister of the Gospel and pray peace, prosperity, and safety over all the good people of Old Weston.