Julia Maria Lambert (1792-1861)

She was born at Wilton, Connecticut. After her sister died in 1840, she moved to Toronto and assisted in the rearing of her children in the household of her brother-in-law, The Hon. George Crookshank. Her letters, An American Lady in Old Toronto: The Letters of Julia Lambert 1821-1854, are a great source of information on upper class society in Toronto. She never married nor had children of her own but her gravestone reads: "In memory of her untiring devotion in filling a mother's place to her sister's children one of whom surviving her (Catherine Heward), here records her deep and grateful love".