Location
The County of Lambton - Sarnia
In a fenced in cemetery with a gate in the corner at the NE corner of the St. Clair Parkway and Church Street just south of La Salle Line (County Road 35)
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Photographer
Alan L Brown
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Posted
September 19, 2004
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Text from the Plaque
Froome (1807-1902) and Field (1815-74) Talfourd emigrated from England in 1832 and in the following year took up adjoining lots here in Moore Township. Froome had previously served in H.M.S. Ariadne under Captain Frederick Marryat, the author. Field soon moved to the United States, then back to England, where he became an accomplished portraitist. Froome purchased his brother’s lot and laid out the townplot of "Froomfield" on the combined property in 1836. He later became a magistrate, commissioner of the court of requests, and a lieutenant-colonel in the Kent militia. As "visiting superintendent" to the local Indian reserves, Froome lived in Sarnia from 1855 to 1868, when he returned to England.
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