William Langrill was born in Ireland around 1755. He married Annie Unknown (born in Ireland abt 1764). William died in 1840 and was buried in the old Potters' Field Cemetery 1 October of that year. Annie was buried in the Potters' Field Cemetery 24 December 1844.

Children of William Langrill and Annie Unknown included:

Francis Langrill 1799 - 1890 m Jane Ralston
William Langril 1804 - 1888

William Langaril, "Ontario, Toronto Trust Cemeteries, 1826-1935"

Name: William Langaril
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: 01 Oct 1840
Event Place: Potters' Field Cemetery
Age: 85
Birthplace: Ireland
Birth Year (Estimated): 1755
Cemetery: Potters' Field Cemetery
Cemetery Section and Lot: 290
Volume Number: 01
Page: 57
Line Number: 1205
GS Film number: 1616565
Digital Folder Number: 004455459
Image Number: 00183

Ann Langrill, "Ontario, Toronto Trust Cemeteries, 1826-1935"

Name: Ann Langrill "wife of William Langrill"
Event Type: Burial
Cause of Death: Old Age
Event Date: 24 Dec 1844
Event Place: Potters' Field Cemetery
Age: 80 years
Birthplace: Ireland
Birth Year (Estimated): 1764
Cemetery: Potters' Field Cemetery
Volume Number: 01
Page: 99
Line Number: 2083
GS Film number: 1616565
Digital Folder Number: 004455459
Image Number: 00226

Potter’s Field was York's (Toronto's) first non-denominational cemetery. Throughout its existence, the cemetery was known by a variety of names. The official name was the York General Burying Ground (which was changed to Toronto after the city renamed itself in 1834), but was alternately known as the Strangers’ Burying Ground, as those tended to be the types who made up the early burials. The name that caught on, Potter’s Field, was a biblical reference to the fate of Judas and his blood money in Matthew 27:7, which was used to buy a “potter’s field, to bury strangers in.”

By the end of the 1840s, the cemetery neared capacity. As the population grew in Toronto and Yorkville, there was concern that Potter’s Field would run out of space for future burials. The trustees successfully lobbied the colonial government for legislation that widened their ranks and allowed the purchase of more land. The Necropolis, which had been established independently of the trust in 1850, relieved the pressure on Potter’s Field, but not enough for the residents of Yorkville. Just as bohemians and hippies were redeveloped out of the neighbourhood a century later, the dead were given the boot in 1855 after the government honoured a petition to close the cemetery.

The trustees were given the power to sell the land once all 6,685 people buried there were moved elsewhere. Families of the deceased were offered the choice of moving their loved ones’ remains themselves or having the remains transplanted to new plots in the Necropolis. Some remains went to the newer Mount Pleasant Cemetery. As the Globe noted when Mount Pleasant officially opened in 1876, “In a mound here lie the bones of about 3,000 persons which could not be identified. The remains of old and young persons of every Christian denomination, coloured and white people alike, here rest together in one common grave.”