Edward Groundwater came to Canada from Scotland in 1831, he was born about 1807. Edward was a school teacher in the Westmorland and Albert Counties of New Brunswick.

Edward and Sarah raised a family of nine children, William Henderson, Mary Isabella, Catherine Amelia, Lowell Minerva, Henry Havelock, Hazen Edward, Sarah Ann, David Guilford and Emeline Louisa.

Their descendants are located all across Canada as well as many of parts of the United States, Texas, Connecticut, Maine, Florida, Kansas as well as California.