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M Alfred Scratch

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On 's side Theodore Scratch 1822-

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History of the Wigle Family and Their Descendants, The Wigle Family, Kingsville, Ontario, 1931.

1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 1-10:
Scratch Theodore, M, Married, 39, born U.C., Baptist, Farmer;
Elizabeth, F, Married, 30, born U.C., Baptist;
Alfred, M, Single, 15, born U.C., Baptist, Labourer;
Sidney, M, Single, 13, born U.C., Baptist, Labourer;
Elizabeth, F, Single, 5, born U.C., Baptist;
Catherine, F, Single, 4, born U.C., Baptist.

1880 federal census, Detroit, Wayne, MI, LDS 1880 USA census household record:
Kratz Alfred, M, Married, 34, born CAN, father born CAN, mother born CAN, Laborer;
Lillie, F, wife, Married, 22, born MI, fb NY, mb FRA, House-Keeper;
Ida M., F, daughter, Single, 3, born MI, fb CAN, mb MI;
Edwin A., M, son, Single, 2, born MI, fb CAN, mb MI;
Anderson Samuel F., M, other, Single, 19, born CAN, fb CAN, mb CAN, Laborer.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers, Toronto, 1905, p. 33-36:
Scratch. The ancestor of all of this name in the County of Essex was Leonard Scratch, or Kratz, as it was originally spelled...
     Leonard Scratch passed away Aug. 12, 1829, and his widow survived until 1840. The were the parents of eleven children... John, born July 24, 1795, is mentioned below...
     Judson Scratch, a successful farmer of the township of Gosfield South, is a son of Theodore Scratch and a grandson of John Scratch, and a great-grandson of Leonard and Mary (Munger) Scratch. John Scratch was born July 24, 1795, in the township of Gosfield, where he grew to manhood. He was reared to agricultural pursuits, and in time inherited the old homestead. He was quite a prominent man in his day, and served as magistrate from 1834 until the time of his death. In November, 1818, he married Sarah Malott, who was born May 10, 1799, and died Feb. 21, 1849. To this union came children as follows: ... Theodore, born June 20, 1822, became the father of Judson Scratch...
     Theodore Scratch was born on the homestead June 20, 1822, and when twenty-two years old came into possession of 100 acres of that place, lying in Lot 2, east division. Later he sold that place to Daniel Wigle and bought a farm west of Ruthven, but after a few years he bought a fifty-acre tract in Lot L, 2d Concession, to which he removed. That land is now almost within the village of Kingsville, but when he first moved to it it was swampy and heavily timbered, and he built his house on the highest spot. There his family was reared...
     On April 29, 1844, Theodore Scratch was married to Sarah Loop, by whom he had three children: Alfred, now a prosperous business man of Fitzgerald, Georgia; Sydney, who died of fever while serving in the American rebellion, in 1863, at the age of seventeen years, and was buried in Virginia; and Josiah, who died when four years old. For his second wife Theodore Scratch married Elizabeth Tofflemire...

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John Scratch 1801-1887   Sarah Malott 1799-1849    
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Theodore Scratch 1822-   Sarah Loop
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Alfred Scratch ca 1846-