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F Clarissa Jane Scratch

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The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West, Volume 14, Western District 1786-1856, Compiled by Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai, Global Heritage Press, Milton:
Marriages by Rev'd Nathan Parke, Episcopal Methodist Minister (p. 151):
Joshua Adams, to Clarissa Scratch, of Gosfield. 4 June 1848, by banns. Rev. Parke. Wit. Mathew Adams and Melissa Stockwell.

1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 1-3:
Adams Joshua, M, Married, 35, born U.C., E[nglish Church], Farmer;
Clarisa, F, Married, 33, born U.C., E;
Isabella, F, Single, 11, born U.C., E;
Mary, F, Single, 4, born U.C., E;
Hester, F, 2, born U.C, E.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 85-87:
Rev. Alexander Scratch (Kratz), a retired minister of the Methodist Church, a direct descendant of one of the pioneer families of Essex County, and one of the most highly revered citizens of Leamington, was born in Gosfield township, Essex, July 18, 1826, son of Henry and Isabella (Wilkinson) Scratch.
     The name of Scratch is a corruption of Kratz, the change being of comparatively recent date...
     On Feb. 14, 1756, at Teutonhoofer, was born Leonhard Kratz... in 1776, at the age of twenty, he was a soldier in an army that came to America from Germany to help England quell the rebellion of her Colonies... In 1792, the Governor of Canada having offered grants of land to the U. E. Loyalists and other who had assisted Great Britain in the war, Leonhard Kratz and his family again became subject to the British King. The lot given him was No. 9, in Gosfield township, County of Essex, Ont., containing 200 acres, and this he exchanged with an old German for Lot No. 2, later purchasing No. 9, thus becoming the owner of 400 acres...
     To Leonhard and Mary (Munger) Kratz were born the following children, eleven in all: ... Henry, born in Gosfield, April 5, 1797, is mentioned below...
     Henry Scratch (Kratz) was born in Gosfield township, April 5, 1797, and his entire life was passed in his native township. For some years he was successfully engaged in the practice of medicine. In 1818 he joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church, and in 1847 he was ordained a Methodist minister. He was greatly beloved in the community, and he died universally regretted, Jan. 23, 1861. In Colchester, in 1817, he married Isabella Wilkinson, who was born May 25, 1798, daughter of John Wilkinson, a native of County Derry, Ireland, who came to Malden township in 1801, and died that fall. To Henry and Mrs. Scratch were born children as follows: (1) Peter, born May 6, 1818, married Sept. 11, 1838, Mary Lytle, who was born July 3, 1820, and died Nov. 28, 1854. Their five children were, Henry, Elizabeth, Nicholas, Thomas and Theodore. (2) Mary Ann, born April 3, 1820, in Gosfield, married there, Sept. 5, 1838, Thomas Govereau, born in Amherstburg April 19, 1815. Their nine children were Melissa, Peter, Hester (who died at the age of eight years), Clarissa, Lewis, Alexander, Sylvester (who died at the age of four years), Mary and Arthur. (3) John, born March 2, 1822, married (first) Harriet Randall, and (second) Sarah Wright, and had six children, Benjamin, Darius, Mary Ann, Martha, Alexander and Sarah. (4) William, born March 20, 1824, married Charlotte McDonald, and had seven children, Lucy, Viola, Floretta, Almeron, Arnold, Estelle and Henry. (5) Alexander is referred to farther on. (6) Clarissa, born May 10, 1828, married June 4, 1848, Joshua Adams, who is mentioned elsewhere, and had three children, Isabella, Mary and Hester. (7) Melissa died at the age of six years. (8) Edgerton, born July 31, 1834, married May 12, 1854, Jane Cowan.
     Alexander Scratch (Kratz) was born July 18, 1826...

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Leonhard Scratch 1756-1829   Maria (Mary Ann) Munger ca 1758-1840   John Wilkinson †1801   ?? ??
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Henry Scratch 1797-1861   Isabella Wilkinson 1798-1854
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Clarissa Jane Scratch 1828-