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Benjamin
Wigle
History of the Wigle Family and Their Descendants, The Wigle Family, Kingsville, Ontario, 1931.
1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 3-8:
Wigle Wendle L., M, Married, 55, born U Canada, Methodist W, Yeoman;
Hannah, F, Married, 45, born England, Methodist W;
Julia Ann, F, Single, 20, born U Canada, Methodist W;
Wendle L., M, Single, 14, born U Canada, Methodist W;
Benjamin, M, Single, 12, born U Canada, Methodist W;
Hannah L., F, Single, 10, born U Canada, Methodist W;
Amelia, F, Single, 8, born U Canada, Methodist W;
Ellen J., F, Single, 4, born U Canada, Methodist W.
1881 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 Can
census household record:
Wigle Benjamin, M, Married, 32, born Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist, Farmer;
Colinette, F, Married, 30, born Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist;
Millie M., F, 10, born Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist;
Everette J.,
M, 5, born Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist;
Huldia, F, 3, born Ont,
origin: Dutch, C Methodist.
1901 personal census, Gosfield South Twp, Essex Co., ON, G2-3:
Wigle Benjamin F., M, Married, 4 July 1849, 51, born Ont, origin: German, Can,
Baptist, Farmer;
Colinette, F, wife, Married, 27 Aug 1850, born Ont,
origin: French, Can, Baptist;
Everette J., M, son, Single, 3 Sept 1876,
24, born Ont, origin: German, Can, Baptist, Farmers Son;
Beatrice, F,
daughter, Single, 8 March 1888, 13, born Ont, origin: German, Can, Baptist, 8
months in school.
County Marriage Registers of Ontario, Canada 1858-1869 Volume 35 Essex County, Elizabeth Hancocks, 2005, Global Heritage Press, Campbellville, ON:
Wigle Benjamin, 21, Gosfield, Gosfield, s/o Windle & Hannah, married 8 June 1869 Colinette Deming, 19, Mersea, Mersea, d/o Horace & Malinda.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 407-408:
Thomas H. Wigle, a prosperous farmer of Gosfield South township, County of Essex, located on the 3rd Concession, belongs to the prominent old pioneer family of that name...
John Wigle, grandfather of our subject, was the oldest child of John Wigle, the pioneer settler of that name in Gosfield...
Wendel Wigle, the fourth child of John Wigle, was born on the Wigle homestead in Gosfield, and there grew to manhood. At maturity his father gave him a tract of 142 acres of land on Lot 3, Eastern Division, and upon this he settled... He began the first clearing on this farm, and was permitted before his death to see it practically all cleared...
On Nov. 23, 1830, he married Hannah Hairsine, born March 5, 1812, in Yorkshire, England, who died April 6, 1888, in Gosfield. She was a daughter of Charles and Mary (Burton) Hairsine, and was five years old when the family came to Canada and settled in Mersea township...
To Wendel and Hannah (Hairsine) Wigle were born the following children: ... Benjamin, born July 4, 1848, married Colinette Deming, and occupied the home place...
Commemorative Biographical Record of Essex Co., p. 498:
Samuel Malott, a prominent citizen of Gosfield township, County of Essex, belongs to one of the historic and interesting families of that locality...
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On Nov. 2, 1862, Mr. Malott married Amanda McCormick, daughter of Matthew McCormick, of Colchester South. They have one son, Ernest, born May 8, 1866, who resides on the home place. He married Malinda, daughter of Benjamin Wigle, and has three children: Samuel Earl, born Feb. 11, 1888; Carl Fayette, born Jan. 1, 1899; and Gertrude, born April 20, 1901...
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