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M George Vollans

Heiraten und Kinder

Notizen

Hinweis zur Person

Carpenter and Farmer; emigrated to Sandusky, Ohio, 1830-1837, then to Sandwich in 1837.

Information from Dorothy Vollans Iler.

1871 personal census, Sandwich East Twp, Essex Co., ON, J1-33:
Vollans George, M, Married, 63, born England, origin: English, C England, Farmer;
Mariam, F, Married, 65, born England, origin: English, C England;
Jannie, F, 22, born Ont, origin: English, C England;
Robert, M, 20, born Ont, origin: English, C England, Farmer;
Lizzie, F, 18, born Ont, origin: English, C England.

1881 personal census, Sandwich East Twp, Essex Co., ON, L1-2:
Vollins Gorge, M, Married, 72, born England, origin: English, Church of England, Farming;
Miran, F, Married, 74, born England, origin: English, Church of England, Farming;
Robert, M, 30, born Ontario, origin: English, Church of England, Farming;
Braheim Nancy, F, 20, born Ontario, origin: English, Weslyan Methodist, Housemaid;
Holden James, M, 34, born England, origin: English, Church of England, Farmer;
Jane, M, 32, born Ontario, origin: English, Church of England;
Edward, M, 3, born Ontario, origin: English, Church of England;
Hensey Barbary, F, 1, born Ontario, origin: English, Church of England.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers, 1905, p. 452-453:
Thomas Vollans, proprietor of the Vollans Mills, and also of the Champion Mills, at Windsor, is not only one of the leading businessmen, but is also a descendant of an old and much respected English family.
His paternal grandfather was a well established agriculturist in England, where his whole life was passed in the peaceful pursuit of his calling. His two sons, William and George, sought a more active life. William became a soldier in the regular army, and came to Ontario with the troops, and later went to the Bermuda Islands, where he died. George is mentioned below.
George Vollans, the younger son of his father, came to Ontario in 1829, and located on a farm in the bush, in South Sandwich, Concession 5, Lot 5, and at once started to clear the same. This he accomplished prior to his death, in 1887, at the age of eighty-three years. He had become a man of affairs, and had served as assessor of Sandwich township before the present three-fold division was made. He married Mira Page, born in Yorkshire, England, daughter of Edmund Page, and to this union was born a family of eleven children, as follows: Thomas; William, deceased; Edward, deceased; Isaac, a farmer of Sandwich West; Samuel, a farmer of Sandwich West; Robert, a farmer of Sandwich West; Mary Ann, deceased; Harriet, Mrs. George Gray, of Sandwich; Barbara, Mrs. Alexander O'Neil; Jane, Mrs. James Alden, of Sandwich South; and Elizabeth, Mrs. John O'Neil, of Sandwich South.
Thomas Vollans was born Nov. 29, 1829, at Prescott, Ont., and he was between eight and nine years of age when his parents settled in the County of Essex...

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers, 1905, p. 194-195:
Samuel Vollans, who represents an old and honorable family of the County of Essex, that has had much to do with the development of the agricultural resources of this section, is the owner of a highly productive farm on Lot 2, Concession 6, in Sandwich West. He was born July 26, 1846, in Sandwich South, son of George and Mirian (Page) Vollans, who came to Sandwich from Yorkshire, England, as early as 1835.
George Vollans and wife were both born in Yorkshire, where they married. Together they emigrated to America, spending fourteen long weeks on a sailing vessel. They landed at last at New York, going from there to Sandusky, Ohio, and a short time afterward, to Sandwich. In the latter township they selected a home in the wilderness, and settled down to pioneer life. Both died on this property, the mother in 1890, and the father in 1894. They were pious, virtuous people, and were among the founders of the first English church in Sandwich. Mr. Vollans was not only a great student of the Bible, but he acted up to its precepts, and could quote fluently from Scripture. In politics he was always an active Conservative. None of the other members of his family came to America, but he and wife were soon surrounded by a family of their own, eleven children blessing their union, all growing to maturity, as follows: Thomas, a miller of Windsor; William, deceased, a farmer of Sandwich; Edward, deceased, a farmer of Sandwich; Mary A., wife of John Gunn, deceased, of Sandwich West; Hannah, wife of George Gray, of Sandwich; Barbara, wife of Alexander O'Neil, who resides in Sandwich South, with a family of ten children; Jane, who married James Holden, of Sandwich South, and has six children; Elizabeth, wife of John O'Neil of Sandwich South; Robert, unmarried, residing on the old homestead; and Samuel, of this sketch...