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F Sarah Leighton

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Por parte de John Leighton

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1851 personal census, Colchester, Essex Co., ON, p. 51:
Wright Danel, M, Married, 36, born Upper Canada, Church of England, Farmer;
Sarah, F, Married, 30, born Upper Canada, Church of England;
Emeline, F, 6, born Upper Canada, Church of England;
Almeda, F, 4, born Upper Canada, Church of England;
Alferd, M, 1-, born Upper Canada, Church of England;
Liton Ann, F, 73, born England, Methodist.

1861 personal census, Colchester Twp, Essex Co., ON, transcribed by the Essex Branch of the OGS:
Wright Daniel, M, Married, 42, born Can, C[hurch of] E[ngland], Farmer;
Sarah, F, Married, 38, born Can, C E;
Emaline, F, 15, born Can, C E;
Lorinda, F, 13, born Can, C E;
Louis, M, 8, born Can, C E;
Isabel, F, 5, born Can, C E;
Ellis, M, 2, born Can, C E.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 559-560:
Ellis L. Wright, a thrift farmer of Colchester South township, County of Essex, and a member of one of the early settled families of this locality, was born on the farm place July 16, 1858.
     The ancestor of the New World Wrights was Henry Wright, who was born and reared in England. In his young manhood he emigrated to America with a brother, locating in Rutland, Pennsylvania, where the latter remained. In that State Henry married Mary Klingensmith, and they became the parents of the following family: William, ...
     William Wright, son of Henry, was born in Pennsylvania... His wife was Elizabeth (or Betsy) Lipps, a native of Virginia... Their children, all now deceased except Daniel R., ...
     Daniel R. Wright was born in Colchester South, on Lake Erie, April 28, 1820. He remained with his parents off and on until his marriage. In 1837-38, in the Mackenzie Rebellion, he served as a soldier, the first year as corporal, and he was then transferred to the cavalry, with which he continued to the end of the war. He then farmed until 1858, on the home farm, and that year came to his present farm. He has always taken an active part in politics, as a stanch Conservative, and for many years was a road supervisor, and for twenty years township councillor. He is a member of the Established Church. On Nov. 27, 1855, he was married in Colchester South to Sarah Leighton, who was born in Amherstburg Oct. 7, 1823, and who died in April 1901, daughter of John and Ann (Posten) Leighton, natives of Liverpool, England; after coming to Canada Mr. Leighton engaged in farming. To Daniel R. Wright and wife were born the following children: Miss Emaline, living with her brother Ellis L.; Lorinda, who married Charles Knapp, now deceased, of Walkerville, and had eight children; Alfred, who died young; Lewis, who married Josephine Lipps, and has four children; Isabella, wife of Albert Simcoe, of Harrow; and Ellis L...

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John Leighton   Ann Posten ca 1778-
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Sarah Leighton 1823-1901