History of the Wigle Family and Their Descendants, The Wigle Family, Kingsville, Ontario, 1931.
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 Charles Stewart, Baptist Minister, Mersea Twp., Essex County Western District (p. 63):
John Snider, to Julian Fox. 21 Nov. 1831, by banns. Rev. Stewart. Wit. John Oiler and Peter Right.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 528-529:
... In 1772 Philip Fox came to America from his birthplace, Baden, Germany, where he had married Catherine Lamer. They settled in the same year at Baltimore, Maryland, remaining for several years, and then moved to Pennsylvania, during their residence in which State several children were born... in 1794 he was fortunate enough to draw Lot 10, on the lake shore in Gosfield, and removed thither. There both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, and their remains rest on the Wesley Wigle farm, in a private burying-ground. They had eight sons and two daughters born to them, as follows: ... Jacob, father of William C. Fox, and grandfather of our subject (he settled on Lot 22, Concession 6); ...
Jacob Fox, the grandfather of Gordon P. Fox of Gosfield, was born Jan. 22, 1788, in Pennsylvania, and was but a lad when the family became permanently settled in Gosfield. He began farming for himself on Concession 6, where he did the first clearing, but later removed to Lot 24, on the lake, building about 1826 a log house near the shore. ...
Jacob Fox was twice married, first to Madeline Wigle, and they had children: Julianna, born Oct. 30, 1812, married John Snider, of Colchester; John I., born March 22, 1814, married Elizabeth Godwin; Jacob, born March 11, 1816, married Elizabeth Lypps; Susannah, born March 16, 1818, is the widow of George McLean, of Colchester; Sarah, born Nov. 14, 1820, married John Arner; Anna, born Sept. 11, 1824, married George Noble, of Ruthven; William C. was born July 24, 1827. Jacob Fox married (second) Elizabeth McLean, born May 13, 1788, and three children were born to this union: George J., Peter and Abigail...
Julianna
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William Snider ca 1840-
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