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M Leonard G. Fox

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History of the Wigle Family and Their Descendants, The Wigle Family, Kingsville, Ontario, 1931.

County Marriage Registers of Ontario, Canada 1858-1869 Volume 35 Essex County, Elizabeth Hancocks, 2005, Global Heritage Press, Campbellville, ON:
Fox Leonard, 24, Gosfield, Romney, s/o George & Marie, married 13 Dec 1859 Orilla Steward, 20, Gosfield, NY, d/o Abel & Lucy.

1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 3-1:
Fox Leonard, M, Married, 26, born U Canada, C England, Yeoman;
Orrilla, F, Married, 21, born U Canada, C England;
Amelia, F, Single, 1, born U Canada, C England.

1881 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Fox Leonard G., M, Married, 45, born Ont, origin: German, Unitarian, Farmer;
Orilla, F, Married, 41, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Unitarian;
Amelia, F, 20, born Ont, origin: German, Unitarian;
George, M, 10, born Ont, origin: German, Unitarian.

1901 personal census, Gosfield South Twp, Essex Co., ON, G3-6:
Fox Leonard, M, Married, 29 Sept 1835, 65, born Ont, origin: German, Can, Univer, Farmer;
Orilla, F, wife, Married, 9 Dec 1839, 61, born Ont, origin: Scotch, Can, Univer.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 672-674:
Milton C. Fox...is traced to Philip Fox, born in Baden, Germany, who was the first of the family to settle in Gosfield, locating on Lot 10, Eastern Division. In his native land he married Catherine Lauer, who accompanied him to this country.
     Michael Fox, son of Philip, was born before the family came to Gosfield, and he settled on Lot 250, Talbot Road, removing later to Lot 7, Eastern Division, and then to Amherstburg, where he died. He married Elizabeth Wigle, and they had ten children as follows: ... George, the grandfather of our subject, ...
     George Fox was born Sept. 7, 1807, in Gosfield, at the time of his marriage removing to Romney township, County of Kent, and for thirteen years he farmed on the Talbot Road, on the land now owned by Joseph and Jonas Robinson, a tract of 200 acres. In 1842 he returned to Gosfield and settled on the east half of Lot 7, the old homestead, where he did much clearing, having completed it prior to his death, which occurred at the age of seventy-six. He was a successful farmer and an upright man. In politics he supported the Conservative party.
     On Nov. 8, 1827, in Gosfield, Mr. Fox married Mary Hairsine, born Sept. 3, 1808, in Yorkshire, England, and they had these children: William G., born Oct. 3, 1828, died in 1899, was a man of prominence and married Mary Malott; Mary Ann, born April 15, 1832, married (first) Thomas Girty, and (second) Charles Wigle, also deceased, and lives on Lot 6; Elizabeth, born Feb. 11, 1834, married Floram Mickle, of Colchester South, and died Sept. 28, 1859; Leonard G., born Sept. 22, 1835, married Rilla Stewart, and died in January, 1902; Lucinda, born Feb. 16, 1837, lives with our subject; Adelia, born Aug. 25, 1839, married (first) Joseph Hughes, and (second) John Barnett; Charles G. was born Aug. 31, 1841; Jane, born Feb. 23, 1843, married (first) George Lane, and (second) Benoni Healey, who died in 1900, and she lives in Kingsville; and Amelia, born July 24, 1845, died Aug. 23, 1845.
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Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 90-92:
Simeon M. Stewart is a representative member of one of the historic families of County Essex, and is now proprietor of the leading hotel at Ruthven. The family, as the name indicates, is of Scottish extraction...
     Charles Stewart, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania, and when he settled in Ontario drew a Government lot on the 4th Concession, in Mersea township... His children were: Charles, who lives at Olinda (he married Mary Whittle, whose youngest daughter married J. S. Bruner); John, who lived at Olinda and married Eliza Hamilton; Abel; and James. Of the daughters, Margaret married Michael Fox, locally known as "Big Mike"; Tabitha married Rev. Mr. Irving, a Baptist preacher; Polly married Lorenzo Dow Vaughtan; and Sally married Harrison Brown.
     Abel Stewart was born June 22, 1815, on the homestead farm in Mersea township, where he grew to manhood... He married Lucy Blackman, who was born at Lockport, New York, and who died in Gosfield Feb. 24, 1893, aged sixty-six years, nine months, twenty-four days. Their children were: Rilla, widow of Leonard Fox, has two children, George and Amelia...

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Michael Fox ca 1780-   Elizabeth Wigle ca 1785-   Charles Hairsine 1775-1852   Mary Shipley or Burton 1781-1837
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George M. Fox 1807-   Mary Hairsine 1808-
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Leonard G. Fox 1835-1902