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F Margaret McLean

Casamientos e hijos

Notas

Nota individual

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 Stephen Miles, Wesleyan Methodist Minister, Gosfield and Howard Circuit (p. 49 & 50):
Jonas Fox, Jun., to Margaret McLean, both of Gosfield. 23 Feb. 1841, Gosfield, by banns. Rev. Miles. Wit. Joseph Malott and Henry Fox.

1861 personal census, Amherstburg, Essex Co., ON, transcribed by the Essex Branch of the OGS:
Fox Jonas, M, Married, 45, born U Canada, W[esleyan] M[ethodist], Labourer;
Margaret, F, Married, 40, born U Canada, W M;
Julia, F, 20, born U Canada, W M.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 176-178:
Fox. Jonas Fox, the eldest son of Philip Fox, the first settler of the name in this country, was born in Pennsylvania, and was a young man when the family came to Gosfield. He received from the government Lot 9, on the lake shore, and erected a log house on the lake shore, but later he put up a large frame building, the lumber for which was hauled from Windsor. In order to make the house unusually warm, the walls were filled with brick. This house was torn down about 1858, having stood there for about forty years. Jonas Fox cleared up his farm, and increased largely his original holding, adding Lot 8, so that he had 400 acres in one block; he also bought 200 acres on the Talbot Road, in Romney township, County of Kent. For his time he was a very successful man. In religious belief he was a Methodist. He was married to Susan Bruner, who died in 1854, aged eighty-four years, and he died in 1848, at the same age. He was buried on his home lot, and his widow was buried in the Albertville cemetery. Their children were as follows: ... Jonas came into possession of a portion of the homestead, and married Margaret McLean...