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Alvin
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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:
Orton Alan, 21, Gosfield, Gosfield, s/o Zenus & Judy, married 19 Mar 1865 Nancy McQueen, 18, Gosfield, Southwold, d/o Jacob.
1881 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Orton Alvin, M, Married, 35, born Ont, origin: English, Church of England, Farmer;
Mancy M., F, Married, 34, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Episcopal Methodist;
Elsworth, M, 15, born Ont, origin: English, Episcopal Methodist;
Zada, F, 13, born Ont, origin: English, Episcopal Methodist;
Minnie, F, 11, born Ont, origin: English, Episcopal Methodist;
Lewis, M, 9, born Ont, origin: English, Episcopal Methodist;
Hamilton, M, 5, born Ont, origin: English, Episcopal Methodist;
Elmer, M, 1, born Ont, origin: English, Episcopal Methodist.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 215-216:
Alexander Burns McQueen, a prosperous farmer of Gosfield South, County of Essex, represents the fourth generation of the family of that name who have resided in the Dominion. The great-grandfather McQueen was a native of Scotland, and as a young man he emigrated to Canada, and was one of the first settlers of Long Point, County of Norfolk, Ont.
Among his children was Jacob McQueen, who was born at Long Point, and there married Dorothy Mitchell. Later he moved to Fingal, County of Elgin, and still later to the County of Essex, where he settled on the Stokes farm, now owned by J. D. McDonald, Lot 252, and there died, aged seventy-seven years. His wife died at Grand Rapids, Michigan. The children born to Jacob McQueen and wife were: ... Nancy, a widow of Alvin Orton, who now lives at Detroit...
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