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Timothy
Shay
History of the Wigle Family and Their Descendants, The Wigle Family, Kingsville, Ontario, 1931.
Iler Family Generation Charts, HEIRS files.
1851 personal census, Colchester Twp, Essex Co., ON, Ontario GenWeb transcription:
Shay Timothy, M, Married, 43[sic], born Ireland, Ep. Church, Baptist;
Elizabeth, F, Married, 63, born Up Canada, Baptist;
Timothy, M,
Single, 27, born Up Canada, Baptist.
County Marriage Registers of Ontario, Canada 1858-1869 Volume 35 Essex County, Elizabeth Hancocks, 2005, Global Heritage Press, Campbellville, ON:
Shay Timothy, 31, Colchester, Colchester, s/o Asead & Elizabeth, married 5 Feb 1864 Elizabeth Iler, 21, Colchester, Colchester, d/o John & Ann.
1881 personal census, Colchester South Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS Can 1881 census household record:
Shay Timothy, M, Married, 49, born Ont, origin: Irish, C C Baptist, Farmer;
Elizabeth, F, Married, 38, born Ont, origin: German, C C Baptist;
Alice, F, 16, born Ont, origin: Irish, C C Baptist;
Nora, F, 13, born
Ont, origin: Irish, C C Baptist;
Annie, F, 11, born Ont, origin: Irish, C
C Baptist;
Hate, F, 8, born Ont, origin: Irish, C C Baptist;
Timothy,
M, 5, born Ont, origin: Irish, C C Baptist;
Frederick, M, 1, born Ont,
origin: Irish, C C Baptist.
1901 personal census, Colchester South Twp, Essex Co., ON,
D2-6:
Shay Timothy, M, Married, 22 Aug 1831, 69, born Ont, origin: Irish, Can, Bapt,
Farmer;
Elizabeth, F, wife, Married, 30 June 1842, 58, born Ont, origin: German, Can, Bapt;
Alice, F, daughter, Single, 21 Jan 1865, 36, born Ont, origin: Irish, Can, Bapt.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H.
Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 573-574:
James Shay, one of the prominent men of Amherstburg, County of Essex, is
descended from Irish and Scotch parentage.
Timothy Shay, his grandfather, was born in
Ireland about 1780, and was a sailor all his life. As early as 1810 he
emigrated to the County of Essex, purchasing 200 acres in Colchester South, on Lake Erie, where he died about 1858, although he did not give up his seafaring life. He married a Miss McLean, who was born in the County of Essex of Scotch parentage, and who died in Colchester South, in 1880, at the unusual age of ninety-nine years. The children born to Timothy Shay and wife were as follows: John, Edward, Thomas, Timothy, Catherine (who married John Arnold, of Chatham, and both are deceased), Susan (who married Reuben Crandell), Elizabeth (widow of Fredrich Miller, of Michigan), Polly (who married James Smith), and Laura (who married James Arnold, of Chatham, and is deceased)...
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 614-615:
Alanson Iler, one of the leading prosperous farmers of Colchester South, is a representative of one of the pioneer families of this locality.
John Iler, his father, was born in Grosse Ile Aug. 15, 1806, and was six years old when the family came to Colchester, where he grew up... On March 23, 1830, he married Susan Wigle, who was born in Gosfield Nov. 18, 1813, and who died March 25, 1889... To John and Susan (Wigle) Iler came children as follows: ... Elizabeth, born June 30, 1842, is the widow of Timothy Shay, of Harrow...
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