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M Ebenezer Wright

Foreldre

Ekteskap og barn

Søsken

Halvbrødre/halvsøstre/halvsøsken

Fra s slektside Mary Quick 1811-1892

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Marriage record, Colchester Twp, Essex Co., ON, from Mary Crandall's site:
2425-78 Nelson WIGLE, 22, farmer, Gosfield, same, s/o Theodore & Barbara, married Mary WRIGHT, 19, Colchester, same, d/o Ebenezer & Harriet, witn: Alexander C-? of Gosfield & illegible of Colchester, 17 Oct. 1877 at Colchester [faded reg'n].

1881 personal census, Colchester South Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 Can census household record:
Wright Ebenezer, M, Married, 45, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist, Farmer;
Harriett, F, Married, 42, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist;
Melbern, M, 22, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist, Farmer;
Malinda, F, 17, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist;
Thomas, M, 14, born Ont, origin: English, Wesleyan Methodist, Farmer;
Craig George, M, 12, born Ont, origin: African, Wesleyan Methodist, Servent.

1901 personal census, Colchester South Twp, Essex Co., ON, D4-3:
Wright Ebenezer, M, Married, 7 Feb 1836, 65, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth, Farmer;
Harriet, F, wife, Married, 27 May 1837, 62, born Ont, origin: German, Can, Meth;
Thomas A., M, son, Single, 5 Aug 1868, 32, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth, Farmer's Son.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, p. 593-594:
Thomas L. Wright, one of the prominent representative farmers of Colchester South, County Essex, belongs to one of the old pioneer families, the founder of which was Henry Wright.
     Henry Wright was born and reared in England and in young manhood emigrated to America with a brother, locating at Rutland, Pennsylvania, where the brother remained permanently. Henry married in that State Mary Klingensmith, and when troubles arose between the Colonies and the Mother Country he decided to remove to English soil. .. later he moved to the lake shore, where he took up land in Lots 80 and 76. He and his wife were buried on this farm. They were the parents of the following children: ... Philip married (first) Miss Dowler, and (second) Delilah Malott; ...
     Philip Wright, the grandfather of Thomas L. Wright, was born Jan. 5, 1775, at Rutland, Pennsylvania, and came with his parents to Grosse Ile, later to Malden, where he married a Miss Dowler, who died leaving one daughter, Anna, ... Philip Wright married (second) Delilah Malott, born June 30, 1786, on Grosse Ile, and to them came these children: ... Philip S., father of our subject, is mentioned below; ...
     Philip Wright, being of age when he came to this township, received a 200-acre grant of land adjoining that of his father. When he married he took the rear half of Lots 75 and 76, and upon Lot 75 chose the site of his home...
     Philip S. Wright, father of Thomas L. Wright, was born Dec. 4, 1813, on the old home near the elm tree and the spring, and attended the log school in the vicinity, one of his first teachers being a Robert Thompson. Here he married Mary Quick, who was born May 21, 1811, daughter of Cornelius Quick, originally from Pennsylvania, and died at the age of eighty-one years, her husband dying at the age of seventy-nine. After his marriage Philip S. Wright began farming on the present Daniel Wright place, which he bought and occupied for some years, and later, by a trade, secured a part of the old home land, some eighty acres, which he cleared. He built a home on the north part of the lot and at a later date replaced his first house with the one now occupied by his son Gordon. Prior to his death he acquired eighty additional acres...
     The children born to Philip S. Wright and his wife were as follows: Ebenezer, born Feb. 7, 1836, is a farmer on Concession 4, and married Harriet Halstead; Cornelius, born Feb. 12, 1838, married Lorinda Patton and lives north of Harrow; William G., born Sept. 22, 1840, married (first) Rebecca Wright, and (second) Mary Walters, and lives in Harrow; Delilah Ann, born Dec. 13, 1842, married Judson S. Patton, of Amherstburg; Joseph, born Nov. 13, 1844, married Marian Lockhart and lives north of Harrow; Thomas L. was born March 25, 1847; Angus E., born Jan. 10, 1850, lives in Harrow; Gordon P., born Dec. 7, 1854, has the home place.

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Philip Wright 1775-1849   Delilah Malott 1786-1852   Joseph Quick ca 1769-1845   Susan Munger †1849
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Philip S. Wright 1813-ca 1892   Mary Quick 1811-1892
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Ebenezer Wright 1836-