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Stephen
Wigle
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:
Wigle Stephen, 23, Gosfield, Gosfield, s/o Windle S & Hannah, married 7 Feb 1860 Sarah A Wilcox, 17, Malden, Malden, d/o Asa & Azubah.
1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 3-8:
Wigle Stephen M., M, Married, 25, born U Canada, Methodist W, Yeoman;
Sarah Ann, F, Married, 19, born U Canada, Methodist W;
Alvira, F, Single, 1, born U Canada, Methodist W.
1881 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 Can
census household record:
Wigle Stephen, M, Married, 44, born Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist, Farmer;
Sarah Ann, F, Married, 38, born Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist;
Della, F, 20, born Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist;
Ida, F, 18, born
Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist;
Marcellas, M, 15, born Ont, origin:
Dutch, C Methodist, Farmer Son;
Mary Hestor, F, 9, born Ont, origin: Dutch, C
Methodist;
Arabella, F, 7, born Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist;
Dufferin, M, 5, born Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist;
Alnira, F, 2,
born Ont, origin: Dutch, C Methodist.
1901 personal census, Gosfield South Twp, Essex Co., ON, G2-3:
Wigle Stephen, M, Married, 8 Jan 1837, 64, born Ont, origin: German, Can,
Meth, Farmer;
Sarah A., F, wife, Married, 4, Sept 1842, 58, born Ont,
origin: English, Can, Meth;
Ida, F, daughter, Single, 19 April 1863, 37,
born Ont, origin: German, Can, Meth, Dress Maker;
Marcellus, M, son,
Single, 27 Oct 1865, 35, born Ont, origin: German, Can, Meth, Farmers Son;
Mary, F, daughter, Single, 16 March 1871, 30, born Ont, origin: German,
Can, Meth, ??;
Arabella, F, daughter, Single 21 Dec 1873, 27, born Ont,
origin: German, Can, Meth;
Irene, F, daughter, Single, 21 Dec 1881, 19,
born Ont, origin: German, Can, Meth.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 407-408:
Thomas H. Wigle, a prosperous farmer of Gosfield South township, County of Essex, located on the 3rd Concession, belongs to the prominent old pioneer family of that name...
John Wigle, grandfather of our subject, was the oldest child of John Wigle, the pioneer settler of that name in Gosfield...
Wendel Wigle, the fourth child of John Wigle, was born on the Wigle homestead in Gosfield, and there grew to manhood. At maturity his father gave him a tract of 142 acres of land on Lot 3, Eastern Division, and upon this he settled... He began the first clearing on this farm, and was permitted before his death to see it practically all cleared...
On Nov. 23, 1830, he married Hannah Hairsine, born March 5, 1812, in Yorkshire, England, who died April 6, 1888, in Gosfield. She was a daughter of Charles and Mary (Burton) Hairsine, and was five years old when the family came to Canada and settled in Mersea township...
To Wendel and Hannah (Hairsine) Wigle were born the following children: ... Stephen, born Jan. 8, 1837, married Sarah Wilcox...
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