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M Charles Hairsine

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Information from Dwaine Basham, Basham Family Genealogy, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.

Dwaine writes:
Mary and Charles were born at or near Bursey in the County of York in England. They were married in England July 26, 1803, and immigrated to Canada in 1818. The family arrived in Montreal - travelled on to Kingston and then entered New York State to visit with some of Mary's relatives. From here they travelled on to their distination - Lot 231, North Talbot Road, Mersea Township, near Amhurstberg, Upper Canada. Twelve children were born from this union.

1851 personal census, Mersea Twp, Essex Co., ON, p. 7:
Hairsine Thos, M, Widowed, 77, born England, C of England, Farmer;
Thos, M, Married, 40, born England, C of England, Farmer;
Marjory, F, Married, 39, born England, C of England;
Charles, M, Single, 14, born Canada, Gosfield, C of England;
Joseph, M, Single, 9, born Canada, C of England;
Jane, F, Single, 7, born Canada, C of England;
Leo'd, M, Single, 5, born Canada, C of England;
Rebecca, F, Single, 3, born Canada;
Malcolm, M, Single, 2, born Canada;
Edw'd, M, Single, 26, born Canada, C of England, Farmer.

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... he married Susanna Scratch... They had the following children: ... Leonard, born March 14, 1804, married Jane Hairsine, and died in Mersea, Feb. 27, 1878; ... Wendel, father of Thomas H. Wigle, born Sept. 9, 1806, married Hannah Hairsine; ...
     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...
     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: Mary, born Dec. 1, 1831, married James Flood, and died July 8, 1868; Thomas H., born April 2, 1833, is the subject of this sketch; Susan, born Feb. 4, 1835, married Hubert Deming, and died in 1880; Stephen, born Jan. 8, 1837, married Sarah Wilcox; Sarah, born March 9, 1839, married John Harrington, of Kingsville; Julianna, born Feb. 22, 1841, married Edward Rodgers, of Gosfield; Jane, born Jan. 4, 1842, married Drake Wilcox; Charles, born in 1844, died aged two and one-half years; Wendel, deceased, born Sept. 9, 1846, married Mary Vansleet; Benjamin, born July 4, 1848, married Colinette Deming, and occupied the home place; Lucinda, born in September, 1850, married Aaron Haycock, and died Sept. 12, 1878; Amelia, born Dec. 22, 1852, married Duncan Montrose, and resides in Detroit; and Janette, born July 6, 1856, deceased, married Eugene Augustine.
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