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Robert
Scratch
History of the Wigle Family and Their Descendants, The Wigle Family, Kingsville, Ontario, 1931.
1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 3-13:
Scratch Alpheus, M, Married, 34, born U Canada, Methodist W, Yeoman;
Nancy, F, Married, 34, born U Canada, Methodist W;
Robert, M, Single, 6, born U Canada, Methodist W.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 450-451:
Gore Lane, one of the thrifty young farmers of Gosfield township, County of Essex, is a descendant of one of the stanch old United Empire Loyalists...
Gore Lane was born May 14, 1862, in Malden
township, grew up on the home farm, and was educated in the local schools. He was about nineteen when the family moved to Gosfield. ...
In 1888 Mr. Lane was united in marriage with Mary E., daughter of Alpheus and Nancy (Palmer) Scratch, the former of whom was born Aug. 25, 1826, and the latter June 14, 1826. Mrs. Lane is the youngest of their three children: Robert, and James and Mary E. ...
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