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Jacob
Baltzer
County Marriage Registers of Ontario, Canada 1858-1869 Volume 35 Essex County, Elizabeth Hancocks, 2005, Global Heritage Press, Campbellville, ON:
Baltzer Jacob, 23, Gosfield, Gosfield, s/o Jacob & Mary, married 17 Jan 1860 Nancy J Wigle, 20, Gosfield, Gosfield, d/o Peter & Jane.
1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 1-1:
Baltzer Mary, F, Widowed, 45, born UC, Baptist;
Jacob, M, Married, 25, born UC, Baptist, Farmer;
Jane, F, Married, 22, born UC, W[esleyan] M[ethodist];
Sam'l, M, Single, 19, born UC, W M;
Solomon, M, Single, 14, born UC, W M;
Catherine, F, Single, 17, born UC, W M;
Mary J., F, Single, 1, born UC, W M;
Hannah, F, Single, 7 born UC, W M.
1881 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 Can
census household record:
Baltzer Jacob, M, Married, 44, born Ont, origin: Dutch, Reformed Baptist,
Farmer;
Louise J., F, Married, 33, born Ont, origin: Dutch, CM;
Mary
J., F, 20, born Ont, origin: Dutch, Reformed Baptist;
Wigle Peter B., M,
7, born Ont, origin: Dutch, CM;
Lambert, M, 5, born Ont, origin: Dutch,
CM;
Effa D., F, 3, born Ont, origin: Dutch, CM;
Pearl, F, 2, born
Ont, origin: Dutch, CM.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 217-218:
David Hopgood, who is well located on Lot 277, Talbot Road South, Gosfield North, County of Essex, is a prosperous farmer and a true son of Canada, having been born on his present farm, March 22, 1855, son of James and Eliza (Jones) Hopgood. ... In November, 1876, he was united in marriage with Miss Hannah A. Baltzer, born Jan. 20, 1853, in Gosfield, near Kingsville, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Iler) Baltzer, and a member of one of the prominent old pioneer families of the County of Essex. Mr. Baltzer was born in Germany in 1803, and married Mary Iler in Canada, who was born in 1815, in Colchester South. They settled on a farm in Gosfield, where he died in 1858, survived by his widow until 1898. She was left with six children to rear, as follows: Jacob, who died at the old family homestead in 1897, married (first) Nancy Wigle, who died leaving one daughter, Mary J., wife of Peter Malott; he married for his second wife, Louisa Wigle, and they had five children, Elizabeth, Melton, Solomon, Roy and Hannah. Elizabeth has been married twice, first to Leonard Wigle, and is now the wife of George Bedell, of Talbot Road; they have an adopted son, Frank Jones. Samuel married Sarah Johnston, of Gosfield, and they now reside in Kingsville; they have an adopted daughter, Jennie, wife of Alfred Baltzer, of Kingsville. Catherine resides with her sister Mrs. Hopgood. Solomon married Lucy Iler, of Gosfield, and they reside in Colchester South; they have three children, William L., Delmar and Harper. The sixth member of the family is Mrs. Hopgood.
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