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Abner
Lidwell
The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West, Volume 14, Western District 1786-1856, Compiled by Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai, Global Heritage Press, Milton:
Account of Marriage Licences issued in the Western District from the 26 March 1826 to the 7th March 1828 inclusive [return only not in register]:
Abner Lidswell, to Ester Ferries. 27 Dec. 1827.
1851 personal census, Colchester Twp, Essex Co., ON, p. 24:
Lidwell Abner, M, Married, 51, born U States, R Catholic, Farmer;
Esther, F, Married, 42, born T Colchester, Methodist;
Ferris Mary, F, 54, born T Colchester, Methodist;
Lidwell Esther, F, 15, born T Colchester, Methodist;
Mary M. C., F, 11, born T Colchester, Methodist;
Eliza E. J., F, 5, born T Colchester, Methodist;
Pardow Alexander, M, 23, born T Raliah, Ep Church;
Almirah, F, 20, born T Raliah, Ep Church;
Eliza J., F, 21, born T Raliah, Ep Church;
Paterson Eliza, F, 18, born T Raliah, Ep Church.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 538-539:
Abner L. Ferriss, vice-president of the South Essex Agricultural Society, is a member of one of the first families to settle in the township of Colchester, County Essex.
Joseph Ferriss, his grandfather, was a resident of Kentucky, and there married Christina Hahn... To Joseph and Christina (Hahn) Ferriss were born children as follows: John, who resided in Colchester South township, where his descendents now live; Isaac, father of Abner L.; Margaret, who married Gordon Buchanan, of the township of Colchester South; Mary, who never married, and died in Pennsylvania; and Esther, who married Arthur[sic] Lidwell and moved to Pennsylvania.
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