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H John Wales

Mariages et enfants

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Notes individuelles

1861 personal census, Mersea Twp, Essex Co., ON, 1-15:
Wailes John, M, Married, married in 1852, 39, born England, W Methodist, Farmer;
Nancy J., F, Married, married in 1852, 33, born U Canada, W Methodist;
Dempster, M, Single, 8, born U Canada;
Elizabeth, F, Single, 2, born U Canada;
Quick Elizabeth, F, Widowed, 78, born U Canada, W Methodist.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 617-619:
Thomas E. Quick, one of the leading farmers and successful stock raisers of Mersea township, County of Essex, located on the north part of Concession 1, Lot 1, was born May 23, 1840, on this farm, and is a member of one of the old and honorable families of this section of Canada.
     The Quick family is of German extraction, and its early members came from Germany, settling in Pennsylvania, where Alexander G. Quick, the grandfather of our subject, was born and where he grew to manhood... When he came to Canada he located in Colchester township, County of Essex, Lot 8 of the Gore...      Cornelius Quick, second son of Alexander G., was born Sept. 12, 1785, in Pennsylvania, and accompanied his parents to Colchester township, County of Essex. In young manhood he came to Mersea township, and bought a tract of 100 acres of land east of Leamington, on which the remainder of his life was spent... About 1802 he married Elizabeth Knapp, born March 10, 1795, who died at the age of eighty-eight, and was buried in Lake View Cemetery. Their children were: ... Mary Jane, born June 4, 1828, married John Wales ...