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M James Jeffery

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1861 personal census, Mersea Twp, Essex Co., ON, 1-4:
Jeffery George C., M, Married, married in 1837, 48, born Nova Scotia, W Methodist, Tanner & Shoe Maker;
Mary A., F, Married, married in 1837, 38, born Ireland, W Methodist;
John, M, Single, 20, born U Canada, W Methodist, Labourer;
James, M, Single, 18, born U Canada, W Methodist, Labourer;
Eliza J., F, Single, 14, born U Canada, W Methodist;
Mary, F, Single, 11, born U Canada, W Methodist;
William, M, Single, 6, born U Canada;
Isaac, M, Single, 4, born U Canada;
Margaret, F, Single, 1, born U Canada.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 323-324:
Edgerton Scratch, local preacher of the Methodist Church in Mersea township, County of Essex, and a man widely known and deeply loved for his many excellent traits of character, is a son of Rev. Alexander and Ann (Adams) Scratch...
     On Jan. 1, 1871, Mr. Scratch was married, in Gosfield township, to Eliza Jane Jeffery, who was born in the County of Halton, Ont., Jan. 1, 1850, daughter of George and Mary Ann (McGuffins)...
     George Jeffery, Mrs. Scratch's father, was born in Nova Scotia and was married in Ontario to Mary Ann McGuffins. They were early pioneers of Mersea township. He was shoemaker by trade, and also followed farming. He died on his farm in Mersea township in 1876, and Mrs. Jeffery, who long survived him, passed away in Michigan in 1891. To their union were born the following named children: John was killed on a street car in Detroit, of which he was conductor; James is a farmer in Blenheim, Ont.; George, now a resident of Leamington, served in the United States Rebellion; Malinda first married John Van Buskirk, and after his death became the wife of William Peterson, and she now resides in Ionia County, Michigan; Mary married Thomas Wilkinson, a farmer of Mersea; Eliza Jane is the wife of Edgerton Scratch; Rev. Alfred, a minister of the Disciples Church, is a farmer in Michigan; Isaac, of Walkerville, Ont., is engaged in the livery business; Maggie, of Milwaukee, Wis., married Thomas Stewart; Wellington is in the hotel business in Michigan.

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John Matthew Jeffery 1787-1838   Eunice Travis Crowell 1789-1867    
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George C. Jeffery ca 1813-1876   Mary Anne McGuffins ca 1824-1891
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James Jeffery ca 1843-