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M Walter W. Ames

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Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 480-482:
Charles Minnis, a prominent farmer and stock raiser of Mersea township, .. was born in Mersea township, Feb. 3, 1846, and is of Irish extraction, his father, John Minnis, having been born Feb. 2, 1818, in County Down, Ireland.
     Hugh Minnis and his wife, the grandparents, who were also natives of Ireland, were married there, and in 1818 emigrated to Canada, bringing their son, John, then but three months of age, with them... Coming to Ontario they located in Mersea township... There both parents died, leaving their only son, John, an orphan, three years old... His father had left a sum of money, about four hundred dollars, with which he bought land on what is now the 5th Concession, Lot 5, a tract of 200 acres...
     On March 17, 1840, in Mersea township, Mr. Minnis married Hester Jane McGaw, who was born March 17, 1822, in Newmarket, Ont... She was a sincere Christian woman, a devoted member of the Methodist Church, and a loving wife and mother to her large family, which consisted of twelve children, namely: ... Huldah married W. W. Ames, of Leamington...