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History of the Wigle Family and Their Descendants, The Wigle Family, Kingsville, Ontario, 1931.

1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 4-9:
Fox Horatio N., M, Married, 25, born U.C., Universalist, Farmer;
Jennett, F, Married, 19, born U.C., Universalist;
Collins Robert, M, Single, 21, bornU.C., Universalist;
Fox Judith Ann, F, Widowed, 72, born U.C., Universalist.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 61-64:
Wigle. The prominent and numerous family of this name in the County of Essex, Ont., is descended from John Wendel Wigle, who was born in Germany in the year 1763. Being left an orphan at an early age, he was obliged to shift for himself, and was a mere boy when he made his way to the seacost, where, having neither means nor friends, he hid himself on board a sailing vessel which was about to leave for America. He was discovered after the ship sailed by the captain, who proved himself a most cruel man, and immediately upon arrival in America bound young Wigle out to service for seven years, it is said, to pay for his passage. To what trade he was apprenticed during this time is not definitely known, but as his occupation in later life was weaving, it is most probable that his knowledge of the business was acquired during that period.
     At the age of twenty-one years John Wendel Wigle made his home at York, Pennsylvania, where in 1776 he was married to Julianna Rommer. He did not bear arms in the Revolution, though he was undoubtedly a British sympathizer, as we find that he decided to leave soon after the war closed. In 1786, along with a number of other families, he and his family started for Canada, making the journey to Detroit through Ohio, with pack-horses, driving their cattle before them. They spent several years near Detroit, probably on Grosse Ile, as the government had not yet acquired the land from the Indians, but about 1792, when government grants were thrown open to settlers, John W. Wigle and his family settled in Gosfield township, County of Essex, on Lot 6, Eastern Division. Here he passed the remainder of his life, dying in the home he established there, and he was buried in Lot 6, as is also his wife, who passed away in May 1824. In spite of the hardships and trails they had to contend with in making a home in the wilderness, these good people prospered, and John Wendel Wigle acquired possesion of some 3,000 acres before he died. Thus he was able to leave his children in comfortable circumstances, and as his family was a large one he had ample use for his numerous acres.
     We have the following record of the eleven children born to this pioneer couple: John, born in Pennsylvania Dec. 21, 1778, died in Gosfield Jan. 28, 1871; he married Susanna Scratch, and they had a family of fifteen children. Wendel, born in Pennsylvania, Dec. 17, 1781, married Isabella Scratch, and died April 6, 1860. Kate, born in Pennsylvania, married Theodore Malott, who settled on Lot 13, in Gosfield, East Divison. Elizabeth, born in Pennsylvania, became the wife of Michael Fox. Julianna, born in Colchester April 4, 1789, married George Fox, and died on Pelee Island July 3, 1879. Joseph, born March 22, 1792, died July 23, 1864; he married Euphemia Miller, and they had eleven children (they were the grandparents of William R. Wigle, who is mentioned elsewhere.) Mary, born in Gosfield June 29, 1793, married Peter Scratch, and died June 3, 1872. Sarah, born in Gosfield Aug. 26, 1798, married Solomon Shepley, and had eight children. Maudlin married Jacob Fox, and had seven children. Christopher married Mary Wilkinson. Michael married Julianna Tofflemire, and for his second wife, Prudence Chapman...

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 528-529:
... In 1772 Philip Fox came to America from his birthplace, Baden, Germany, where he had married Catherine Lamer. They settled in the same year at Baltimore, Maryland, remaining for several years, and then moved to Pennsylvania, during their residence in which State several children were born. A number of neighbours then banded together to locate farther north, and in the company were John Wendel Wigle and Philip Fox, with their families... in 1794 he was fortunate enough to draw Lot 10, on the lake shore in Gosfield, and removed thither. There both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, and their remains rest on the Wesley Wigle farm, in a private burying-ground. They had eight sons and two daughters born to them, as follows: ... George, who settled on Lot 22, Concession 4; ...
     George Fox, the ancestor of many of the name, was born April 18, 1781, in Pennsylvania, and came with his parents to Gosfield, Oct. 16, 1804. He was drowned Nov. 1, 1838. He married Julianna Wigle, and had the following family: Michael G. was born Jan. 1, 1806; Elizabeth, born Sept. 20, 1807, married (first) A. Fisher and (second) Charles Watson; Mary Ann, born Aug. 15, 1809, died at the age of seventy-seven years (she was stricken blind); Catherine, born Oct. 10, 1811, died July 12, 1826; John, born Feb. 4, 1814, married into the Scratch family, and died in the County of Kent; Theodore, born Feb. 5, 1816, married Matilda Fox; Joseph, born July 20, 1818, died at Port Stanley; Henry, born March 15, 1821, married Margaret Scott; Jane, born May 15, 1823, married Reuben Bruner; Caroline, born May 10, 1827, married William La Marsh; Robert, born Nov. 28, 1830, lives on Pelee Island; Harriet, born May 8, 1833, died May 28, 1853. The family is scattered all over the county, and many of its members may be found in the States. It has contributed many members to various legislative bodies, and has, on many occasions, performed deeds reflecting honor. It is a particularly representative family of Gosfield township.

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John Wendel Weigele/Wigle 1753-   Julianna Romer
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Julianna Wigle 1789-1879