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Wendel D.
Neville
Information from Kimberly Fraser, Kimberly Fraser's Ancestral File, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.
1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 4-2,3:
Nevill James, M, Married, 36, born UC, W[esleyan] M[ethodist], Farmer;
John, M, Single, 12, born UC, W M, Labour;
Colin, M, Single, 10, born UC, Labour;
Wendle, M, Single, born UC, W M, Labour;
Sarah, F, Married, 32, born UC, W M;
Testamiah, F, Single, 6, born UC, W M;
Mary, F, Single, 8, born UC, W M;
Sarah Jane, F, Single, 5, born UC, W M.
1881 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Nevil Sarah, F, Widowed, 51, born Ont, origin: German, Wesleyan Methodist;
Wendel Q., M, 21, born Ont, origin: German, Wesleyan Methodist;
Augusta M., F, 19, born Ont, origin: German, Wesleyan Methodist;
Adelia F., F, 10, born Ont, origin: German, Wesleyan Methodist.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 482-483:
William H. Neville, one of the younger farmers of Gosfield North ... comes of one of Canada's old families, being a son of Edward and Sarah (McKenzie) Neville.
The first of the family to settle in Essex was Edward Neville, a native of Ireland, who came to Canada with his family of five sons, Robert, Edward, James, George and Francis, and one daughter. Francis Neville was born in July, 1798, married Nancy Williams, born Oct. 4, 1805, and settled on what is now Lot 271, Talbot Road South, in 1825... On the farm which he cleared in the midst of this wilderness, Francis Neville and his wife lived for the rest of their days, and of their eleven children, nine reached maturity: ... (2) James married Sarah Wigle and settled in Gosfield, his family are John, of Detroit; Mary, wife of Wilthew Foster; Colin, on the homestead about half a mile from Ruthven; Testamia, wife of Michael Wigle; Dr. Wendal, of Wisconsin; Augusta, wife of Ezra Wigle; and Adelia, wife of Scott Foster...
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