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M Jacob Wigle

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The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West, Volume 14, Western District 1786-1856, Compiled by Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai, Global Heritage Press, Milton:
Marriages by Rev'd David Hardie, Wesleyan Methodist Minister, (p. 117):
Jacob Wigle, to Jane Chapman, both of Raleigh Twp. 17 Feb. 1846, by banns. Rev. Hardie. Wit. Nelson Chapman and Adam B. Wigle.

1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 1-3:
Wigle Jacob, M, Married, 37, born U.C., W[esleyan] M[ethodist], Farmer;
Jane, F, Married, 37, born U.C., W M;
Therisa, F, Single, 13, born U.C., W M;
Alphea, M[sic], Single, 11, born U.C., W M;
Ellen, F, Single, 8, born U. C., W M;
Nelson, M, Single, 6, born U.C., W M;
Maryanne, F, Single, 4, born U.C., W M;
Martha J., F, Single, 3, born U.C., W M;
John, M, Single, 1, born U.C., W M.

County Marriage Registers of Ontario, Canada 1858-1869 Volume 35 Essex County, Elizabeth Hancocks, 2005, Global Heritage Press, Campbellville, ON:
Wigle Jacob, 41, Gosfield, Gosfield, s/o Windle & Isabella, married 6 Sept 1864 Lucinda Hickman, 27, Gosfield, LC, d/o William & Alsa.

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 seacoast, 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.
     Wendel Wigle, second son of John W. Wigle, was a boy when the family came to Gosfield, grew up on the homestead, and was thoroughly trained to the work of farming as it was in those days. When he concluded to start for himself, at the age of about twenty years, his father gave him the 200-acre farm now owned by Zacharias Wigle, lying in Lot 10, 3rd Concession, East Division in the township of Gosfield, and he made the first clearing and erected the first buildings on the tract. He made his home there for a period of seventeen years, at the end of that time turning the place over to his son John W., and in March 1823, moving to Cedar Creek, where he purchased 200 acres in Lots 11 and 12. He erected a dwelling on the front of Lot 11, and again began at the beginning, clearing the land from its primitive condition into a fine farm. By hard work and economy he wrested success from the wilderness, and added to his original possession until he owned some 2,200 acres, which at the present time would represent a large fortune. Mr. Wigle died April 6, 1860, at the home of his son Theodore, aged seventy-nine years, and his wife, Isabella (Scratch), passed away May 21, 1848, at the age of sixty. They were members and regular attendants of the Methodist Church. To this couple came a large family, viz: John W., born July 12, 1806, married Salome Fox. Elizabeth, born Nov. 8, 1807, married Joseph Gilboe. Peter, born April 14, 1809, died Aug. 21, 1878; he married Mary Jane Girty. Joseph, born Jan. 19, 1811, died April 26, 1835; he married Jane Davis, but they had no children. Julianna, born Nov. 26, 1812, married John C. Fox. Leonard, born Nov. 27, 1814, is mentioned below. Michael, born June 14, 1816, married Demarius Girty. Henry, born April 1, 1818, died April 12, 1874; he married (first) Sarah McCormick, and (second) Elizabeth McCormick, and was the father of Burwell W. Wigle, who is mentioned elsewhere. Susanna, born Sept. 13, 1819, married Thomas Conklin (they were the parents of David Conklin, who is mentioned elsewhere). Theodore, born June 10, 1821, was the father of Atkinson Wigle, who is mentioned elsewhere; he was three times married, to Barbara McKenzie, Margaret Kennedy and Mrs. Rosamond Baker. Jacob, born July 12, 1823, is mentioned below. Mary, born Oct. 24, 1825, married William McCain. Daniel, born Jan. 5, 1828, married for his first wife Jane Augustin, and, for his second wife, Emma Gilbert. Simon, born April 1, 1830, was twice married, first, to Jane McCain, and second, to Maggie Mains. David, born May 29, 1832, died in 1862, in San Francisco.
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     Jacob Wigle, the eleventh child of Wendel Wigle, was born July 12, 1823, at Cedar Creek, at the home on Lot 11, where he grew to manhood. During his boyhood there were no government schools, and a teacher was hired only when there were enough patrons to warrant the expense, each pupil being taxed a stated sum. this it will be seen that his studies, such as they were, were pursued with little or no regularity. But it was not so with work. From early boyhood he was thoroughly trained to such work as there was to be done on a pioneer farm, where the tasks were heavy and modern appliances for the lightening of the labor were unknown. In 1844, when twenty-one years old, he began for himself on the north end of Lot 13, this tract of 100 acres being partly cleared when it came into his possession. However, he cleared a space for the log house which he erected a short distance east of the brick dwelling, which now adorns the place, and which was put up in 1859. Jacob Wigle completed the work of clearing and carried on farming successfully until his retirement, at one time owning and conducting as much as 550 acres besides his home place. He was an enterprising man, up-to-date and intelligent in all he undertook, and was always ready to embark in any venture that seemed likely to help the farmers. However, these enterprises did not always prove financially successful, as, for instance, the Farmers' Woolen Company, and the sailing vessel built by a company for carrying farm produce. For several years he was a member of the Kingsville Gas Company, which was a paying investment. In politics Mr. Wigle is a Reformer, and for one year served as township councillor. In religious matters he has been prominently identified with the Methodist Church for the past sixty years, in fact it was largely through his efforts that the church was built in his neighbourhood in 1877. He has been steward and trustee for many years.
     On April 13, 1886, Mr. Wigle left the home place and moved to Kingsville, where his has sinced lived in retirement, though, even now, at the age of over eighty, he is fully equal to a good day's work. Mr. Wigle has been twice married, and by his first wife, Jane Chapman, a native of Raleigh township, County of Kent, he had children as follows: Nellie, born Dec. 1, 1846, died when one month old. Theresa, born in 1848, married (first) William Sanderson, and (second) David Devitt, of Kingsville. Alfred, born in 1850, died when two months old. Althea, born in 1852, is the wife of Lewis Malott, who is mentioned elsewhere. Margaret Ellen, born March 9, 1853, is the wife of William Vickars, who is mentioned elsewhere. Nelson, born in 1855, is captain of a steamer and makes his home at St. Catharines; he married Victoria Toll. Mary Ann, born in 1857, is the wife of Edward Cook, of Mersea township. Martha, born in 1859, is the wife of Rev. William Godwin, of Exeter, Ont. Arthur Howard, born Dec. 29, 1861, married Miss Ellen Nailor. Alvin, born March 13, 1863, resides on the homestead; he married Mary Hindarsh, and they have two children: Gertrude, born Oct. 3, 1890, and Jacob, born Oct. 22, 1893.
     Jacob Wigle married for his second wife Lucinda Hicknott, of Prescott, Ont., and to this union came four childen: Gordon, born Aug. 2, 1865, married Eliza Askins. Addie, born March 4, 1867, married E. R. Wigle, a hardware merchant of Ruthven, and they have two children. Eliza Jane, born Aug. 26, 1870, is the wife of David Landcaster, of Kingsville, and has one child. Elva Edith, born May 19, 1872, is living with her parents.

Überblick vom Stammbaum

John Wendel Weigele/Wigle 1753-   Julianna Romer   Leonhard Scratch 1756-1829   Maria (Mary Ann) Munger ca 1758-1840
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Wendel Wigle 1781-1860   Isabella Scratch 1788-1848
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Jacob Wigle 1823-