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John
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History of the Wigle Family and Their Descendants, The Wigle Family, Kingsville, Ontario, 1931.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 250-251:
Peter Gilboe, a retired farmer of Gosfield North, ... was born in Gosfield South, near Olinda, Sept. 14, 1832.
Joseph and Elizabeth (Wigle) Gilboe, his parents, were among the earliest settlers of the County of Essex. The former was born in Quebec in 1805... Mrs. Elizabeth W. Gilboe was born in Gosfield township, County of Essex, in 1808, daughter of Wendel and Mary Wigle, who came to Canada from Pennsylvania at the time of the immigration of the U. E. Loyalists, and settled and died in Gosfield...
The family of twelve children born to Joseph Gilboe all lived to grow up... (4) Isabella, born in 1830, is the deceased wife of John Taylor, a farmer in Maidstone. She left a large family...