John Wilson
Born: 1791, Mar 2?
Died 1870, June 23
Municipality: Wellesley
Years on local council: D Reeve 1853
Years on County Council 1853
Occupation: ?Farmer
Origin: Roxboroughshire, Scotland
Spouse: ?Margaret
Children: ?John; ?David
Landholdings: ?Conc 14, lot 8 E in 1861 (Tremaine’s map)
Religion: Presbyterian
Notes:
Died 1870, June 23
Municipality: Wellesley
Years on local council: D Reeve 1853
Years on County Council 1853
Occupation: ?Farmer
Origin: Roxboroughshire, Scotland
Spouse: ?Margaret
Children: ?John; ?David
Landholdings: ?Conc 14, lot 8 E in 1861 (Tremaine’s map)
Religion: Presbyterian
Notes:
- There are many John Wilsons to choose from, but perhaps the most likely is the one buried in Freeborn Cemetery. He died aged 79 years 3 months 21 days; no obit listed in the Berliner Journal, or found in the Galt Reporter or Dumfries Reformer-checked all the local newspapers available for that time. This John Wilson is listed in the 1851 census as a farmer, aged 61 on his next birthday, a Presbyterian, married to Margaret, also 61, and living with John Wilson, aged 18, in a log house built in 1848.
- Another John Wilson was a miller who bought John Hawke’s grist mill in 1866 with J. McCulloch (Maple Leaf Journal p 101). The 1871 census lists a John Lee Wilson, a miller, in New Hamburg, English, Baptist, and aged 54. He was a New Hamburg councillor in 1865, 1866, 1870, 1871, 1872.
This information is excerpted from: "Waterloo County Councillors: A Collective Biography," researched and complied by Elizabeth Bloomfield and Linda Foster. (c) 1995 Caribou Imprints. It is reproduced by permission of Dr. Bloomfield. The full text of the book can be seen here.