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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:
  • 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.
Sources: Maple Leaf Journal; Tremaine’s map; 1851 and 1861 censuses

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. ​