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From: renee kerr <>
Subject: Re: [WILSON-L] Irish-Canadian Wilsons
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 00:31:50 -0700 (PDT)


I am also trying to find info on Wilson family fron
Ireland. I have a Margaret Wilson b:abt1813 pa
who married William Kerr

--- Andy Mills <> wrote:
> Looking for information on the Wilson family, who I
> believe lived close to
> Niagara Falls on the Canadian side, but originated
> in Ireland.
>
> (I'm basing their Canadian location on a family
> legend in which one of
> Robert WILSON's children planted a Union Jack flag
> on the rocks at the
> bottom of the Falls when ice had blocked the water.)
>
> Here is our information, taken from a family bible
> in the possession of my
> great-uncle, which in turn was copied from a family
> bible which had belonged
> to a Mrs. Legg of Niagara Falls, New York.
>
> First generation: many names were illegible in the
> original bible.
>
> William WILSON b. 1763
> Unknown b. 1768
> Unknown b. 1772
> Unknown b. 1773
> Unknown b. 1775
> Mary WILSON b. 1777
> Unknown b. 1779
> Elizabeth WILSON b. 1781
> Elizabeth WILSON b. 1783
> Robert WILSON b. August 3, 1792 Ireland
>
>
> Robert WILSON married Hannah BROOKS (b.Jan. 2, 1795)
>
> Children: McFarling Wilson April 21,
> 1812
> Martha Wilson April 7,
> 1816
> Elizabeth Wilson April 4,
> 1818
> Sophronia Wilson September
> 27, 1819 (may have
> married a Sherry)
> Susan Wilson Februay 2,
> 1821
> Robert J. Wilson December 2,
> 1823
> Sarah Wilson August 28,
> 1825
> John Wilson August 22,
> 1827
> Alexander Wilson October 11,
> 1829
> Calphira Wilson September 7,
> 1831
> Anna Eliza Wilson June 27,
> 1833
> Eleanor Wilson May 20, 1835
> Marjorie Wilson Feburay 17,
> 1838
>
> One of the WILSON girls (I believe Sophronia)
> married a SHERRY, and their
> son was Robert SHERRY, my great-great-grandfather.
>
> Story about Hiram WILSON's daughter, also copied
> from the family bible, in
> case there are descendants reading this:
>
> "Hiram WILSON, brother of Robert WILSON 1792, had a
> daughter whose husband
> at his death left her with nothing but his debts.
> Sometime after, deesirous
> of marrying again, was according to an old custom
> unable to do so unless she
> married in her chemise. If according to this custom
> she be married in her
> chemise her late husbands debts would be forgiven
> her. She therefore stood
> on one side of a curtain while the groom stood on
> the other side during the
> ceremony."
>
>
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