Family/Spouse: (Living) SHAW. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
- verify location.

George married Mary LULU Emily WILLSON, .xvi. Mary (daughter of Arthur WILLIAM WILLSON, .i and Emma Eliza Josephine CRAWFORD) was born on 12 Jan 1896 in Goderich, Huron Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William is the son of Mary Ann Cummer & John Willson.3rd.

. 1911 Census, Edmonton, Alberta
Wilson, Norma L, Granddaughter, Born Aug 1906, Quebec.

. 1883 Apr 20 - Colborne. Mr. Arthur Willson, who met with a painful accident some time ago while drawing wood, is still confined to the house & fears are entertained that the has received severe internal injuries.
Ref: Huron Signal newspaper, Goderich.

. 1885 -The Ontario Reports, Containing Reports of Cases Decided the High Court of Justice for Ontario. Volume 8, 1885. Extracted.
Court. - - -

Birth:
Resided Holmesville, near Goderich.

Arthur married Emma Eliza Josephine CRAWFORD on 6 Feb 1877 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario. Emma (daughter of William Caldwell CRAWFORD and Margaret WILLSON, .II) was born on 10 Aug 1854 in Goderich, Huron Co., Ontario; died in 1928 in Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Emma Eliza is the daughter of Margaret & William Crawford.

Emma E Crawford & Arthur W Willson are first cousins.

Verify birth location of the children. - - -

Notes:

Jacob is the son of Mary Ann Cummer & John Willson.3rd.

. 1846 Smith's Canadian Gazetter, Province of Canada West:
Goodrich, Huron District, on Lake Huron. Laid out in 1827 by Mr. Galt, of Canada Company, Town is handsomely situated. A harbor has been constructed, but the piers are now getting out of repair. A lighthouse is jut about being erected by the government. In 1827 a road was open to Wilmot Twp., also to town of London.
States run twice a week fro Goodrich to London & Galt. The steamboat Goodrich called here on her weekly trips from Windsor to Owen's Sound. A fishing copy was established here. 5 churches, a stone jail & court house & Canada Company offices are kept here. Post 4 times a week. Population 659. Experts for 1844 were small but doing the spring of 1845, about 12,000 buses of were are ship. One grist, 2 saw mills, bulling mill & carding machine. There is a tavern on the Bayfield road, 4 miles south of Goodrich.

. The Willson home was not far that that of Judge Reed's Tavern on the now vanished Hibernia Terrance. This was the terminal for the stages which travelled from Hamilton up through Kitchener, Galt, Guelph & Stratford. The Canada Company stage started in 1841 & was still operating in 1855. Jacob obtained employment driving stage, probably through his father's connections with the Canada Land Company & continued to do so for some years. Eliza & Jacob's first child, Oliver Creedon was born there in Oct 1837, to be followed by 4 sons & 2 daughters, the last in 1856.
The stage business was probably dwindling about this time & Jacob was now over 40. In 1862 Jacob purchased Lots 14 & 15, Maitland, in Colborne township, not for from Goderich. The land was not too productive & it was not easy to make ends meet so Jacob followed the family pattern of many mortgages. The house on the property burned down many years ago.
In Dec 1886 Jacob purchased 3 lots, 14, 15 & 16, Range F, Section 5, in Maitland Cemetery."

.1848 Mar 15, Goderich. Astray, Came into the enclose of the subscriber, on the Glebe Lot, Maitland Road, about Sep 15 last, A RED Heifer, with white face & legs, 2 years old. The owner is requested to prove property, pay charges & take her away, otherwise the heifer will be sold to defray expenses, according to State made in such cases & Provided, Jacob Willson.
. 1848 Apr 28, Goderich. Notice: The 2 year old Heifer, as advertised for some weeks past in the Huron Signal as having strayed into my premises about the middle of last September, will be sold by Profit Asufied? on the Glebe lot, Maitland Road, at 2 oclock, on Sat. May 6, to decay expenses. Signed Jacob Willson.
Ref: Huron Signal newspaper, Goderich, pub. 1848.4.18

. 1849 Dec 4, Caution to the Public. Lost at the residence of the subscriber, Con 2, Goderich Twp., about the end of November last, a Promissory NOTE made by one jack Wilson in favor of John Galt, legal or bearer for £11 15s & due on 8 Nov 1849, sit. Robin Elliot & John Healy. This is therefore to caution nay person finding or receiving the said Note, that the same is still the property of the subscriber & he has not assigned to any one & the same may be delivered to D Watson Esq., Barrister, Goderich or the subscriber, John Gallager, 2nd con. Goderich Twp.
Ref: Huron Signal newspaper, Goderich, pub. 1850.2.14.

. 1852 Census Hay Twp., Huron County, Ontario:
. Parents & children are on separate pages. (Wm. Wilson on the bottom of page is not part of this family.}
. There appears to be 2 log houses. Eliza, Jacob & son Oliver, are recorded in this frame house - which is a tavern. On the Census 1861 they were living in a frame one story house.
. This stage coach-tavern was on the Lake Huron Road which would be a perfect location for the tavern relay station on the long trek up north to Bruce Peninsula.

. 'The land in this township is of a superior quality, with the exception of a narrow pine & cedar swamp running length of Township on 4th & 5th Concessions. Also a Cranberry Marsh on the beater part of 8th & 9th conn. There is a Settlement of French on Lake Shore, Centre of Twp. is occupied by Germans & G. Britain. Canada Company's selling price of their lands in 15 shillings currency per acre. Improved farms sell from £2.10.0 to £3 an acre. Signed, John Shirrny?, Enumerator.

. 1880 Colbourne Township, Ontario, Voter Polling Subdivision 1, ncluding Benviller Village, the Falls, Seaforth, Carlow, Milburn, Nile, Auburn, Goderich, Shepardton: Willson, Jacob, Lot MC, Con 10, Owner.

. 1885 Oct 9. Colborne. Our old pioneer, Jacob Willson, met with a painful accident last week. He was returning from the funeral of this granddaughter, Miss Ida Allen of Lucknow, & in alighting from his buggy at his own gate, his horse moved forward throwing him violently to the road. He sustained some severe west & was carried to his home in a unconscious state. He was obliged to rest in bed for several day, but is again as his usual self. [Sorry this article is slightly misprinted at the end to the page. - PJA]
Ref: Huron Signal newspaper, Goderich, pub. 1885.10.9.

. Obituary1: 1890 May 21 - Jacob Willson, At Crosswell, Michigan on the 21st inst., formerly of Colborne township, aged 74 years.
Ref: Huron Expositor newspaper, pub.1890.5.23.

Obituary2: 1890 May 21 - Jacob willson, one of the pioneer settlers of Colborne Twp., & father of Mr O C Willson & MrsJas Scott of Seaforth, died at his home in Croswell, Mich., on the 21st inst. Mr. Willson was widely known among the old residents of the county & was everywhere universally respected. he was 74 years of age.
Ref: Huron Signal newspaper, Goderich.

. He was a school trustee at Maitland. After the death of his wife Eliza Ann, Jacob moved to Crosswell, Michigan. - - -

Birth:
Alt Name: David. Ref:Census 1881 error?

Died:
Body returned to Godrich, ON.

Buried:
- with wife Eliza Ann Sayres, Plot 114, small monument lies in the grass.

Jacob married Eliza Ann Cooper SAYERS on 21 Jul 1836 in London, Middlesex Co., Ontario. Eliza was born in Apr 1818 in Town of York (Toronto), Ontario; died on 8 Dec 1886 in Goderich, Huron Co., Ontario; was buried in Maitland Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. Eliz Ann is the daughter Mr. Cooper.

of Catherine Campbell & James Sloan of (?) Chestnut Street near the Osgoode court Hall in downtown Toronto was original named Sayres Street.

Three Willson married at the same place at Goderich, by Rev. Alexander McKenzie, Presbyterian Minister, Goderich:
VERIFY IDENITY: Anna Wilson, married 9 July 1836 to Cyrus McMillan,
Wit: Joseph Pickley & Ben. Miller;

Ontario marriage Cert.
Jacob Willson, married 21 July 1836 to Eliza Ann Cooper, & Richard Papst & James Hater? & his sister
Margaret Willson, married 21 July 1836 to John Isaac, Witness, Ed Gooding & Benjamin Willson.

. 1836 July 18, Upper Canada Marriage Bond
Known all Men by these presents, that we are jointly & severally held, we bind ourself, our & each of our Heirs, by these presents, sealed at London, [Ontario], on July 18, 1836,
Jacob Willson of the Township of Goderich, in County of Huron, in London District, farmer, &
Eliza Ann Cooper of the same place, spinster.
Signed, E Ryerson & H Crawford.

. Eliza A Willson died at the home of her son Lockman Willson. Jacob Willson's remains were returned from Crosswell Michigan, to be buried beside his wife. - - -

Birth:


Died:
COD: Brights disease. Aged 68y 6m.

Buried:
Plot 114, with Jacob. Colborne Twp., Huron Co., Ontario

Notes:

William is the son of Sally Crawford & Robert Crawford.

William Crawford’s older brother, Hiram Crawford, had originally settled in Beamsville where he married Nancy Comfort, 25 Jul 1820. Both had originally come from Orange County, New York. Sometime after 1825 Henry & Nancy Comfort Crawford moved to London Ontario and purchased land in Westminster. In 1836 William Crawford settled in  Goderich and married Margaret Willson.

29 Jan 1861 Agricultural Census, Scarboro Twp. (Toronto), York Co., Ontario
William Crawford, Con 3, Lot 30, 100 Acres, Value of farm $1000.
Enumerator could get no account of what the number of the acres were under cultivation account on this and Mr. Abrams neighborouring farm. Appeared away twice.
Note1: Could William Crawford & Mr. Abrams been one of the persons whose
“Crops last summer was much in grieved by a severe hailstones literally those having oats before they were reaped. Signed, Robt. James Jr., Enumerator.” ?

Personal Census 1861, Scarborough, York Co., Ontario, William Caldwell & family.
William lived at lot 30, Con 3, "Not know' residence if out of limits" [of Scarboro].

Note: This implies William Crawford was off doing something else, some where outside of Scarborough. This is confirmed again in the separate Agricultural Census, when the Enumerator Robert James was unable TWO MORE times to get information from Wm. Crawford and his adjoining neighbor, Mr. Abram (perhaps working /travelling together?) 
This also indicates that it was likely Margaret Crawford to supplies the responses to the enumerator. - - -

Birth:
Alt Name: Wm. Calwell Crawford.

Buried:
Age 60 = 1803. Found dead in bed. Plot T1 20, Range pit.

Died:
resided.

William married Margaret WILLSON, .II on 21 Jul 1836 in Goderich, Huron Co., Ontario. Margaret (daughter of John WILLSON, .3rd and MARY Ann CUMMER, DUE) was born on 8 May 1818 in Willowdale (Toronto), York Twp., Ontario; died on 4 Nov 1887 in York Twp., York Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Margaret Willson.ii is the daughter of Mary Ann Cummer & John Willson.3rd.

Three Willson married at the same place at Goderich, by Rev. Alexander McKenzie, Presbyterian Minister, Goderich:
VERIFY IDENITY: Anna Wilson, married 9 July 1836 to Cyrus McMillan, Wit: Joseph Pickley & Ben. Miller;

Jacob Willson, married 21 July 1836 to Eliza Ann Cooper, & Richard Papst? & James Hater? & his sister
Margaret Willson, married 21 July 1836 to John Isaac, Witness, Ed Gooding & Benjamin Willson. - - -

Died:
Aged 68y 9m. Died of heart failure

Buried: