Harold Picken

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-81857
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

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• Name: Henry Picken
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-81855
• Occupation: 1897, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Labourer
• Occupation: 1901, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Woolen Mill
• Occupation: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer, Saw Mill
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Occupation: 1925, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer

Peter married Mary Ringler 14 Aug 1897, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Daniel Ringler and Annie "Nancy" Schmidt) was born 2 Sep 1879, Petersburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Picken
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-81856
• Residence: 1891, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-26730
• Residence: 1856, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Shoemaker
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1871, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Shoemaker

Notes:

John Picken, Native of Scotland, a shoemaker, appears to have plied his trade here from June 2nd, 1855, until the year 1864. When he came he brought along two sons. Alex, who in 1858 was Secretary of the Hespeler Fire Brigade at the age of 21, and Peter C., borne in 1832. Both boys learned the shoemaking from their father.

Alex worked at it here only a short time, while Peter C. continued on till 1874. He married a daughter of Henry and Ellen Fields who lived where the new Baptist Church stands. Peter C. lived next place south on Bergey Street in a house sometimes spoken of as "The Hadfield House". His two sons, Alex. and Henry, were born in this house, the former on November 14th, 1857. "Sandy" as we called him was the father of William and Arthur; Arthur's eldest boy, Jack, clerks in Mark Kohli's Grocery Store which fact presents the unusual spectacle of two boys, both fifth generation Hespelerites, working daily side by side and even though the Grocery and the Shoemaking trades are in no wise related, it may be pardoned if I set down that David W. Panabaker is of the fifth generation here, Robert Scott certainly of the fourth and possibly of the fifth and that both these men are grocers.


Le Rue De Commerce, Other Times Other Customs Other Days Other Ways, Winfield Brewster 1954

Peter married Catherine Fields 8 Dec 1856, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Catherine (daughter of Henry Fields and Ellen Hunter McKersie) was born 3 Feb 1836, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 26 Mar 1873; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Catherine Picken
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-119362
• Residence: 1856, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• Eby ID Number: 00093-5318
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1881, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Labourer
• Occupation: 1891, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer
• Residence: 1891, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1901, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Woolen Mill
• Occupation: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer, Woolen Mill
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

Notes:

Daniel Ringer "is married to Nancy Schmidt. They reside in Hespeler, Ontario, where he is engaged as a wagon builder."


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

Daniel — Annie "Nancy" Schmidt. Annie was born 28 May 1858, Conestogo, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 9 Mar 1939, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Annie "Nancy" Ringler
• Name: Nancy Schmidt
• Eby ID Number: 00093-5318.1
• Residence: 1891, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

MRS. NANCY RINGLER By Record Correspondent

HESPELER, March 11 - Practically a lifelong resident of Hespeler, Mrs. Nancy S. Ringler, widow of the late Daniel Ringler, passed away at the home of her grandson, E. Orton, Forbes Street, late on Thursday. The late Mrs. Ringler, whose maiden name was Miss Nancy Schmidt, was born at Conestogo and had spent her entire life in this neighborhood. She was in her 81st year, and passed away following a lengthy illness. She was a member of the local United Church. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. John Ringler and Mrs. Ernest Orton, both of Hespeler. The funeral was held this afternoon from the Stager Funeral Chapel, and interment was made in Hespeler cemetery.

1aKitchener Daily Record Mar 11 1939 pg 15

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-252839
• Occupation: 1861, , Germany; Shoemaker
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian

John — Agnes. Agnes was born 1816, , Scotland; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Agnes Picken
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-252851
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian

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• Interesting: story
• Public Service: Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; constable
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-25243
• Occupation: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1871, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Labourer

Notes:

Our community did not have a Police Constable in its early days. The settlement of Bergeytown, and later the hamlet of New Hope, was basically unprotected and relied on the honesty and goodwill of its citizens to be law abiding. With the incorporation of the Village of Hespeler, on January 19, 1859 the first Council meeting passed a motion by David Rife, seconded by C. Nahrgang that Henry Fields be appointed constable and "receive such fees as the law provides and only when on actual duty". The motion was carried and Henry Fields became the first police officer in Hespeler.

There was no lockup at the time, and the nearest goal was in Guelph, so anyone unfortunate enough to be incarcerated in the evening had to spend the night locked in a bedroom at the constable's house. There is a report of one such individual who woke Mr. Fields by making too much noise while trying to escape and was dragged back through the bedroom window by his ankles! The window was subsequently nailed shut. Mr. Fields continued as constable until 1873 and passed away one year later at age 63.


Hespeler Happenings Summer 2008 - HESPELER POLICE by Lary Turner

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In Hespeler, on the 31st ult., Henry Fields, aged 63 years and 5 months.

Galt Reporter Feb 6 1874 pg 3

Henry — Ellen Hunter McKersie. Ellen (daughter of David McKersie and Catherine Hunter) was born CALC 1 Jul 1812, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; died 12 Feb 1892, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Ellen Hunter Fields
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-25244
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

Daughter of David McKersie and Catherine Hunter of Eramosa, Wellington, Ontario, Canada

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• Name: Johann Ringler
• Eby ID Number: 00093-5311
• Residence: 1839, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1852, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; labourer
• Occupation: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

Notes:

John Ringler "was born March 13th, 1800. He was married to Elizabeth Wildfong, sister to old Joseph Wildfong. She was born in 1803 and died April 26th, 1891. They resided on the old farm near Mannheim where he died July 12th, 1867. To them was born a family of ten children"

Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

John — Elizabeth Wildfong. Elizabeth (daughter of Jacob Wildfong and Susan Ruth) was born 22 Apr 1803, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 28 May 1891; was buried , Mannheim Mennonite Cemetery, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Ringler
• Eby ID Number: 000131-8124
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

Notes:

Elizabeth Wildfong, "the youngest in family, was married to John Ringler, a farmer. They resided near Petersburg, Ontario."

Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].