William Thomas Wilbee

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-61542
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; U. Brethren
• Occupation: 1874, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Labour
• Occupation: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Labourer
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Weslyan Methodist
• Occupation: 1901, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer

William married Georgina Card 28 Jun 1874, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Georgina (daughter of Silas James Card and Frances, daughter of Silas James "James" Card and Frances Matilda "Fanny" Armstrong) was born 28 Jul 1853, , Ontario, Canada; died 9 Mar 1929; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Meldred Wilbee was born 1875, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
2. Euphemia Florence "Florence" Wilbee was born 16 Feb 1878, , Huron Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1952; was buried , Preston Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
3. Wilfred E. Wilbee was born 5 May 1881, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
4. Doretta Robina Wilbee was born 21 May 1892, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.

William — Georgiana Card. Georgiana died 9 Mar 1929; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Misfortune: Brussels, Grey Twp., Huron Co., Ontario; killed by falling beam
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-139693
• Occupation: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wesley Methodist
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; U. Brethren

Notes:

BRUSSELS DISASTER.

"Residents of Brussels & area were shocked when three men, Philip Ament, Richard Hingston aand Neil Milloy were engaged taking down a dry kiln on the site of Ament Bros' stave factory, recently destroyed by fire. Without a moments warning the walls collapsed & Hingston & Milloy were caught under the fallen timber. The former fortunately fell between the joists and thereby escaped with a badly bruised shoulder & back. Milloy was struck on the head, and it is feared that his skull is fractured. He is in a semi-conscious state. Henry Wilbee, Mr Ament's father-in-law, was watching the men at work and was pinned down by the wall. He lived only about an hour after being rescued. He was nearly 70 yrs of age and highly esteemed. Mr. Ament escaped by a hair's breadth.
A gloom was cast over the village by the occurrence. 1893."

THE LISTOWEL BANNER 1893

Henry — Caroline Penfold. Caroline (daughter of Jesse Penfold and Jane Tribe) was born 7 Aug 1827, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England; was christened 12 Aug 1827, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England; died 7 Feb 1918, Brussels, Grey Twp., Huron Co., Ontario; was buried , Brussels Cemetery, Brussels, Grey Twp., Huron Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Caroline Wilbee
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-139694
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; U. Brethren

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• Residence: Pilkington Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-177667

Notes:

Henry Wilbee was a son of George Wilbee and he was married before leaving England to Sarah Sanders. On the voyage out, on June 11, 1821, their daughter, Mary Asia, was born and the mother died at Capt. Smith's as
already mentioned. Henry Wilbee afterward married Mary Wood.

The farm that Henry Wilbee expected to own was part of Lot 3, on the 3rd concession, that was later known as the 'Blyth' farm, and his father George Wilbee had chosen part of Lot 3, on the 2nd Concession, that was afterward owned by George Fasken. The house in which Henry Wilbee lived was on the west side of the river road, on the Wolcott farm, and about two miles south from Elora. His father's house was on the east side of the road opposite. A small stream flowing from a spring crosses the road at this place and nearby is a cross, road that leads to a fording place on the Grand River. Their houses were on the side of the hill facing the south, and they lived here for some years, but there is nothing to mark the spot now.

Both father and son were carpenters, and, like his father, Henry Wilbee, had to leave his home to find employment at his trade. It was almost five years after coming to Pilkington that the City of Guelph was started by the Canada Company and he helped to complete some of the first buildings there and he also worked at Goderich. In 1833 Henry Wilbee was employed by Mr. Gilkison to build a saw mill at the Elora Falls. To serve as a shelter while doing this work he built the first log shanty west of the Grand River anywhere near Elora, which means that at this time there was not another habitation between this part of the Grand River and Lake Huron. Later, in 1839, he came to live in Elora in a house on the west corner of Victoria and Woolwich streets. One of his contracts was the carpenter work of the first English Church. He left Elora in 1856 and died at Dundas in March 1858 at the age of sixty-two. In his family there were: Mary Asia married Cushman Smith; Henry married Caroline Penfold and lived at Brussels, he was killed there by a falling beam; William was killed by a falling tree near Capt. Smith's; Henrietta died when young; George married Jane Penfold. He died at Doon in October 1886. (Mrs. Hiram Card, living in Elora, is a daughter); John married Bethany Cowil and lives at Grand View, near Brantford; Thomas married Elizabeth Swain, he died at Brantford; Sarah married Charles Moss and went to Flushing, Michigan; Frederick married Mary O'Neill, lives in Hamilton; Elizabeth married Thomas Turner; Edwin M. lives in Piqua, Ohio; and Leonora died young.

The Early History of Elora, Ontario, and Vicinity by John R. Connon

Henry — Mary Wood. Mary was born Abt 1795; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Wilbee
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-177669

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• Land: Woolwich Township German Company Tract 064, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-29631
• Military: CA 1814, , Quebec, Canada; soldier
• Residence: 1819, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England
• Residence: 1824, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England
• Residence: 1830, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wesley Methodist
• Occupation: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Retired Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; W. Methodist

Jesse married Jane Tribe 2 Dec 1817, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England. Jane (daughter of Henry Tribe and Charlotte Tichnor) was born 1795, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England; was christened 10 Jun 1798, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Jane Penfold
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-29632
• Christening: 17 Aug 1800, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England
• Residence: 1819, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England
• Residence: 1824, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England
• Residence: 1830, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wesley Methodist
• Residence: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; W. Methodist
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Weslyan Methodist

Notes:

Mr. and Mrs. Tribe, with their family, came from Sussex, England, in the year 1832. Mr. Tribe died during the first winter that the family was in Canada and was buried near Cornell's, on the site of which is now the 'Cress House' in Preston. In this family there were: Benjamin, who married Mary Ann Lepard and lived in Pilkington ; Johnathan married Martha Cornell, while Harry and Richard were not married. The daughters were Sarah, who was Mrs. Rapson ; Charlotte was M rs. Evans, and Mary was Mrs. Thomas Irvine, of Paisley, and it was at her home that her mother, Mrs. Tribe, died. Jane Tribe was married in Sussex, England, to Jesse Penfold, who had been a soldier and in service at the City of Quebec about 1814. They, with Mrs. Penfold's parents, came to Canada in 1832.

The home of the 'Tribe' family was first in the township of Dumfries, then the mother and some of the family came to the township of Pilkington and lived in a log house which stood between the road and the river, not quite half way between what is best known as the 'James Ross' farm and Inverhaugh post office.

The members of this, the older Penfold family, children of Jesse Penfold and Jane Tribe, were : Matilda, born in Sussex, England, on the same day as Queen Victoria, May 24th, 1819, and came to Canada in 1832. She was married to Thomas Adsett and they lived on a farm on the east side of the river road, which was the next farm south of Mr. Wollis'. They afterwards removed to Guelph, where Mr. Adsett died on April 21st, 1870, at the age of seventy. Mrs. Adsett was again married to the late James Hall, of Winter- bourne, and died April 24th, 1896, at the age of seventy six years and ten months. Jesse Penfold married Hannah Wismer ; Caroline married Henry Wilbee, a son of Henry Wilbee, of Elora, and now lives in Brussels ; Esther, born on board ship in 1832, married Owen Roberts and lived for many years where the Cascade Creek crosses the road near Thomas Cleghorn's farm in Pilkington, but, with a large family, moved to Kansas ; Harriet married John Scully and their family all live in Berlin.

Jesse Penfold, son of Jesse Penfold and Jane Tribe, was born in Sussex, England, on December 30th, 1823, and with his parents and his mother's parents, came to the township of Dumfries in 1832. He was there married, in 1842, to Hannah Wismer, who was born May 30th, 1825, and died in April, 1903.

In the year 1844, Jesse Penfold took up the farm on which he has lived for sixty-two years, and he was the first settler on the west side of the river, between West Montrose and Elora, which is a distance of eight miles. His farm is known as Lot 64 in the German Company's Tract, west of the Grand River, in the township of Woolwich. Among those in this family there are : Susannah, married Thomas Batters, lives in Saskatchewan ; Thomas married Margaret Annette Harvey and lives in Port Arthur ; Elizabeth married Jacob B. Hewitt and is now in South Dakota ; John married Emma Holzworth and lives on a farm a short distance north from his father's ; Phoebe was married to Robert Peel Winfield, and is now living in Elora ; Hannah was married to John Mit- chell and lives on the 'George Lawrence' farm near the West Montrose school, and Jesse Penfold, jr., married Jessie (Janet) Darby, from Parry Sound, and lives on the old homestead with his father.

John R. Connon, The Early History of Elora, Ontario, and Vicinity

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-37464
• Residence: 1798, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England
• Residence: 1803, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England
• Residence: 1822, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England

Notes:

Mr. and Mrs. Tribe, with their family, came from Sussex, England, in the year 1832. Mr. Tribe died during the first winter that the family was in Canada and was buried near Cornell's, on the site of which is now the 'Cress House' in Preston. In this family there were: Benjamin, who married Mary Ann Lepard and lived in Pilkington; Johnathan married Martha Cornell, while Harry and Richard were not married. The daughters were Sarah, who was Mrs. Rapson; Charlotte was Mrs. Evans, and Mary was Mrs. Thomas Irvine, of Paisley, and it was at her home that her mother, Mrs. Tribe, died. Jane Tribe was married in Sussex, England, to Jesse Penfold, who had been a soldier and in service at the City of Quebec about 1814. They, with Mrs. Penfold's parents, came to Canada in 1832.

The home of the 'Tribe' family was first in the township of Dumfries, then the mother and some of the family came to the township of Pilkington and lived in a log house which stood between the road and the river, not quite half way between what is best known as the 'James Ross' farm and Inverhaugh post office.

The members of this, the older Penfold family, children of Jesse Penfold and Jane Tribe, were: Matilda, born in Sussex, England, on the same day as Queen Victoria, May 24th, 1819, and came to Canada in 1832. She was married to Thomas Adsett and they lived on a farm on the east side of the river road, which was the next farm south of Mr. Wollis'. They afterwards removed to Guelph, where Mr. Adsett died on April 21st, 1870, at the age of seventy. Mrs. Adsett was again married to the late James Hall, of Winterbourne, and died April 24th, 1896, at the age of seventy six years and ten months. Jesse Penfold married Hannah Wismer; Caroline married Henry Wilbee, a son of Henry Wilbee, of Elora, and now lives in Brussels; Esther, born on board ship in 1832, married Owen Roberts and lived for many years where the Cascade Creek crosses the road near Thomas Cleghorn's farm in Pilkington, but, with a large family, moved to Kansas; Harriet married John Scully and their family all live in Berlin.

Jesse Penfold, son of Jesse Penfold and Jane Tribe, was born in Sussex, England, on December 30th, 1823, and with his parents and his mother's parents, came to the township of Dumfries in 1832. He was there married, in 1842, to Hannah Wismer, who was born May 30th, 1825, and died in April, 1903.

In the year 1844, Jesse Penfold took up the farm on which he has lived for sixty-two years, and he was the first settler on the west side of the river, between West Montrose and Elora, which is a distance of eight miles. His farm is known as Lot 64 in the German Company's Tract, west of the Grand River, in the township of Woolwich. Among those in this family there are: Susannah, married Thomas Batters, lives in Saskatchewan; Thomas married Margaret Annette Harvey and lives in Port Arthur; Elizabeth married Jacob B. Hewitt and is now in South Dakota; John married Emma Holzworth and lives on a farm a short distance north from his father's; Phoebe was married to Robert Peel Winfield, and is now living in Elora; Hannah was married to John Mitchell and lives on the 'George Lawrence' farm near the West Montrose school, and Jesse Penfold, jr., married Jessie (Janet) Darby, from Parry Sound, and lives on the old homestead with his father.

The Early History of Elora, Ontario, and Vicinity by John R. Connon

Henry married Charlotte Tichnor 1 Sep 1797, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England. Charlotte was born 1771, , England; died Aft 1861, Paisley Block, Guelph Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Charlotte Tribe
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-273597
• Residence: 1798, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England
• Residence: 1803, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England
• Residence: 1822, Lurgashall, , Sussex, England
• Residence: 1861, Pilkington Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; E. N. C.

Notes:

In 1861 Charlotte was living in Pilkington Township with her daughter in law Mary widow of her son Benjamin.

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It is supposed by family that her last name was Tickner, proof needed.