4,1 John Hedley & Anna Amelia Wheeler
Chapter 4,1
generation (iii)
John Hedley lll 1828-1912 and
Anna Amelia Wheeler 1804-1916
Pedigree
Descendancy
John Hedley III, born June 3,
1828 (1901 census) in Huntley Township, Carleton County was the eldest
child of John Hedley II and Margaret Grierson. He married Anna Amelia Wheeler, who was born in
England April 3, 1834 (1901 census), the daughter of Jesse Wheeler and
Ann Maslin, who had settled in Carp. John and Amelia farmed on
Concession 3, Lot 10 of Torbolton Township. This area was known as
“Woodlawn.” Although John’s father had become a Wesleyan Methodist in
his later years, John III remained a staunch Anglican. According to
several newspaper articles of the time, he was known as the “Bishop of
Torbolton” and continued to attend Anglican Synods even after age
eighty. In 1871 John and Anna Amelia donated a corner of their farm as
a site for the proposed St. Thomas the Apostle Anglican Church and
Cemetery, which was finally built in 1896.
map St.Thomas
the Apostle Anglican Church and Cemetery
1861 Ontario Census for Torbolton Township,
Carleton County
Hedley |
John |
age |
34 |
|
Ann E.
|
|
8
|
|
Jane Ann |
|
7
|
|
Margaret E.
|
|
4
|
|
Jesse A.
|
|
1
|
1881 Ontario Census for
Torbolton Township,
Carleton County
Hedley |
Jno
|
age
|
52
|
b. in
Ont. |
Ch. of
Eng |
English
|
farmer |
|
Ann
|
|
47
|
b. in
Eng |
Ch. of
Eng. |
English
|
|
|
Margt.
|
|
23
|
b. in
Ont |
Ch. of
Eng. |
English
|
|
|
Alex
|
|
18
|
"
|
" |
" |
|
|
Sophia
|
|
15
|
" |
" |
" |
|
|
Amelia
|
|
13
|
" |
" |
" |
|
|
May
|
|
9
|
" |
" |
" |
|
|
Clara
|
|
7
|
" |
" |
" |
|
The 1901 Census for Torbolton Twp. shows John Hedley III,
“Annamelia” and their youngest daughter, Clara, living in the household
of their eldest daughter Jane Ann and her second husband Thomas Irwin
Vance, along with 20-year-old George Brown, Jane’s son from her first
marriage, and six children from Jane’s sister Amelia’s previous
marriage to Thomas Vance.
The 1901 Census for Torbolton Twp.,
Carleton Co.
Vance |
T homas
I.
|
46
|
Head |
|
Jane A
|
47
|
Wife
|
|
Allan
|
15
|
Son
|
|
Annamelia
|
12
|
Daughter
|
|
Florence M. |
10
|
Daughter |
|
Jennie M.
|
5
|
Daughter |
|
Mary E. |
3
|
Daughter |
|
Lavina |
1
|
Daughter |
Brown |
George
A. |
20
|
Step-son
|
Hedley |
John
|
73
|
Father-in-law
|
|
Annamelia |
67
|
Mother-in-law
|
John Hedley III died at age 85 on August 29, 1912. His widow, Anna
Amelia, and “his daughter” donated, in his memory, the “East Hedley”
window of St. Thomas the Apostle Anglican Church. Anna Amelia died four
years after her husband, on November 11, 1916 at age 83. The graves of
John and Anna Amelia Hedley are in St. Thomas the Apostle Anglican
Cemetery in Woodlawn.
They had a family of eight children:
1- Jane Ann Hedley was b. March 24,
1854; d. 1916
m1 William Brown on Nov. 22,
1875 in Torbolton Twp. William died at age
30
(1852-1882). Jane Ann and William Brown had two children before
William’s
early death:
(1) Alfred Brown (1876-1960) m. Elizabeth Basset (b.1881)
(2) George Albert Brown, b. July 23, 1881; d.1904 at age 23.
m2 Thomas Irwin Vance (b. Apr.
11, 1856; d.1941) Torbolton Twp. Thomas Vance
was
the former husband of Jane Ann’s younger sister, Lavina, who had died
at age 34
in 1900 leaving six young
children. According to the 1901 census, the household of Jane
Ann
and
Thomas Vance included the six children of Thomas and Jane’s sister
Lavina as
well as
George, the
younger of her two sons from her former marriage, and her parents
John
and Anna
Amelia Hedley.
Jane Ann
(Hedley)
(Brown) Vance died in 1916 at age 62. Her grave is in St. Thomas the
Apostle
Anglican
Cemetery in Woodlawn, Torbolton Twp., Carleton Co.
In 1920,
four years after
Jane Ann’s death, Thomas Irwin Vance, age 65, was married for
a third
time, to 55-year-old
Beatrice Catherine Isabella Grierson, a widow, the youngest
daughter
of Ann Hedley and John
Hay Grierson (see Chapter 4,2).
2 - Thomas Hedley b.1856, died
in infancy
3 - Margaret Elizabeth Hedley
b.1857; m. James Brown (1850-1927) in 1882 in
Torbolton. Margaret d. in 1931. Her grave is in St. Thomas the Apostle
Anglican
Cemetery in Woodlawn, Torbolton Twp. No children.
4 - Jesse Alfred Hedley, b.1857,
died in 1861 at age two. He is buried in St. John’s
Anglican Cemetery, South March.
5 - Albert ‘Alexander’ Hedley was
born April 16, 1863 in Torbolton Twp. He married
Jane (Jenny) Fetherstonhaugh, (Fetherston). Jane Fetherstonhaugh
was born Oct. 26,
1860 in Ontario. The Fetherstonhaugh family appears in the 1881 Census
with the family
name shortened to “Fetherston.”
1881 Census for Torbolton Twp.,
Carleton
County
Fetherston |
W.
J.
|
44
|
b. in Quebec, |
Irish, |
Ch of Eng., |
Farmer
|
|
Mary
|
40
|
b. in Ontario,
|
Irish,
|
Ch of Eng., |
|
|
Jane
|
20
|
b. in Ontario, |
Irish, |
Ch of Eng., |
|
|
Wm.
|
16
|
b. in Ontario, |
Irish, |
Ch of Eng., |
|
|
Edith
|
15
|
b. in Ontario, |
Irish, |
Ch of Eng., |
|
|
Maud
|
15
|
b. in Ontario, |
Irish, |
Ch of Eng., |
|
|
Minnie
|
12
|
b. in Ontario, |
Irish, |
Ch of Eng., |
|
|
George
|
10
|
b. in Ontario, |
Irish, |
Ch of Eng., |
|
|
Spence
|
8
|
b. in Ontario, |
Irish, |
Ch of Eng., |
|
|
Daisy
|
5
|
b. in Ontario, |
Irish, |
Ch of Eng., |
|
Alexander
Hedley and Jane Fetherston were probably married about 1885, although a
record of the time and place of their marriage has not been found. This
couple appears to
have set out to see as much of North America as possible before
settling into a permanent home. Their first child, Maud, was born in
1886 in Calgary, Alberta, NWT. Their second child, Reginald, born three
years later, was born in Ontario. Two years later their third
child, Jesse, was born in Santa Cruz, California. Their fourth
and fifth children, Ernest and Alberta, born in 1893 and 1895, were
also born in the USA. By 1897 Albert and Jane had apparently chosen
Vancouver Island as their permanent home. Their sixth child,
Jennie, was born in
Saanich on Vancouver Island. The B.C. Voters’ List of 1898 shows Alex
Hedley, farmer, Church of England, living at East Saanich Road,
Victoria South.
Although
the Canadian Census for 1891 does not show any Hedleys living in
British Columbia, the 1901 Census lists the family of Alexander and
Jane Hedley:
The
1901 Census for Victoria, B.C. and
South Vancouver
Island
Hedley |
Alex
|
37
|
|
Jenny
|
40
|
|
Maude
|
14
|
|
Reginald
|
11
|
|
Ernest
|
7
|
|
Alberta
|
5
|
|
Jennie
|
3
|
|
Norman
|
1
|
Alexander Hedley
died at age 45 in Victoria, B.C. on May 20, 1908. His wife Jane died 12
years later
at age 56 on March 17, 1920. Jane (Fetherston) and Albert Hedley
had
nine children:
(1) Edith Amelia ‘Maud’ Hedley,
b. Nov. 7, 1886 in Calgary, Alberta, NWT.
m1 William Alexander Vye in
Victoria, B.C. on Nov. 27, 1907. Maud was 21
and William 23. William, b. 1884 in Victoria, died Jan. 15, 1913 in
Victoria at
age 28. Two children:
[1] Ivy Maud Vye
[2] Iris Alexandra Vye
m2 of Maud Hedley was to James Kelly Black on Oct. 24, 1916
in Victoria, B.C.
Maud, a dressmaker, was 29 and James Black, a farmer, was 41. James,
b. in
1874 in Victoria, was the son of John Black, a farmer, and
Isabella Munro. James
Kelly Black had been previously married to Jane Lily Knight. The
marriage, in
1899, was "dissolved" in 1916. At that time Jane Lilly Black was living
in Montery,
California. (Victoria Court Registry, Supreme Court of
B.C.)
(2) Reginald John MacAuley Hedley,
b. Apr. 12, 1889 in Ont.; died Nov. 6, 1916
in Essondale, B.C. at age 27; Ross Bay Cemetery,
Victoria, B.C.
(3) Jesse Carlton Hedley was b.
Dec.19, 1891 in Santa Cruz, California. He died at
age 16 on Oct. 27, 1908 in Victoria, B.C.; Ross Bay Cemetery,
Victoria, B.C.
(4) Thomas ‘Ernest’ Milton Hedley,
b. Oct. 6, 1893 in the U.S.A. m.
Lillian Amelia
Yanke (Yahnka) (b.1895). Ernest
and Lillian were
married Feb. 1, 1916 in Brandon,
Manitoba. They lived in Victoria,
B.C. where Ernest died on March 7, 1982. One son:
[1] Norman Alexander Hedley (1917-1960)
m. Phyllis Elizabeth O’Neill (O’Neil), daughter of John Patrick
O'Neill,
who was born in Ireland and Elizabeth Roberts, who was born in
Shropshire, England in1883, and whose family tree
reportedly traces
family
historyback to the battle of Hastings in 1066. One son:
{1} Thomas Hedley, Vancouver Island, b. 1940
(5) Marian ‘Alberta’ Hedley,
born Nov. 27, 1895 in the USA; died at age 15 on July
21, 1911 in Victoria, B.C.
(6) Jennie Margaret Hedley, born
Nov. 25, 1897 in Saanich, B.C.; died at age 10
on March 18, 1908 in Victoria, B.C.; Ross Bay Cemetery.
(7) Wellington Hedley No other
record of this son of Alexander and Jane Hedley
has been found, other than the listing of his name
in his mother’s obituary in
a local publication “Times” as one of her three surviving sons.
(8) Norman Hedley, born July
20, 1899 in B.C.; died at age 20 on June 7, 1920
in Saanich, B.C.; buried in Ross Bay Cemetery ,
Grave Reference S. 45.
Norman died while
serving in the Canadian Army Medical Corps during the
First World War. His name is listed in the Book of
Remembrance - First
World War on page 550. This book, on view in the Canadian
Parliament
Buildings, displays a different page each day. Page 550 can be viewed
on-line by clicking on
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=collections/virtualmem/Detail&casualty=421008
(9) Myrtle Hedley, m. Frederick
Gerald Heard. Two children:
[1] Warren Alexander Heard, Vancouver Island, married Carolyn Hay.
No children
[2] Geraldine Myrtle Heard, Vancouver Island, married Algernon Parker.
One son:
{1} Richard Parker
6 - Lavina Marie Hedley, (Sophia on the 1881
Census) 1866-1900, the sixth
child of
John
Hedley and Anna Amelia Wheeler,
m. Thomas Irwin Vance, born April
11,1856; died 1941.
Lavina Marie Hedley
died at age 34 in 1900, the year she gave birth to her namesake,
Lavina, her sixth
child. Her grave is in St. Thomas the Apostle Anglican Cemetery in
Woodlawn, Torbolton Twp., Carleton Co.
Lavina’s husband, Thomas Irwin Vance, married Lavina’s elder sister,
46-year-old
Jane
Ann Brown, who had been widowed eighteen years earlier. Six children:
(1) Allan Vance, b. Nov. 4,
1885; d.1912
(2) Amelia Elizabeth Vance, b.
June 2,1889, m. Thomas Wellington Cowan (b.1884)
(3) Florence May Vance, born
Nov. 25,1891; died 1953; married Gordon McLelland
Hanna (d.1943)
(4) Jennie Muriel Vance, born
June 16,1896; died 1931; married Roy
Albert
Wainman (b.1895)
(5) Mary Ellen Vance, b. Oct.
31,1898; d.1915 at age 17.
(6) Lavina Vance, b. Feb. 24,
1900
7 - Ann Amelia Victoria Hedley, b. in March 1868, d. Aug. 6,
1892 at age 24, buried in St.
John’s Cemetery, South March.
8 - May Alethea (or Elsthear) Hedley,
b. Sept. 1, 1873; died 1920 (or 1924);
m. James Weatherdon, b.April 9,
1872. The 1901 Carleton Co. Census shows
the
Weatherdon
family living in the Fitzroy district. Six children:
(1) Frederick Wilbert Weatherdon,
b. May 14, 1897
(2) Edgar Hedley Weatherdon, b.
Oct. 27, 1899; died 1984; m. Eida Barrit, b. 1902
(3) Irene Violet Weatherdon,
1902-1919, died at age 17.
(4) May Alethea (or Elsthear) Weatherdon,
b. 1904, died in infancy.
(5) Arthur James Weatherdon, b.
1907, m. Ivy Baird, b. 1910.
(6) Edith May Weatherdon, b. 1910,
m. Thomas Bryson, b. 1907.
The 1901 Ontario Census for Fitzroy,
Lanark (North)
Weatherdon, |
James, |
Head, |
age 29 |
|
May, |
Wife, |
age 27 |
|
Frederick, |
Son, |
age 3 |
|
Edgar
|
Son, |
age 1 |
9 - Clara Hedley,
born on
Dec.12,1875 (1901 Census) in Torbolton Twp. married
John
George Hedley (1865-1931) in 1901 in Ottawa, Ont.
John George Hedley
was the son of Nicholas Hedley and
Christina Grierson (see Chap. 4,5).
John George died in 1931
at age 66. His grave is in Beechwood Cemetery,
Carleton, Ottawa. Clara
died 25 years later, in 1956 at age 83.
Clara and John George
Hedley had four children:
(1) Clifford Alexander Hedley,
b.1902 in Ottawa; d. 1995
(2) Flossie Amelia Hedley,
b.1904 in Ottawa; d.1919 at age 15.
(3) Hiram‘Wilbur’ Hedley, b. Sept.
1907, d. March 2, 1910 at age 2 ½.
Wilbur’s grave is in St. Thomas the Apostle
Anglican Cemetery in
Woodlawn, Torbolton Twp., Carleton Co.
(4) Helen Christina Hedley,
1912-1972, m. Allan Harvey Stotts (b.1910).
One daughter:
[1] Barbara Elaine Stotts
.