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




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