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Eadie, William (1792-) came from Perthshire, Scotland about 1825 and married Lucy Burtch. They settled on a farm in Mount Pleasant, Brantford Township, Brant County. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk and Brant Counties, and in Manitoba. Descendant surnames included: Campbell, Swift, Hayes, Stage, Hetherington, Lovell. Order the genealogy for just $12.95.

Earle, John (1771-1845) came from New Hampshire to Waterford, Townsend Township, Norfolk County about 1797/8 when he married Mary Averill, daughter of Waterford founder Paul Averill.  In 1804, he moved to Otterville, South Norwich Township, Oxford County, then about 1825, moved to Edwards, St. Lawrence County, New York.  Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk and Oxford Counties and in Michigan and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Collard, Oatman.  Lewis Earle (c. 1798-1877), unrelated, married Sarah Brown, daughter of Charlotteville pioneer Samuel Brown and settled east of the village of Glenshee, Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County.  Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk County and in Michigan. Descendant surnames included: McClain, Jackson, Curtis, Southwell, Dowswell, Pearson. 

Eddy, Charles (1755-1830) was born in Gloucester, Rhode Island and married Maranda King and lived in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. They settled in Oakland Township, Brant County. Includes four generations of descendants in Norfolk, Brant and Oxford Counties, and in Iowa and Michigan and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Anderson, Carson, Cleaver, Diamond, Cohoon, Hyde, Smylie, Abbott, Hayward, Gundy, Robertson, Roberts, Oliver, Messecar, Campbell

Edy, Omri (1780-1853) and his wife Mary Margaret Glover lived in Hawkesbury Township, Prescott County, Ontario then in 1819 settled in Oakland Township, Brant County. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk and Brant counties and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Treanor, Rouse. 

Edmonds, Mathew (est. 1760-) and his wife Hannah brought their family from New York to Upper Canada by 1826 and settled in Middleton Township, Norfolk County. Their sons George W. and Oliver Edmonds settled in Windham Township near Windham Centre. Another possible son, George W. Edmonds also settled in Windham Township. Includes four generations of descendants in Norfolk and Elgin Counties and in Michigan. Descendant surnames included: Swartz, Boomer. 

Edsall, James (c. 1765-1833) was born in the American colonies. James and his first wife Julia Edsall arrived in Upper Canada in October 1786 with two children and settled on 200 acres of land in Lot 29 in Concession 1 with the broken front on Lake Erie in Bertie Township, Welland County.1 This runs from north of Michener Road south to Lake Erie between the village of Crystal Beach and Point Abino. The Point Abino Conservation area is located on a part of the farm. After Julia died, James married second Hannah (Wintermute) Warren.

Includes four generations  in Welland, Haldimand and Norfolk Counties in Ontario and in Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Ellsworth; Hoover, Wood, Cline, Wilcox, Anger, Martin, Gates, Swarts, Slade, Johnston, Shaw, Webb, Evans, Lindsay, Howell, Ryerse, Dean, Sutherland, Silverthorn, Saunders, Bowen, Chandler, Whittle, Michael, Bailey, Newbury, Wahe, Scott, Totten, Davison, Steele, Best, Sutor, Butterfield, Mowat, Vanderburgh, Gillinan, Duart, Pincumbe, Ross, Manary, Nelson, Major, Moore, Hanley, Hoerauf, Compton, Burke. 

Edwards, Richard (1773-1863) married Elizabeth Watts (1777-1848) in Twerton, Somersetshire, England. At the time of his marriage, Richard Edwards resided in Highworth, Wiltshire County, England. The village of Twerton is located about two miles west of Bath southeast of the coastal port of Bristol. Highworth was a short distance north of Swindon to the east of Bath.

The couple lived for a time in Twerton and their first son Henry was christened in the Parish Church on 18 Feb 1798. They then apparently moved to Coleshill, Berkshire where their daughter Elizabeth was baptised on 19 Oct 1800 and son Richard on 4 Jul 1801. Coleshill is located just a few miles northeast of Swindon, Wiltshire. Next they lived in Hannington, Wiltshire where son John Henry was born and then at Churchill, Oxfordshire where he was christened on 17 Jun 1805. This was also the location of christening for the following children: Sarah Ann on 18 Apr 1805; Jane on 22 Feb 1807; Violetta on 9 Jul 1809; Anna Maria on 1 Nov 1810 and Thomas Stephen William on 26 Apr 1812; Ann on 12 Dec 1813.

The Edwards family move to Upper Canada (Ontario) happened in two stages according to son William Edward’s declaration. First Richard came here via New York with the four oldest children. The passenger list for the ship Manhattan records their arrival from Liverpool on 25 Dec 1820.

Richard then took them from New York to the Long Point Settlement in Norfolk County, Upper Canada. Richard then returned to England and brought his wife and the other eight children to Upper Canada in 1822 according to William Edward’s declaration.

Richard and Elizabeth Edwards next settled with their son Richard in the north half of Lot 12 Concession 3, Lobo Township, Middlesex County south of the hamlet of Lobo and lived out their lives on this farm. Includes five generations of descendants in Middlesex and Lambton Counties and Temiskaming District in Ontario, and in the western provinces of Canada. Descendants also lived in Michigan, Montana, Washington, California and elsewhere in the United States.

Descendant surnames included: Ballard, Rolston, Thompson, Fleming, Blood, Marrin, Northrup, Pangburn, Beaton, Sanders, Davis, Raymond, Mayo, Bacon, Bortells, Park, Millard, Hammer, Delano, Reynolds, Blandford, Greig, Chamberlin, Newton, Reed; Ude, Boughner, Smith, Reid, Walters, Down, McKellar, Currie, Bernard, Lamont, Kilgour, Conkey, Dale, West, Peckover, Houghton, Daniel, Woods, Washington, Tanton, Irwin, Sinker, David, Tutt, Wilson, Cleland, Jay, Luxton, Hodgins, Steinhoff, Fonger, Nicholson, Foster, Hosking, Elson, Sells. Graham, Sutherland, Home, Minkler, Logan, McLean, Tallack, Richmond, Wright, Nelson, Gosnell, Mayhew, Clanahan, Grieve, Wilson, Gosnell, Kemp, Bell, Poulton, Parker, Whale, Dawson, Dean, Thompson, McLevin, Dowling, Allen, Mills, Kidner. 

Elliott, John Matthews (1803-1855) was born in Storrington, Connecticut on 1 Mar 1803. He came to Upper Canada (Ontario) by 1819 when he married Elizabeth Ann Anderson (c. 1803-1869), daughter of Bayham Township pioneers Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Baker) Anderson. John Elliott was an Episcopal Methodist minister and respected merchant in Vienna, Bayham Township, Elgin County. Refusing to support a union between the Episcopal and Wesleyan Methodist sects, John held meetings in his warehouse in Vienna until the floor collapsed. He died in Vienna, Bayham Township on 21 Jan 1855.

Includes four generations of descendants in southern and eastern Ontario and in Michigan, New York, Washington and California in the United States. Descendant surnames included: Yokom, VanAmburgh, Weaver, Purvis, Fish, Stewart/Stuart, Chandler, VanPatter, Bates, Thorman, Box, Moore, Hoag. 

Ellis, Cornwall (c. 1777-1821) came from the Susquehanna River Valley of New York to Port Rowan, Walsingham Township, Norfolk County in 1793. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk and Essex Counties, and in Michigan and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: McLellan, Cowan, Eakins. 

Ellsworth, Francis (c. 1745-  ), born in the American colonies about 1745 joined the Loyalist troops at Fort Niagara by December 1777 when he was listed in the payrolls of Butler’s Rangers and served until the peace of 1783. He married his wife Mary during those years and the couple were listed in the 1783 Ration Lists of Niagara.Francis Ellsworth was among the early settlers on the west side of the Niagara River settling there as early as 1782. He had a Government grant of Lot 139 (later renumbered 159), Stamford Township, Welland County. Now in the City of Niagara Falls, this fronts directly on Niagara Falls in the east. He also owned the south half of Lot 126 (later renumbered 145) on the north side of Lot 139. This includes the present Clifton Hill tourist district. Francis also held part of Lot 160 south of Lot 139.

The couple settled next on a Crown grant in Lot 30 in the north part of Broken Front Concession from Lake Erie on the south side of Michener Road near the fork of Sherkston Road. Today the Point Abino Conservation is on part of this property. 

Two more Crown Grants given to Francis Ellsworth on 14 Feb 1798 were in the south part of Lots 33 and 34 in the Broken Front on Lake Erie and located on the landmark of Point Abino a jut of land extending into Lake Erie west of the present village of Crystal Beach. The historic Point Abino lighthouse on Point Abino is a popular tourist attraction. Francis signed his land petitions with an “X” indicating he was not able to write his name. The clerks who wrote the surname for him spelled it “Elsworth” and this spelling continued into the early years of the next generation who also signed with an “X”. During the 1860’s family members adopted the “Ellsworth” spelling and this became universally used by all descendants.

Descendants lived in Welland, Haldimand, Oxford and Kent Counties in Ontario, in the western provinces of Canada and coast to coast in the United States.

Descendant surnames included: Teal, Foreman, Haun, Webster, Rose, Scheider/Snyder, Shepherd, Legget, Bewes, Forgie, Mackie, Baxter, Baker, Jansen, Counce, Davidson, Miller, McKnight, Steele, Morgan, White, Chambers, Pound, Hibbard, Stanton, Pound, Warner/Werner, Havens, Smith, Meharg, Cook, Schell, Mew, Winter, Reinhart, Truckenbrodt, Haun, Mathews, Thyret, Collins, Bigger, Langrill, Simpson, Drake, Kitley, Harrower, Cairns, Birmingham, Morningstar, Graham, Clark, Duman, Deroshia. 

Emerick, Matthias Frans (1774-1853) and his brother Francis Emerick (1793-1881) were born in Claverack, Columbia County, New York to Franz and Catharina (Schmit) Emmerich. Matthias Emerick came to Upper Canada soon after the 1800 Census and settled in Stamford Township, Welland County.

In 1815, Matthias Emerick purchased 60 acres of land in the south half of Lot 136 Thorold Township, Welland County. This was located on the north side of Turner Road and the east side of Holloway Road southeast of the village of Allanburg. In 1825, he purchased the adjoining 50 acres in the south half of Lot 135 on the west side of Thorold Townline Road.

In 1822, Francis Emerick purchased 9 acres of land in Lot 48, Niagara Township, Lincoln County situated on the Niagara Escarpment east of Four Mile Creek Road overlooking the village of St. Davids. Francis sold his location in 1833 and moved to a farm in Metcalfe Township, Middlesex County north of the hamlet of Napier.

The genealogy includes ancestry in New York and seven generations in Ontario and western Canada and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: McCracken, Matthews, Taylor. Sedwick, Ivers, Laman, Duncan, Alton, Allan, Shepard, Hoag, Frasier, Davis, Center, Leach, Gough, McConnell, Crosby, Walker, Bullock, Hawman, Walker, Vincent, Patterson, Billingsley, Sword, McKenzie and many more.

Emmett, Stephen (1767-1852) was born in colonial Sussex County, New Jersey. Nothing is known of Stephen Emmett’s father who died during his childhood. Stephen’s widowed mother Abigail Emmett married Peter Secord, a widower who had moved from a farm in Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County New York. The couple had a son David Secord born in Walpack, Sussex County, New Jersey on 15 Jan 1773. Stephen Emmett mentioned his step-brother in a later land petition. Peter Secord was listed in the Tax Rateables List of 1773-74. Walpack Township runs along Route 209 and the Delaware River near the northwest corner of the state.

In 1791, Stephen Emmett settled on a 200 acre land grant in Lots 9 and 10 Concession 7 Grantham Township, Lincoln County.5 This was located on the north and south sides of Queenston Street west of the village of Homer. Emmett Road on the east side of the south part is named for this family. In the north part, Cushman Road runs along the east side and Bunting Road on the west side. Eastchester Avenue forms the northern boundary. During Stephen Emmett’s time this property was entirely rural. In later years it was taken into the city of St. Catharines and developed for industrial and commercial enterprises. Victoria Lawn Cemetery takes up much of the south part and the Queen Elizabeth Way and Garden City Skyway are in the northern part.

Although just a pre-teen and teen during the American Revolution, Stephen Emmett served in the militia at Fort Niagara, probably as a drummer boy in Butler’s Rangers. Following the conclusion of the American Revolution, Stephen Emmett lived with his mother and her second husband Peter Secord in St. Davids, Niagara Township, Lincoln County. For his service, Stephen Emmett was given the designation of United Empire Loyalist and all his children were entitled to apply for government grants as children of a United Empire Loyalist.

When the American Revolution broke out, Peter Secord was loyal to the British cause and took his family to the British stronghold in Fort Niagara near present Youngstown, New York at the confluence of the Niagara River and Lake Ontario. He served in Butler’s Rangers from 1777 until receiving his discharge in 1780. 

The genealogy includes four generations in Lincoln, Peel, Elgin and Welland Counties in Ontario, and in western Canada and the United States. Descendant surnames included: Craig, Knighton, Salsbury, Armstrong, Clement, Wright, Walker, Tenbroeck, Lepper, Pennels, Lambert, Lemon, Gray, Graham, Livingstone, Burdick, Kergin, , Ward, Stearn, Escott, Delong, Mcintyre, Johnstone; Adams

Evans, Francis (c. 1801-1858) and his wife Maria Sophia came from Ireland to Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County in 1828. Rev. Dr. Francis Evans was Rector of St. John’s Anglican Church from his arrival until his passing. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk County, in Toronto, Orillia and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Hincks, Keyes. Another of this surname (unrelated), James Evans (c. 1793-1859) was a Lieutenant in the British Army and lived in Ireland and England then settled in Simcoe, Norfolk County by about 1835. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk and Middlesex Counties and in Michigan. Descendant surnames included: Wood, Boss. 

Everingham, James (c. 1757-1795) was born in Trenton,. During the American Revolution, James Everingham was loyal to the British cause and joined the New Jersey Volunteers serving in Captain Joseph Crowell’s Company of the 1st Battalion commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Barton and Colonel Stephen Delancy. Everingham was stationed with his company on Staten Island, New York on 5 Aug 1780.

Following the war James Everingham returned to New Jersey then in 1786 brought his wife and three children born to that time to Upper Canada. Another child was born in 1788. His wife Chloe Dell died by 1793 and James took his children to live with John Burch a prosperous merchant and industrialist in Stamford Township near Niagara Falls.3 James then married his second wife Catherine Lemon and had two more children

James Everingham was given a grant of 200 acres all Lots 13 & 14 Concession 6 from the Niagara River, Willoughby Township, Welland County. This was located along the east side of Willodell Road between Lyons Creek Road and Marshall Road. Tee Creek, a tributary of Lyons Creek runs through the west part of the farm. Today the Queen Elizabeth Way angles through the centre of the property. See the picture of Lyons Creek and the map of Lyons Creek and Tee Creek below.

The genealogy includes six generations in Ontario and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Hoshall, Dell, French, Darby, Doan, Yokom, Wiley, Bradner, Chubbuck, Chapman, Ives, Goodwin, Keeley, Tweed, Gelsthorpe, Nevills, Banres, Hollenbeck, Rowe, Parrott, Garvin, Hurley, Johnston, Wheeler, Arnold and many more.

Everitt, Abner (1779-1836) was born in Upper Mount Bethel Township, North Hampton County, Pennsylvania to Zenas and Jane (Ommerman) Everitt. Abner Everitt came to Upper Canada in 1794 and petitioned for a grant of land on 7 May 1796. On 14 Jul 1796, he received a grant of 200 acres of land in Lot 7 Concession 1, Ancaster Township, Wentworth County. This was located on the east side of Weir Road between Power Line Road and the south side of Governor’s Road.

Abner Everitt moved next to Lots 23 and 24 Concession 1, West Flamborough Township, Wentworth County on the north side of Governor’s Road east of East Street North. During Abner’s time this property was rural and located near a village called Coote’s Paradise. It has since been subdivided and developed for commercial and residential properties in the City of Hamilton.

The genealogy includes ancestry, biographies and five generations in Halton and Wentworth Counties, Ontario and in western Canada and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Crooker, Hopkins, Henley, Garbutt, Edge, Attridge, Pegg, Patton, Alton, Knapp, Avery, Biles, Lindsay