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Waddle, Robert F. (1765-1850) and his wife Margery Telford lived in Hawick Parish, Roxburghshire, Scotland and emigrated to New York by 1821. The next year they settled in Windham Township, Norfolk County near the town of Simcoe. Includes five generations of descendants in Norfolk, Elgin and Welland Counties. Descendant surnames included: Eagles, McIntosh, Fletcher, Kemp, Lever, Porritt, Thompson, Slater

Wade, Nathan (c. 1765) and Jonathan Wade (1769-1844) came from Morris County, New Jersey to Upper Canada in 1798 and settled in Charlotteville Township by 1801. Jonathan moved to Southwold Township, Elgin County by 1818. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk, Elgin, Oxford and Essex Counties, and in Michigan. 

Walker, George (1794-1869) came from Roxburghshire, Scotland to Upper Canada about 1815 and married Elizabeth Emery. They lived in Bayham Township, Elgin County then in 1822 settled in Houghton Township, Norfolk County at the mouth of Hemlock Creek. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk County, and in Wisconsin. Descendant surnames included: Alton, Maginnis, Slater, Louch. James Walker (c.1792-), unrelated, came to Canada from Scotland before 1825. James and his wife Clarissa settled in Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County near the village of Forestville by 1850. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk County and in Michigan.

Walker, Henry (c. 1768-1834) came with his father from Ireland to North Carolina while a child. He either came with or followed Solomon Austin to Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County in 1794. He married Mary Austin and settled next to Solomon Austin southeast of the town of Simcoe. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk and York Counties, and in Alberta and British Columbia. Descendant surnames included: Darling, Osborne, Matheson, Bethune, Smyth, Tyrell. Henry Walker (1836-1919), unknown relationship, married Sarah Gray and lived in Woodhouse Township. Includes children and grandchildren in Norfolk County.

Walker, Joseph (1783/4-1840) and his wife Abi Lampkin came from New Jersey to Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County about 1808 and was a farmer and blacksmith. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk and Oxford Counties, and in Michigan and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Cullimore, Dow, Rogers. Jacob Walker (c. 1796-), a blacksmith, came from the United States to Norfolk County by 1815. He married Rebecca and settled in Charlotteville Township. Includes children.

Walker, Joseph J. (c. 1797-1863), a native of Lytchfield, England and his wife Sophia Woodriffe came from the area of Birmingham, England to Hope, New York by 1823 then lived in Litchfield, Pennsylvania. By 1833 they came to Simcoe, Norfolk County where Joseph operated a gunsmith shop. In 1856 they moved to Otterville, South Norwich Township, Oxford County then returned to Simcoe. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk, Perth and Simcoe Counties. Descendant surnames included: Collins, Shaw, Guy, Smith, Smale, Giles

Walker, William (c. 1744-1819) during colonial times lived in Orange County, North Carolina. During the American Revolution he served in the British Army under General Cornwallis. In 1794 he brought his family to Upper Canada and settled in Clinton Township, Lincoln County east of the town of Grimsby. His son John Walker (c. 1768-1857) married Eleanor Muckle and settled in Townsend Township, Norfolk County in 1796 along with his brother William Walker (1770-1874) and his wife Margaret McCool. Includes four generations of descendants in Norfolk County and in Michigan and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Erwin, McLaren, Corbett, Huyge, Hull, Goble, Hocken, Cunningham, Heath, Tuttle, Dean, Rogers, Webster, Dodds, Zimmerman, Storey, Phillips, Stone, Foster, Huffman, Boyer, Harrington, White, Poumode, O'Donnell

Walker, Isaac (c. 1775-1812) was a son of pioneer William Walker (c. 1744-1819) of Clinton Township, Lincoln County.  Isaac and his wife Catharine Hare settled for a time in Townsend Township, Norfolk County then made their home in Ancaster Township, Wentworth County. Brother Ralph Walker (1776-1859) and his wife Anna Elizabeth Book settled in Grimsby Township, Lincoln County. Another brother Thomas Walker (1780-1845) married Sipharah Shevelier then Elizabeth (Secord) Newkirk and inherited the parental homestead in Clinton Township. Another brother Philip Walker (1785-1865) and his wife Susannah Cline settled in Nelson Township, Halton County. Includes ancestry and four generations of descendants in Lincoln, Wentworth, Norfolk and Oxford Counties, and in Michigan and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Henry, Buck, Patterson, Smith, Ball, Webb, McCurdy, Randall, Anderson, Hughs, Tweedle, Shevalier, Hare, Withington, Wolverton, Drummond, Stuart, Forsyth, Rymal, McKinnen, Lee, Hopkins, Roszell, Tufford, Tweedle, Bedford, Zimmerman, Patterson, Payne, Muir, Gillard, Glintz, Frost, Chambers, Jamieson, Cotton, Crown, Green, Brown, Rixon, Edmonson, Hoover, Kenney, Alton, Williamson, Shepherd, Husband, Blanchard, Green, Bell, Bridgman, Richmond, Davidson, Cherry, Wood, Parsons, Hindley, Pickett, Simpson

Walsh, Thomas (1742-1816) lived in Maryland during colonial times and worked as a surveyor in several of the American colonies. During the American Revolution he served as Quarter Master in the Maryland Loyalists Regiment then a Captain of a company of Associated Loyalists in New York. In 1783 he went in the Loyalist exodus of New York to New Brunswick and then returned to Maryland where he married Mary Mitchell. They brought their family to Upper Canada in 1793 and lived in Thorold Township, Welland County. Thomas surveyed the front townships of Norfolk County for the government and settled in Charlotteville Township in 1797. Includes four generations of descendants in Norfolk County and in Massachusetts and Michigan. Descendant surnames included: Waugh, Sparrow, Hendry, Moon, Smith

Ward, John (c.1780-1852) and his wife Elizabeth lived in Buffalo, New York then moved to Upper Canada about 1818, settling in Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk County. Descendant surname included: Baker

Wardell, Joseph (c. 1727 - 1802) was born in Shrewsbury Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey to Solomon Wardell and his wife Sarah Potter. He married by license dated on 21 Feb 1750, Catherine Lane, both of Shrewsbury. Joseph and Catherine Wardell lived in Long Branch, Shrewsbury Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey.During the American Revolution, Joseph Wardell was loyal to the British cause and was brought before the patriot Monmouth County Committee of Safety for furnishing the Loyalist forces with provisions. Joseph Wardell stated in his later land petition of 1797 that he and three sons served under Colonel Morris during the American War. Lieutenant Colonel John Morris raised the 2nd Battalion of the New Jersey Volunteers from loyal recruits of Monmouth County, New Jersey and was stationed in the town of New Brunswick, New Jersey and saw service in Perth Amboy and Sandy Hook. They were then stationed in New York and served in the capture of Philadelphia and in the Battle of Monmouth.

Joseph Wardell stated in his 1796 land petition filed to the Executive Council of Upper Canada that he came into the province with his wife and four children in the year 1788. In a second petition of 1797 he gave the year of arrival as 1790 with a wife and five children and this was supported by a Magistrate’s certificate.

Joseph and Catherine Wardell settled on Lot 8 Concession 1 and Broken Front, Clinton Township located on the east side of Merritt Road North from the Lake Ontario shore in the north to Greenlane in the south between Beamsville and Jordan Harbour.

The genealogy includes ancestry, biographies and five generations in Ontario, western Canada and from coast to coast in the United States. Field, Stocking, McIntosh, Smith, Tallman, Van Loon, Harris, Beal, Pugsley, Durham, Price, Ryckman, Stull, Bessey, Fradenburgh, Donovan, Culp, McMichael, Barber, Phister, Evans, McRonald, Booth, Johnston, Woon, Nickalls, Mawhinney, Boyd, Van Norman, Loosmore, McDonald, Beers, Harrold, Latimer, Loss, Hammond, Lasser, Kohloff and many more.

Warner, Christian (1754-1833) was born to Johannes Michael and Anna Elisabeth (Volmer) Wanner (sic) born in Schoharie, Albany (now Schoharie) County, New York on 7 Nov 1754. He married in Schoharie Reformed Church on 5 Mar 1775, Gertraud Charity Ecker (1759-1823). During colonial times the family spelled their surname “Wanner”. After Christian Wanner joined the Loyalist forces at Fort Niagara in 1778, he spelled his surname “Warner” and continued that spelling from that point forward.

During the colonial period the couple farmed in the Van Rensselaer tract east of Schenectady, Albany (now Schenectady) County, New York. During the American Revolution, Christian Warner was loyal to the Crown and served under General John Burgoyne in New York during which engagement he was captured and imprisoned. Warner escaped his captors and joined the Loyalist forces at Fort Niagara serving in Butler’s Rangers until the end of the war.

The couple then made there home on a substantial 600 acre tract below the Niagara Escarpment in the south part of Niagara Township, Lincoln County.

Includes three generations in Lincoln, Welland, Haldimand and Norfolk Counties, biography and ancestry. Related surnames mentioned: Fox, Crysler, Jones, Campbell, Overholt, Wurts, Marsh, Durham, House, Misener, Thomas

Warren, John (1741-1813) was born in Westminster, London, England to John and Mary (Carter) Warren on 17 Nov 1741. In 1755, John Warren joined the 8th Regiment of Foot in the British Army and served latterly as drum major. During the Seven Years War (1757-1763), the regiment served in the expedition of 1757 that captured Ile d’Aix, an island off the western coast of France then at Kitch-Denkern, Paderborn, Wilhemsthal and the capture of Cassel. 

The regiment arrived in Canada in 1768 and its ten companies dispersed to garrison isolated posts on the Great Lakes: Fort Niagara, Fort Detroit, Fort Michilimackinac and Fort Oswego. During the American Revolution the regiment repulsed the attempted invasion of Canada by the American generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold. In 1772, John Warren was with the regiment in Trois-Rivières where his son Henry was born. 1

On 13 Oct 1778 Warren was recommended by Robert Matthews, adjutant for the post of commissary at Fort Erie, a British post at the confluence of the Niagara River and Lake Erie. Mathews noted Warren’s “extraordinary good behaviour during a service of near 23 years, having numerous family to support, and his possessing a Character and abilities that will do credit to any recommendation in his favour.” In a letter of 1797 to the surveyor general of Upper Canada, David William Smith, Warren stated that his father had “served the government for 18 years, and he himself had served ever since the year Fifty-five.” As commissary, he was responsible for garrison supply, military contracts, and trans-shipment of goods at the south end of the Niagara portage.

Fort Erie was an important military and commercial crossroads and Warren, while continuing as commissary, also entered into private trade. In the late 1780’s, he became a figure of local prominence in public affairs. He received the recommendation of Sir John Johnson on 25 Dec 1787 for a civil trust in the proposed new administrative districts. He was appointed a justice of the peace for the Nassau District (Niagara) on 24 Jul 1788 and reappointed in 1800, 1806 and 1807. In 1790, he was named road commissioner of the district.

The genealogy includes biographies and six generations in Ontario and western Canada, and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Hardison, Jackson, Forsyth, Graham, Campion, Jones, Radcliff, Cooper, Hayes, Ussher, Wagner, Lewis, Greenham, McDiarmid, Millar, Nimmo, Overhholt, Anderson, Ingles, Parkins, Robertson and many more.

Waters, Henry Harcourt (1783-) came from Halsham, Sussex County, England to Canada about 1840 and settled in Port Dover in Woodhouse Township. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk, Essex and Wentworth Counties. Descendant surnames included: Curtis, O'Reilly, Tisdale, Emery

Watts, Henry (c. 1810-1877), a native of Ireland, came to Canada by about 1835. He and his wife Hannah lived in Hamilton, Wentworth County then brought their family to Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County by 1863. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk and Simcoe Counties, and in Saskatchewan. Descendant surnames included: Campbell, Parson, Durkee, Kemp, Hipwell

Watts, Uriah (c. 1799-1887) and his wife Ruth Mills came from England to Canada about 1840 and settled in Walsingham Township, Norfolk County north of the village of St. Williams. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk County and in Michigan. Descendant surnames included: Dedrick, Robins, Fish, Backhouse, Holmes, Gates, Harp, Wingrove, Brown

Weaver, John (1771-1843) was baptized in Gallatin, Columbia County, New York on 8 Jun 1777 as Johannes to Jacob and Rebecca (Koch) Weber. On 21 Oct 1796, John Weaver filed an Upper Canada Land Petition stating he had been in the province since 1787 and requested land as a settler. He also applied for a grant in right of his wife Hannah who was a daughter of John Wintermute, UE.

John Weaver settled on 200 acres of land in Lot 22 Concession 2, Humberstone Township, Welland County. This was located along the east side of Babion Road between Main Street (Highway 3) and the Second Concession Road and east of the City of Port Colborne.

The genealogy includes six generations in Ontario, western Canada and coast to coast in the United States. Descendant surnames mentioned: Remey, Thomas, Sitter, Lalonde, Fleming, Winger, Fess, Bills, Bertley, Murphy, Lofthouse, Hoover, Chapman, Thurston, McKenzie, Awde, Haun, Farr, Braun, Burghen, Horrigan, Williams, Bacon, Fisher, Domatto and many more.

Weeks, Amos (c. 1772-1828) came from Westchester County, New York and settled in Walpole Township, Haldimand County in 1796 and then in Charlotteville Township, Norfolk County by 1806. Includes three generations of descendants in Norfolk, Oxford and Elgin Counties, and in Michigan and elsewhere. Descendant surnames included: Carpenter, Mayhew