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John JAQUES was born in 1795 in Murton, Westmorland, England, the son of Christopher JAQUES and Hanna BELLAS. He brought his wife, Margaret FOSSETT and seven of his nine grown children to Pittsburgh in 1848, sailing on the "Ship of Rome". They later went to Buffalo briefly, where Margaret died in 1852.
Soon after the family moved to Canada, arriving at Hamilton, Ontario on Easter Sunday, they lived for a time at York, then purchased a farm at Jarvis from Cornelius Smith. John Jaques died soon after in the same year as his wife's death. He was living at the newly-purchased Smith farm in Walpole Township when he died and he was buried at Saint John's in Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada.
John Jaques' children, Samuel, Joseph, and Mary Jaques stayed on the farm for a few years, but about 1860 they began to branch out for themselves. John's son John had stayed behind in England, but joined the rest of the family in 1867. His descendants still live in Norfolk Co., mostly in or near Simcoe.
John's son Anthony married Elizabeth ATKINSON, daughter of James ATKINSON and Mary DAWSON of Oneida Twp., in 1860 at York, Oneida Twp. Anthony settled near Jarvis, first on the Haldimand side in Walpole Twp., and later moving to Woodhouse Twp. in Norfolk.
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Rainham Builders
1795 - 1858 (62 years)