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.
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8
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Jane Ann |
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7
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Margaret E.
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4
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Jesse A.
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|
1
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1871 Ontario Census for Torbolton Twp., Carleton
County
Hedley John,
42, b. in Ont., Ch. of Eng.,
English, Farmer
Ann A., 35, b. in
Eng., Ch. Of Eng., English
Jane Ann, 17, b. in
Ont., Ch. of Eng., English
Margaret, 13, b. in
Ont., Ch. of Eng., English
Albert Alex, 7, b. in
Ont., Ch. of Eng., English
Lavina,
5, b. in
Ont., Ch. of Eng., English
Annamilia
3, b. in Ont., Ch. of Eng., English
1881 Ontario Census for
Torbolton Township,
Carleton County
| Hedley |
Jno
|
age
|
52
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b. in
Ont. |
Ch. of
Eng |
English
|
farmer |
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Ann
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47
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b. in
Eng |
Ch. of
Eng. |
English
|
|
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Margt.
|
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23
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b. in
Ont |
Ch. of
Eng. |
English
|
|
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Alex
|
|
18
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"
|
" |
" |
|
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Sophia
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15
|
" |
" |
" |
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Amelia
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13
|
" |
" |
" |
|
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May
|
|
9
|
" |
" |
" |
|
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Clara
|
|
7
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" |
" |
" |
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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 Thomas I. Head, b. Apr. 11, 1855, age
46, b. Ont., Irish, Ch of Eng, farmer
Jane A. Wife, b. Mar. 26, 1854, age 47, b. Ont., Engish, Ch of Eng.
Allan, Son, b. Nov. 4, 1886, age 15, b. Ont., Irish, Ch of Eng.
Annamelia,
Daughter b. June 2, 1889, age 12, b. Ont., Irish, Ch of Eng.
Florence M. Daughter b. Nov. 25, 1891, age 10, b. Ont., Irish, Ch of
Eng.
Jennie M. Daughter b. June 16, 1896, age 5, b. Ont., Irish, Ch of Eng.
Mary E. Daughter b. Oct. 31, 1898, age 3, b. Ont., Irish, Ch of Eng.
Lavina, Daughter b. Feb. 24, 1900, age 1, b. Ont., Irish, Ch of Eng.
Brown George A. Step-son b. July 23,
1881, age 20, b. Ont., English, Ch of Eng.
Hedley John, Father-in-law, b. June 3,
1828, age 73, b. Ont., English, Ch of Eng., Gentleman
Annamelia, Mother-in-law b. Apr. 25, 1834, age 67, b. Eng., English, Ch
of Eng.
Clara, Daughter b. Dec. 12, 1875, age 26, b. Ont., English, Ch of Eng.
John Hedley III died at age 85 on August 29, 1912. His widow, Anna
Amelia, and his daughter Margaret (Hedley) Brown donated, in his memory, the “East Hedley altar window” of St. Thomas the Apostle
Anglican Church. Anna Amelia died four
years after her husband, on November 11, 1916 of
"gangarene muscle" 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 in Torbolton Twp.; 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); lived in
Winnipeg.
(2) George Albert Brown, b. July 23, 1881; d.1904 at age 23.
m2
Thomas Irwin Vance on March 20, 1901 in Ottawa. Witnesses were
Barbara J.
and
R. Gordon Stewart of Ottawa. Thomas Vance, age 45, was b. Apr. 11, 1856
in
Huntley Twp., son of Thomas Vance and Elizabeth Johnston; d.1941 in
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 Hedleyb. Jan.30,1857, was married on
Nov.21, 1882, Torbolton
at age 25 to 29
-year-old James Brown, born Jan.1, 1851 in St. Columbia, the
son of
George and Mary Brown. Witnesses were Frederick Radmore, Hull, P.Q. and
Lavina
Hedley, Torbolton Twp. James Brown d. Oct. 16, 1927. Margaret d. July
20, 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) on April 23, 1885 in Fitzroy Twp. 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
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b. in Quebec, |
Irish, |
Ch of Eng., |
Farmer
|
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Mary
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40
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b. in Ontario,
|
Irish,
|
Ch of Eng., |
|
|
Jane
|
20
|
b. in Ontario, |
Irish, |
Ch of Eng., |
|
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Wm.
|
16
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b. in Ontario, |
Irish, |
Ch of Eng., |
|
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Edith
|
15
|
b. in Ontario, |
Irish, |
Ch of Eng., |
|
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Maud
|
15
|
b. in Ontario, |
Irish, |
Ch of Eng., |
|
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Minnie
|
12
|
b. in Ontario, |
Irish, |
Ch of Eng., |
|
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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 appear 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 dress maker, was 29, and James, a farmer,
was 21. James Black, born in
1874 in Victoria was the son of James Black, a farmer, and Isabella
Munro. James
had a previous marriage to Jane Lilly Knight. That marriage was
dissolved in 1816,
when Lilly 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
(b.1895) in Brandon, Manitoba on Feb. 1, 1916. 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 Louis Hedley (1917-1960)
m. Phyllis Elizabeth O’Neill , daughter of John Patrick
O'Neill,
who was born in Ireland and Mary Jane 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 E. 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 N 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.
CANADIAN VIRTUAL WAR MEMORIAL
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Surname
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Initial(s)
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Given Name
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Date of Death
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HEDLEY
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N
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NORMAN
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Jun 7,
1920 |
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(9) Myrtle Hedley born 1906, m.
Frederick
Gerald Heard on Apr. 3, 1929 in
Victoria, B.C.
Myrtle died 27 Jan. 1980 B. C.
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 on May 7, 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
in Torbolton Twp. was married, at age
24, to Thomas Wellington Cowan, age 24, of
Huntley Twp. Thomas was b. in
1884, the son of William James Cowan and Sarah Ann Downey. The marriage
was Jan. 8, 1913 in St. Thomas Church, Woodlawn, Carleton, Ont.
Witnesses
were Alexander Vance of Metcalf and Florence May Vance of Woodlawn
(3) Florence May Vance was born Nov. 25, 1891 in Torbolton
Twp. Florence, a nurse, was
living in Ottawa at age 23, when she married 25-year-old Dr. Gordon
McLelland Hanna
of Brantford, Ont. (b. Aug. 28, 1888). Dr. Gordon Hanna was born in
Lansdowne Twp.,
Leeds County, Ont., the son of Dr. Franklin K. Hanna (b. Mar.
11, 1856 in Bastard Twp.,
Leeds Co., Ont.) and Emeretta Emery Hanna (b.June
22, 1859).
Florence and Gordon were married Jan. 21, 1914 in Carleton Co.
Witnesses were Herbert R.
Moffatt and Jennie Muriel Vance of Woodlawn. Gordon Hanna died at age
54 in 1943.
Florence died ten years later on Aug. 13, 1953 at age 62. One
son:
[1] Robert Gordon Hanna b. 1921 in Brantford, Ont. was stationed in
Glasgow,
Scotland during World War 2. He married Mary Guthrie Walker (b.
1929 in
Paisley, Scotland), daughter of Alexander Reid Walker (b. 1899 in
Paisley,
Scotland) and Mary Boyd (b. 1899 in Paisley, Scotland). Robert
Gordon
Hanna died May 26, 1966; Mary died June 5, 1984. The
graves of both Robert
and Mary are in Greenwood Cemetery, Brantford. Four children
(living).
(4) Jennie Muriel Vance was b. June 16,1896 in
Carp; Jennie was married at age 19 to
Roy Albert Wainman, age 21, on Apr.
9, 1914 in Ottawa. Roy was b. in 1895 in
Shawville, Quebec, the son of Thomas A. Wainman and Lura Andrews.
Jennie died in 1931 at age 35.
(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;
Jane Eida Barrett, b. June 9,
1901
(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, b. Apr.
9, 1872
May, Wife, age 27, b. Sept. 1, 1873
Frederick, Son, age 3, b. May 14, 1897
Edgar, Son, age 1, b. Oct. 27, 1899
Spiller, Mabel, Lodger, age 15, b. June 15, 1885
The 1911 Ontario Census for Ottawa
Weatherdon, Jas. Ed., Head, age 38, b.
Apr. 1873
May A. Wife, age 39, b. Sept. 1871
Fred W. Son, age 13, b. May, 1897
Edgar, Son, age 11, b. Nov. 1899
Irene, Daughter, age 4, b. Feb. 1902
Arthur, Son, age 11, b. Nov. 1906
Edith, Daughter, age 5 mo., b. Dec. 1910
Vance, Milly, Niece, age 22, b. June 1888
9 - Clara Hedley,
born on
Dec.12,1875 in Torbolton Twp. (1901 Census) was married Sept.
2,
1901 in Ottawa at age 25 to John George Hedley, her cousin, age
36.
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. Feb.3 (or Mar.2), 1910 in Smith Falls,
Lanark Co., of measles and pneumonia 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*
The assistance of Thomas E. Hedley* of Vancouver Island, B.C. and
Barbara Stotts* of Ottawa with Chapter 4,1 is much appreciated.