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Wolhaupter Family

  • MS16
  • Family
  • 1771-1949

John Wolhaupter was born in 1771 in New York, and became a watchmaker, clockmaker and silversmith. He married Mary Payne Aycrigg in 1795. Because of their loyalist sympathies, their property was confiscated during the revolution and they came to New Brunswick sometime between 1795 and 1799. Wolhaupter set up a jewellery and clock making shop in St. John and became known as a silversmith. The family moved to Fredericton circa 1811, opened another shop, and 1825 the business was transferred to the oldest son, Benjamin, who was born in 1800.

Benjamin Wolhaupter married Catherine Brannen in 1820. He built a house at 79 Church Street, which was later sold to Bishop Medley and became known as Bishopscote. Wolhaupter served as Magistrate of York County; he was involved in the militia; and served as a Director of the Commercial Bank of New Brunswick. In 1847, he became Sheriff of York County and held that position until his death in 1857. Benjamin and Catherine Wolhaupter left three sons: James, Charles, and George.

James Matther Wolhaupter was born in 1823, became a physician; practiced in Portland, Maine, and died in 1891.

Charles John Wolhaupter was born in 1825, became a teacher; lived in Australia for seven years; returned to New Brunswick and was drowned in 1858.

George Philip Wolhaupter was born in 1827; worked as a clerk in the Surveyor-General's office; and 1854 graduated in engineering from King's College, Fredericton. He served as organist and choir master at Christ Church Cathedral and was known for his collection of wildflowers and his skill in decorating programs for the Cathedral services. In 1858, he married Harriett Amelia Carman. Their son, Benjamin, was born in 1859. When George died in 1860, his wife and son moved to Sarnia, Ontario. Benjamin Wolhaupter possessed great mechanical ability, and ultimately became an engineer who specialized in railroad tracks. He took out 215 patents for inventions, and was a successful manufacturer and businessman. He died in Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1949.

Wolfe, James

  • Person
  • [1727 or 1728]-1759

James Wolfe was born at Westerham, England, on 2 January 1727 or 1728. He fought in both Flanders and Scotland prior to sailing to North America in 1758 as a senior officer in Jeffery Amherst's expedition against Louisbourg. Wolfe distinguished himself during the siege, which led to his selection as commander of the British expedition against Quebec planned for the following year.

The British attack on Montmorency began on 31 July 1759, and by 13 September Wolfe's forces were established on the Plains of Abraham. During the ensuing battle against French forces led by Montcalm, Wolfe was mortally wounded. He died on 13 September 1759, eventually being credited with the establishment of British rule in Canada.

Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia, 1988

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James Wolfe

Winslow, Edward

  • Person
  • [1746 or 1747]-1815

Edward Winslow (1746/7-1815), son of Edward Winslow and Hannah Dyer, was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts. His father and other members of the Winslow family held administrative posts at the local, provincial, and imperial levels. Graduating from Harvard College in 1765, Edward was appointed to several official posts. An outspoken Tory who opposed the Sons of Liberty, by 1774 Winslow was so disliked by Plymouth residents that he was removed from public office. In 1775 he fought with the British regulars at Lexington and was appointed collector for the port of Boston by General Thomas Gage during the siege of Boston.

In 1776 Winslow left his family in New England and sailed for Halifax, Nova Scotia where he was commissioned muster master general of the loyalist forces in North America. At war's end, Winslow was named as agent for the Loyalist regiments in Nova Scotia, responsible for laying out lands for approximately 6,000 troops and their families. In July 1783 he suggested that this area be partitioned from Nova Scotia and made a separate province. The efforts of Winslow and others were successful on 18 June 1784 when the Privy Council approved the establishment of the province of New Brunswick. By early 1785 he was preparing to move from Halifax to New Brunswick and corresponding with his former deputy, Ward Chipman.

Ward Chipman (1754-1824) was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts to John Chipman and Elizabeth Brown. He graduated from Harvard College in 1770 and studied law in Boston under Jonathan Sewell and remained there until the evacuation in 1776. He was appointed deputy muster master general to Edward Winslow in 1777, at New York, and served until 1783. He went to New Brunswick and in 1784 he was appointed solicitor-general of New Brunswick. He acted as chief crown prosecutor for most criminal cases in the province until he was appointed justice of the Supreme Court in 1809. He married Elizabeth Hazen (1766-1852) daughter of William Hazen and Sarah LeBaron in 1786. He died at Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Sources: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. v, vol. vi

Winslow family (Descendants of John Douglas Winslow, Woodstock)

  • Family
  • 1620-

John Douglas Winslow, born in Woodstock, New Brunswick, was a direct descendant of Governor Edward Winslow, who landed with the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1620. Governor Winslow's great-great grandson, Colonel Edward Winslow, a United Empire Loyalist, came to New Brunswick in 1783. His son, John Francis Wentworth Winslow, was born near Fredericton in 1793. John F. Winslow was a military man, having served in the West Indies and in the War of 1812. His military career ended in 1832, when he was appointed Sheriff of Carleton County.

John Douglas Winslow was the son of J. Norman Winslow and Gertrude Vanwart. Through his 1924 marriage to Mary Gretchen Connell Smith, John D. Winslow was related to the Smith and Connell families of Woodstock, NB. As a young man, Mr. Winslow was involved in survey work in the Hudson Bay area, which he left in order to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. He served as an officer in the Canadian Field Artillery in France, where he was wounded. In 1921, he founded the investment firm of Winslow and Winslow with his son, John Edward Connell Winslow. John Douglas Winslow died in 1958, leaving his wife, one son, and two daughters, Mary and Muriel.

Winslow family (Descendants of Edward Winslow, Loyalist)

  • Family
  • Branch begins in 1640

Edward Winslow, son of Edward Winslow and Hannah Dyer, was born on 20 February 1746/47 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. A direct descendant of the Edward Winslow who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620, he grew up in a mansion located near Plymouth Rock in which his family entertained the colonial élite. His father and other members of the Winslow family held administrative posts at the local, provincial, and imperial levels.

Graduating from Harvard College in 1765, Edward was appointed to several official posts including naval officer, registrar of wills, and clerk of the Court of General Sessions. An outspoken Tory who opposed the Sons of Liberty, by 1774 Winslow was so disliked by Plymouth locals that he was removed from public office. In 1775 he fought with the British regulars and was commended for valour. Later he served the army in a paramilitary capacity during the early years of the hostilities.

In 1776 Winslow left his family in New England and sailed for Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was commissioned muster master general of the loyalist forces in North America. That year Edward Winslow's cousin Benjamin Marston (1730-1792), the eldest son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Winslow) Marston, also fled New England for Halifax. In Nova Scotia Marston worked as a merchant and supercargo, primarily in the West Indian trade, and in 1783 he was appointed surveyor of the Loyalist settlement of Roseway (Shelburne).

In the summer of 1779, Edward Winslow accompanied Edmund Fanning on a series of successful coastal raids on Rhode Island, but for the remainder of the war he acted as the overseer of muster rolls. At war's end, Winslow was named as agent for the loyalist regiments in Nova Scotia, responsible for laying out lands for approximately 6,000 troops and their families. Prevented by Halifax officials from settling his regiments in a single land block, Winslow headed for the north side of the Bay of Fundy. In July 1783 he suggested that this area be partitioned from Nova Scotia and made a separate province.

In 1783 Winslow was appointed secretary to Brigadier-General Henry Edward Fox, the commander-in-chief of British forces at Halifax and brother to British politician Charles James Fox. Winslow managed to secure the Brigadier-General's support for his plan of partition. In addition, Winslow also worked to gather information about the economic and political condition of British North America to send to London in support of his scheme. It included a discussion of the timber, fishing, and agricultural potential of the area north of the Bay of Fundy. On 18 June 1784 the Privy Council approved the establishment of the province of New Brunswick.

In this newly-created Loyalist province, Winslow took a leading role. He held a number of prominent administrative and judicial posts including: deputy paymaster of contingent expenses for the army (1785), member of the Executive Council, judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for York County, commissioner of the New England Company (1791), secretary to the international boundary commission (1796, 1798), deputy surveyor of the king's woods (1806), and judge of the New Brunswick Supreme Court (1807). A man of influence, in 1784, Winslow recommended his cousin, Marston to surveyor general of the king's woods in North America, John Wentworth, thereby securing Marston's appointment as his deputy in New Brunswick. Edward Winslow died in debt at Fredericton on 13 May 1815.

Mather Byles (ca. 1734-1814) was the son of Dr. Mather Byles of Boston. He graduated from Harvard in 1751 and became a Congregationalist minister. His conversion to the Church of England in 1768 caused scandal. In 1776 he fled to Halifax and in 1778 he was proscribed and banished. In 1789 he moved to Saint John, New Brunswick, where he became the first rector of Trinity Church. He married three times; in 1761, he married Rebecca Walter; in 1777, Sarah Lyde; and in 1788, Susanna Reid

Wilson, Robert

  • Person

Robert Wilson was born in Greenlawdean, Scotland in 1799. In 1818, he married Mary Brown and had 10 children, one of which was named Alexander Wilson [b. 1835]. In 1837, the family emigrated from Scotland to Harvey, New Brunswick by ship. Robert’s son, Alexander Wilson, married Isabella Craig in 1861 and had children Robert Brown “Bob”, Isabelle Kat, Henry “Harry”, Mary Ann, Charles, and Alexander. Isabella Craig and infant son Alexander both died in 1873, and Alexander Wilson married Isabelle Bell later that same year. With Isabelle Bell, Alexander had six more children: Sarah Lillian “Sadie” [1874-1966], Alexander Jardine [1875-1955], William “Heber”, Oliver James, Ellen Bell “Nellie” [b. ~1892], and Levi Talbot [1884-1974]. Sarah Lillian married Edward Ira McConnell in 1893 and lived in Harvey with her husband and son Wilson McConnell. Alexander Jardine married Elizabeth “Lizzie” Nesbitt in 1906 and they had three children, Edward Nesbitt Wilson [1907-1967], Jennie Isabel Wilson [1912-1925], and Philip Wilson, who died as an infant. The family lived in Portland, Maine, for several years, and eventually moved back to Harvey, Alexander Jardine’s birthplace. In Harvey, Alexander Jardine worked briefly as manager of Farmers’ Trading Co. Ellen Bell “Nellie” Wilson married John Albert Johnston and they had one daughter named Sarah Lillian Johnston [1911-1936], who married John Douglas Herron [1911-1967]. Sarah Lillian and John Douglas had one son, Phillip Abner Herron [b. 1933]. Sarah Lillian died in 1936, and John Douglas Herron was remarried to Queenie Campbell, and they had one daughter, Leona. Phillip married Barbara Weatherby in 1956 in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and they had one daughter, Wendy, who married Richard Flesland in 1982. Phillip died in Oak Bay, New Brunswick, in April 2010.

Wilson, Dale

  • Person
  • 1914-1983

Donor to the 8th Hussars Museum

Wilson Cemetery Limited (Westmorland County, N.B.)

  • Corporate body
  • Incorporated in 1972

Wilson Cemetery Limited was incorporated by letters patent on 1 May 1972 under the laws of the province of New Brunswick. The company's primary purposes were to maintain and operate a cemetery on the Salisbury Road, in the parish of Moncton, Westmorland County without profit or gain. The provisional directors were Allen Wilfred Lutes, John S. Lutes, John Newcombe Lutes, and Walter J. Lutes, all of Moncton; Frank Ensley Lutes and J. Hugh McCrea of the parish of Moncton; and G. Patterson Dunlap of Lakeville, Westmorland County. The head office of the company was to be located at Wilson, in the parish of Moncton.

Wilmot, Henry

  • Person
  • 1843-1930

Henry Wilmot (1843-1930) was a farmer at Belmont in Sunbury County, New Brunswick. He was the son of Robert Duncan Wilmot (1809-1891) who was Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, a senator and mayor of Saint John. Henry addressed the New Brunswick Society on several occasions on various topics including Confederation.

Wilmot United Church (Fredericton, N.B.)

  • Corporate body
  • Established by 1832

The first Methodist Society meetings in Fredericton, were held in the home of Duncan Blair, as early as 1791, and the first Methodist chapel was built on a lot owned by Blair on Westmorland Street. In 1832, the site of the present Wilmot Church was purchased and a larger church was built. This building was destroyed in the great fire of 1850. The present church was finished and dedicated 1852.

In 1925, the Methodists, Congregationalists and a majority of Presbyterians in Frederiction united, and the Methodists church was renamed The Wilmot United Church in honor of Lemuel Allen Wilmot, Judge of The Supreme Court and first lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick after Confederation. Wilmot had been an active member of the Methodist congregation from his youth, serving as a class leader, a choir director, a Sunday school superintendant, and a trustee.

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