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Ancestor #46

John Winegard (1801-1858)

John Winegard was born in March 1801 in Albany County, New York and died in Mountain, Dundas, Ontario, Canada on September 3, 1858. He was baptized on 10 October 1801ⁱ in the Dutch Reformed Church in Coxsackie, Greene, New York. He is the son of Nicholas and Mary (Fraser) Winegard. He married on 16 August 1824 in New York Anna Maria Barkley who was born in Albany County on 18 December 1808 and died in Oxford County, Ontario on 6 May 1865.

The Winegards were descended from an old Dutch family. Originally the name was spelled Wyngaart or Wyngaard in the early New York records. In the early 1800’s the family began using the Anglicized version of this name and records after 1800 are usually found under Winegard.

John and Anna Maria lived in New York for about the first 20 years of their marriage. John was a carpenter by trade as was his brother Peter and his son Abraham. They had 6, possibly 7 children, born in New York. In 1830 they were enumerated in Westerlo, Albany Countyⁱⁱ – 1 male under 5, 1 male 30-39, 1 female under 5, 1 female 20-29. The female under 5 was Margaret, the older male and female were Maria and John but the male under 5 has not been identified. There is a 7 year span between Margaret’s birth and the next child, Charity, so it is highly likely they had another child who died young.

When John’s father died in 1838; his mother had been dead for about 20 years. His brothers were moving away from the Albany County area of New York and his wife’s parents were living in Mountain. So sometime after the birth of daughter Mary J. in 1841, the family moved to Mountain.

They are enumerated in the 1851 censusⁱⁱⁱ of Upper Canada living in Mountain. The family consisted of John, Mariah, Charity, Abraham, Amy, Polly, Mary J., Matthias and Isaac J. Daughter Margaret had married in 1846.

John purchased 6 acres of land^iv from Edmond Doran and his wife Mary, for £25, on 19 October 1855, known as part of the east half of the west half of lot 16 in the 3^rd concession in Mountain. On 15 February 1856 he mortgaged these 6 acres to Henry Merkley^v for £63, 4 shillings, sixpence for 3 years. He died before the term of the mortgage was reached and I have been unsuccessful in determining if the mortgage was satisfied or the land reverted to Henry Merkley. I think it probably reverted to Merkley because I find no more Winegard entries in the Mountain Deed Books.

With the death of John, the family dispersed. His wife remarried and moved to Oxford County, Ontario. His daughters married within a few years of his death and all ended up living in the United States – Margaret went to Kansas, Amy and Mary J. to Iowa, Charity to North Dakota and Polly across the river to Oswegatchie, New York. Abraham followed his sisters to Iowa and moved from there to Nebraska. Matthias moved in the opposite direction to Boston, Massachusetts and died of a fever as a young man. I have been unable to determine what happened to Isaac Jacob.

Children of John and Anna Maria (Barkley) Winegard:

i. Margaret Winegard. b. 24 Aug 1825 in Sharon, Schoharie, New York, d. 16 Dec 1901 in Castle, McPherson, Kansas, m. 2 Feb 1846 John Barkley, b. 5 May 1828 in Williamsburg, Dundas, Ontario, d. 24 Nov 1884 in Castle.

ii. Charity Winegard. b. Mar 1833 in Sharon, d. 1909 in St. Thomas, Pembina, North Dakota, m. 1854 in Mountain as his second wife, Reuben Elijah Van Camp, b. 7 May 1826 in Mountain, d. 17 Apr 1888 in St. Thomas.

iii. Abraham Winegard. b. 27 Dec 1834 in Sharon, d. 1 Apr 1905 in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, m. 1) 2 Feb 1858 in Kemptville, Grenville, Ontario Lovina Mills, b. 19 May 1844 in Mountain, d. 31 May 1873 in Clinton, Clinton, Iowa and 2) Lucy Ella Green on 7 Feb 1882 in Dunlap, Harrison, Iowa, b. 7 Jun 1858 in Griswoldville, Middlesex, Connecticut and d. 27 Oct 1932 in Omaha.

iv. Amy Emma Winegard, b. 13 Aug 1837 in New York, d. 26 Aug 1910 in Odebolt, Sac, Iowa, m. 2 Apr 1857 in Mountain, Samuel McFarland, born 10 Mar 1827 in County Tyrone, Ireland and d. 16 Jul 1909 in Odebolt.

v. Polly Winegard, b. Jan 1839 in New York and d. 13 Aug 1900 in Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence, New York, m. 1864 in New York, Charles Lennox, b. Mar 1839 in Canada and d. 24 Jan 1918 in Oswegatchie.

vi. Mary J. Winegard, b. 16 Apr 1841 in New York, d. 16 Jun 1912 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, m. 3 Jan 1862 in Kemptville, Isaac Andrew Jackson, b. 7 May 1836 in Mountain and d. 1 Nov 1917 in Iowa City, Wright, Iowa.

vii. Matthias Winegard, b. 1845 in Mountain, d. 20 Dec 1872 in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

viii, Isaac Jacob Winegard, b. 1848 in Mountain.

i “U.S. Dutch Reformed Church Records from Selected States, 1660-1926”, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 19 Aug 2014) entry for John Wyngaert, citing Holland Society of New York, Dutch Reformed Church Records from New York and New Jersey, Coxsackie, Book 10, p. 239.

ii 1830 US census, Albany County, New York, population schedule, Westerlo, p. 484 (written), line 2, John Winegard; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 Dec 2016), citing National Archives and Record Administration microfilm M19, roll 84.

iii 1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Dundas County, Canada West, schedule A, Mountain, district 5, sub-district 36, p. 17, line 24, John Winegard; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 Dec 2016), citing Library and Archives Canada microfilm, roll C_11717.

iv “Ontario, Dundas, Registrar of Deeds, 1847-1901”, deed from Edmond Doran to John Winegard, Mountain Township, Book A, p. 419, memorial 442, dated 19 Oct 1855, FamilySearch Library, Salt Lake City, microfilm 201,635.

v “Ontario, Dundas, Registrar of Deeds, 1847-1901”, mortgage John Winegard to Henry Merkley, Mountain Township Book B, p. 372, memorial 885, dated 15 Feb 1856, microfilm 201,635.