Johannes Wendel Weigele

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Johann Wendel Wigle (Weigele)

Also Known As: "John Wendel Weigle"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Freie Stadt Frankfurt-am-Main, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
Death: 1816 (62-63)
Gosfield Township, Essex County, Upper Canada (Present Ontario), British North America (Present Canada)
Place of Burial: Kingsville, Essex County, Ontario, Canada
Immediate Family:

Son of John Frederick Roemer; Johann Jacob Weigle; Catherina Roemer and Catharina Maria Weigle
Husband of Julianna Wigle
Father of John Wendel WIgle; Wendel Wigle; Catherine Malott; Elizabeth Wigle; Christopher Wigle and 6 others
Brother of Julianna Wigle; Catherina Roemer; Rosina Helm; Elizabeth Hassler; Barbara Roemer and 3 others
Half brother of Anna Marie 'Mary' Hassler; Franz Jacob Roemer; Johan Frederich Roemer; John Adam Roemer and John Henry Roemer

Occupation: Farmer
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About Johannes Wendel Weigele

John Wendel Wigle (Wagaly) was born in 1753 in Frankfurt, Germany. Orphaned as a child he came to America as a stowaway. Upon discovery by the ship’s captain John was bound out to service working seven years to pay his passage. In later life he worked as a weaver in Little York, Pennsylvania marrying Julianna Romer in 1776.

Because of his pacifist beliefs John refused to bear arms and at the outbreak of hostilities in America he set out for Canada as a British sympathizer. In 1786 travelling by pack horse he, his wife and four children joined a group heading for Detroit. Once in Detroit the Wigles met Leonard Kratz. In time two of the Wigle sons would marry Kratz daughters and one Wigle daughter would marry a Kratz.

Stopping first at Grosse Isle the Wigles eventually settled at Gosfield, Lot 6, Eastern Division in the New Settlement, Essex County in 1792. As a United Empire Loyalist John Wigle obtained 200 acres on the Lake Erie Shore near the Malott and Kratz homesteads. The Wigle family prospered and before he died John Wendel Wigle acquired 3000 acres of land.John and his wife Julianna raised a family of eleven children. John Wendel Wigle died in 1816 and was buried first at Albertville Cemetery on the lakeshore of Lot 6, then removed to Greenhill Cemetery, Kingsville, July 1925. His wife Julianna died in May, 1824.

Source: http://www.uelbicentennial.org/details.php?id=21

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Johannes Wendel Weigele's Timeline

1753
1753
Freie Stadt Frankfurt-am-Main, Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
1778
December 21, 1778
Little York, York County, Pennsylvania, United States
1781
December 17, 1781
Little York, York County, Pennsylvania, United States
1782
1782
Little York, York County, Pennsylvania, United States
1784
1784
Little York, York County, Pennsylvania, United States
1788
1788
Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
1789
April 14, 1789
(Present Ontario), Province of Quebec (Present Canada)
1791
March 22, 1791
Gosfield Township, Essex County, Ontario, Canada
1793
June 20, 1793
Gosfield Township, Essex County, Ontario, Canada