William W Nelles (1794 - 1865)

Born 21 Jun 1794 in Jarvis, Haldimand, Upper Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Sophia (Clement) Nelles — married 20 Jan 1820 in Upper Canada

Descendants

Died 23 Jan 1865 at age 70 in York, Haldimand, Canada West

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Biography

He appears in the 1842 census on the Grand River Indian Reservation. The government had opened the area to settlement in 1832. Among his neighbours were his brother Warner H. Nelles, two first cousins, once removed John A Nelles and William H. Nelles, his second cousins Phillip Wintermute and David Young, and Thomas Runchey, whose wife was a first cousin.
William was an Officer in the 1837-8 Canadian Rebellion.

Sources

• 1842 Census of Canada West, Gore District, Brantford, Grand River Indian Reservation.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #75891410
• Nellis–Nelles, Immigrants From the Palatinate, 1710, Vol. 1, published in 1997 by Nellis and Nelles Family Associations and Herkimer County Historical Society #410, p. 103

Acknowledgments

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