John Young Nelles (1802 - 1846)

Born 2 Mar 1802 in Jarvis, Upper Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Rachel Elizabeth (Cockcroft) Nelles — married 7 Jun 1826 in Chippawa, Lincoln, Upper Canada

Descendants

Died 12 Dec 1846 at age 44 in York, Seneca, Haldimand, Canada West

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Biography

John was born and raised on the Grand River.^[1] In 1826 he married Rachel Cockcroft at Chippewa and settled there, near to his wife's three siblings.^[2]
In 1831 he would hire a young farmhand recently arrived in Upper Canada by the name of Orlando Rutherford. Orlando had only worked for Nelles for a couple of months when the death of John's brother in law James required John to replace Orlando with an orphaned nephew.^[3] Rachel's other brother, Dr. Lonsdale Cockcroft would die six months later, and not long after, the family moved back to the Grand River.^[4]
John himself would die at the young age of 44, leaving behind a wife and four children under the age of fourteen.^[5]

John served in the Canadian Militia as a Captain about 1830.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Early Church Records for the Niagara Peninsula, COPY OF REGISTER OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS, 1820 TO 1837, BY REV. WM. LEEMING.
2. ↑ Clan Waddell Genealogy, entry for John Nelles.
3. ↑ Letter from Eliza Fenwick to Reuben Moffat, Oct. 31, 1831.
4. ↑ 1842 Census of Canada West, Gore District, Brantford, Grand River Indian Reservation.
5. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #75943907
6. ↑ Nellis–Nelles, Immigrants From the Palatinate, 1710, Vol. 1, published in 1997 by The Nellis and Nelles Family Associations and the Herkimer County Historical Society, #413 page 104

Acknowledgments

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