James Wesley Kelley (1870 - 1928)

Born 9 Jul 1870 in Oakville, Halton, Ontario, Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (McKee) Kelley — married 1 Apr 1892 in Streetsville, Peel, Ontario, Canada

Descendants

Died 27 Feb 1928 at age 57 in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Marriage
9650-92 James Wesley KELLEY, 21, blacksmith, Oakville, same, s/o James & Eliza, married Maggie McKEE, 19, Cooksville, same, d/o John & Mary Ann, witn: John O. McGREGOR & R. J. M. GLASSFORD, both of Streetsville, 1 April 1982 at Manse, Streetsville.^[1]

Wesley and Maggie were witnesses at his sister Angelina's wedding in 1890, two years before they got married themselves.

• Birth Certificate #06808 = Wesley was born at home at his parents house on George/Dunn St area
• While married he lived at Front/George St who he sold to his brother and then to Colborne St
• Wesley was listed as a bicycle merchant on his death certificate.
  
• Death Certificate #03578 = He died in 1928 in Hamilton General Hospital from an intestinal obstruction. His wife Maggie was informant at his death.
• Funeral Service will be held at his late residence on Colborne St. Oakville on Wednesday 29th inst at 3 o'clock. Interment in St. Judes Cemetery. Family and acquaintances will be accepted.
• Wesley had a patent on the bicycle

• My grandfather went by Wesley by his only granddaughter Barbara Eleanor Kelley-Howell

Sources

1. ↑ 1892 Ontario Marriages from Ontario Archives, microfilm MS 932.

• Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1913, Archives of Ontario; Series: MS929; Reel: 2, Halton, 1870.

• 1871 Census of Canada, Oakville, Halton, Ontario; Roll: C-9956; Page: 38; Family No: 143.

• 1881 Census of Canada, Oakville, Halton, Ontario; Roll: C_13257; Page: 6; Family No: 30.

• 1891 Census of Canada, Oakville, Halton, Ontario; Roll: T-6341; Family No: 121.

• 1901 Census of Canada, Oakville (Town/Ville), Halton, Ontario; Page: 2; Family No: 16.

• Cited in Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1913, Archives of Ontario; Series: MS929; Reel: 185, Halton, 1907.

• 1911 Census of Canada, 26 - Oakville, Halton, Ontario; Page: 10; Family No: 100.

• "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J67V-V46 : accessed 5 November 2015), Jas. Wesley Kelley in entry for Jessie Estelle Kelley, 02 Nov 1912; citing Oakville, Halton, Ontario, yr 1912 cn 14901, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,854,857.

• Cited as next of kin in Canada, Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1918, entry for James Byron Kelly, Regiment Number: 3233723.

• "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JNVX-QR7 : accessed 5 November 2015), James Wesley Kelley in entry for Eliza Gertrude Evelyne Kelley, 07 Nov 1918; citing Oakville, Ontario, Canada, yr 1918 cn 18973, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,862,881.

• 1921 Census of Canada, RG 31; Folder Number: 61; Census Place: Oakville (Town), Halton, Ontario; Page Number: 12.

• Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938 and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947, Archives of Ontario; Series: MS935; Reel: 366, Wentworth, 1928.
• My grandfather Wesley cuz his fathers name was James