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Joseph Orchard

Born about 1792 in Bath, Somerset, England

Son of Robert Orchard and Ann (Bishop) Orchard

[sibling(s) unknown]

Husband of Mary (Beedham) Orchard — married about 1817 in Ballanahunch Co., Down, Ireland

Descendants

Father of Sarah (Orchard) Warnica, Thomas Orchard and Joseph Eldon Zephir Orchard

Died 3 Apr 1865 at about age 73 in Innisfil, Simcoe, Canada West

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JOSEPH ORCHARD

JOSEPH ORCHARD was born in 1792 and Baptized on 26 February 1792, at Saint James Cathedral, Bath, Somerset, England. He was the son of ANN BISHOP and ROBERT ORCHARD.^[1]

In about 1817, in Ireland, he married MARY BEEDHAM born in 1803 at Ballynahinch, County Down, Ireland. She died on 11 December 1879 at Barrie, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada and is buried in St. Paul's Cemetery, Innisfil, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.

Their children were

SARAH ORCHARD WARNICA (1818–1889)
THOMAS ORCHARD (1822–1895)
ELIZABETH ORCHARD (1823–1823)
WILLIAM ORCHARD (1825–1877)
ROBERT ORCHARD (1828–1865)
JOSEPH ELDON ZEPHIR ORCHARD (1833–1920)
HANNAH ORCHARD CROSBY (1838–1916)
MARTHA ANN ORCHARD LEWIS (1841–1905)

ORCHARD FAMILY in Innisfil

Posted to Ancestry.com May 2, 2008, by scorahic

Taken from and with thanks and credit to:

"Orchard Family History" as written on the Warnica Family Website found at this url:

http://ca.geocities.com/billwarnica/index.html :

The object of our gathering here today is to commemorate the Centenary of the settlement of our ancestors, Joseph Orchard and his wife, on the south half of Lot 40 in the 11th Concession of the Township of Innisfil, County of Simcoe. Not much is known of Joseph Orchard's history, apart from a few facts contained in a brief sketch written by his son, Robert in 1862. Here it is stated that, Joseph Orchard was a native of Somrsetshire, in the southwest of England. When only about 19 he enlisted in the British Army, contrary to the wishes of his friends who "bought him off',' twice. Soon after, he with others was sent to join the 68th Regiment, then in Spain.

He was not in any general engagement, but was given an idea of what fighting meant in several skirmishes in which he took part. He traveled through a good part of Spain, over the Pyrenees mountains, and through part of France. His Regiment was then sent to Ireland, and being quartered for sometime in the town of Ballanahinch, County Down, he became acquainted with Mary Beedham and married her; she was only about fourteen years of age.

After travelling through the greater part of Ireland, and residing for some time in the city of Dublin, the 68th was ordered to America. This was in 1818. His wife followed in about a year with their child, and they resided in many of the frontier towns and cities of Canada. In 1831 Joseph Orchard procured his discharge from the army. He thus forfeited his pension but was entitled to 200 acres of land, but he only received 100 through some wrong in the Ordnance Department. He had been in the army seventeen years, being a non-commissioned officer for eleven years. At the time of his discharge, and for several years previously, he had been a Corporal, and sort of body servant to Col. William Johnston.

The Orchard family lived in Toronto during the outbreak of Asiatic Cholera in 1832. The mother and two eldest children, Sarah and Thomas, were seized with the disease, but through the goodness of God and the skill of Dr. Birnie, they recovered quickly. In the fall of 1833 they came to Innisfil. There was but one road through the township, little better than the path of the deer, or the trail of the Indian. It is now the crowded Highway No. 11. The forest was everywhere, with here and there a small clearing with a log shanty. The Orchards stayed with a brother soldier, William Booth, until a shanty could be erected on their own farm. It was a rude oblong structure of rough logs, "notched" and "saddled" at the corners, cob-roofed and clapboarded. It contained but one room, 18 x 14, which did duty as kitchen, dining room, parlour and bedroom. This was the general style of house at the time. Some were even smaller.

A frame house was the "ne plus ultra", of luxury, dignity and opulence. In the later years they lived on a 14-acre lot east of the Simcoe, Huron and Ontario Railway (afterwards G.T.R. now C.N.R.), which was built through in 1853.

The families of John and Edward Guest are part of the Orchard family, being related through Mrs. John and Mrs. Edward Guest (Elizabeth and Henrietta Jobbitt) ,whose mother was Mary Warnica, a daughter of Sarah Orchard.

Here occurred the sad accident which closed the career of Joseph Orchard, on April 3rd, 1865, at the age of seventy-three. The details are given in his son Robert's journal -

"As father and mother sat at dinner the train whistle blew strongly, and one of the crew pointed to the roof of the house which was on fire. Father ran to the barn for a ladder; mother tried to persuade him not to go up as he was not well. He asked her to bring pails of water, and when she returned she found him lying on the ground dead, with his neck dislocated. She shouted frantically but it was 15 or 20 minutes before anyone came. The fire was extinguished, however."

Joseph was a kind, friendly, single-minded and honest man, and for some years deeply and truly pious. The funeral service was conducted at the house by Rev. A. Langford, Methodist Minister, and at the Anglican Church by the Rev. Canon Morgan, who pronounced a high eulogium on Joseph as a Christian. Mary, his wife, passed away in 1880, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Crosby of Barrie. Their family were as follows:

1. Sarah, born in Dublin, Ireland in May 1818, married William D. Warnica (son of George Frederick Hanning Wernecke) of Innisfil. Her friends congratulated her on the fact that he was taking her to a frame house. They had thirteen children: Orchard, Hanning, Mina, Phoebe, Mary, Lizzie, Wesley, Tom, Leila, Lynn, Josie (Josephine), Laura and Darcy. Their home was said to be the jolliest and most hospitable in the community. Joseph William Orchard Warnica married Jane Wilson, Hanning Warnica married Mary Anne Metcalf, Mary Catherine Warnica married Edmund Jobbitt, Elizabeth B. Warnica married Thomas Mckee, Thomas B. Warnica married Christina Reid, Williamina (Mina) Warnica married William Elliott, Phoebe Hanna Warnica married John Sibbald and moved to Wisconsin, Josephine Warnica married William J. Crozier and moved to Wisconsin, W. D. Wesley Warnica married Jennie L. Carmichael, Darcy Warnica married Lavinius Henry Luck on January 03, 1881, Laura Ann Warnica married William J. Crozier in Wisconsin, (Robert) Lynn Warnica moved to Helena Montana and Leila Emily Warnica who died at fourteen months of age.

2. Thomas, born at Niagara, married Sarah Wilson of Craigvale. He served as deputy-reeve of the township for at least one term, but in 1877 took his family to Sylvan valley. A number of the descendants are living in the surrounding district. There were four sons and seven daughters: Joseph, Thomas, Frank, Findley, Sarah, Annie, Emily, Minnie, Mathilda, Hannah and Maria,.

3. William was born at Queenston and married Fanny McCullough, having a family of six daughters and two sons: Wilhelmina, Mary Jane, Lizzie, Hester, Fanny, Minnie, Orlando and Joseph; William was a carpenter; some of his work is still standing. He was choir leader in the Methodist church, and after his death the members of the choir placed a stone on his grave inscribed "Our Leader".

4. Elizabeth died at the age of six months.

5. Robert, born at Amherstburg (Fort Malden) married Sarah Soules (daughter of James Soules) of Big Bay Point. He taught school at Stroud from January lst,1853 until within three weeks of his death on November At, Nov. 4 1865. At one time there were 156 names on his school roll, with an average attendance of 63. He was active in church work, being a local preacher, recording steward and Sunday School teacher. After his death at the early age of thirty-seven, his public school pupils erected a stone on his grave, with the inscription "Our Teacher". The children were John Oscar, Lavina, Alice, Elizabeth, Bertha and Hattie.

6. Joseph, born in Quebec, married Salina Long of Bondhead in 1855, and a few years later took his wife and children to Minesing, in the township of Vespra, to hew out a home in the bush. He took the first team of horses, buggy and sleigh into the neighbourhood. He was active in church work, being the first superintendent of the Sunday school. He was also the first trustee of the public school, a Justice of the Peace for a number of years, and was a director in the Barrie Agricultural Society for over a quarter of a century. His specialty at the county fairs was fruit, taking many prizes. He had three sons and three daughters Wesley, Albert, Milton, Amanda, Allie, Melissa. The homestead is still in the family.

7. Elizabeth, born in Innisfil, married Thomas Hurst, a cabinet maker and had a family of six sons and one daughter, Allie, who died in childhood. None of the sons is now living.

8. Hannah, born in Innisfil, married W. H. Crosby of Whitby who kept a livery in Barrie for years, later moving to Toronto. They had one daughter, Olive.

9. Martha Ann, also born in Innisfil married T. L. L. Lewis of Cookstown, who followed the profession of teacher, insurance, travelling salesman for the E. B. Crompton Company, and later carried on a large mercantile business in Chatam. The family consisted of three sons and two daughters: Osric, Fred, Jot, Elmira and Lillie. Osric, the eldest son, was a prominent lawyer and KC. Some of the male descendants served their country in the Great War, thus carrying on the soldierly traditions. We cannot estimate the debt we owe to our ancestors, who faced the dangers and trials of a new untried land, with such fine courage. They have left to us a spiritual heritage of loyalty to God and Country, up-rightness of life and honesty of purpose, that we must retain if we would be victorious as they, in the battle of life.

Descendants of Robert Orchard

1 Robert Orchard

.+ Ann Bishop m: January 25, 1790 in St. James , Bath, Somerset, England

... 2 Joseph Orchard b: 1792 in Borad Oaks, Somersetshire England d: April 03, 1865

.......+Mary Beedham b: About 1803 in Ballinahinch , Ireland also 1796 m: 1817 in Ballinahinch County Down Ireland d: December 11, 1878 in Barrie , Ontario (St.Paul's Cemetery)

......... 3 Thomas Orchard b: 1822 in Niagara d: 1886

............. +Sarah Wilson b: 1829 in Craigvale m: in Innisfil d: 1881

............... 4 Annie Orchard

............... 4 Minnie Orchard

............... 4 Maria Orchard b: 1846 d: 1917

............... 4 Joseph Orchard b: 1848 d: 1920

................... +Mary Janet Tomlinson b: 1861 d: 1938

............... 4 Frank Orchard b: 1850 d: Abt. September 11, 1904 in Reported in the diary of Alice Rebecca Maneer

................... +Margaret Lougheed b: 1860

............... 4 Sarah Orchard b: 1856 d: July 29, 1924 in at the home of her son, Mr. Donald Bell, Gordon Lake Algoma

................... +Farquhar Bell b: 1846 in Oro Twp. Ontario m: September 12, 1873 in Angus d: Abt. 1922

............... 4 Thomas Orchard b: 1861 d: 1879

............... 4 Emily Orchard b: Abt. 1864

............... 4 Hanna Orchard b: 1865 d: 1901

............... 4 Findley James Orchard b: 1866 d: 1930

................... +Sarah Ellen Hodgkinson

............... 4 Mathilda Orchard b: Abt. 1868

......... 3 Elizabeth Orchard d: in died at 6 months of age.

......... 3 Elizabeth Orchard

............. +Thomas Hurst

............... 4 Six Sons Hurst b: November 21, 1854

............... 4 Daughter Hurst d: in died as a young girl

......... 3 Hannah Orchard

............. +? Corner

......... *2nd Husband of Hannah Orchard:

............. +William Henry Crosby b: Abt. 1835 in Whitby (Joseph Orchard's will shows name as William Harvey Crosby m: May 01, 1864 in Victoria (Stroud)

............... 4 Olive Crosby

................... +J. C. Mitchell

......... 3 Martha Ann Orchard b: Abt. 1841

............. +Thomas Luther Lewis b: Abt. 1841 in Cookstown m: February 13, 1862 in Queensville

............... 4 Osric Leander Lewis b: Abt. 1863

............... 4 Fred Lewis

............... 4 Joshua (Jot) Lewis b: Abt. 1870

............... 4 Elmira Lewis b: Abt. 1865

............... 4 Lillie Lewis b: Abt. 1867

......... 3 JOSEPH ORCHARD b: April 11, 1833 in Quebec d: August 14, 1920

............. +SALINA LONG b: June 12, 1835 in Bondhead m: 1855 d: January 15, 1909

............... 4 John Wesley Orchard b: March 25, 1856 in Fisher's Corners Ont. d: October 31, 1929

................... +Ann Henderson Ronald b: July 29, 1858 m: December 26, 1882 in Baptist Church, Minesing by Rev. Holmes d: December 12, 1940

............... 4 Albert Clarkson Orchard b: December 03, 1858 d: April 03, 1926

................... +Armina Melissa Jones b: June 12, 1864 d: April 18, 1935

............... *2nd Wife of Albert Clarkson Orchard:

................... +Eliza Jane Tracy b: August 27, 1859 m: January 11, 1882 in Barrie d: December 26, 1887

............... 4 Milton R. Orchard d: 1940

................... +Margaret E. Jones b: January 21 d: 1930

............... 4 Amanda S. Orchard b: October 09, 1863 d: March 09, 1914

...................+Harry Burdge b: September 28, 1848 d: August 04, 1935

............... 4 Allie Orchard

............... 4 Melissa Evangeline Orchard

...................+John A Marshall m: March 08, 1898

............... 4 Herbert Orchard d: December 11, 1886

............... 4 Lambert Orchard d: December 11, 1876

............... 4 George Orchard d: November 30, 1884

......... 3 Sarah Orchard b: May 1818 in Dublin Ireland d: February 17, 1889 in St. James ,Innisfil, Ontario

.............+William Daniel Warnica b: January 09, 1814 in Salina , New York d: January 09, 1876 in At his home on Con. 11 Innisfil

............... 4 Joseph William Orchard Warnica b: October 01, 1834 in Innisfil d: May 25, 1901 in St. Pauls , Innisfil

...................+Hanna Lewis b: 1840 in Essa Twp. m: March 08, 1865 d: October 08, 1867 in Innisfil Ont.

...............*2nd Wife of Joseph William Orchard Warnica:

...................+Jane Wilson b: September 22, 1850 in Innisfil Township, Ontario m: March 20, 1873 in St. Paul's Church, Innisfil d: December 14, 1904 in St. Pauls , Innisfil

............... 4 George Frederic Hanning Warnica b: November 23, 1837 in Innisfil d: October 25, 1915 in St. Pauls , Innisfil

...................+Mary Anne Metcalf b: June 07, 1839 in King Township m: March 22, 1865 in County: Simcoe Microfilm Roll: 1030064 d: April 28, 1907 in St. Pauls , Innisfil

............... 4 Elizabeth Beedham Warnica b: December 17, 1840 d: December 02, 1901

...................+Thomas Mckee b: March 26, 1836 in Cork Ireland (pos. County Down?) m: October 19, 1870 in St. Paul's Innisfil, Rev Murphy d: April 19, 1913 in Evergreen Cemetery, Oconto , Wisconsin

............... 4 Thomas Beedham Warnica b: 1844 in Innisfil d: May 28, 1874 in Died in Thunder Bay,

...................+Christina Ellen Reid b: 1841 in Oro m: October 23, 1867 d: October 03, 1875 in Oro

............... 4 Mary Catherine Warnica b: September 10, 1844 in Innisfil d: August 10, 1879 in St. James Cemetery

...................+Edmund Henry Jobbitt b: November 12, 1834 in York County m: October 05, 1865 d: September 21, 1912 in St. James ,Innisfil, Ontario

............... 4 Sarah Williamina (Mina) Warnica b: September 08, 1846 in Innisfil d: November 18, 1932 in Bethel Cemetery , Morrison Township

...................+William Jefferson Elliott b: February 17, 1842 in Rochester, New York 1841? m: April 18, 1863 in by Thomas Wightman, Presbyterian Minister for Innisfil and Barrie d: September 24, 1925 in Bethel Cemetery , Morrison Township, (between Orillia & Gravenhurst)

............... 4 Phoebe Hanna Warnica b: June 09, 1848 in Innisfil d: November 23, 1931 in Grand view Wiscon.

...................+John Sibbald b: November 18, 1845 m: March 30, 1870 in St. Paul's , Innisfil, Rev. Edward Murphy d: October 08, 1920 in Grand view Wiscon.

............... 4 Josephine Margaret Warnica b: March 11, 1850 in Innisfil, Ontario d: July 25, 1888 in Oconto, Wisconsin

................... +[1] William James Crozier b: June 02, 1843 in Ireland, Newtonard ( Co. Armagh?) m: October 02, 1872 in St. Paul's Church, Innisfil d: December 06, 1922 in Evergreen Cemetery, Oconto , Wisconsin

............... 4 William Daniel Wesley Warnica b: June 1852 in Innisfil d: June 08, 1896 in Lakeview Cemetery , Gravenhurst Ontario

...................+Jennie L. Carmichael b: March 08, 1850 m: January 20, 1875 in Darligton, Northumberland & Durham Co. d: May 30, 1929 in Lakeview Cemetery , Gravenhurst Ontario

............... 4 Martha Darcy Warnica b: May 31, 1854 in Innisfil d: January 09, 1908 in Union Cemetery , Calgary - unmarked

................... +Lavinius Henry Luck b: March 09, 1855 in Crown Hill m: January 03, 1881 in Barrie Methodist d: January 27, 1933

............... 4 Laura Ann Warnica b: February 21, 1856 in Innisfil d: February 07, 1921 in Evergreen Cemetery, Oconto , Wiscon.

................... +[1] William James Crozier b: June 02, 1843 in Ireland, Newtonard ( Co. Armagh?) m: September 12, 1889 in Oconto Wis. d: December 06, 1922 in Evergreen Cemetery, Oconto , Wisconsin

............... 4 (Robert) Lynn Warnica b: 1858 in Innisfil d: January 27, 1934 in Resurrection, Helena Montana

............... 4 Leila Emily Warnica b: June 1860 d: August 31, 1861 in St. James ,Innisfil, Ontario

......... 3 William Orchard b: Abt. 1826 in Queenston d: November 01, 1877 in St. James, Stroud , Archive Ref: #013768

.............+Fanny McCullough b: May 06, 1829

............... 4 Wilhelmina Orchard

............... 4 Mary Jane Orchard b: Abt. 1850

...................+John Wesley Jacobs b: Abt. 1847 m: March 29, 1871 in Innisfil

............... 4 Lizzie Orchard

............... 4 Hester Orchard

............... 4 Fanny Orchard

............... 4 Minnie Orchard

............... 4 Orlando Orchard

............... 4 Joseph Orchard

......... 3 Robert Orchard b: August 14, 1828 in Amherstberg (Old Fort Malden) d: November 04, 1865

............. +Sarah Soules b: February 19, 1829 m: June 22, 1852 in by Thomas Loury (record also shows 1853) d: January 24, 1904

............... 4 John Oscar Orchard b: 1854 d: August 22, 1854 in died as an infant, 4 weeks old

............... 4 Lavinia Jane Orchard b: May 29, 1858 in Stroud Ont. d: September 05, 1938 in RVH Barrie

............... 4 Alice Orchard b: 1860 d: 1903

................... +J. Dolan

............... 4 Elizabeth Orchard b: 1862 d: Bef. January 10, 1907 in Birmingham Alabama

............... 4 Bertha Orchard b: 1864 d: 1936

............... 4 Harriet (Hattie) Roberta Orchard b: February 26, 1866 d: August 18, 1950 in St. James , Stroud

............... 4 Fred Orchard b: in 1891 Innisfil census shows Fred as a son at this date???

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James Wilson, William McCullough and William Booth were soldiers of Irish birth, who in 1832 were disbanded from Niagara or Toronto and did not return to their native country but took up lands in this township.

With them was Joseph Orchard, a native of England, who also as a veteran soldier obtained land and turned his attention to farming in Innisfil. In the fall of each year when the turnip crop was ready to harvest, Mr. Orchard (and Mr. Wilson likewise) used his sword for "topping" the turnips, i.e., cutting the leaves off them, thus coming as near as possible to a fulfilment of Isaiah's prophecy that the sword shall be turned into a plough share, and the spear into a pruning hook. It was the writer's privilege once to find another sword in this county used as a stove-lid lifter.

A History of Simcoe County

By ANDREW F HUNTER

IN TWO VOLUMES

Volume II. — The Pioneers.

BARRIE, ONT. PUBLISHED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL 1909

Pages 63, 64

_____________________________________________________________

JOSEPH ORCHARD died on 3 April 1865, at Innisfil, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada, and he is buried in St. Paul's Cemetery, Innisfil, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada in Innisfil Township, Simcoe County, Canada West (Ontario).^[2]

Sources

↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3NV-KMQ : 5 February 2023), Joseph Orchard, 1792.
↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #99373351

Joseph Orchard (abt. 1792 - 1865)

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