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An American Family History

Lebeous Philip Wickware

 

Wickware also spelled Wickwire, Wickwise
Alpheus
was a river god in Greek mythology.
Lebbeus (Laboris, Lebeus, Lebius, Lebeous, Libeous, Libious) is from the Bible. It means a man of heart.

 
 

Lebbeus Philip Wickware was born on November 18, 1817, at Mallorytown, Leeds County, Ontario. He was the son of Philip Wickware.

He married Catherine Mallory (1815) on May 25, 1837.

Mercy Thomas Wickware (1838),
Alphoose (Alpheus) Wickware ( 1840),
William Wickware (1842),
Albert Wickware (1845)
Almon Wickware (1845)
Henry Sheldon Wickware (1849),
Mercy Wickware (married of Samuel Elliott),
Mary Matilda Wickware (1847, married Sheldon T. Kinyon),
Henry S. Wickware,
Charles Sidney Wickware (1852), 
Edward Thomas Wickware (1856), and
Lebbeus Wickware (1861).

They moved to Elington, Tuscola County, Michigan in 1870.

He died on March 4, 1877.

Catherine died on March, 22, 1888, at Ellington.

The Battle of the Windmill was in November, 1838. Loyalists defeated an invasion attempt by Hunter Patriots, led by  Nils von Schoultz, who were attempting to overthrow British rule. The battle was at a windmill two miles east of Prescott.

Windmill

The first European settlements in Ontario were after the American Revolution when 5,000 loyalists left the new United States.

     
 

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