Person Page - 5160

Ruth Gorton¹

• Birth*: circa 1771; West Greenwich, Kent Co., Rhode Island, U.S.A.; per family tree of bonnie stoughton on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹
• Marriage*: 29 June 1788; West Greenwich, Kent Co., Rhode Island, U.S.A.; per family tree of bonnie stoughton on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.; Principal=Benjamin Rouse¹
• Death*: circa 1864; Rhode Island, U.S.A.; per family tree of bonnie stoughton on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹

• Married Name: 29 June 1788; Rouse¹

Mary Jane Wimbles¹

• Father*: John Wimbles¹ b. 20 Oct 1813, d. 17 Nov 1881
• Mother*: Agnes Johnston¹ b. 1806, d. c 1846

• Birth*: 17 July 1845; Scotland; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹
• Marriage*: 1866; Brighton, Northumberland Co., Canada West; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.; Principal=John Dougald Clouston¹

• Married Name: 1866; Clouston¹

John Wimbles¹

• Birth*: 20 October 1813; Canonbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1835; Scotland; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.; Principal=Agnes Johnston¹
• Marriage*: 29 April 1844; Hamilton Twp., Northumberland Co., Canada West; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.; Principal=Margaret Service¹
• Death*: 17 November 1881; Northumberland Co., Ontario; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹

Agnes Johnston¹

• Birth*: 1806; Middlebie, Dumprhriesshire, Scotland; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1835; Scotland; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.; Principal=John Wimbles¹
• Death*: circa 1846; Scotland¹

• Married Name: circa 1835; Wimbles¹

Margaret Service¹

• Birth*: 7 February 1811; Saint Mungo, Dumphriesshire, Scotland; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹
• Marriage*: 29 April 1844; Hamilton Twp., Northumberland Co., Canada West; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.; Principal=John Wimbles¹
• Death*: 11 September 1904; Murray Twp., Northumberland Co., Ontario; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹

• Married Name: 29 April 1844; Wimbles¹

Samuel Jarvis Maybee¹

• Father*: Benjamin Maybee¹ b. c 1790, d. 31 Mar 1874
• Mother*: Elizabeth Ann Mastin¹ b. 1794

• Birth*: 13 September 1829; Hamilton Twp., Northumberland Co., Upper Canada; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹
• Marriage*: 1857; Canada West; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.; Principal=Margaret Agnes Wimbles¹
• Death*: 18 March 1901; Hamilton Twp., Northumberland Co., Ontario; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹

Margaret Agnes Wimbles¹

• Father*: John Wimbles b. 20 Oct 1813, d. 17 Nov 1881
• Mother*: Agnes Johnston b. 1806, d. c 1846

• Birth*: 1836; Middlebie, Dumphriesshire, Scotland; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹
• Marriage*: 1857; Canada West; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.; Principal=Samuel Jarvis Maybee¹
• Death*: 23 October 1872; Port Hope, Durham Co., Ontario; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹

• Married Name: 1857; Maybee¹

Francis Wimbles^1,2,3,4

• Father*: John Wimbles² b. 20 Oct 1813, d. 17 Nov 1881
• Mother*: Agnes Johnston² b. 1806, d. c 1846

• Birth*: 28 April 1839; Middlebie, Dumphriesshire, Scotland; Date Apr 28 1839 & location Scotland per CemSearch. Date 1839 & location Scotland per Death Reg'n. Date Apr 28 1837 & location Middlebie, Dumprhiesshire, Scoltand per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.^2,4,3
• Marriage*: circa 1866; Canada West; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.; Principal=Eleanor Jane Cockburn²
• Death*: 17 September 1914; Hamilton Twp., Baltimore, Northumberland Co., Ontario; Deasth Reg'n.#022308: Name: Francis Wimbles; Date: Sep 17 1914; Age: 75y; Res.: Conc 2, Lot 6, Hamilton Twp.; Born: Scotland; Occ.: shoemaker; Status: widower; Parents: John Wimbles & Agnes Johnston; Cause: tuberculosis, 3m; Phys.: Edgar Hayden; Inf.: Adam Wimbles, Baltimore; Reg'd.: Sep 18 1914; Reg'r: J.D. ?Stewart?, Hamilton Twp., Northumberland Co. (Ontario Death Registration, #022308-1914, ancestry.ca)
  Date Sep 20 1914 per CemSearch. Date Sep 17 1914 per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.^2,4,5
• Burial*: 19 September 1914; Baltimore Presbyterian Cemetery, Hamilton Twp., Baltimore, Northumberland Co., Ontario; CemSearch: Name: Francis Wimbles; Born: 1839; Died: Sep 20 1914; Age: 74y 4m 23d; ID: BLTPRS47; Other names: Wimbles, Eleanor Jane [Cockburn] (1849-1911), Wimbles, James (1895-1913); Cemetery: Baltimore Presbyterian Cemetery, Conc 3, Lot 1, Hamilton Twp., Baltimore Village, Northumberland Co., Sec A Row 03 Plot 11A; Note: Born Scotland; came to Canada in 1842. Husband of Eleanor J. (Cockburn) Wimbles. In Baltimore 65 years. Many years postmaster (shoemaker). (https://www.cemsearch.ca/burial/?pid=BLTPRS47%5E0)⁴

• Immigration*: 1842; Canada West; Came to Canada 1842 per CemSearch.⁴

Eleanor Jane Cockburn¹

• Father*: Adam Cockburn¹ b. 1820, d. b 1861
• Mother*: Elizabeth Gillies¹ b. 1812

• Birth*: 1 December 1849; Canada West; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1866; Canada West; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.; Principal=Francis Wimbles¹
• Death*: 13 September 1911; Hamilton Twp., Baltimore, Northumberland Co., Ontario; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹

• Married Name: circa 1866; Wimbles¹

Adam Cockburn¹

• Father*: James Cockburn¹ b. 29 Mar 1787, d. 18 Jul 1832
• Mother*: (?) Sarah Turnbull¹ b. 30 Aug 1797, d. 18 Jan 1867

• Birth*: 1820; England; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1840; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.; Principal=Elizabeth Gillies¹
• Death*: before 1861; Hamilton Twp., Northumberland Co., Canada West; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹

Elizabeth Gillies¹

• Birth*: 1812; Scotland; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹
• Marriage*: circa 1840; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.; Principal=Adam Cockburn¹

• Married Name: circa 1840; Cockburn¹

James Cockburn¹

• Birth*: 29 March 1787; Berwickshire, Scotland; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹
• Marriage*: 6 January 1818; Wooler, Northumberland Co., England; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.; Principal=(?) Sarah Turnbull¹
• Death*: 18 July 1832; Montreal, Quebec; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹

(?) Sarah Turnbull¹

• Birth*: 30 August 1797; Chrinside, Berwick, Scotland; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹
• Marriage*: 6 January 1818; Wooler, Northumberland Co., England; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.; Principal=James Cockburn¹
• Death*: 18 January 1867; Toronto, York Co., Ontario; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹

• Married Name: 6 January 1818; (?) Cockburn¹

James Cockburn¹

• Father*: James Cockburn¹ b. 29 Mar 1787, d. 18 Jul 1832
• Mother*: (?) Sarah Turnbull¹ b. 30 Aug 1797, d. 18 Jan 1867

• Birth*: 13 February 1819; Berwickshire on Tweed, England; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹
• Marriage*: 14 December 1854; Canada West; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.; Principal=Isabella Susan Patterson¹
• Death*: 14 August 1883; Cobourg, Northumberland Co., Ontario; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹
• Burial*: 17 August 1883; St. James Cemetery, Toronto, York Co., Ontario; FindaGrave: Name: James W. Cockburn; Birth: 13 Feb 1819, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland Unitary Authority, Northumberland, England; Death: 14 Aug 1883 (aged 64), Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada; Burial
  St. James Cemetery, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; Plot: Lots 49-54, Section V; Memorial ID: 58747660; Note: "COCKBURN, JAMES, lawyer, businessman, and politician; b. 13 Feb. 1819 at Berwick upon Tweed, England, son of James Cockburn, a merchant, and Sarah Turnbull; m. 14 Dec. 1854 Isabella Susan Patterson (d. 1862), and they had three children; d. 14 Aug. 1883 at Ottawa, Ont.
  James Cockburn's family was of Scottish Presbyterian origin although Cockburn himself was a member of the Church of England by the 1860s. He received his early education at a grammar school in Berwick upon Tweed. In 1832 he came with his family, which seems to have had some financial resources, to Montreal, Lower Canada, where his father died of cholera in the same year. Sarah Cockburn then moved her family to York (Toronto), Upper Canada, and in 1832-33 James continued his education at Upper Canada College.
  Cockburn began to study law in 1841 and was admitted to the bar in 1846. He then moved to Cobourg and in July of that year began to practise in partnership with D'Arcy Edward Boulton. Cockburn was also involved in other business activities in Cobourg and the surrounding area. In 1856 he was employing men for the construction of a dam, slide, booms, and piers at Campbellford on the Trent River and he was also the Cobourg agent for the Colonial Life Assurance Company. From 1864 to 1870 he acted as mortgage and land agent for Richard John Cartwright*.
  Meanwhile Cockburn's legal practice was declining. In 1863 he had been appointed a qc and the following year was elected a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada. By then, however, he was involved in politics and these accolades were probably more political than professional honours; he was not a prominent lawyer. His business affairs also ran into difficulties. In 1864 he tried to borrow money on the security of his Cobourg properties but land values had fallen sharply. By 1866 he was virtually bankrupt and he was never able to restore his financial position. In 1869, admitting that his legal career was in jeopardy, he explained his plight to Cartwright: "I have come to grief and have been made to feel very poor and very penniless. . . . I am trying to work up my professional practice again, but it needs time, and time though it may heal will also kill."
  Cockburn was more successful in politics. He served on the Cobourg Town Council in 1855-56 and in 1859. In 1861 he successfully contested Northumberland West against Sidney Smith, postmaster general in the government of George-Étienne Cartier* and John A. Macdonald*. Cockburn was described by Macdonald in 1861 as "a Tory of the old school. In fact, [you] might say he belonged to the old fossil party - a Tory of the old Family Compact . . . ." Promising in the campaign that "If elected my vote shall be given unhesitatingly against [the ministry] on every question involving want of confidence," Cockburn endorsed representation by population and sought unity of political opinion in Canada West in order to accomplish for it "the objectives we frequently desire." Although he voted in favour of the government's militia bill, on which the Cartier-Macdonald ministry was defeated in May 1862, he explained that this support was not an expression of "his confidence" in Macdonald. He endorsed portions of the policy of the new administration formed by John Sandfield Macdonald* and Louis-Victor Sicotte but never committed himself to the Reform ministry. After his election by acclamation in 1863 he emerged as a supporter of John A. Macdonald and remained a Liberal-Conservative for the rest of his career. On 30 March 1864 he was appointed solicitor general in the government of Étienne-Paschal Taché* and John A. Macdonald.
  Cockburn was not a distinguished parliamentarian nor was he an important regional politician. He administered his portfolio in a routine manner, and attended to the patronage problems of his constituents. With the instability of union politics, which meant frequent change in cabinets, men such as Cockburn who would otherwise have remained obscure rose to ministerial rank. Cockburn had the good fortune to be in office when the "Great Coalition" was formed in 1864 [see George Brown*] and as a minister of the government became a delegate to the Quebec conference. His contributions to the proceedings and to the subsequent debates on confederation in the Legislative Assembly were negligible. Nevertheless, "an inferior man," as Alexander Mackenzie* privately called him, is remembered as a father of confederation." (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58747660/coc)²

Isabella Susan Patterson¹

• Birth*: 1838; Halifax, Nova Scotia; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹
• Marriage*: 14 December 1854; Canada West; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.; Principal=James Cockburn¹
• Death*: 29 April 1862; York Mills, York Co., Canada West; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹

• Married Name: 14 December 1854; Cockburn¹

Sarah Isabella Cockburn¹

• Father*: James Cockburn¹ b. 13 Feb 1819, d. 14 Aug 1883
• Mother*: Isabella Susan Patterson¹ b. 1838, d. 29 Apr 1862

• Birth*: circa 1857; Canada West; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹
• Death*: 1911; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹

Francis Cockburn¹

• Father*: James Cockburn¹ b. 13 Feb 1819, d. 14 Aug 1883
• Mother*: Isabella Susan Patterson¹ b. 1838, d. 29 Apr 1862

• Birth*: 1858; Canada West; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹

May Cockburn¹

• Father*: James Cockburn¹ b. 13 Feb 1819, d. 14 Aug 1883
• Mother*: Isabella Susan Patterson¹ b. 1838, d. 29 Apr 1862

• Birth*: 1859; Canada West; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹

George Cockburn¹

• Father*: Adam Cockburn¹ b. 1820, d. b 1861
• Mother*: Elizabeth Gillies¹ b. 1812

• Birth*: circa 1842; Berwickshire, Scotland; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestry.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹

Adam John Wimbles¹

• Father*: Francis Wimbles¹ b. 28 Apr 1839, d. 17 Sep 1914
• Mother*: Eleanor Jane Cockburn¹ b. 1 Dec 1849, d. 13 Sep 1911

• Birth*: 12 January 1867; Hamilton Twp., Northumberland Co., Canada West; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestyr.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹
• Marriage*: 8 November 1893; Toronto, York Co., Ontario; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestyr.ca, Sep 3 2024.; Principal=Catherine Alice Malone¹
• Death*: 15 October 1930; Toronto, York Co., Ontario; per family tree of margaret1701 on ancestyr.ca, Sep 3 2024.¹

• Residence*: 18 September 1914; Baltimore, Northumberland Co., Ontario; Informant for Death Reg'n. of his father Francis Wimples.²