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Descendants of Nichol Gass (1801 - Apr 1878)
and Jean Copeland (1803 - 1872)

Second Generation
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2. Thomas Gass. Son of Nichol Gass & Jean Copeland. Born 1825 in Scotland. Died 15 May 1889 in Harvey. Buried in Harvey Settlement Cemetery. Occupation Farmer. Religion Presbyterian.

 

    He married Mary Marshall. Born 1839 in Scotland. Died 18 Oct 1886 in Harvey. Buried in Harvey Settlement Cemetery. Religion Presbyterian.

 

    They had the following children:

  7   i.   Janet Ann Gass

  8   ii.   Jane Agnes Gass

  9   iii.   Elizabeth Gass

  10   iv.   Frances "Fannie" Gass

  11   v.   Nicholas Gass

  12   vi.   Thomas "Marshall" Gass

 

3. Joseph Gass. Son of Nichol Gass & Jean Copeland. Born Approx 1827 in Scotland.

    From the 1851 Census:   Joseph and his wife Isabella came to Canada in 1851,   Joseph was a labourer, and they were   living with Matthew Little when the Census was taken.   Joseph and Isabella were both 24 years old, and born in Scotland.

 

    Joseph and Isabella's children were born in Harvey, and they moved to USA (maybe Nebraska) sometime after February 1870 (the date of Janet Johnston Gass' birth).

    He married Isabella. Born Approx 1827 in Scotland.

 

    They had the following children:

  13   i.   Rachel Gass

  14   ii.   James Gass

  15   iii.   Jane Gass

  16   iv.   Nicholas (I) Gass

  17   v.   Mary Gass

  18   vi.   Nicholas (II) Gass

  19   vii.   Thomas Gass

  20   viii.   Joseph Gass

  21   ix.   Isabella Hannah Gass

  22   x.   Janet Johnston Gass

 

4. Jane Gass. Daughter of Nichol Gass & Jean Copeland. Born 1831 in Scotland. Died 1909 in Harvey. Buried in Harvey Settlement Cemetery. Religion Brethern.

    Jane came to NB in 1854.

 

    She married Herbert Wilkin. Born 1825 in England. Died 1894 in Harvey. Buried in Harvey Settlement Cemetery. Occupation Farmer. Religion Brethern.

 

    Herbert Wilkin and Jane Gass were married in England or Scotland, and their oldest three children were born in England.   It would appear that the family emigrated to N.B. sometime 1856 and 1858.  

 

    In the 1861 Census, their religion was Church of England; occupation - farmer; owned or occupied 4 acres of improved land and 196 acres of unimproved land.   They had 1 horse, 1 milch cow, 1 working oxen, 1 other neat cattle, 2 sheep, 2 swine; slaughtered 140 lb. pork; produced 20 lb. butter, 10 lb. wool, 1 ton hay off 3 acres; 80 bu. oats off 2 acres; 46 bu.buckwheat off 1 acre; 1 bu. timothy, and 200 bu. potatoes.

 

    Information from Census 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901; church records; gravestones in Harvey Cemetery; obituaries; and genealogy research   for other families in the area, was used to compile the Wilkin family.

 

    They had the following children:

  23   i.   Mary Elizabeth "Betsy" Wilkin

  24   ii.   Jane Agnes Wilkin

  25   iii.   John Wilkin

  26   iv.   Janet J. Wilkin

  27   v.   Mary H. Wilkin

  28   vi.   Nicholas Wilkin

  29   vii.   Eleanor I. "Ellen" Wilkin

  30   viii.   Margaret L. "Maggie" Wilkin

  31   ix.   Katherine Reynolds Wilkin

  32   x.   Beatrice Wilkin

  33   xi.   James Herbert Wilkin

 

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