Notes for Charles MICKLE

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Notes for Charles MICKLE

Sources: Family tree done by Harriet Thurtell about 1900, Thurtell Family History done by Irene Thurtell Peters about 1963, and the History of the Thurtell Family done by Susan Persia Thurtell about 1968, all in possession of Susan Persia Thurtell Miller.

It is very possible that this Charles Mickle is the one listed in the 1871 Ontario Census Index - File //Wellington/Wellington 59, Line 44. It shows Charles Mickle, age 58, born in England, religion: Canadian Presbyterian, paternal ethnic origin: English, Lumber Merchant, District 033, Subdistrict B, Division 2, page 3900.

Information received from Charlotte Mackie in 1997 includes the following information about Charles and Ellen Mickle, which had been provided by Grace Mickle Harper at the Wellington County Archives, Fergus: "They were married in Guelph in 1844, lived for a few years at Puslinch where he lumbered, they then moved to Elora Road 3 miles from Guelph. They had 13 children - one girl died in infancy, 6 girls & 6 boys grew up at "Langholme" the family residence. Their children attended school & Grammar school in Guelph, later the University of Toronto & Art school. Many of the children married & settled in Toronto where their families grew up. Two girls & two boys were unmarried. After the father's death the family had moved & lived at 10 Queens Park Toronto near the University. Mrs. Mickle died in October 1882 at her home 18 Grenville St. One grandson a doctor lived in England & was medical advisor to the Queen. Sir Arthur Ellis. Many of grandfather Mickle's brothers and sisters married & lived in the Guelph area. The Dr. Howitt families & the Passmore families."

Charles Mickle is listed in the 1857 Canada Directory by John Lovell as a lumberer in Puslinch, Wellington. This listing is shown in "Directory of the Province of Ontario 1857" by Thomas B. Wilson and Emily S. Wilson, Hunterdon House, Lambertville, NJ, 1987 (R929.3713 WIL at the Wheaton, Illinois, library).

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