Thomas Jack
ID # 7038, (1822-1905)
| Father | William Jack (1788-1860) |
| Mother | Mary Hood (1789-1867) |
| Birth | Thomas Jack was born on 2 August 1822 at Dalhousie Twp., Johnstown District, Upper Canada. |
| Marriage | He married Elizabeth Hood on 15 January 1850 at Innisfil Township, Simcoe County. MS248 reel 14, Vol. 62, pages 73-74 Simcoe 'County' Marriage Register Extracted from a list of marriages solemnized by William Fraser, United Presbyterian Minister Names of the parties: Thomas Jack and Elizabeth 'Wood' Township in which the ceremony is performed: Innisfil Date of ceremony: 15 Jany 1850 By Banns or Usual Notice: Banns Witnesses: William Jack and Adam Goodfellow A quibble: The Archives of Ontario microfilmed the above as being in a county marriage register with marriages dating from 1842 to 1858. Specialists in the topic show the Simcoe County marriage registers as beginning in 1858 and the previous one, namely this one, being a District Marriage Register, which is entirely reasonable. A more primary issue is that the bride's surname is shown as Wood. An examination of the handwriting indicates that this is how the registering clerk interpreted her name. Going by The 1861 census, which shows their eldest son, William, as age 11, and which is repeated similarly in the 1871 census, as well as the transcription of the gravestone in Sixth Line Cemetery, Innisfil, which shows Elizabeth's maiden name, we may reasonably say that her correct name was Hood. The William Jack who appears as a witness in the above marriage was surely Thomas' brother. |
| Death | He died on 22 November 1905 at Innisfil Twp., Simcoe Co., at age 83. |
| Burial | He was buried at Sixth Line Cemetery, Innisfil Twp., Simcoe County. |
| Note | Death reg. 025922-05 Innisfil Twp., Simcoe Co. Thomas Jack died Nov. 22, 1905. Age 83. Residence N1/2 lot 21, 5th Con. Farmer. Married. Presbyterian. Physician and informant Dr Little. The above death registration does show Thomas' place of birth, but it is badly faded. It might be Dalhousie...or something else. It was almost certainly Dalhousie Township, however, for he was born approximately two years after his parents came out from Scotland. The death registration for Thomas' son, John White Jack, shows his father's place of birth as Lanark County. While this was before the county era, Dalhousie Township was located in what became Lanark County and this was before the family removed to Innisfil Township in Simcoe County. (Dalhousie Township, later in Lanark County, was in the Johnstown District at the time Thomas was born. Later, from around 1831, Dalhousie Township was in the Bathurst District and remained as such until the county era.) Thomas Jack and his wife Elizabeth Hood are buried in the Sixth Line Cemetery in Innisfil Township. His gravestone, per a transcription provided by the Simcoe County branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, reads: Thomas Jack / Aug. 2, 1822 - Nov. 22, 1905. |
Children of Thomas Jack and Elizabeth Hood |
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| Last Edited | 5 Jun 2019 |