Eleanor Jane Teeple

MS248 reel 1, Vol. 4, page 10
Gore District Marriage Register

Extracted from a list of marriages solemnized by Barney Markle, Methodist Episcopal Minister.

John Buckberry and Jane Teeple on Dec. 24, 1844, by Publication (reading of the banns of marriage)
Witnesses Alexander Harris and William Buckberry.

Barney Markle does not tell us the residential locales of the bride and groom. That and the District and County marriage register do not typically tell us the locale of the marriage. Mostly, we must fall back on a newspaper marriage notice and one for John and Jane has yet to be found.

There were two marriages performed by Rev. Markle on December 24, 1844, and it is possible that they were held in a church. That banns were read does not automatically mean that there was a church marriage, but with two marriages on the day it may well be the case.

The first marriage register for the Gore District, probably going back to at least the 1830s, is lost to us. The surviving volume only records back to 1843 with the odd late return for 1842. Hence, we cannot examine Markle's past history. Such as we do have seems to indicate that in earlier records Markle performed marriages rather far ranging in the Gore District. Later, they seem rather more limited to Beverly, Dumfries, and West Flamborough.

Was Barney Markle connected with the church at Troy? On this point the little booklet, A History of the People of Troy, while excellent, is no help. A history of the church which was written in 2010, however, does record Barney Markle as preaching there and at the time John and Jane were married.

The Beverly Township abstract index for lot 3 on the 2nd concession, near the village of Troy (see GSU161100 at the Ontario archives) shows Barney purchasing the lot on 11 July 1816, all 200 acres. He sold the north half in 1822, but remained in possession of the south half until March of 1860 when he sold to his son, Nelson Markle.

The every person census for Beverly has (mostly) not survived. The agricultural census has, however. This shows Barney Markle on lot 3 of the 2nd concession. He does appear in Beverly in the 1861 every person census, but the Markles are absent from the available 1861 agricutural census images.

Conrad Misener (who appears in this tree) purchased the south half of lot ten on the 3rd concession of Beverly in 1832. Conrad sold 3/4 of an acre to the trustees for a cemetery in January of 1842 and 1/4 of an acre to the trustees of the E. Methodist Church (the Episcopal Methodist Church) in February of 1842. It is believed that at the time these properties were adjacent.

Going by John Buckberrough's death registration, his father was William Buckberrough. William will have been a brother of George Buckberrough of the Troy area and they were sons of John Buckberrough.

There were Buckberry/Buckberroughs in both Dumfries and Beverly in these early years. Where William's family resided at the time has yet to be worked out, but according to the 1842 census, Matthew Teeple, the father of Jane, was in Dumfries. (Ignore the several references to this census being that of St. David's Ward in Toronto.) Matthew is shown as being located on lot 13, of the 4th concession in what is present day South Dumfries. Abstract index information appears to show that he dd not own the lot, but he was certainly within traveling distance to be associated with the Episcopal Methodist congregation at Troy.

All of which is the scenic route to say that John Buckberrough and Jane Teeple were probably married in the Dumfries-Beverly area of the Gore District, but nothing certain has been found.