Nelson Newcombe
ID # 8743, (1812-1865)
| Baptism | Nelson Newcombe was baptized on 6 June 1812 at London, England. |
| Baptism | He was baptized on 12 July 1812 at Islington, St. Marys, London, England. |
| Marriage | He married Veronica (Franey) Kinsey, daughter of John Kinsey and Elizabeth Moxley, on 21 November 1844 at Preston, Waterloo Co., Canada West. The following is taken from The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West, Vol. 9, Pt 1, Wellington District, 1840-1852, compiled by Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai, Global Heritage Press, Milton (now of Ottawa), 2013. The Newcombe-Kinsey marriage is to be found on page 29 of a long list of marriages which begins on page 27 and which was performed by Rev. Jacob Huttner of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Preston (St. Peter's) for the year of 1844. (The Wellington District Marriage Register is not in the hands of the Archives of Ontario, but is conserved and microfilmed at the Wellington County Museum in Fergus.) It reads: Nelson Newcombe to Frenny Kinsey, both of Waterloo, 21 Nov 1844, by Licence. Rev. Huttner. (Rev. Huttner was minister at St. Peter's from 1838 to 1849.) The Waterloo Region branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society has some databases available via the main website of the Ontario Genealogical Society. For St. Peter's, the database is quite large, some 900 pages, and takes time to load. Image 53 records the above marriage. This tells us little more of the above other than that the marriage was held in Preston. No family information is provided and no witnesses are listed. See notes for Nelson. |
| Marriage | He married Sarah J. (--?--) on 14 January 1859 at Brant County. MS248 reel 5, Vol. 1, page 44 Brant County Marriage Register Extracted from a list of marriages solemnized by David Caw, a minister of the United Presbyterian Church, Paris, for the year ending the 31st day of December, A.D. 1859. Nelson Newcombe, 44, born England, residing Ayr. Father Robt. Newcombe. Mother's name not given. Sarah J. Haught, 38, born United States, residing Ayr. Parents James Newcombe and Ann Wilson. Witness Thos. Luxford of Paris. On Jan'y 14, 1859. The above registration has problems. The brides surname at the time of her marriage may have been rather closer to Haugh. There is a John Haugh, age 5, in the Newcombe household as of the 1861 census, probably a son of Sarah's by a previous marriage. Also, her father's surname is shown as Newcombe, which is entirely possible, but could also be a clerical error. |
| Death | He died on 10 September 1865 at North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Co., Canada West, at age 53. |
| Burial | He was buried at Kinzie Biehn Cemetery, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Co.. |
| Note | First, refer to the 2nd annual report of the Waterloo Historical Society, 1914, Berlin, Canada, page 34. This tells that in December, 1843, at Freeport (now a part of Kitchener), there was a meeting to examine teachers, one of whom was Nelson Newcombe. The examiners were county officials. Nelson was one of the teachers receiving his certificate to teach. For something of the following see notes for Nelson's wife Franey. Ezra Eby in Volume 1 of his 1895 work, A Biographical History of Waterloo Township, 1895. Refer page 844. This tells that at some point Nelson and Veronica (Franey) were married and went to Listowel and had one child. We know that they were later in North Dumfries at least as of the 1851 census and they certainly had more than one child. Eby's work is solid and well reputed and while he does rely on the family histories told by others, it may well be that at some point Nelson and Franey were in Listowel. Perhaps he taught there for a while. For the moment, the jury's out so far as Listowel is concerned. Be that as it may, at some point, Nelson Newcomb (sometimes rendered as Newcombe) came to Dumfries Township in the old Gore District. He was the innkeeper at the Black Horse Inn (or tavern) near the village of Ayr. Old King's Highway 97 (now Cedar Creek Road) runs out past the intersection where the inn once stood. Locals still call this Black Horse Corners. This information may be found in a transcription of death notices for the old Dumfries Reformer newspaper, the transcription being provided by the Waterloo branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society. Specifically, this file is entitled Dumfries Reformer Death Notices, 1860-1865. Page D-14 of this tells that Nelson Newcombe died 17 Sep 1865 in North Dumfries. Proprietor of Black Horse Inn. Age 54 years & 3 months. The Reformer edition is dated 27 September, 1865. There's more. The Waterloo branch of the OGS provides a transcription of Kinzie-Bean Cemetery, their publication nbr. 5524. Find-a-Grave shows two signs for this cemetery. The earlier one is Kinsey-Bean Pioneer Cemetery, 1931; the other is Kinzie-Biehn Cemetery. The latter is the more correct name. Most of the transcription work will have been done by Norma Huber, a very dedicated lady, and the transcription, while typed, includes an image of a handwritten note to Norma dated 29 Nov 1994, and which includes missing stones. This tells of the following: IMO/Nelson Newcombe/Who died Sept 10, 1865/Aged 51 year 3 mos. & 3 dys. / Born in London, England. Also: IMO/Franey, wife of Nelson Newcombe of N. Dumfries/who died June 26, 1857/Aged 32 years. Just what the story is here is difficult to say. Find-a-Grave shows photographs of the stones. Also, the OGS transcription continues on with typed transcriptions that do include Nelson and Franey's gravestones. Were the stones subsoil at the time and then found and reset? The Find-a-Grave photos are readable, or at least readable enough. One conflict here is that the Reformer dates Nelson's death to Sept 17, 1865; the gravestones date his death to September 10 of the year. Either way, his age as shown only takes his birth back to 1814. 1812 is closer to it. The Kinzie-Biehn Cemetery is adjacent to the Doon Presbyterian Church Cemetery. This is in Waterloo Township and now within the city limits of Kitchener. Ancestry has a database of baptisms for St. Mary's Islington in London, England, and this records the birth of a Nelson Newcombe on June 6 of 1812. His parents are shown as Hiram and Sarah. His marriage record from 1859 with his second wife names his father as Robert. The 1851 census names five children. One is a girl named Sarah and one a son named Hiram. That the 1812 baptism record is that of Nelson Newcombe, the husband of Veronica Kinsey, is entirely believable. |
Children of Nelson Newcombe and Veronica (Franey) Kinsey |
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Child of Nelson Newcombe and Sarah J. (--?--) |
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| Last Edited | 19 Apr 2022 |