Family of Jonathan Uttley

Jonathan Uttley was born Oct 6, 1829 in Norfolk, England, the son of William and Ann Uttley. He came to Canada in the 1850's before his brothers, Nathan and Samuel. He married a cousin, Matilda Girling, in 1857 who had come from England in 1856 with Nathan and Samuel. Matilda died November 2, 1918 at Elmira, Ontario. Jonathan died more than twenty years earlier on Oct 26, 1895 also at Elmira.

Family of Jonathan Uttley and Matilda Girling

Name	Birth	Marriage	Spouse	Death	Other
Jonathan Uttley	Oct 06, 1829 Norfolk, England	Feb 23, 1857 Woolwich Twp	Matilda Girling	Oct 26, 1895 Elmira, Ont	Obituary Last Will
Matilda Girling	Mar 12, 1833 Barsham, Suffolk	Feb 23, 1857 Woolwich Twp	Jonathan Uttley	Nov 02, 1918 Elmira, Ont

David Jonathan Uttley	Dec 15, 1857	child		Jan 27, 1859
Emma Maria Uttley	Nov 13, 1860 Elmira, Canada West	child		Nov 05, 1862 Elmira, Canada West
James West Uttley	Nov 25, 1862 Elmira, Canada West	unmarried		Jan 16, 1894 Elmira, Ont
Mary Ann Uttley	Jan 13, 1865	child		Apr 11, 1866
Ellen Uttley	Mar 26, 1867 Elmira, Ont	Apr 16, 1908 Elmira, Ont	Thomas Henry Hall 1861-19xx	November 1933 Salem, N.Y.	Step children: Vera and Clarence
Annie Uttley	Feb 28, 1869 Elmira, Ont	Oct 16, 1889 Elmira, Ont	Menno Wilfong 1863-1950	Jan 30, 1935 Elmira, Ont	Children: Frank, Charles, Tillie, Burton, Robert, Myrtle Annette

Matilda maintained the record of the births and deaths of her children in her Bible. Without the page we would know nothing about children David Jonathan and Mary Ann, except that they died as infants.

[Children of Jonathan Uttley and Matilda Girling]

"Before the railways came to Elmira, the farmers dressed their hogs at home, then took the carcasses to Jonathon Uttley's in Elmira to sell. He had a light team of horses with which he took the dressed meat to market at Guelph or Toronto." Up the Conestogo by Isaac R. Horst, Page 190.
From the book, Enterprising Elmira,"The natural products of the farms, such as grain, potatoes, turnips, apples, sugar beets,butter, cheese, timber, wood and lumber form a large portion of the outgoing shipments. The Elmira grain markets, established by the late Jonathon Uttley, who died in the fall of 1895, has always enjoyed a popularity that has kept it in the vanguard of the many markets that are open to the farmers of this district".

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