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Robert Wilson

Summary

  • b. 1867, Canada
  • son of Andrew Wilson and Hannah Rorrison
  • m.1892, Baraga, Mich., Amelia Falk (1873–1915)
  • children:
    1. William Wilson, 26 Apr 1894, Baraga, Mich.–1974 (never married)
    2. Warren Andrew Wilson, 1897–1995
    3. Marion Wilson, 1902, Baraga, Mich.–1930
      m. 1925, Charles Donson
    4. Roberta Wilson, 3 Aug 1905, Sault Ste. Marie, Delta Co., Mich.– (no children)
      m. 1st., 1922, Emmet Collver
      m. 2nd., 11 Dec 1942 Arthur Chateauneuf
    5. Frances Wilson, 4 Oct 1906, Baraga, Mich.–1974
      m. 1940,Eddie Roberts
    6. Robert Wilson, 25 Mar 1908, Baraga, Mich.–1977
      m. 1943, Joan Kelly
    7. Donald Wilson, 31 Dec 1914– (one daughter, two grand-daughters)
      m. 1st., 1936, Ann Christoph
      m. 2nd., 1950 Lillian Vasquez
  • d. 1931, Detroit (buried in family plot at Baraga)

Sources

  • Robert Wilson died 30 June 1931, aged 68 yrs, 2 mo., 16 days, at Baraga Village. Cause of death: Asthma. Born: Canada. Occupation: Painter. Vital Records Baraga County, Michigan, Vol. 1, page 232, #4.

  • U.S. Census 1920 shows in Baraga, Mich.
    • Robert Wilson, head of household, age 54, born in Canada of father born in New York and Mother born in Scotland
    • Bertha Wilson, dau., age 18
    • Frances Wilson, dau., age 15
    • Robert Wilson, son, age 12
    • Donald Wilson, son, age 6

  • U.S. Census 1910 shows in Baraga, Mich.
    • Robert Wilson, head of household, age 54, born in Canada of parents born in Canada
    • Amelia Wilson, wife, age 38, born in Germany of parents born in Germany
    • William Wilson, son, age 15
    • Warren Wilson, son, age 13
    • Marion Wilson, dau., age 9
    • Bertha Wilson, dau., age 6
    • Frances Wilson, dau., age 5
    • Robert Wilson, son, age 3

  • U.S. Census 1900 shows in Baraga, Mich.
    • Robert Wilson, head of household, age 33, born 1867 in Canada of parents born in Canada
    • Amelia Wilson, wife, age 28, born 1871 in Germany of parents born in Germany
    • William Wilson, son, age 6 born 1894
    • Warren Wilson, son, age 3 born 1897

  • Official State of Michigan Record of Marriage 7 July 1893 at Baraga of Robert Wilson, age 25, son of Andrew Wilson and Hannah Rossison and Amelia Falk, age 21, daughter of John Falk and unknown mother; L.J.Jones of the Methodist Episcopal Church offiated.

Notes

  • Excerpt from letter dated 26 July 1979 from Warren Wilson to grandson D. Trumbull–

    Robert Wilson to upper Michigan through Canada, from England. He was part English, part Scotch. He came to Baraga about 1880. He had two brothers and a sister. The two brothers stayed in Ontario, one in Redfern and one in Sault Ste. Marie, both had families. His sister traveled west and eventually became the wife of a Morman in Salt Lake City. She was one of the wives divorced and provided for the rest of her life when the Morman practice on wives became illegal. She is dead.

    At Baraga Michigan my dad met and married Amelia Falk. Now Amelia came across the Atlantic in a sail boat at a very young age. Her father John Falk and several other families chartered a boat and after crossing the Atlantic continued up the St. Lawrence River thru the Great Lakes to a spot between Baraga and L'Anse; went in land by oxen carts and eventually formed a settlement called Falk Settlement 5 miles in land from the bay. The Falks were mostly German.

  • Last updated 27 August 2009 by D. Trumbull.