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1834 Upper Canada Land Petition, E-18, No. 44
Petition of Thomas Edison 2nd of Bayham Twp., farmer, located by Colonel Talbot, in 1818, on 200 acre lot in Bayham Twp. liable to settlement duties, already performed, ready to pay required fees, and prays the Lieutenant Governor will grant him said lot; Signed, Thomas Edison 2d, 6 May 1834, Port Talbot; Recommended by Thomas Talbot.

1842 Upper Canada Census
Thomas Edison, Inn Keeper, age 30-59 years, married, and proprietor of real property, inhabits one house on 45 acres, with 25 acres improved, at Vienna, Bayham Twp, London District, Upper Canada (now Elgin Co., Ontario), residing with one married female, age 14-44 [[ presumably his wife, Mary Ann Harris, age 30 ]], and five children (three girls, age 6-13; two girls, age 0-5), and one single female, age 14-44, seven are natives of Canada of British origin, and all are British Wesleyan Methodists.

1851 Canada Census
Thomas Edison, not found in 1851 census. Parts of 1851 census for Bayham Twp., Elgin Co., Ontario have not survived.

1861 Canada Census
T[homas] Edison, merchant, age 64, born in Nova Scotia, residing with wife, M[ary] A[nn] (age 49), and daughters, E[liza Jane] (age 25), M[artha] (age 23), S[arah] (age 20), and F[rances] (age 14), in a 1 1/2 story frame house, at Vienna Twp., Elgin Co., Ontario.

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Excerpt from
Edison Papers, Edison Miller and Affiliated Families; Thomas Alva Edison and His Family Tree

Edison, Thomas. 1798–1867. Uncle of TAE.
Older brother of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. Born in Nova Scotia, he moved with his parents in 1811 to Vienna, Ontario, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He and his wife Deborah Ann (1800– 1830) had two children: George Wellington (b. ca. 1827) and Samuel S. (ca. 1828–1852). He had eight more children by his second wife, Mary Ann Harris (1812/1813–1901), whom he married in 1831: Deborah Ann (Smith) (1832–1852), Rachel (Doak), Eliza Jane (White/Stoddard) (1836–1915), Martha (McIntosh) (b. 1838), Sarah (b. 1841/1842), Mary (b. ca. 1847), Frances Caroline (Bigg) (b. ca. 1848), and Ann (1850–1852).

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