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John Edeson, the great grandfather of the famed inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, signed his name, "John Edeson," but is also known by his Dutch patronymic name, "John Marceles Edah," in a 1756 New Jersey Supreme Court case document, discovered by David Addison, and identified as the young John Edeson.
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Excerpt from
The Haggan Papers: Occasional Papers, by Ida Louise Haggan, edited by Karen Bailey,
Elgin County Library, Bayham Twp, Ont., 1978
The gravestones of the Edison family are to be found in five different cemeteries in the neighborhood of Vienna. Probably the oldest of these is on the northwest corner of Lot 8, Concession I, Bayham [township] about a mile west of the Otter Creek, on the south side of County Road 42.
The father, John Edison, apparently made the original application for this lot, as his name appears on the original township map, but was crossed off, and the name of Moses, the son, was written underneath. Family tradition maintains that the father, "Tory John," and his wife, Sarah (Ogden) Edison lived here with the son Moses, and were buried here in the little plot on the rise of land not far from the road. A son, Adonijah, who died in August, 1825, was buried here. Over the years the group of stones which once stood here, have gradually disappeared until, by the early 1960's, not one remained standing.
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Excerpt from
John Edeson, Loyalist, Great Grandfather of Thomas Alva Edison, by David Addison,
Bookemon, 23 May 2021 (available on Amazon.com)
For many years there have been questions about the origins of John Edeson, the Loyalist great-grandfather of Thomas A. Edison who fled to Nova Scotia in 1783. The accounts of John being the son of a widow from Holland seemed plausible enough, but no hard data had ever been found to back up those stories. One alternate theory of John's parentage has been receiving considerable attention of late by Sharon Marsalis, Steve Edison, and myself, David Addison. The theory is:
that John Edeson, great-grandfather of Thomas A. Edison, was the son of Marselis Ideson (Edeson) and Femmetie Doolhagen (Dorhager) who were married in 1741 in Second River, New Jersey.
This theory recently received support from two sources. One; Y-dna tests showed that a male descendant of John Edeson shared almost identical Y-dna as two male descendants of Ide Marselis b1690 of Holland immigrants. And Ide Marselis was the father of Marselis Ideson(Edeson). Two; an individual by the name of John Marcelas Edah has been found living with Femmetie's parents and her brother.
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A condensed biography is forthcoming.
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John Edeson, the great grandfather of the famed inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, signed his name, "John Edeson," but is also known by his Dutch patronymic name, "John Marceles Edah," in a 1756 New Jersey Supreme Court case document, discovered by David Addison, and identified as the young John Edeson.
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Excerpt from
The Haggan Papers: Occasional Papers, by Ida Louise Haggan, edited by Karen Bailey,
Elgin County Library, Bayham Twp, Ont., 1978
The gravestones of the Edison family are to be found in five different cemeteries in the neighborhood of Vienna. Probably the oldest of these is on the northwest corner of Lot 8, Concession I, Bayham [township] about a mile west of the Otter Creek, on the south side of County Road 42.
The father, John Edison, apparently made the original application for this lot, as his name appears on the original township map, but was crossed off, and the name of Moses, the son, was written underneath. Family tradition maintains that the father, "Tory John," and his wife, Sarah (Ogden) Edison lived here with the son Moses, and were buried here in the little plot on the rise of land not far from the road. A son, Adonijah, who died in August, 1825, was buried here. Over the years the group of stones which once stood here, have gradually disappeared until, by the early 1960's, not one remained standing.
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Excerpt from
John Edeson, Loyalist, Great Grandfather of Thomas Alva Edison, by David Addison,
Bookemon, 23 May 2021 (available on Amazon.com)
For many years there have been questions about the origins of John Edeson, the Loyalist great-grandfather of Thomas A. Edison who fled to Nova Scotia in 1783. The accounts of John being the son of a widow from Holland seemed plausible enough, but no hard data had ever been found to back up those stories. One alternate theory of John's parentage has been receiving considerable attention of late by Sharon Marsalis, Steve Edison, and myself, David Addison. The theory is:
that John Edeson, great-grandfather of Thomas A. Edison, was the son of Marselis Ideson (Edeson) and Femmetie Doolhagen (Dorhager) who were married in 1741 in Second River, New Jersey.
This theory recently received support from two sources. One; Y-dna tests showed that a male descendant of John Edeson shared almost identical Y-dna as two male descendants of Ide Marselis b1690 of Holland immigrants. And Ide Marselis was the father of Marselis Ideson(Edeson). Two; an individual by the name of John Marcelas Edah has been found living with Femmetie's parents and her brother.
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A condensed biography is forthcoming.
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John Edeson, the great grandfather of the famed inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, signed his name, "John Edeson," but is also known by his Dutch patronymic name, "John Marceles Edah," in a 1756 New Jersey Supreme Court case document, discovered by David Addison, and identified as the young John Edeson.
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Excerpt from
The Haggan Papers: Occasional Papers, by Ida Louise Haggan, edited by Karen Bailey,
Elgin County Library, Bayham Twp, Ont., 1978
The gravestones of the Edison family are to be found in five different cemeteries in the neighborhood of Vienna. Probably the oldest of these is on the northwest corner of Lot 8, Concession I, Bayham [township] about a mile west of the Otter Creek, on the south side of County Road 42.
The father, John Edison, apparently made the original application for this lot, as his name appears on the original township map, but was crossed off, and the name of Moses, the son, was written underneath. Family tradition maintains that the father, "Tory John," and his wife, Sarah (Ogden) Edison lived here with the son Moses, and were buried here in the little plot on the rise of land not far from the road. A son, Adonijah, who died in August, 1825, was buried here. Over the years the group of stones which once stood here, have gradually disappeared until, by the early 1960's, not one remained standing.
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Excerpt from
John Edeson, Loyalist, Great Grandfather of Thomas Alva Edison, by David Addison,
Bookemon, 23 May 2021 (available on Amazon.com)
For many years there have been questions about the origins of John Edeson, the Loyalist great-grandfather of Thomas A. Edison who fled to Nova Scotia in 1783. The accounts of John being the son of a widow from Holland seemed plausible enough, but no hard data had ever been found to back up those stories. One alternate theory of John's parentage has been receiving considerable attention of late by Sharon Marsalis, Steve Edison, and myself, David Addison. The theory is:
that John Edeson, great-grandfather of Thomas A. Edison, was the son of Marselis Ideson (Edeson) and Femmetie Doolhagen (Dorhager) who were married in 1741 in Second River, New Jersey.
This theory recently received support from two sources. One; Y-dna tests showed that a male descendant of John Edeson shared almost identical Y-dna as two male descendants of Ide Marselis b1690 of Holland immigrants. And Ide Marselis was the father of Marselis Ideson(Edeson). Two; an individual by the name of John Marcelas Edah has been found living with Femmetie's parents and her brother.
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A condensed biography is forthcoming.
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John Edeson, the great grandfather of the famed inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, signed his name, "John Edeson," but is also known by his Dutch patronymic name, "John Marceles Edah," in a 1756 New Jersey Supreme Court case document, discovered by David Addison, and identified as the young John Edeson.
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Excerpt from
The Haggan Papers: Occasional Papers, by Ida Louise Haggan, edited by Karen Bailey,
Elgin County Library, Bayham Twp, Ont., 1978
The gravestones of the Edison family are to be found in five different cemeteries in the neighborhood of Vienna. Probably the oldest of these is on the northwest corner of Lot 8, Concession I, Bayham [township] about a mile west of the Otter Creek, on the south side of County Road 42.
The father, John Edison, apparently made the original application for this lot, as his name appears on the original township map, but was crossed off, and the name of Moses, the son, was written underneath. Family tradition maintains that the father, "Tory John," and his wife, Sarah (Ogden) Edison lived here with the son Moses, and were buried here in the little plot on the rise of land not far from the road. A son, Adonijah, who died in August, 1825, was buried here. Over the years the group of stones which once stood here, have gradually disappeared until, by the early 1960's, not one remained standing.
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Excerpt from
John Edeson, Loyalist, Great Grandfather of Thomas Alva Edison, by David Addison,
Bookemon, 23 May 2021 (available on Amazon.com)
For many years there have been questions about the origins of John Edeson, the Loyalist great-grandfather of Thomas A. Edison who fled to Nova Scotia in 1783. The accounts of John being the son of a widow from Holland seemed plausible enough, but no hard data had ever been found to back up those stories. One alternate theory of John's parentage has been receiving considerable attention of late by Sharon Marsalis, Steve Edison, and myself, David Addison. The theory is:
that John Edeson, great-grandfather of Thomas A. Edison, was the son of Marselis Ideson (Edeson) and Femmetie Doolhagen (Dorhager) who were married in 1741 in Second River, New Jersey.
This theory recently received support from two sources. One; Y-dna tests showed that a male descendant of John Edeson shared almost identical Y-dna as two male descendants of Ide Marselis b1690 of Holland immigrants. And Ide Marselis was the father of Marselis Ideson(Edeson). Two; an individual by the name of John Marcelas Edah has been found living with Femmetie's parents and her brother.
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A condensed biography is forthcoming.
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