Wellington Mott of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
Does anyone have information about this Wellington? He was born about 1817-1823 possibly in the month of August and married Mary Louisa Pannock/Pennick/Pinnock (daughter of George) about 1852 in Ontario, Canada. The family came to Manitowoc County about 1865 and settled in Gibson. Children of this couple include George, L.A. (perhaps Lydia), Alma (perhaps Adeline or Ida), Henry Frank, and Richard who were all born in Ontario, and Mertle, Aaron and Eddie/Edward who were born in Wisconsin.
The Wellington and Mary Louise Mott family is enumerated in the 1861 census of Bastard Township, Leeds, Ontario.
There is a Richard Mott family in the 1870 census of Gibson, Manitowoc county that I suspect he is related to Wellington. In 1846 Richard Chamberlain Mott married Rebecca Brown in Leeds County, Ontario. Their children appear to be Catherine, George, Lucy, Laura, Ida, Ann, Charlotte, and Augusta who were all born in Canada. I did not find this family in the 1851 Ontario census. They were enumerated in the 1861 censuses of Elizabethtown, Ontario.
The family supposedly moved to Wisconsin about 1867. The parents and some of the children moved on to Cass County, Iowa between 1870 and 1880.
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Re: Wellington Mott of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
1870 SHOULD READ MOTT Wellington Moth 50 BORN CANADA Louisa Moth 36 George Moth 15 Lydia Moth 16 Adaline Moth 13 Henry Moth 11 Frank Moth 9 Richard Moth 6 Mertle Moth 3 Aaron Moth 8/12 Home in 1870: Gibson, Manitowoc, Wisconsin
1861 Name: Wellington Mott Gender: Male Age: 41 Birth Year: 1820 Birthplace: Upper Canada Marital Status: Married Home in 1861: Bastard, Leeds, Canada West Religion: No Church Film Number: C-1043 Page Number: 63 + LOUISA GEORGE LYDIA AL... HENRY
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Re: Wellington Mott of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
Thanks for the info. I already found them in these censuses plus some of their married children. Have accessed death records (no parents listed for Wellington), Find A Grave, and state censuses. Just trying to link Wellington to a family in Canada and hope someone else connected.
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Re: Wellington Mott of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
I found a Reuben Mott b-1755-Dutchess Cty. New York d-Jan 16 1839 Elizabethtown,Leeds Cty Ontario. He was married to Esther Thompson 1761-? This information from Trees on Ancestry. Rueben Mott was a United Empire Loyalist who had 13 children that applied for land grants from the government. As son's & daughters of a UEL, they were each entitled to 200 acres of land. One of the children listed was Wellington W. Mott and his petition is included with this message.
You can search the Ancestry Card Catalogue for more information on Reuben Mott. 1-"The Loyalists in Ontario" will give the list of his children. 2-Early Ontario Settlers-Reuben is listed on 1784-5 Provision Lists for Elizabethtown.
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Re: Wellington Mott of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
Thanks, Sandy. The problem is there are 2 Wellington Motts in the 1861 census of Canada. One is in Bastard Township, Leeds County (the one who went to Wisconsin)and has no religion listed. The other is in Elizabethtown and is a Quaker.
There are multiple family trees in Ancestry.com that claim the Wellington of Elizabethtown was married 2 times--the wife is Caroline Curtis and/or Julia Caroline Howard. In the 1861 census for Wellington W. of Elizabethtown the household contains Wellington, 46, Caroline, 44, Luisa Howard, 20, Malissa Howard, 16, Helena Mott, 6, and Friend Mott, 2. The Wellington of Elizabethtown is supposed to be buried in Howard's Cemetery in Elizabethtown as of 1899.
In the 1851 census only 1 Wellington shows up in the whole of Ontario. He was in Elizabethtown.
So how does this fit with my Wellington in the 1861 census of Bastard? He is married to Louisa/Mary Louisa and has 4 children between the ages of 9 and 2. His age is listed as 41 while the Wellington in Elizabethtown is 46.
Per the Ontario Cemetery database, there is a record of a Wellington being buried in Howard's cemetery in Elizabethtown. I haven't checked for this record yet.
No Wellington Mott is listed in post 1861 censuses of Ontario. I find Caroline J. or Julia C. Mott in the 1871-1891 censuses of Brockville, Ontario. In 1871 she is with the Benjamin and Malissa (could be Malissa Howard from the 1861 census--the age fits) Harper family. In 1881 son Fred Mott is with her in Brockville. In 1891 she is a 74 year old widow and living by herself.
Fred Mott married Etta May Mcveigh in Brockville in 1910. His parents are listed as Wellington Mott and Caroline Curtis.
So the question is--did Wellington Mott have two families? I can't find a marriage for Wellington. Since he disappears completely from Ontario after the 1861 census, it's possible that the one in Wisconsin is this man and that there actually is only 1 person by this name.
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Re: Wellington Mott of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
Judy,
The Wellington Mott of Elizabethtown was a son of Reuben (Sr.) and Esther Mott. He appears in Esther's household in Elizabethtown in the 1851 census with the spelling of "Willington" and he was 30 yrs old, single, and a "balif" by trade at that time.
According to his 10 Nov 1836 petition for Crown land as the son of Loyalist Reuben Mott, Wellington W. Mott had attained the full age of 21 by that date, so either his age in this record, or his age in the census, is suspect since the two ages are about 7 yrs apart. Perhaps this is where some of the confusion arises between the 2 Wellington Motts? Note that in the 1861 census records that the Elizabethtown Wellington Mott uses his middle initial W. to differentiate him from the other Wellington.
Julia Caroline Curtis was first married to Mathew Howard on 18 AUG 1838, according to the Johnstown District Marriage Register 1799-1851.
Julia is buried in Howard's Cemetery as "Julia Caroline, wife of the late Wellington Mott, died April 9, 1892, ae 76 (?)." This info is from L&G Branch of OGS publ. # 76-9 for Howard's Cemetery. The OCFA listing does not differentiate between actual burials and people referred by name only from gravestone inscriptions.
So this puts the Elizabethtown Wellington Mott's death before April 1892.
I checked the location (lot and concession) of Wellington Mott in Bastard Twp. in 1861, and in the Leeds County Atlas (publ ca 1861-2) the land was owned by Thomas Morris. Then I tracked back to 1851 and checked the same land in the ag schedule and Thomas Morris and a man named Berney were sharing that 200 acre lot.
My guess is that Wellington was share-cropping or leasing land from Thomas Morris in 1861. According to the U.S. censuses, your Wellington could not read and write, so chances are good that he was not a landowner in Canada. I also found it interesting that his name in the 1900 U.S. census was given as Richard, so perhaps Wellington was his middle name? Or vice versa.
Also, my late husband descends from Mary Pennock Parish of Leeds Co., widow of Ezekiel Parish, UE (originally from Vermont). Most of the Leeds Co. Pennocks descend from her cousin Samuel Pennock (Loyalist era) and most of them were in the South Crosby Twp. area of Leeds Co. For what that's worth.
Sandy in Omaha
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Re: Wellington Mott of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
Thanks, Sandy. I am still curious as to what happened to the Wellington in Elizabethtown after the 1861 census. It doesn't appear that there is much in the way of church records that would help document births, marriages and deaths. I haven't checked probate sources yet.
It would also be helpful if the 1841 census of this area survived. Maybe two Wellingtons would be listed in this return.
I too wondered about Wellington being listed as Richard in the 1900 Manitowoc County, Wisconsin census. If he had a middle name that might explain it. To date I have not found any record of a middle name in vital records for his family or on his tombstone and in his obituary. The censuses are full of errors. Was this a mistake on the part of the person reporting or the census taker? Another mystery.
There are some references to Motts in the early censuses of Bastard Township.
1817--there is a Joseph Mott with 1 male age 25 and 1 female age 17. Was he married?????
1821 and 1823--Simon Mott who had male children in the household
Henry Mott, 42, wife Easter, 39, and son Joel, 13 are enumerated in Bastard Township in the 1851 census. The family was still there in 1861. Joel married Amelia Lashly of Elgin County in 1863. He died in 1869 in Bastard Township.
Joseph Mott and Esther Mott are referenced in a Leeds County history. They got land grants from the Crown in Bastard Township. This list of land granted went up to 1 Nov. 1820.
I guess the biggest nagging question in my mind is if the two Wellingtons in the 1861 census are the same man with two different families. He apparently is not around in the later Ontario returns which only list his wife Caroline/Julia.
Judy
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Re: Wellington Mott of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
Judy, Here are 1- the Upper Canada Land Grant for Joseph Mott given in 1819-100 acres in Bastard Township. He served as a private for the British in the War of 1812. The land grants were given as part of the Perth Military Settlement.
2-[1st page of 4] Esther Mott-nee Thompson Upper Canada Land Petition She is on the 1851 census with Wellington and other of her children. She is the wife of Rueben Mott UEL and daughter of Jacob Thompson UEL. I am sending a list of Rueben & Esther's Children who applied for land grants.
Sandy in Toronto.
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Re: Wellington Mott of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
Hi Judy,
The Elizabethtown Wellington W. Mott may have died between 1861 and 1871--hard to say. I'd attempt to find a burial record for him in Elizabethtown, since that was where he was raised and lived. Many of the cemeteries there are not in OCFA, but the L&G Branch OGS in Brockville has walked all cemeteries and published the records, so it would be worth contacting them. They do research for a reasonable fee.
The early censuses for both Elizabethtown and Bastard townships are available on film thru interlibrary loan from the Archives of Ontario in Toronto.
I've researched in Bastard Twp. for over 26 yrs, so in 2007 when my library in Cheyenne, Wyoming purchased a digital scanner, I scanned all of the Bastard images from the films. I gave them to Brian Haskin in Kingston, and he had been indexing them until his unexpected death a year ago. You can go to the Ontario GenWeb Census Project website to check the years he had completed and look for Motts. I believe it was in the mid 1840's where he left off.
The Leeds & Grenville Branch OGS indexed many of the Elizabethtown censuses, but they skipped from 1821 until 1839. Many of those years were combined census & assessments which are difficult to index due to the number of columns of information.
In any case, your Wellington should appear as an adult at the age of 16, either in the household of his parents or on his own, since that was the division between male children and adult men in the censuses.
I agree about the errors in all censuses. That is the rule rather than the exception. Unfortunately, when it comes to age, many people of that era did not know how old they were. And keep in mind that your Wellington could not read or write, so all info given was verbal and he would not have been able to verify what was written down by the census taker.
I doubt very much that there was only one Wellington Mott who was a bigamist in 1861. We know that Wellington W. Mott could read and write because he signed his petition for Crown land as SUE.
According to the Militia Nominal Rolls of 1828-1829 there were at least 16 Mott men who served, and 6 or 7 of them were old enough to have a child in 1820. This does not count the Quaker men who paid fines to exempt themselves from service, since Quakers were pacifists. In addition, Jonathan Mott had 4 sons born in Leeds Co. between 1791 and 1800, but they were Quakers so were not listed in the militia rolls.
The "older" Mott men (for possible father of your Wellington Mott) who served as of 1828-1829 were: Richard 28, Hiram 30, Reuben 39, Samuel W. 29, Asa 29, Henry Jr. 34. I noted that the Joseph Mott who was granted the land in Bastard in 1820 was not on the milita list.
The Henry Mott you found in 1851 is likely the Henry 3rd age 17 listed in the milita rolls in 1828-29.
Sandy in Omaha
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Re: Wellington Mott of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
Oh what a tangled web they leave (or didn't leave)! :)
Judy
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