I notice that several people are posting (and have recorded) a John Jacob Deline or Jacob John Deline in Richmond, Lennox County, Ontario as one man. This is not correct. There was a John Deline and a Jacob Deline, who must have been brothers, probable sons of John Deline senior and his wife Freelove who both came from the USA.

Jacob was born about 1817 most likely in Quebec, although I see some people recording New Brunswick as his place of birth- were Quebec and NB all one place in early 1800's?

Jacob married Melinda Windover about 1840; she was born about 1822, died Feb. 19, 1864 at Richmond. They had at least 10 children born between 1841 and 1861.

On June 22, 1864, four months after Melinda died, Jacob got married a second time to Eliza nee Waldron, the widow of John Deline who had died on August 18, 1860 at Richmond.

I have no children listed for Jacob and Eliza together, but with her first husband John Deline, Eliza had at least eight children between 1843 and 1860.

Eliza Waldron Deline died August 19, 1900 at Richmond.

Some of Jacob and Melinda's children moved to Lambton, Kent and York counties in Ontario.

Nora