Leggate

(from information submitted by Ruth Leggate Dunham)

John Leggate (1856–1937) married Mary Pullen (1864–1921). They farmed on the Nauvoo Rd. just south of the Egremont Rd. John and Mary had nine children: Nellie (1886–), Myrtle (1888–), Minnie (1891–), twins Amey E. (1894–1963) and Alma Jane (1894–1973), George Cameron (1896–1970), twins William Stanley (1898–1914) and Harvey (1898–), and Mason (1907–1932).

Alma married Francis Jay Fenner (1887–1949); George married Marion Benedict (1898–1996).

Harvey and Winnifred Leggate farmed on the east part of Lot 9, Con. 1 NER.

George Cameron Leggate was both a farmer and a butcher. He and Marion lived at 7200 Quaker Rd., where they raised seven children: Dorothy Helen (1922–), Lorne Stanley (1923–), Donna Gertrude (1925–), Kenneth George (1927–), Ruth Elaine (1931–), Robert Douglas (1934–1970) and Carman Laverne (1938–).

Kenneth and his wife Shirley (May) lived near Arkona. Ruth married Orville Dunham. Robert and his wife Barbara (Newman) lived in Warwick Twp. Carman and his wife Marguerite (Wight) lived on the home farm, where they raised three children.

Twins Harvey and William Stanley Leggate. Courtesy D Fenner.

Chapter 24 of 25 - Leggate Family

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