Oxford County Wills & Estate Files: 1841-1861
This alphabetical database resource includes completely digitized Oxford County wills and estate files.
Estate files contain all the documents needed to grant probate, including the petition for probate, the original signed will, oaths of executors or administrators, inventory of assets of the deceased, and related evidence. Guardianship of children can also be found within these records. These last testaments of early Oxford pioneers shed light on the struggles of settlers.
These records were digitized from microfilm held by the Archives of Ontario: GS 1, Reel 116 & 117.
Adam, Alexander - 1853
Adams, John - 1844
Adamson, Edward - 1854
Addison, Robert - 1860
Anderson, James - 1855
Anderson, John - 1853
Bailey, James - 1847
Bailey, John Wesley - 1849
Bain, John - 1847
Baird, Elizabeth - 1853
Barraclough, John - 1844
Bartley, John - 1858
Bartrand, David - 1855
Bastedo, Joseph - 1856
Beamer, Christopher - 1843
Beamer, Henry - 1842
Bean, Abraham - 1859
Beardslee, Lazarus - 1861
Berney, John Wesley - 1858
Berry, Thomas - 1857
Bickle, William - 1859
Bishop, Henry - 1841
Bond, John - 1844
Bott, David - 1857
Branchflower, Stephen - 1847
Bray, John - 1856
Briggs, Spencer - 1860
Brock, William - 1856
Brodrecht, Jacob - 1857
Brown, Martin - 1859
Buchanan, Robert - 1855
Buckle, John - 1854
Burdick, James - 1859
Burgar, Lucy - 1854
Burgess, Edward - 1842
Burgess, Hugh - 1860
Burgess, Robert - 1849
Burtch, Daniel - 1849
Call, Richard - 1859
Calloway, John - 1860
Carnegie, John - 1855
Cavanagh, James - 1853
Cheer, Sam - 1860
Cheer, Thomas - 1845
Clare, Henry William - 1853
Clark, Henry - 1853
Clarke, James - 1857
Clarke, Joseph - 1855
Clarke, Joseph - 1856
Clarke, Robert - 1850
Coady, John - 1849
Colborne, Amos - 1859
Connor, Peter - 1848
Cook, Isaac - 1859
Copp, Alexander - 1860
Cornell, Daniel - 1856
Cornell, Henry John - 1854
Cornell, William - 1855
Court, John - 1860
Courtney, William - 1857
Cousins, John - 1842
Croley, Joseph - 1857
Crumpback, George - 1860
Cummings, John - 1843
Curtis, David Israel - 1857
Cuthbert, Peter - 1855
Cuthbert, Peter - 1857
Davidson, James - 1846
Davis, Francis - 1857
Davis, James - 1859
Dea, James Edmund - 1844
Deerskin, Abraham - 1853
Dennis, James - 1859
Dennis, Robert - 1842
Dennis, WIlliam - 1857
Dickson, William - 1855
Doby, Thomas - 1848
Dodge, Joseph - 1860
Donally, Francis - 1860
Doyle, Richard North - 1850
Dunkin, David - 1847
Dutcher, Ephriam - 1842
Eadon, John - 1859
Edwards, William - 1859
Ellison, Benjamin - 1857
Emigh, George - 1843
Emigh, Henry - 1855
Empey, John - 1857
Erwin, John - 1860
Farrington, Adam - 1849
Fitzsimmons, Heatly - 1845
Flanigan, Patrick - 1853
Fleming, John - 1853
Fletcher, Michael - 1857
Flewellen, Stephen - 1843
Foster, Robert - 1858
Fowler, Daniel - 1841
Fowler, William - 1847
Fraser, Kenneth - 1860
Fritch, George - 1842
Frizell, Joseph - 1848
German, James - 1860
Gibb, David - 1847
Gilbert, Frederick - 1855
Gissing, William Alfred - 1859
Graham, Philip - 1849
Grant, Anson - 1842
Hackett, Stilson - 1859
Hadcock, Daniel - 1857
Hagey, Abraham - 1846
Hagey, Abraham - 1848
Hagon, Daniel - 1855
Hale, Ann - 1860
Hall, William - 1859
Hallock, Chamberlain - 1859
Hallock, Theron - 1860
Hanmer, David - 1842
Hanmer, Elizabeth - 1841
Harris, James - 1858
Harris, Reuben - 1856
Hart, Thomas - 1859
Hatch, John - 1854
Healey, William - 1847
Hemmings, James - 1857
Hendry, George - 1847
Herrick, David - 1856
Hill, Smith - 1850
Hillicker, John - 1858
Hornor, Desira - 1858
Hughson, William - 1859
Hunt, Beagle - 1855
Hurley, John - 1856
Idale, William - 1856
Innes, Moses - 1853
James, Joshua - 1860
James, Thomas - 1848
James, William - 1854
Jeacle, Henry - 1848
Johnson, Joseph - 1848
Joiner, Thomas - 1850
Jones, Samuel Alexander - 1857
Karn, John - 1850
Karn, John - 1855
Kelly, Jeremiah - 1856
Kelly, Thomas - 1853
Kelly, Thomas - 1857
Kempson, William Wellington - 1858
Kennedy, Edward - 1850
Kilgour, William - 1854
King, Eliakim - 1846
King, Margaret - 1856
Kinnear, Bernard - 1848
Kipp, Isaac - 1846
Larkin, Richard - 1847
Laurence, Enoch - 1859
Lawson, William - 1849
Laycock, James - 1854
Layton, Francis - 1853
Leach, Daniel - 1859
Leader, John - 1859
Lee, John - 1847
Lewis, Abner - 1847
Little, William - 1849
Lossing, Solomon - 1847
Love, Thomas - 1847
Lowthean, Timothy - 1844
Ludington, Tracy - 1854
MacDonald, James - 1859
Macklem, Abel - 1857
Maddison, Thomas - 1861
Malcolm, John - 1846
Malcolm, Sarah - 1846
Martin, John - 1857
Mason, James - 1847
Maynard, Rebecca - 1855
McCorquodale, Donald - 1856
McDonald, Archibald - 1850
McDonald, George - 1845
McIntyre, Nichol - 1845
McKay, James - 1858
McKay, Margaret - 1841
McKay, William - 1859
McKenzie, Alexander - 1849
McKenzie, Malcolm - 1860
McLeish, Thomas - 1850
McLennan, Kenneth - 1861
McLeod, Norman - 1855
McLevey, Robert - 1857
McNelly, Michael - 1860
McTaggart, Neil - 1857
McWilliams, William - 1847
Menzies, George - 1847
Molaski, Peter - 1848
Moore, Jacob - 1858
Moore, John - 1848
Moore, Matthias - 1849
Moore, Robert - 1849
Moore, William - 1858
Mudge, Abel - 1856
Mullin, William - 1853
Murray, Alexander - 1860
Murray, James - 1859
Murray, John - 1854
Murray, Robert - 1858
Naisbitt, Murray - 1847
Nichols, David - 1845
Nichols, Thomas - 1855
Nickol, Thomas - 1853
Nobbs, Robert - 1843
Northrup, Joshua - 1841
Oakley, Edward - 1848
Oxborow, Thomas - 1856
Park, James - 1861
Park, Robert - 1850
Paterson, James M. - 1860
Paton, John - 1847
Patterson, Arthur - 1856
Patterson, James - 1847
Pattulo, Halket - 1855
Peacock, Thomas - 1858
Petrie, George - 1849
Pettman, Thomas - 1858
Phillips, James - 1860
Piper, Joel - 1859
Poole, Martha - 1860
Pride, Jonathan - 1854
Pride, Rebecca - 1855
Puddock, Allan - 1853
Ransom, Reuben - 1842
Reed, Israel - 1841
Renahan, Edward - 1856
Rennie, John - 1855
Rice, Richard - 1853
Richardson, James - 1850
Robertson, Simon Fraser - 1847
Rooney, Patrick - 1857
Ross, Donald - 1856
Ross, Donald - 1856
Rouse, Noah - 1847
Sackrider, Peter - 1859
Scott, James - 1859
Scott, Joseph - 1857
Scott, Thomas - 1859
Searls, Andrew - 1847
Shannon, Daniel - 1854
Sharick, John - 1853
Sherred, Samuel - 1858
Sims, William - 1857
Siple, Henry - 1858
Sleighter, Daniel - 1845
Smith, Isaac - 1843
Smith, John - 1858
Smith, Lewis - 1848
Smith, Thomas - 1859
Smith, William - 1853
Snarey, James - 1858
Snyder, Elias - 1849
Splatt, Francis - 1859
Stover, Adam - 1847
Stover, Michael - 1850
Stringham, Owen - 1856
Stroud, Francis - 1857
Stubbs, George - 1858
Summerman, William - 1859
Sutherland, William - 1860
Sutton, Caleb - 1853
Swales, Robert - 1843
Swan, James - 1858
Swarts, George - 1842
Swarts, James Henry - 1844
Swarts, William - 1848
Syble, John - 1847
Symburner, Robert - 1848
Syple, Ezra - 1847
Tennant, William - 1860
Thompson, Thomas - 1853
Thompson, Thomas - 1856
Thompson, William - 1857
Tibbits, Sydney - 1855
Tompkins, Caleb - 1844
Topham, William - 1856
Underhill, Thomas - 1844
Underhill, William - 1846
Upton, Matthew - 1853
Walker, Charles - 1853
Walker, Levi - 1859
Watt, David - 1856
Weston, Michael Seth - 1854
Westscott, William - 1846
Williams, Elizabeth Jane - 1849
Williams, John - 1854
Williams, Lewis - 1849
Williams, Sarah - 1849
Williams, Silas - 1845
Williams, Thomas - 1849
Williamson, William - 1850
Wilson, Elliot - 1859
Winegarden, Conrad - 1843
Winter, John - 1859
Wood, John - 1850
Woodard, Ransom - 1850
Woodry, Joseph - 1859
Wrencher, James - 1842
Young, William - 1857
Zringg, John - 1855
