While in the midst of researching the Canadian emigration of the Hoodlesses via John Hoodless and his family, I discovered that his older sister Sarah has a memorial in St Mary’s Church, Wigton stating that she died in Canada on 30th August 1856 at the age of 82.
Sarah married Thomas Jacques who died after about 19 years of marriage on 18th April 1815. They had five children. Their eldest daughter Jane, also died prematurely at the age of 29 in April 1826. They had also lost two young daughters 2 year old Mary in 1809 and 9 year old Isabel in 1818. Some time in the years after these events and by 1834 Sarah and her remaining two sons Thomas Jacques and John Jacques emigrated to Scarborough county in Ontario, Canada. I have not uncovered the year of their migration but Thomas was definitely there by 1834. He had met and married Jane Robinson there and their first child Edmund Robinson Jacques was born in 1834 (or possibly 1835). This migration predates the John Hoodless family by at least 7 years and may be the link which subsequently drew that family to this part of Canada.
By 1860, Thomas Jacques had purchased three parcels of land slightly north of the township of Malvern and east of Browns Corners, in an area which now skirts the edges of the city of Toronto. It is about 160km east of where his Uncle John would eventually settle.
There is a note on Wikitree stating Sarah Hoodless Jacques was buried at Huntingford Anglican Church, near Woodstock in Oxford County. I am unable to find a cemetery record to support this but if she was buried there, this suggests she was residing much closer to her brother John as this church is only a short distance from his farm near Hickson in Oxford County.
Sarah’s younger son John Jacques married Mary Quinton in the parish of St Marylebone, London in 1831. It is likely the family migrated to Canada shortly thereafter. John Jacques was a cabinetmaker who had been apprenticed in Wigton, Cumberland and also in London. In York, Ontario he worked for William Maxwell before buying out his business with a partner, Robert Hay, to found the well known high quality furniture manufacturing firm Jacques and Hay.
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