WikiTree profiles for the Ellingwood line's ancestors (Woodbury, Cheever, Pattullo, Short, Jeffrey, Elliott, Adams, Deyoe, Rice, Warren, Holdershaw)

Compiled profiles, read through the WikiTree API in the October 2026 research on the Ellingwood line (Woodbury, Rand–Cheever–Ivory and Slater lines behind the Ellingwoods, Ellingwood_Wives_Families.md, Ellingwood_Cape_Cod.md). Each profile is only as good as the sources it cites; where a profile quotes a record (a FamilySearch index, a will abstract, a census), the record is named on the page that uses it.

• Woodbury-17 (Thomas, probate docket 30516, 20 Apr 1719), Woodbury-21 (William, will 6 Nov 1725, proved 29 Nov 1725), Woodbury-600, Woodbury-1256 (Sarah); Wheeler-205; Cheever-88 (Abigail Milam, citing Torrey's New England Marriages), Cheever-120 to -126; Salter-1649.
• Pattullo-22 (Mary), Pattullo-42 (Halkett: baptism 1809; married Jane Robson 12 Dec 1833, Home District; died 7 June 1865; buried Christian Cemetery, Princeton, Oxford County), Pattullo-87 (Alexander Pattullo, c. 1773 Dundee - 8 Dec 1828 Caledon; Jean Watson, b. 3 May 1771 Prestonpans, d. 8 Aug 1852 Caledon), Pattullo-5, -36, -48; Robson-1781 (Jane Robson, b. c. 1809 Eckford, Roxburghshire, d. 4 Apr 1879).
• Short-3592 (John Short, 8 Aug 1808 - 4 Oct 1858, Orono) and Jeffrey-573 (Mary Jeffrey, 8 Jan 1809 Berwick-upon-Tweed - 15 Nov 1883 Woodstock), citing Ward Skinner's compiled Descendants of William Jeffrey and the 1861 and 1881 censuses; Short-3745 (John Gerald Short and his children).
• Read again 10 Oct 2026 for the comparison with the FamilySearch tree (Ruth Short's ancestry: the archive, the Ancestry tree, WikiTree and FamilySearch compared):
  • Short-3592: "A note in the Short family history says that John was born in Newcastle, England" (the profile's birthplace field has "Rufley, Northumberland Co., Ontario"); married Mary Jeffrey 7 Jan 1836, Cobourg; his family "moved to Woodstock after his death and lived on Graham St." (Skinner). Short-3745 (John Gerald) also cites Jim Jeffrey's Genealogy of the Jeffrey Family (jeffreyroots.com).
  • Jeffrey-569 (William Jeffrey, b. 10 Jan 1772, Berwickshire; d. 10 May 1852, Keene, Peterborough County) and Lyall-333 ("Mary Edna" Lyall, b. 4 May 1773, Chirnside; d. 26 May 1857, Peterborough), as Mary Jeffrey's parents, all from Skinner's family lore. John Graham, there quoted: William "came from the tiny village of Foulden ... He was a blacksmith ... No record has been found of his birth, baptism or marriage"; he came to Canada first, said to be to help rebuild the St. Louis Gate at Quebec, and Mary and their "five children, one boy and four girls, all born in Foulden" followed, settling near Keene. Bob Rumsey: the Jeffreys and Lyalls came together in 1820 and settled at Cobourg. A stone at Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough: "Sacred to the memory of Mary Lyall wife of William Jeffrey aged 83." Further generations (Jeffrey-2830 to -2833, Steele, Lyall, Simpson and others) are entered without sources.
  • Pattullo-87 (Alexander Pattullo): married Jean Watson 9 Oct 1806, Inveresk with Musselburgh (FamilySearch index XY9W-DYN); named in the indexed baptisms of James (1807, FQM7-M6P) and "Hacket" (1809, FQMQ-1H4); buried Melville White Church Cemetery, Caledon. Its research note offers a "possible" baptism of 29 Nov 1772 at Bellie, Moray (parents James Pitilloe and Jean Gordon), and quotes Berniece Trimble, Belfountain: Caves, Castles and Quarries in the Caledon Hills: Alexander was "a native of Prestonpans, near Edinborough, Scotland and later a resident of Glasgow," came in the autumn of 1820 and settled on Lot 2, Con. 6, Caledon; "In 1823 his wife and family, James, Thomas, Halkett, Margaret and Jane, joined him." Halkett "continued to live on his father's farm" and had "five daughters and five sons."
  • Watson-38186 (Jean Watson): baptised 5 May 1771, Prestonpans, daughter of James Watson and Jean Dickson (FamilySearch XY2G-V2K, XTYD-FBL); named in the baptisms of James (1807), Hacket (1809) and "Thomas Pitully" (1817, FQM7-74H); "Jane" on her headstone (Find a Grave 35766529).
  • Robson-1781 (Jane Robson): no parents entered; buried Woodstock Presbyterian Cemetery (Find a Grave 218711148). Pattullo-42 (Halkett): born 31 Jul 1809 (Find a Grave 195354125), with the Ontario marriage and death indexes that name him.
• Read again 10 Oct 2026 for the pages of the brothers and sisters:
  • Halkett and Jane's children: Pattullo-50 (Alexander, with the 1866 marriage, the 1880 Sanilac census and his grave at Forester, Michigan), -45 (Jane, Mrs. Rennie), -46 (Margaret, Mrs. Campbell), -44 (Isabella, Mrs. Laidlaw: the 1871 census of Blenheim, her 1924 death), -36 (George Robson: the 1881, 1891 and 1901 censuses of Woodstock, "Editor" and "Registrar"; married 22 Jan 1868 and 16 Jan 1888), -47 (Lucinda F., Mrs. Findlay), -48 (Andrew: Cochrane's sketch, William Cochrane, The Canadian Album: Men of Canada (1892): Andrew Pattullo; born 25 Aug 1850, Caledon; died 28 Nov 1903 as WikiTree has it).
  • John Short and Mary Jeffrey's children: Short-3741 (Jane, 23 Nov 1836, Cobourg - 16 Aug 1909, Woodstock; living with the Hays in 1901), -3742 (Richard, 15 Oct 1840 - 10 Sep 1904; a clerk at Cobourg with his mother in 1861), -3743 (Joseph William, 22 May 1842 - 8 Jan 1924: a grain dealer at Waterman, Illinois, in 1880; Indian agent at Selkirk, Manitoba, about 1901; enumerator of the 1906 census near High River; with his daughter Alice near Medicine Hat in 1911; married 1866 and 15 Sep 1900), -3744 (Mary Blair, 22 Jan 1844, Newcastle - 30 Sep 1928, Middlesex County; a bookkeeper living with the Hays in 1891), -3746 (Isabella, 1 Aug 1848 - 12 Jan 1924; married James Hay 2 Oct 1878 at Woodstock). Sources: Jim Jeffrey's Genealogy of the Jeffrey Family (jeffreyroots.com) and the censuses.
  • William Jeffrey and Mary Lyall's children: Jeffrey-542 (Andrew: his obituary, Obituary of the Hon. Andrew Jeffrey, M.L.C., Cobourg Sentinel, 1 Aug 1863), -568 (Isabella, 29 Oct 1801, Foulden, citing the Foulden Old Parochial Register for 1801 - 5 Aug 1885, Peterborough; married George Gillespie at Cobourg 9 Aug 1822; twelve children; a farm in Otonabee Township), -570 (William, 2 Oct 1802 - 3 Apr 1879: "There is considerable doubt among family researchers about William being a part of this family"), -571 (Jean or Jane, 23 Nov 1803 - 29 Sep 1887, Fenelon Township; married 18 Jul 1822, Mrs. Grigg; a widow at Peterborough in 1861, a "retired nurse" in 1871), -572 (Catherine, 8 Apr 1806 - 16 Feb 1882; married Adam Hall 29 Feb 1832; in Smith Township, Peterborough County, in 1861 with seven children).
• Elliott-24461 (Charles Franklin Elliott, born East Canaan, Litchfield County), Elliott-24462 (Jennie); Adams-45346 (Lewis M. Adams), Adams-69008; Deyoe-44 (Jane Maria: "Censuses indicate that she was born in 1808, not 1803"), Deyoe-63 (James, with the heirs-at-law of his will), Deyoe-64 (Peter J.); Esmond-108; Dijo-1, Deyo-17, -18, -21, -175; Freer-324 (Jannetje Freer, bp. 20 Oct 1706, Hoes no. 1592); Van_Wayen-1.
• Rice-703 (James Rice: married Abigail Warren 11 Nov 1786, Scarborough; children; buried Old Baptist Cemetery, Yarmouth), Rice-1694 (Rufus Rice: born Freeport 16 July 1794; married Mary Sylvester at Durham 10 Oct 1819; 1840 census at Manchester, Dearborn County; died 27 Sept 1840, buried Old Hogan Hill Cemetery); Warren-1128, Warren-14155.
• Holdershaw-17 (John Holdershaw, with abstracts of the Hancock County deeds and probate), Knowles-2266, Shaw-15101, Shaw-11232, Shaw-12568, Shaw-582; Bassett-174 (Gustavus Hinckley's transcript of Nathaniel Bassett's will); Ellingwood-412, Brown-73161 (Hannah Brown).