Wrathalls of Central Canada
This page covers the origin of the Wrathall families of Central Canada: the line of Lupton Wrathall Robinson of London, who emigrated to Lanark County, Ontario in 1817.
Bill Wrathall of Inuvik mentions the following item:
There is a lake called Wrathall Lake in Manitoba, Canada. I believe it was named after a James Wrathall. [For more on Wrathall Lake, click HERE ]
Jon Wrathall of the University of Alberta, Calgary wrote in 1998 the following about his family:
[Here is] a brief history of my family as far as my grandfather:
Robert Wrathall is my grandfather, and he was born and raised in the Calgary area. [He still] lives in Calgary, Alberta, with my grandmother, Claire Haberfield Wrathall. Robert had a brother named Mac Wrathall, ..... who passed away a few years ago .... in Victoria, B.C., and is buried in Calgary.
My grandparents had two boys, my uncle Grant and my father, Cal Wrathall. Uncle Grant married Lee Johnson, and they have 3 children (1 boy, Blair and 2 girls, Kimberley and Christie).
My parents had 4 children, of whom I am the third. I have an older brother, Brett, who is a geologist in Calgary. Brett and I have an older sister, Denise, who is living in Vernon, B.C. We also have a younger brother, Nicolas, who is living at home here in St. Albert, Alberta, with myself and my mother, Edel Benary Wrathall. My father lives in Edmonton, Alberta.
Myself, I am incredibly busy... I am working close to full time between
my two jobs, and I am a University student, and Vice President for a
student group.
Jon's father Cal Wrathall of Edmonton is Director of Victims Regulatory and Support Services for the Alberta Solicitor General. Cal is currently looking into the details of his family's history. Cal had this to say about his early ancestors in Canada:
I had a chance to talk to my father Bob Wrathall when I was
in Calgary recently. We got out the old Family Bible. We can only trace our
Family back to my father's grandfather in Ontario and New Brunswick. I can't see any
connection with Edmond Wrathall, and Victoria (B.C.) doesn't fit in with our
Family that we know of......
My father's grandfather was Robert Wrathall , born November 22 ,1843.... in Bathurst, New Brunswick, and married Marsellah White on February 17, 1874. Robert died in 1889. Marsellah was born on August 5,1853 and died on July 12, 1895. Together they had 6 children; the [first four] were born in Lanark, Ontario: Robert John, Margaret Matilda,
Harriet Letitia, and Mary Elizabeth.
Marsella Maude was born in Palmerston, Ontario...... The last child was my grandfather, George William Baily Wrathall (1888-1961), who was born in Glen Tay, Ontario. George married Gertrude Ethel Shields and had two children: George Mac Alexander(1914-1991) and my father Robert John Wrathall, who was born in
1919. He married Clare Joan Habberfield, on August 31, 1946.....
In mid-2000, Cal Wrathall sent additional info on his branch of the Wrathall family tree:
... I wish to provide you with my immediate family information to complete the record to date:
I married Edel Benary on July 25, 1969. We had four children. The first was Denise Leanne Wrathall, born on Sept. 8, 1973, in Calgary, Alberta. She was my 25th birthday present. Brett Calvin Wrathall was born on March 4, 1975 also in Calgary. Jonathan Ernest was born on May 25, 1977 in Lethbridge, Alberta. We moved there in August 1974 as a result of a work promotion. Our final child, Nicolas George Wrathall, was born in Lethbridge on August 18, 1981.
In Nov. 2002, Cal Wrathall (who can be reached at calandjean@telus.net) had both happy and sad news to relate about his family:
On September 7 two major event occurred in my life. I married Jean Ann
Chilibeck now known as Jean Ann Wrathall. I would like Jean added to the
Family Tree.
Unfortunately earlier on that same day my father Robert (Bob) John Wrathall
passed away in Calgary. This was a bitter sweet day. My father was cremated
and buried in Calgary's Queen's Park Cemetery on Sept 12, 2002, on what
would have been his 83rd birthday.
Dad was ill with Cancer for two long years. I have therefore had little time
to get back in contact with family history. I would like to reconnect.
A search of land and census records for early Ontario shows that the brothers Robert Wrathall (1843-1899), George Jr., and Lupton II (1839-1900?) lived in Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, in 1871, as did their father, George Sr. (1813-1880?), who emigrated from Linton, England with his father Lupton Wrathall Robinson (1782-1860?) prior to Jan 10,1821, when Lupton bought a parcel of land in Drummond Centre, an unincorporated area about 4 miles southeast of Lanark. This indicates that Cal's and Jon's pedigree are in the line of Henry Wrathall (1677-1740?) of Linton, meaning they may be of Roy Wrathall's branch of the family, because this is the only branch in which the given name "Lupton" has frequently occurred. The locative surname "Lupton" belonged to men and women living in Linton who may have married into the Wrathall family, and derives from a place on the border between old Westmorland and West Riding, Yks.
In December 2002, Gary J. Byron (Past President & Webmaster of the Lanark County Genealogical Society) who can be reached at gjbyron@magma.ca, had an enquiry regarding descendants of Lupton Wrathall Robinson:
In search for some Lanark Wrathall information, I came across your site.
What I was looking for was the connection between Harriet Letitia
Wrathall, wife of John James McNeely and Barbara Elizabeth Wrathall,
wife of Wm. Robert Bell, parents of W. Clyde Bell.
Harriet Letitia Wrathall is mentioned above as the daughter of Robert Wrathall and Marsellah White. Further information is given at the L.D.S. FamilySearch Site in the entry for Robert Wrathall's family in the 1881 Ontario census. Barbara Elizabeth Wrathall is the daughter of Lupton Wrathall II, and information on Barbara Elizabeth is available at the L.D.S. FamilySearch Site in the entry for Lupton Wrathall's family in the 1881 Ontario census, as well as her IGI Individual Record.
Robert A. "Bob" Jackman, who has a page concerning his research at the Lanark County Genealogical Society , has assembled data on Lupton Wrathall Robinson, his immediate family, and his descendants. What Bob posted at that site reads as follows:
"Lupton WRATHALL arrived in the Perth [county seat of Lanark], ON, area in 1817 from ENG, with his wife Rebecca WAYLAND and family."
I received a package of info from Bob in Nov. 1997; click HERE to view Bob's data, along with other information about the family of Lupton Wrathall Robinson.(Last updated Mar. 16, 2006)
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