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We do not know much about Thomas, and have decided that he was Obadiah’s son based on compelling but circumstantial evidence.
The first mention of him is when he married Elizabeth Kirdendall on January 31, 1826. His occupation is listed as carpenter, and both he and his wife were residents of Barton Township1. In 1832, John Taylor married Mary Kirkendall, so it’s safe to assume that two brothers married two sisters2, a common occurrence back then. At John’s wedding, Michael Taylor is listed as a witness, so we assume that all three men were brothers. And since Michael, Obadiah and Margaret lived together according to several censuses, we’ve decided that Thomas was Obadiah’s first Canadian born son. Another piece of the puzzle was the fact that Thomas bought the north 20 acres of Lot 7 Conc 6 in Barton from Obadiah in 1849, and sold them to Henry Taylor (his brother, we assume) in 18533.
Thomas had two children: a boy named Thomas Wesley, born 18304, and a daughter, Thoda J. born 18325. Tragedy struck the family on Oct 30, 1848 when their 18-year old son, a student of Victoria College in Cobourg, fell off the pier in Cobourg and drowned6.
In 1851, Thomas, his wife, known as Eliza, and his widower brother John, lived together in Hamilton5. Both he and John worked as carpenters on Park Street in Hamilton8. Unfortunately, the next year, Thomas became a widower, too, when Eliza died on June 9th, in her 49th year7. We do not know when Thomas died.
Sources:
1. Wilson, Thomas B. (1985). Marriage Bonds of Ontario: 1803-1834. Lambertville, NJ: Hunterdon House, p. 105.
2. Wilson, p. 306.
3. Archives of Ontario, GS-1408
4. McKenzie, Donald A. (1988). Obituaries from Ontario’s Christian Guardian: 1861-1870. Lambertville, NJ: Hunterdon House, p. 35.
5. Barton Census, 1851.
6. McKenzie, p. 35.
7. McKenzie, p. 294.
8. Ontario Directory for 1851, p.62.