Pedigree
Descendancy

Martha Hedley, the third child of John Hedley and Frances Lawes, was born January 19, 1808 and baptized April 17, 1808 in Ovingham Parish, Northumberland, England. At the time of her birth she had two older brothers, Thomas, 8 and John, 3 and a sister Frances, age 6. Three younger siblings were born in 1810, 1813 and 1815. When Martha was four and a half, her two-year-old sister Hannah died (1812). When Martha was 11, her parents and their six children (ages four to twenty) sailed across the Atlantic, to begin a new life in the Ottawa River Valley as indentured servants in the employ of retired Capt. James Dent Weatherley. Shortly after their arrival in Canada, Mary Ann, the youngest of John and Frances’s children, was born. She is believed to have been the first child of European descent born in March Township. Martha was 13  years old when her sister arrived. Within a short time the family had purchased land of their own further inland in March Township and had constructed a “shanty” that served as living quarters  while John and his two elder sons, Thomas and John cleared the land, planted crops, built a log house and harnessed the creek that ran through their property to produce power for a sawmill. A census taken in 1823 showed the family living on Concession 4, one of only 49 families living in March Township. About this time Thomas, Martha’s eldest brother was drowned.

Martha, age16, was the first of the family of John and Frances Hedley to marry. About 1824 Martha Hedley married Irish-born, 31-year-old Thomas Morgan (b.1793; d. July 13, 1858). The couple farmed in March Township and had a family of nine children (gen.iii). (Children of Martha Hedley and their spouses are in red print, grandchildren and spouses are in green):

1. Frances Morgan, b. 1825
2. George Hedley Morgan (b. 1827; d.1894), was the second child of Martha Hedley and Thomas Morgan. George married Mary Ann Young (b.1830; d 1898). They farmed lot 6 on concession 2 of March Township. George and Mary Ann Morgan had 12.children: 
        1 - Aran Morgan b.1850
        2 - William Morgan b.1850
        3 - Robert Morgan b.1853
        4 - Mary Ann Morgan b. 1854
        5 - Jane Morgan b.1856; d.1927 at age 71
        6 - John Morgan b. 1857
        7 - Luther Byron Morgan b. abt 1860; d. Aug. 8,1902 (age 42)
        8 - Susanna b. 1860
        9 - Frances Adeline Morgan b.1865; d.1938 at age 73, never married
      10 - Victoria Eleanor Morgan b.1866; d.1940 at age 73, never married
      11 - Alonzo S. Morgan b.1867; d. Apr.15, 1880 (age 13)
      12 - Alfred Ira Morgan b. 1869; d. Jan.1, 1922 (age 53)

George died Jan. 15, 1894 at age 67. Mary Ann died four years later, on Sept. 30, 1898 at age 68. The graves of George Hedley Morgan, his wife Mary Ann Young and their twelve children are in St. John’s Anglican Cemetery, South March. Headstone
     
3. Mary Ann Morgan, b. abt. 1829, married Richard Abbott. They raised 4 children. Mary Ann and Richard Abbott's great granddaughter is Gwen Brouse (Mrs. Norman R. Brouse) of Riverside, California, with whom Anne Storey corresponded.

4. Jane Morgan born in 1830 (d. 1879) was married in 1846 to Jacob Logan 1815-1888. Jane was 16 years old and Jacob was 34. They farmed in March Twp., Conc. 3, Lot 6. Jacob Logan was born in Ireland on Aug. 23, 1812, the son of Captain Edward “Loggan” of the British army and Margaret Rusk of Antrim County,  Northern Ireland. Jacob was the youngest of six  children born to his parents before their mother’s early death at age 36 (1777-1813). Two years later Jacob’s father remarried and had two more children. In 1820, when Jacob was 8, his sister Ellen Jane, 13, and  his brother Edward, 17, the family emigrated to Canada. (See Addendum at the end of this chapter for Edward Logan [elder brother of Jacob Logan] and the beginning of the Logan Family in N. Zealand.)
    Jane Morgan and Jacob Logan had 11 children (gen. iv):

            1 - Ellen Jane Logan b. Apr. 4, 1847 m. James Adam (Jim) Burch (1851-1922)
                  and migrated to Manitoba. Ellen and Jim Burch had six children, but three died
                  during childhood.

            2 - Thomas Logan b. May 21, 1849 (baptized Aug. 1849) died 1879 married
                  Annie Hopewell (1856-1941) on June16, 1879. One child:                   Thomas and Annie were grandparents of Anne Storey*:  Thomas and Annie
                 Logan ––> Lillie (Logan) Davison ––> Anne (Davison) Storey (see Chap. 7).

            3 - Edward William Logan, born Aug. 6, 1851; died 1887 was a “well-known
                  blacksmith” in South March. (from obituary). He married Catherine Eliza
                  Wetherly, b. 1848. Edward Logan died  Nov. 16, 1887 at age 36. Catherine,
                  his wife, lived another 45 years. She lived with her daughter Jennie (Logan)
                  Robertson in Bell’s Corners and with her son Alvin O.Logan in South March,
                  where she died Nov.7, 1932, at age 83. 
                 The graves of Edward and Catherine (Wetherly) Logan are in St. John’s
                 Anglican Cemetery, South March. Headstone. Catherine was the daughter of Thomas
                 Wetherly (who was the son of Frances Hedley) and thus the granddaughter of John
                 and Frances Hedley. Thomas and Catherine (Wetherly) Logan had two children:
                        (1) Alvin Omar Logan (1880-1956); lived in S. March; burial St. John’s Cem.
                              m1 Mina Edna Boucher (1887-1925)
                              m2 Amelia Margaret McGinnes (1880-1957)
                              (Obituary for Catherine (Wetherly) Logan in Carp Review,
                              Nov. 10, 1932)
                        (2) Jennie Logan m. (–?–) Robertson, lived in Bell’s Corners.
                     
            4 - John Albert Morgan Logan b. May 15, 1855; died 1928; m. Frances
                  Louise Hayes. (1856-1927). John and Frances Hayes migrated to
                  Saskatchewan. Eight sons, one daughter.

            5 - Martha Frances Logan b. May 15, 1855; d. Aug.7, 1910 at age 55;
                 married William Hopewell b. April 1,1854; d. May 8, 1938 at age 84; burial
                 St. John’s Cemetery. Five children. Two died in infancy.               
                (See Chap. 7 for more about this family.)

            6 - Samuel Logan b. June 5, 1859; d. Dec. 5,1918, age 58
                  m1  Martha E. Kelly on Oct. 3, 1883 (b.1864; died Nov.26, 1910 at age 46).
                  m2  Mary Jane (Loney) Garvin  One daughter:
                               (1) Velma Logan
                  Samuel Logan was the grandfather of Peter Loney*.  (Samuel Logan’s
                  daughter Velma Logan, was the mother of Ruth Cunningham.*
                  Both Peter and Ruth were contributors to this Chapter.

            7 - George Logan b. July 2,1861; never married; lived in Saskatchewan
                 and Manitoba (died in a hotel in Winnipeg.)

            8 - Margaret Ann Logan b.May 2, 1864; d. in infancy Aug 1, 1864

            9 - Jacob Logan Jr. b. Jan. 23, 1866; d. in infancy Jan. 24, 1866

          10 - Abraham Logan b. Apr. 21, 1867, migrated to Washington State, then
                 Oregon. At age 41 he married 15-year-old Maude Stockwell. Maude was
                 placed in a  mental home. She died in 1964 at age 71. Abraham died of
                 liver cancer. Maude (Stockwell) and Abraham Logan had five children.
                 Three died in childhood.

          11 - Effie Jane Logan b. Feb. 22, 1871 m. Ed Briddon from Surrey, England
                (d. 1907). When Effie turned 90 an article in the Verdun, P.Q. newspaper
                 stated that she had eight children, but only one survived to adulthood.

5. John Morgan (b.1833; d.1886); married (–?–) One daughter:
           1 - Maria (–?–) married William Callen

6. Thomas Morgan  (b.1835; d.1864) was married in 1856 to Ann Wheeler (d. 1864).
    Thomas and Ann had two children:
          1 - William Morgan b. 1857
          2 - John Morgan b.1858, died in infancy

7. Charlotte Morgan, b. 1837, d. 1887, never married.

8. William Morgan, was b. in 1839 when his mother Martha was 31. William d. 1844 at age 5.

9. Alfred Morgan died in infancy

Thomas Morgan, 52, farmer, born in Ireland, Church of England, married, living in a log house.  Martha Morgan, 42, born in England, Church of England Mary A. Morgan, 21 single, born in March Twp. John Morgan, 18, single, born in March Twp. Thomas Morgan, 16, attending school Charlotte Morgan, 14, attending school

Thomas Morgan, Martha Hedley's husband, died July 13, 1859 at age 66. The grave of Thomas Morgan  is in St. John's
Cemetery, South March. Martha (Hedley) Morgan, born in Northumberland, Eng. on Jan. 19, 1808, daughter of Frances (Lawes) and John Hedley, died June 28, 1887 at age 80. Although her name is not on her husband’s headstone, she is listed in the St. John’s Anglican Cem. Burial Registers, S. March.


                                           
Captain Edward “Loggan” was born in Ireland in 1773, the son of John “Loggan.” Both Captain Edward Loggan and his father John Loggan served in the British army. In 1796 Edward Loggan married Margaret Rusk (1777-1813) in Randalstown, Antrim County, Northern Ireland. Margaret died at age 36 in October of 1813. Margaret (Rusk) and Edward Loggan had six children: John, Edward, Ellen Jane, Eliza, James and Jacob Logan.

On July 25, 1815, Captain Edward Loggan married his second wife, Mary Jane Duncan. Edward and Mary Jane had two more children, Elizabeth and David Duncan Loggan. In 1820 Captain Loggan and his second wife Mary Jane Duncan emigrated from Ireland to March Township, taking with them  Edward’s three youngest children from his first marriage, Edward, 17, Ellen Jane,13, Jacob, 8 and the two children from his second marriage, Elizabeth, 4 and David Duncan, 3.
Edward Logan died in March Twp. on Nov.18, 1846 at age 71. His wife, Mary Jane (Mary Ann on the headstone) lived another 32 years. She died Aug.29, 1878 at age 88. Their graves are in St. John’s Anglican Cemetery in South March.

1. John Logan, born Nov.5, 1797, was 23 when his family emigrated to Canada in 1820.
    He did  not come to Canada with the rest of his family.
2. Edward Logan was born August 2, 1803 in Ireland. He was 17 when his family emigrated from
    Ireland to March Township,  Carleton County in 1820.
3. Ellen Jane Logan, born May 4, 1807, never married. She was drowned at sea en route to
    New Zealand about 1854.
4. Eliza Logan, born in 1808, died at age 3 on Oct. 28, 1811.
5. James Logan, born in Feb. 1811 died at age 8 months in Sept. 1811.
6. Jacob Logan, born Aug. 23, 1812, married Jane Morgan, granddaughter of Martha Hedley.
     Jacob and Jane (Morgan) Logan farmed on Conc. 3 of March Twp. 11 children (see above).

7. Elizabeth Logan, born Apr. 29, 1816, married Henry Edwards.
8. David Duncan Logan, born Nov. 6, 1817, was married in Quebec. He attended McGill
    University and worked as a doctor in London, England. His name suddenly disappeared from
    the medical list of  doctors, and no further trace has been found of him.

Thirty years after coming to March Township with his father, on January 1, 1850 Edward Logan, age 47,  married  Susan Fuller “by special levy of the Governor General” in St. John’s Anglican Church in South March. Edward and Susan Logan started the New Zealand branch of the Logan family. Before departing for New Zealand Edward and Susan (Fuller) Logan had two children in March Township:
                1 Margaret Rusk Logan
                2 Ellen Jane Logan.
In 1850 Edward and Susan and their two little girls as well as Ellen Jane, Edward’s unmarried sister, left Boston harbour to begin their sea voyage to Australia. After working in the gold fields of Australia for awhile Edward decided to migrate to New Zealand, where he could get free land. On the voyage to New Zealand they were shipwrecked and Ellen Jane, Edward’s sister, was swept overboard and drowned. Edward and his family survived and reached New Zealand, where they had seven additional children.


Note: The original spelling of the family name was “Loggin” but eventually one of the g’s was dropped.  Most of the above account was provided by Peter Loney of  Edmonton.
The names of the children of the New Zealand family of Edward Logan and Susan Fuller were provided courtesy of Marlene Foley of New Zealand.