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My family moved northwest to Harrison County, VA later to be WV, into an area which became Lewis County. This move was made first by William Wingrove, the apparent eldest son of John Wingrove Senior. The date was circa 1813-14. This information I gleaned from the tax lists. William married the second time to a Lanham in Lewis County. This marriage is documented - Nov 2, 1816, Harrison Co. which later becomes part of Lewis Co

Some of William Wingrove's family through his son Harrison Wingrove remained in the Lewis County, Upshur County areas of WV. John Wingrove Senior and others in the family moved into Ohio County near Wheeling WV. John was born in England about 1745 or later. He came here to the US in 1775 and landed in Loudon County, VA, This is on the Chesapeake Bay area. John Wingrove appears in the church records first in 1775. These were also the tax records since the Anglican Church was the state religion in VA. In the pension file of John Senior, James Wingrove my great uncle had written a letter asking when his grandfather come from England in 1773 or 1775. The pension board responded 1775 and this corresponds with the records in London which I researched when I was there.

  I do think that the date of birth of John senior is in question. In those times old age was a reason to be proud so people would add on to their age. He was a teenager or young man when he came here in 1775, at the age of twenty he would be born in the 1750's.    He did not marry until about 1792 or there about. Mariah Blue and John were probably married in Lewis County, VA now WV. There is a marriage record for him and Elizabeth Lunn or Lum. Later he married a Maria Huldfish .There was a Hulfish family in the same area. About 1814 he moved to Harrison Co VA now Lewis County WV to follow his oldest son William Wingrove. John Wingrove fought in the American Revolution.

Part of my old John's family moved into Fayette County WV and were joined by the other Wingroves who were from Ireland and had come through the state of New York as evidenced in the census records The children are listed as having been born in the State of NY, but it says that the father at least was born in Ireland.

The list of children of John Wingrove must have been collected in the early 1920's when the third generation was still alive and knew something of the family history. In Leesville, Loudon County, VA there is a folio of notes in the Tavenner Library which list the marriage of one of John's daughter to a Costello and there are some other notes which back up the material given to me by an elderly cousin and granddaughter of the youngest son, David Hazelton Wingrove who was the brother of my great grandfather James Wingrove and Uncle to my grandfather also named David Hazelton Wingrove. I often wonder  if there is a David Hazelton perhaps on the mother's side of old John  from England. It appears all over the family.

We, here in Fayette County, PA, are familiar with both James Wingrove and David Hazelton Wingrove who were sons of John the immigrant.

In my line of Wingroves there is a John Wingrove Junior who was the twin of Nancy Wingrove. They were born about 1800 but were taken from their father since he was too poor to support them. They were given to a childless couple, but the father died the next year and at some time the mother had to give up John Jr. He was apprenticed to someone in the Loudon County, VA area. He next shows up in Indiana County PA .Nobody knows what happened to Nancy.
John Junior's story is written in the History of Indiana County, PA. It even tells that he was taken by a Mr Janey a slave trader. There are Janeys in Loudon County at the time.

Added December 15, 2000

Incidentally, The Haz and Margaret [Hull Beales] Wingrove in Preston County in 1880, are my grandfather and his elderly first wife. The dates are a bit off, but it is him. I have him in 1860 with his parents James Wingrove and Jane Clark Wingrove in Springfield Twp, Fayette County, PA not far from where I live.
According to tax records James dies in 1867 and Jane married Phillip Stubbles in 1869. They took the two youngest children with them Joseph and Aggie. The rest of the family moved in with their brother John Clark Wingrove [James & Jane's oldest son] and are listed with him in. 
My grandfather and his wife are separated in 1900 and both are living in Dunbar Twp. My grandfather living in the town of Vanderbilt where I grew up and where my uncle Joseph Victor Wingrove was born. My mother [Iva May Wingrove] often pointed out the house, and her uncle James Wingrove lived just two houses away.

In 1910 my grandparents were living in Bullskin Twp at a village called Crossroads. Shortly after that they bought a farm in the mountainous area of Bullskin. So now I know where my grandfather was from his birth until 1910.

Now the Harrison Wingrove born 26 Oct 1813 of Lewis county was the son of William and Elizabeth Wooster Wingrove. She must have died in childbirth. Her father was Sebastian Wooster.

Anthony Wayne Keefer
leprof@cvzoom.net

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IGI Film 1904001 
 Official temple record for deceased individuals, 1991- 
 John William WINGROVE  
Marriage(s): Maria HULDFISH 
Marriage: Abt. 1770  Of Westminster Par, London, London, England