Sex: Male.
Birth: ABT 1760
Death: ABT 1819 in Lower Chanceford, York County, Pa
Family: Wife: Mary Huss 1783 - 1855.
Children: John Wade 1817 - 1850. Hannah Wade 1802 - 1880.
Marriage: ABT 1801
Parents: Husband: Christian Wade 1740 - 1800.
James Wade is listed in the York County Will/Orphans Court abstracts as the husband of Mary Huss, who is certainly the Mary Wade who appears in the census records of 1830-1850. But who was this James Wade?
The most likely conclusion at present is that he is a son of John, Benjamin, or Christian Wade of central Lancaster County and moved across the river to Lower Chanceford in the early 1800's. We have presented him here as the brother of John and Daniel Wade, who figured in a will of 1816.
Detailed examination of possibilities:
1 - He is the James Wade of the 'innkeeper Wades' of Columbia, Lancaster County, who had sons Samuel and Joseph who were active in that community in the first half of the 19th Century. This possibility is the river connection - the possibility that Wades were active at the two river crossings at Columbia and Martic, and the adjacent communities. But as will be explained shortly, it is difficult to fit this James Wade in chronologically. Furthermore, these Wades, based on their names, seem to be related to the Catholic Wades of Elizabethtown rather than the Mennonite Wades of central Lancaster County.
This James Wade appears as head of household in the census for Lancaster County in 1790-1820. Unfortunately the entry for 1820 is completely illegible. In the earlier years.the James Wade censuses show a nice progression indicating the family was made up as follows:
James, born 1750-1765
Wife, born 1750-1765
Son 1, born 1785-1790
Son 2, born 1795-1800
Son 3, born 1800-1810
Daughter 1, born 1785-1790
Daughter 2, born 1795-1800
Daughter 3, born 1795-1800
The figures are as follows:
Age 1790 1800 1810
Males
<10 1 1 1
10-15 - 1 1
16-25 1 - 1
26-49 - 1 -
>45 - - 2
Females
<10 1 2 -
10-15 - 1 2
16-25 1 - 1
26-49 - 1 -
>45 - - 1
This could only be the James Wade that married Mary Huss if Mary (born 1783 versus the wife born 1750-1765 in the census) was his second wife, late in life, after his first wife had passed away, at some time after 1810 (last census showing her living) and 1817 (birth date of John Wade). The missing 1820 census could have answered this question.
But there is a Hannah Wade, born 1802, that married a Mundorff. And John Wade, son of James and Mary, also married a Mundorff. The Wades and Mundorffs are both living in Lower Chanceford in the censuses of 1840 and 1850. For Mary Huss to have been the wife of James Wade, Hannah Wade could not be her daughter. It is considered more likely that John and Hannah Wade were brother and sister and both married Mundorffs from the house down the road then that Hannah was the daughter of an unknown Wade family in York County and Mary Huss was James Wade's second wife. It would be considered more likely that the James Wade that married Mary Huss was the first son of James Wade of Lancaster County (in this case he would have been born between 1795 and 1800, and at least two years younger than Mary).
Finally, this James Wade was last located in Columbia, Lancaster County - and there are a Samuel Wade and Joseph Wade, of the correct ages to be the sons that appear in James' census records, who live in that area in the 1850 census. Therefore it would seem that the Lancaster James Wade is not the James Wade that married Mary Huss.
2. The Lower Chanceford Wades are derived from a Wade lineage in Maryland. This James Wade would be the brother of Nelson Wade, who married Susan Robinson of Montgomery County, Maryland, in York Borough, Pennsylvania, in 1800. Nelson was born in Pennsylvania, but moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where he appears in census records from 1810 to 1850. A James Wade appears in the Mongomery County, Maryland, census records in 1800 and 1810, but he is a major local land- and slave-owner and cannot be Mary's husband. An interesting possible connection is that Edwin Wade, his possible great-grandson, was given the somewhat unusual middle name Nelson.
3. The Lower Chanceford Wades are simply relations of the central-Pennsylvania Mennonite Wades living across the river crossing at Martic. There was a Susan Wade, daughter of John Wade of East Earl, that married Benjamin Shaub. She was born in Martic, at the river crossing from Lower Chanceford. Her brother-in-law, Abraham Shaub, moved to Conestoga by 1860, where her mother lived in old age as well. The Shaubs and Wades of central Pennsylvania are Mennonites, as was Noah Wade, the first one of the Chanceford line for which we have a burial location.
4. The Lower Chanceford Wades are related to the Catholic Elizabethtown Wades. This would fit into the family story of Irish rebellion origins. However that would mean that Noah Wade would have to have been converted to the Mennonite faith, perhaps to marry his wife.
Change: 15 Oct 2006 Time: 19:41:10.