Ben Weber Genealogy
Overview › Family tree › Benjamin Kipp

Benjamin Kipp

Generation 6 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Ray Stewart Lobb ← Gladys Myrtle Kipp ← Edgar Allen Kipp ← Isaac Kipp ← Benjamin Kipp

In brief

Born March 26, 1811, in Burford Township, Brant County, Upper Canada (now Ontario, Canada). He married April 20, 1836, in Burford Township, Brant County, Upper Canada. He died September/22, 1890, in Princeton11/Burford Township, Brant County, Ontario, Canada.

Family

Father
Isaac Kipp
Mother
Hannah Meed
Spouse
Elizabeth Force
m. 1836

Children

  • Isaac Kipp · in this line
    b. c. 1839 · Creditville
    m. March 22, 1865, in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
    d. May 17, 1921, in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
  • Hamilton Kipp
    b. March 4, 1837, in Burford Township, Brant County, Upper Canada
    m. Orilla “Lucy” Lewis, October 14, 1862, in Burford Township, Brant County, Ontario
    d. April 3, 1885, in Sanilac County, Michigan, USA
  • Disree Kipp
    b. May 15, 1840, in Burford Township, Brant County, Upper Canada
    d. September 9, 1849
  • Henry Kipp
    b. July 30, 1842, in Burford Township, Brant County, Canada West
    m. Caroline Ann Trenamen, January 2, 1870, in Princeton, Blenheim Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada
    d. December 10, 1930, in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
  • Elizabeth Ann “Eliza” Kipp
    b. July 4, 1845, in Burford Township, Brant County, Canada West
    d. August 14, 1875, in Worth Township, Sanilac County, Michigan, USA
  • Melissa Jane Kipp
    b. August 20, 1847, in Burford Township, Brant County, Canada West
    m. Edward Lewis
    d. August 31, 1929, in Croswell, Sanilac County, Michigan, USA
  • Alfred Kipp
    b. August 19, 1850, in Burford Township, Brant County, Canada West
    d. June 22, 1940, in East Zorra Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada
  • William Kipp
    b. July 15, 1851, in Burford Township, Brant County, Canada West
    d. January 19, 1852, in Canada West
  • Mahlon Tailor Kipp
    b. August 16, 1853, in Burford Township, Brant County, Canada West
    d. 1897
  • Cordelia Louisa/Cadelia Lavinia Kipp
    b. June 15, 1858, in Burford Township, Brant County, Canada West
    d. March 13, 1918, in Princeton, Blenheim Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada
  • William Henry Kipp
    b. October 1, 1862, in Burford Township, Brant County, Canada West
    m. Ida Caroline Wilhelmina Schultz, February 26, 1890, in Burford Township, Brant County, Ontario
    d. January 27, 1921, in Princeton, Blenheim Township, Brant County, Ontario, Canada
  • George Kipp
    b. December 23, 1880, in Burford Township, Brant County, Ontario, Canada
    d. September 4, 1881

Siblings

  • Jonathan Kipp
    b. June 1792, in New York, USA
    m. Rhoda Chausey, abt. 1818
    d. 1831, in East Oxford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada due to Murder
  • James Kipp
    b. Abt. 1793, in New York, USA
    d. March 6, 1825, in Ontario, Canada
  • John Kipp
    b. June 5, 1795, in New York, USA
    m. Annis Utley in abt. 1826
    d. January 15, 1849, in East Oxford Township, Oxford County, Canada
  • David Kipp
    b. November 29, 1797, in USA
    m. Lucinda Jane Miller/Millard, abt. 1825, in Oxford County, Upper Canada
    m. Jane Wilson Williams, September 2, 1857, in Oxford County, Canada West
    d. January 20, 1876, in Burford, Brant County, Ontario, Canda
  • Elizabeth “Eliza” Kipp
    b. 1800 1 (other records: c. 1804)
    m. Henry Reece, abt. 1820
    d. August 8, 1880, in Pelham Township, Welland County, Ontario, Canada
  • Phoebe Kipp
    b. Abt. 1802 in Upper Canda
    m. Robert Lucas Gillam, abt. 1822
    d. Before 1839
  • Susannah “Susan” Kipp
    b. 1805, in Burford, Brant County, Upper Canda
    m. Samuel B. Lawrence, abt. 1883, in Burford, Brant County, Ontario
    m. James Muir, abt. 1845
  • Richard Titus Kipp
    b. April 7, 1808, in East Oxford Township, Oxford County, Upper Canada
    m. Elizabeth Losee, January 28, 1830, in Norwich, Oxford County, Ontario
    m. Eleanor Doyle, October 25, 1843, in Blenheim Township, Oxford County, Canada West
    m. Elizabeth Layton, May 30, 1878, in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA
    d. October 30, 1889, in Blandford Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada
  • Daniel Kipp
    b. 1813, in Burford/Oxford County, Upper Canada
    m. Elizabeth “Eliza” Utley, June 3, 1834, in Burford, Brant County, Ontario, Canada
    d. October 16, 1877, in Burford Township, Brant County, Ontario, due to two weeks of Typhoid Fever

Life story

A Burford Township Farmer

Benjamin Kipp was born on March 26, 1811, in Burford Township, Brant County, Upper Canada, and farmed there for most of his life, building his hundred-acre holding on Lot 21 into a productive operation of wheat, oats, peas, and maple sugar, and later serving as a road overseer and justice of the peace. He kept his savings hidden somewhere around his house, and when his two eldest sons, Hamilton and Isaac, took that money to fund their journey to the west coast around 1858, Benjamin disowned them — only to welcome them back and accept repayment several times over when they returned to visit. In 1868 he bought a four-hundred-square-foot plot in the Princeton cemetery for twelve dollars. His will, written in 1885, left his land on Lot 21, his money, and his stock to his son William; one hundred dollars to his daughter Melissa Jane; and to his daughter Cordelia fourteen acres, two hundred dollars' worth of household goods including a good cow when she married, and his organ for as long as she treated William well. Benjamin, in failing health for a long time beforehand, died in September 1890 near Princeton, Ontario, and was buried at the Princeton Burying Ground.

Benjamin Kipp and Elizabeth Force.
Benjamin Kipp and Elizabeth Force.
Benjamin Kipp.
Benjamin Kipp.
A portrait of Benjamin Kipp and his wife, Elizabeth Force, who married April 20, 1836, in Burford Township, Upper Canada.
A portrait of Benjamin Kipp and his wife, Elizabeth Force, who married April 20, 1836, in Burford Township, Upper Canada.
Sources (17)
  1. Dord (Chilliwack, BC) to Gladys Lobb, letter, 4 April 1975; privately held by a family member.
  2. Shirley (Edmonton, AB) to Frankie, letter, 20 May 1983; privately held by a family member.
  3. Edward B. Kipp, “Descendants of Isaac Kipp and Hannah (Meed) Kipp – Three Generations”; 2024.
  4. “Burford Council,” The Daily Expositor (Brantford, ON), 15 May 1873, page 1, col 5-6; web archives (https://www.newspapers.com/image/732307462 : accessed 30 December 2024).
  5. “Burford Council,” The Daily Expositor (Brantford, ON), 10 August 1876, page 3, col 2; web archives (https://www.newspapers.com/image/732313556 : accessed 30 December 2024).
  6. “Burford Council,” The Daily Expositor (Brantford, ON), 16 January 1878, page 1, col 6; web archives (https://www.newspapers.com/image/732306400 : accessed 30 December 2024).
  7. “Mr. Paterson’s Committee,” The Daily Expositor (Brantford, ON), 3 September 1878, page 1, col 6; web archives (https://www.newspapers.com/image/732316502 : accessed 30 December 2024).
  8. “The Campaign in South Brant,” The Daily Expositor (Brantford, ON), 21 May 1879, page 2, col 2-3; web archives (https://www.newspapers.com/image/732299240 : accessed 30 December 2024).
  9. “New Commission of the Peace,” The Weekly Expositor (Brantford, ON), 2 January 1880, page 3, col 3; web archives (https://www.newspapers.com/image/732214792 : accessed 30 December 2024).
  10. “Death of a Pioneer,” The Daily Expositor (Brantford, ON), 1 November 1889, page 3, col 2; web archives (https://www.newspapers.com/image/732630645 : accessed 30 December 2024).
  11. “Princeton,” The Daily Expositor (Brantford, ON), 25 September 1890, page 7, col 2; web archives (https://www.newspapers.com/image/732581205 : accessed 30 December 2024).
  12. “Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1950,” images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8946/images/ONMS935_14-0623 : accessed 30 December 2024), Death Record for Daniel Kipp, 1877, Brant County; citing Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Registrations of Deaths, 1877, Series 14.
  13. Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield, British Columbia from the earliest times to the Present, Volume III (Vancouver, BC: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1914), 1020-1023; digital images, University of British Columbia (https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0356573 : accessed 15 January 2025).
  14. Estate of Edward Burnice Kipp, “Ancestors of Edward Burnice Kipp”; 2024; pdf publication (http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/publications/Ancestors%20of%20Edward%20Burnice%20Kipp.pdf : accessed 17 January 2025).
  15. “People in landscape: Go west, young man,” 1968-1972, Canadian Broadcasting Company; audio recording; Imbert Orchard fonds > CBC radio series by Orchard > People in landscape : [special programs] > People in landscape: Go west, young man, British Columbia Archives and Records Service, Victoria, Canada.
  16. Blenheim, Oxford County, Ontario, Books S, Surrogate Court Probate file 8145 (also Burford Township, Brant County, Ontario, Book S, file 12445), Benjamin Kipp (1891); held by a family member.
  17. Blenheim, Oxford County, Book H Princeton Cemetery, Indenture of Bargain and Sale, James Wallace & Calvin Houghton et al. to Benjamin Kipp, 1868-1871; held by a family member.
↑ Back to top