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Father: George Gosnell
Mother: Abigail (Baker) Gosnell
Married: Rev. James F. Emerick on 23
September 1874, in Orford, Ontario, Canada.
James was born in 1849 in Canada, although his father was born in New
York
state, and his mother in Michigan. They were both single and she was
23, he 25 at the time of their marriage. James was a minister.
Children:
Death: 1917
Census: 1880: Clio,
Genesee County, Michigan
Notes: The Emericks evidently moved to
Michigan soon after their
marriage. Their daughter was born in Michigan in 1877/8 and they are
found
in Clio, Michigan in the 1880 census. Joan Fisher's notes show Abigail
still
living in Clio in 1911.
Source:
Father: Christopher W. Gosnell
Mother: Christena (Ferguson) Gosnell
Married: O. Mathers
Children:
Death: 27 February 1892, in
Orford Township, Ontario, Canada
Notes: This is the data exactly as received
from Bob Barker. Clearly
something is in error - Agnes did not die married with two children
aged
4!. It seems most likely to me that the year of death contains a typo
(perhaps
1982 or 1992?)
Sources:
Father: John Gallagher Gosnell
Mother: Katherine Skuse
Death: 10 October 1970, in
Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Web Links:
Gosnell
- Butterfield tree on Rootsweb
Source:
Father: George Gosnell
Mother: Abigail (Baker) Gosnell
Married: Alice M Colly on 17 Mar 1881 at Bothwell, Kent
County, Ontario. Alice was born
in 1857, the daughter of Robert and
Nancy Colly. She died in 192
(Bob Barker has Alice's birth date as 15 August 1854, but this does not
correspond
with her age at her marriage or at the 1881 census.)
Children:
Death: 15 November 1917. Alfred, working as
a night watchman in Detroit, died on the job of
either heart failure or apoplexy.
Buried:
17 November 1917, in the Gosnell Cemetary, Highate, Ontario
Notes: The family lived at
Highgate until 1915 when they moved to Detroit where Alfred was a night
watchman.
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Sources:
Father: Wellington Gosnell
Mother: Martha Lowis (Thomas) Gosnell
Married: Catherine Enright. Catherine was
born on 15 July 1882,
in Brigden, Ontario and died on 28 February 1974, in Chatham, Ontario,
Canada.
Children:
Death: 11 July 1955, in Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Sources:
Father: James Gosnell
Mother: Ann (Gosnell) Gosnell
Married: Albert Ferguson. Albert was born in 1853, in Ontario, and died in 1921, in Orford Township. Albert is listed as a farmer in the 1881 census.
Children:
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary, Highgate, Ontario, along with her husband, Albert.
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario This was probably on Concession1 -
this is Household 259, and we know that Household 257 was on Concession
1.
Source:
Mother: Mary (Wolfe) Gosnell
Married: Alexander Raitt, in 1837. Alexander died in 1852.
Children:
Father: James Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Mary (Webb) Gosnell
Married: James Gosnell in 1833. James was Ann's first cousin.
Children:
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary, Highgate, Ontario
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Source:
Married: Michael Gallagher
Notes: Michael and Ann (Gosnell) Gallagher emigrated to Rochester, New York, USA
Source:
Married: Henry G. Whitley
Source:
Father: Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Ester (Rushton) Gosnell
Married: John George Hatch on 14 February 1856. John was the eldest son of Thomas Hatch and Sarah Gosnell. Sarah was the daughter of Thomas Gosnell and Mary Wolfe - thus the first cousin of Ann's father, Joseph Gosnell. This means that Ann Gosnell and John Hatch were second cousins when they married. John George Hatch was born 15 April 1826, on Sherkin Island, County Cork, and emigrated to Canada with his parents in 1829. He died 6 April 1897 in London, Ontario, Canada.
Children:
During the early days the pioneers suffered and endured much. One of the greatest difficulties they encountered was in the transportation of their products. Both Mr and Mrs Hatch carried the grain to the nearest mill, the one owned by George Henry at Clearville, nine miles from their home, and brought back the flour. More than this when occasion demanded they would bring merchandise from Detroit Michigan.
Census:
1881:
London, Middlesex East, Ontario
The 1881 census has some slight discrepancies to the information provided by Bob Barker. John George Hatch is listed aged 53, indicating birth in 1827/8, not 1826. Ann is shown aged 43 indicatin birth in 1837/8, not 1835. Lastly, a child named Ann is mentioned, while Bob has a child named Augusta.
Source:
Father: Lawrence B. Gosnell
Mother: Sarah (Lee) Gosnell
Death: 1923
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Source:
Father: William James Gosnell
Mother: Catherine Jane (Gosnell) Gosnell
Census:
1881:
Mountain, Marquette, Manitoba
Sources:
Father: Christopher W. Gosnell
Mother: Christena (Ferguson) Gosnell
Married: Georgina Marshall.
Children:
Sources:
Father: Lawrence Gosnell
Mother: Eliza (Bowers) Gosnell
Married: Rachel Gillanders. Rachel was born in 1857, in Ontario, and she died on 15 February 1919.
Occupation: Farmer
Death: 28 February 1932, in Orford, Ontario, Canada
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary Lot D13, Highgate, Ontario, along with his wife, Rachel
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Sources:
Married: Richard Dukelow
Source:
Father: William James Gosnell
Mother: Catherine Jane (Gosnell) Gosnell
Census:
1881:
Mountain, Marquette, Manitoba
Sources:
Father: John Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Sarah (Reeder) Gosnell
Married: William James Gosnell
Children:
Buried: Pilot Mound Cemetary, Pilot Mound, Manitoba, Canada
Notes:
Catherine Jane Gosnell married her cousin William James Gosnell the son
of George and Mary Ann (Rowe) Gosnell. They rented a farm of 50
acres south of Highgate where their large family was born. In 1877 they
moved to Clearville in Orford township and rented the Patterson farm of
300 acres
extending to the very shores of Lake Erie, Here the family remained
till 1880 when they moved to a ranch (W1/2 16-2-10W) at Pilot Mound,
Manitoba.
Census:
1881:
Mountain, Marquette, Manitoba
Source:
Father: James Gosnell
Mother: Ann (Gosnell) Gosnell
Married: Robert McDonald. Robert was born 1824 in Scotland, and died on 15 October 1921, in Howard Township, Kent County, Ontario, Canada
Children:
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary, Highgate, Ontario, along with her husband, Robert
Census:
1881:
Howard, Bothwell, Ontario
Source:
Father: Lawrence B. Gosnell
Mother: Sarah (Lee) Gosnell
Death: 1943, in Orford, Ontario, Canada
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Source:
Father: Thomas Hickey Gosnell
Mother: Margaret (McKenzie) Gosnell
Death: 1949, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary, Highgate, Ontario
Sources:
Father: John Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Sarah (Reeder) Gosnell
Married: Robert Barker on 15 April 1867, in Highgate, Ontario. Robert was born on 5 September 1845, in Lowville, Nelson Township, Halton County, Ontario, and died on 6 July 1918, in Highgate, Ontario. Robert was a farmer.
Children:
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary, Highgate, Ontario, Canada, along with her husband Robert.
Notes:
Robert Barker, the fifth child of John and Mariah (Dawson) Barker was
born on 5 September 1845 five years after his parents came to Canada
(1840).
He attended the Barker School, the first school built in Lowville.
Circa
1853, after his Uncle Hall died, Robert's parents and family moved to
Orford
Township in Kent County when he was 8 years old. They lived in a one
story
log house and farmed 26 acres that was part of his Uncle William and
Aunt
Mary's farm on Lot 2 Concession 2 in Orford.
On 15 April 1867 at the age of 22 years, Robert married Charlotte Gosnell. Attending Robert and Charlotte at their wedding were Charlotte's younger sister Jerusha Gosnell and Hall Barker, Robert's older brother. The wedding ceremony was performed by Rev Dawson Barker a brother of Robert's.
This family lived on Lot 2 Concession 1 along with Robert's brother Hall and Jerusha and their family. Circa 1894 both of these families (Robert and Charlotte their sons Hall and Lawrence - Agatha had died, and (Hall and Jerusha and their children Arthur W, Ellen May, andAnnie O, moved to adjacent lots on Hogg Street in Alborough and farmed for nearly 17 years.
By 1911 Robert and Charlotte moved back to Orford township and lived with their only living son Lawrence and his wife, Bernice, who had bought a farm on the Gore Road on land adjacent to the Gosnell family. Here Charlotte died on 9 Feb 1916 and Robert died on 6 July 1918. Both are buried in the Gosnell cemetery at Highgate Ontario.
Obituary of Robert Barker
The funeral of the late Robert Barker, who died on Friday last, was
held
from the residence of his son, Lawrence Barker, Gore Road, Orford, on
Monday afternoon to Gosnell Cemetery. The services were conducted at
two
o'clock by Rev W.L Hiles of Highgate assisted by Rev (Dr) Hicks of
Chatham. Besides his son, two sisters, Mrs Mary Harris of Hamilton and
Mrs Maria Mauser of San Diego, California survive. The pallbearers were
John Gosnell, James Gosnell, Edward Barker, John Barker, Lovell Barker,
Percy Barker. The late Mr Barker, who was in his 74th year, was one of
the early residents of Orford township. He came here with his parents
when a young child from Nelson township, Halton county. He was
sucessful
in farming on Con 12 Aldborough (Hogg St), retiring about seven years
ago
since when he has resided with his son. Mrs Barker died about two years
ago. The deceased was a consistent member of the Methodist Church and
highly esteemed in the community.
Census:
1881:
Howard, Bothwell, Ontario
Source:
Father: Christopher W. Gosnell
Mother: Christena (Ferguson) Gosnell
Married: Dave Dryden.
Children:
Sources:
Father: John Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Sarah (Reeder) Gosnell
Married: Christena Caroline Ferguson on 22 December 1864, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada. Christena was born on 21 November 1843 in Gorbals, Lanark, Scotland and she died on 4 April 1918, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada.
Children:
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary, Highgate, Ontario Lot Old 216, with his wife, Christena
Notes: Known as "Billy"
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Source:
Source:
Father: James Sweetman Gosnell
Mother: Sarah (Gallagher) Gosnell
Occupation: In the 1880 census, Daniel's occupation is listed as "Works in Shoe Factory"
Census:
1880:
Rochester, Monroe County, New York, United States
Source:
Sources:
Father: William James Gosnell
Mother: Catherine Jane (Gosnell) Gosnell
Census:
1881:
Mountain, Marquette, Manitoba
Sources:
Father: Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Esther "Hattie" (Morgan) Gosnell
Married: Ann Smith on 29 December 1851, in the Quebec Metropolitan Church, Quebec, Canada. Ann was born in 1831/2, in Quebec, Canada.
Children:
Notes:
Edward and Ann moved to Singhampton in Grey County Ontario
Edward is also mentioned in the Farmers' Directory of the County of
Grey for 1890, along with a Thomas Gosnell.
Census:
1871:
Osprey, Grey South, Ontario
1881:
Osprey, Grey East, Ontario
Sources:
Father: Edward Gosnell
Mother: Ann (Smith) Gosnell
Occupation: Farmer
Census:
1881:
Osprey, Grey East, Ontario
Sources:
Father: Lawrence B. Gosnell
Mother: Sarah (Lee) Gosnell
Death: 29 April 1864, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary, Highgate,
Ontario Lot Old 73
Source:
Mother: Esther "Hattie" (Morgan) Gosnell
Married: Moses Taylor on 21 February 1843 at Lac Beauport, Stoneham and Valcartier Mission in Quebec, Canada. Moses was also born in 1819/20, in Ireland. He was a tanner.
Children:
Father: William Gosnell
Mother: ? (Raycroft) Gosnell
Married: Thomas Francis Skuse (Thomas was born in Rochester, New York, USA)
Notes:
Lived in Inchinagotagh, County Cork, Ireland
Source:
Father: Edward Gosnell
Mother: Ann (Smith) Gosnell
Census:
1881:
Osprey, Grey East, Ontario
Sources:
Father: Lawrence Gosnell
Mother: Eliza (Bowers) Gosnell
Married: Parley G. Keyes. Parley was born in 1853, in Ontario. He is listed in the 1881 census as a working in the civil service.
Children:
Note that the 1881 census records Elizabeth as 26 years old, making her birth year as 1854 or 1855.
Sources:
Father: Lawrence Gosnell
Mother: Eliza (Bowers) Gosnell
Death: 1861
Sources:
Father: John Gallagher Gosnell
Mother: Katherine Skuse
Death: 18 April 1955, in Rochester, New
York, USA
Census:
1880:
Rochester, Monroe County, New York
Web Links:
Gosnell
- Butterfield tree on Rootsweb
Sources:
Father: Lawrence Gosnell
Mother: Catherine (Salter) Gosnell
Married: John Henry Reeder on 15 August 1840, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada. John was born 11 September 1810 in Derbyshire, England and died 14 November 1895. He was the brother of Sarah Reeder who married Ellen's brother, John Joseph Gosnell.
Children:
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary, Orford, Ontario, Canada
Notes:
Ellen Gosnell came to Canada with her parents in 1819. Her father and
brothers worked on the Rideau Canal at Kingston until their mother died
in 1822 and then they came to Orford Township and pioneered on Lot
17/18 North Middle Road in Orford.
Ellen and John had one child who died in childbirth and they never had any other children of their own. They raised a nephew, George A Gosnell, from aged 9. George was the youngest of 15 children of John's sister Sarah (Reeder) Gosnell and Ellen's brother John Joseph Gosnell.
It was noted that Ellen was "large physically" weighing 220 pounds.
Census:
1871:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
In the 1881 census, Ellen is listed as aged 79, indicateing birth in 1801 or 1802 rather than the 1804 listed by Bob Barker
Source:
Father: James Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Mary (Webb) Gosnell
Married: James Reycraft. James was born in 1802 in County Cork, and died in February 1886 in Orford, Ontario, Canada.
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seated
left to right are James Reycraft, widower of Ellen Gosnell, and his
sons John, Will, and Joe. The women are not identified in this
photograph but in a similar photograph described by Gwen Farrow, the
women are identified as daughters of James Reycraft: Ellen, Mary Ann,
Hester and Martha..
photo
coutesy of Catherine Cragg
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Children:
Buried: in County Cork, Ireland
Notes:
Ellen and James, then married with children, remained in Ireland when
her parents emigrated to Canada in 1832. After Ellen's death, James and
his
seven living children emigrated to Canada in 1852, moving to a rented
farm
near the Gosnell settlement in Orford, Ontario, where Ellen's mother
and
a number of her cousins lived. James married again to Ann Connell and
they
had four more children. Many of these Reycrafts became prominent in the
area.
There is obviously an error somewhere in this data as Ellen's
two youngest children are shown as being born after Ellen died. It has
been suggested that Josephmay have been born c1843 rather than 1847,
and that Mary Ann and Margaret were twins born c1847, with Ellen dying
in childbirth or shortly thereafter.
Source:
Father: Thomas Gosnell
Mother: Mary (Wolfe) Gosnell
Married: Daniel Carney, in 1841, probably in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada. Daniel was born in 1814 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada and died 24 August 1891 in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada.
Children:
Notes:
A descendent of Ellen and Daniel Carney was a modern Dan Carney of
Seattle WA, who has contributed hugely to the research of this branch
of the Gosnell family.
Web Links:
West
Cork Genealogy
Source:
Father: Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Esther "Hattie" (Morgan) Gosnell
Married: Alexander "Sandy" Fachnie on 20 December 1852, at Lac Beauport, Stoneham and Valcartier Mission in Quebec, Canada. Sandy was the brother of Margaret Fachnie who married Ellen's brother John.
Children:
Notes: The family must have moved from
Quebec to Ontario between
1859/60, when Susan was born in Quebec and 1863/4, when Alexander was
born
in Ontario.
Census:
1881:
Nottawasaga, Simcoe North, Ontario
Father: George Gosnell
Mother: Abigail (Baker) Gosnell
Married: James Brady Guild. James was born in 1836/7 in Ontario, Canada. He is listed in the 1881 census as a machinist and farmer.
Children:
Census:
1881:
Harwich, Kent, Ontario
Sources:
Father: James Gosnell
Mother: Ann (Gosnell) Gosnell
Married: James McDonald. James was born 1837 in Attica, New York, USA, and died on 1 June 1902, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada. He was a farmer. James's sister, Isabella McDonald, had a duagheter, Margaret McKenzie, who married Thomas Hickey Gosnell.
Children:
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Source:
Father: Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Caroline (Dobbyn) Gosnell
Married: William Dobbyn on 16 March 1857 at Mr. Larke's hotel in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. William was born on 27 February 1824 in Dunwich Township, Elgin County, Ontario, and died on 24 January 1917 in Florence, Ontario. William was previously married to Francenna Davis with whom he had three children. Francenna died in 1855, and is buried in Shetland Cemetary.
Children:
Buried: Shetland Cemetary, Euphemia Township, Ontario, along with her husband, William
Notes: William and Ellen (Gosnell) Dobbyn farmed in Euphemia township in Lambton County. They built a homestead on Lot 25 Concession 3 in Euphemia. In her mother's obituary in January 1900, Ellen (Mrs. Wm. Dobbyn) is noted to be living in Shetland, Ontario.
Census:
1881:
Euphemia, Bothwell, Ontario
Sources:
Father: John Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Sarah (Reeder) Gosnell
Death: 1841, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada
Source:
Father: George Gosnell
Mother: Abigail (Baker) Gosnell
Source:
Father: William James Gosnell
Mother: Catherine Jane (Gosnell) Gosnell
Census:
1881:
Mountain, Marquette, Manitoba
Sources:
Mother: Ann (Smith) Gosnell
Census:
1881:
Osprey, Grey East, Ontario
Sources:
Father: Lawrence B. Gosnell
Mother: Sarah (Lee) Gosnell
Death: 1954, in Orford, Ontario, Canada
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary, Highgate,
Ontario
Notes: Known as "Nellie"
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Source:
Father: Lawrence Gosnell
Mother: Eliza (Bowers) Gosnell
Married: Robert C. Scott. Robert was born on 22 May 1849, in Ontario, and he died on 16 March 1921. He is listed in the 1881 census as a miller.
Children:
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Sources:
Father: Lawrence B. Gosnell
Mother: Sarah (Lee) Gosnell
Death: 21 August 1869
Sources:
Father: Thomas Hickey Gosnell
Mother: Margaret (McKenzie) Gosnell
Married: Charles V. Ward. Charles was born
in 1881 and died in 1949, in Orford, Ontario.
Death: 1949, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary Lot E13, Highgate,
Ontario, along with her husband, Charles.
Sources:
Father: James Gosnell
Mother: Ann (Gosnell) Gosnell
Married: Robert Forbes. Robert was born 1846/7 in Scotland. Robert is listed as a farm labourer in the 1881 census.
Children:
Source:
Father: George Gosnell
Mother: Abigail (Baker) Gosnell
Source:
Father: James Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Mary (Webb) Gosnell
Married: Thomas Tape in 28 February 1929,
in St.
Finbarr's Cathedral, Aughadour, County Cork, Ireland. Thomas
was born in 1801 in Tullagh parish of County Cork, Ireland and died 3
December 1892.
Children:
Notes:
Thomas and Fanny Tape lived on Sherkin Island, but Fanny became lonely
for her parents who had emigrated to Canada in 1832. Eventually the
Tapes
followed Fanny's parents to Canada and the settled on the Gosnell Road
in
Highgate, Ontario.
The existence of the Tape son who is unnamed (1838 - 1859) ,
is questionable
- he does not appear in the 1851 census, and Bob Barker's data is the
only
reference to him.
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Source:
Birth: 1824
Father: Thomas Gosnell
Mother: Mary (Wolfe) Gosnell
Married: Thomas Scott, in 1841.
Children:
Father: James R. Gosnell
Mother: Anise Catherine (Hauser) Gosnell
Married: Eva Louella Smith. Eva was born in
1902, in Orford, Ontario.
Death: 1961, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary, Highgate,
Ontario
Sources:
Father: Thomas Hickey Gosnell
Mother: Margaret (McKenzie) Gosnell
Married: Gladys Wolfe. Gladys was born in
1898. She died in Orford, Ontario, Canada.
Children:
Death: 1951, in Orford, Ontario, Canada
Sources:
Father: Lawrence Gosnell
Mother: Eliza (Bowers) Gosnell
Death: 29 May 1893
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Sources:
Father: John Gosnell
Mother: Sarah
Married: Mary Woulfe in 1790. Mary was the daughter of William Woulfe and Hettie Morgan.
Children:
Died: on Sherkin Island, County Cork, IrelandNotes:
George and Mary remained in County Cork, moving to Highfield which is
between Baltimore and Skibbereen. In later years, George became a Roman
Catholic.
Source:
Father: Joseph Gosnell
Married: Mary Ann Rowe, probably in Quebec City. Mary Ann was born in 1800 in Ireland, and died 1880.
Children:
Notes: The position of this George in the family tree is tentative. Dan Carney places him here, Bob Barker, based on Mae Barrett's work, puts him as the son of Joseph Gosnell and Hattie Morgan (here shown as his brother), but this has the problem being a bit out of whack with Mary Ann Rowe's birth in 1800. Also, Bob has his name as Joseph rather than George which I don't know how to reconcile - at least both Bob and Dan agree on the marriage to Mary Ann Rowe and the four children!
After a time in Quebec City, George and Mary Ann moved to Pickering, Ontario where their son William was born in 1832. In about 1834 George and Mary Ann came to Highgate, Ontario where some of his Gosnell cousins already lived. In 1836, Mary Ann Rowe remarried to Thomas French who also hailed from County Cork and had emigrated via Quebec City to Ontario. They moved to Lot 18 Concession 9 on the corner of the Old Ridge Road on the Howard/Orford town line where Mary Ann became mother of a second family.
Source:
Father: James Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Mary (Webb) Gosnell
Married: Abigail Baker. Abigail was born in 1817, in Ireland and died 11 July 1872 in Orford Township, Ontario.
Children:
Notes:
Both George and Abigail came from Ireland. The settled on a farm across
the "Gosnell Road" from Emerald Farm and adjacent to the farm owned by
Joseph Gosnell (George's brother).
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Source:
Father: George Gosnell
Mother: Mary Ann (Rowe) Gosnell
Married (1st): Fanny Reycraft. Fanny was born on 24 February 1840, and she died on 1 December 1865. Fanny was the daughter of James Reycraft and Ellen Gosnell.
Children:
Married (2nd): Martha Wilkins. Martha, of German
extraction, was born in 1845/6 in Ontario.
Children:
Notes: With the number of Gosnells with the same first names in Orford, some of them started going by nicknames. George was known as "Towhead" after the colour of his hair.
George and Fannie Gosnell lived east of Highgate on Concession 6.
In Dan Carney's Gosnell genealogy, he lists George's death as occurring on 1 Dec 1865 but this is surely in error - George is alive and well in the 1871 and 1881 censuses. Bob Barker list that date as the death of George's first wife, Fanny Reycraft, which makes much more sense.
Census:
1871:
Orford,
Bothwell, Ontario
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Source:
Father: George Gosnell
Mother: Abigail (Baker) Gosnell
Notes: Bob Barker has this George married to Fanny Reycraft (1830-1855), but he also has the George Gosnell who was the son of George Gosnell and Mary Ann Rowe as married to the same Fanny Reycraft. Other sources confirm that the other George was the one that married Fanny - further born out by the date errors that occur if it was this George - George was not 11 years old when his wife died.
Sources:
Birth:
1 August 1854, at Lot 3 Concession 6, in Orford Township, Ontario,
Canada
Father: John Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Sarah (Reeder) Gosnell
Married: Bertha Eastman on 26 July 1878 in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. Bertha was born on 13 January 1860 in North Gower, Ontario, the daughter of John Eastman and Emily Ross of Cornwall and Wales, respectively, and died in 1939 in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada.
Children:
Death: 13 April 1932, at the residence of his daughter Mrs Samuel Hutchinson (Myrtle), in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary, Highgate, Ontario
Notes:
George A. Gosnell, a son of John and Sarah (Reeder) Gosnell was
born on 11 Aug 1856 at Lot 3 Concession 6 Orford. He remained
with his parents until he was nine years old after which he lived with
his Aunt Ellen (Gosnell) and Uncle John Reeder who owned a sixty seven
and one half acre farm adjacent on Lot 2 Concession 6 (now Highgate
Road). John and Ellen Reeder had no living
children and were grateful for their nephew who later owned the place
to
which he succeeded on his uncle's death in 1895.
On 28 Jul 1878, George married Bertha Eastman who was born at North Gower near Ottawa, Ontario and came to Kent County with her parents in 1863 and settled in Orford Township. Bertha (Eastman) Gosnell was born on 13 Jan 1860. and was the daughter of John and Emily J (Ross) Eastman of Cornwall, Ontario and Wales respectively. John Eastman was a successful farmer in Orford township and after Mrs Eastman died in Grey County, Ontario on 4 April 1866 at the age of thirty years and Mr Eastman later moved to Walkerville Ontario.
In the spring of 1903, George A Gosnell and his wife Bertha built a fine brick house on his inherited farm. In politics, he was a Reformer but did not find the time to devote to public affairs. He and his wife were prominent members of the Methodist Church.
Census:
1871:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
The 1881 census shows George as aged 24, indicating a birth in 1856 or 1857, but the 1871 census shows him aged 17 indicating a birth in 1853 or 1854. Bob Barker has the date of birth as 1 August 1854.
Source:
Father: Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Caroline (Dobbyn) Gosnell
Married: Frances M. Baldwin. Frances was born on 28 February 1858, and she died on 14 October 1958, at the Guilds Nursing Home in Guilds, Ontario, aged 100. Frances had been active until she broke her hip aged 96.
Children:
Death: 15 October 1911, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary Lot Old 2, Highgate, Ontario, along with his wife, Frances
Census:
1881:
Howard, Bothwell, Ontario
Sources:
Father: William James Gosnell
Mother: Catherine Jane (Gosnell) Gosnell
Married: Kit Tape. This was George's second
marriage. Kit was 46 at the time of this marriage to her distant cousin.
Children:
Census:
1881:
Mountain, Marquette, Manitoba
Sources:
Father: James Gosnell
Mother: Elizabeth (Salter) Gosnell
Occupation: Farmer
Death: 25 January 1883
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary Lot Old 62, Highgate, Ontario
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Sources:
Father: Edward Gosnell
Mother: Ann (Smith) Gosnell
Occupation: Farmer
Census:
1881:
Osprey, Grey East, Ontario
Sources:
Father: Christopher W. Gosnell
Mother: Christena (Ferguson) Gosnell
Death: 1 August 1902, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Sources:
Father: Walter R. Gosnell
Mother: Mary (Carter) Gosnell
Married: Isabell Towner
Children:
Death: 1925
Source:
GOSNELL family tree supplied by Ted
Bates
Father: George Gosnell
Mother: Abigail (Baker) Gosnell
Source:
Father: Lawrence B. Gosnell
Mother: Sarah (Lee) Gosnell
Death: 1956, in Orford, Ontario, Canada
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Source:
Father: James Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Mary (Webb) Gosnell
Married (1st): Margaret Ryckman. Margaret was born in 11 June 1830 and died 7 March 1863. She is buried in Lot 175 in the Gosnell Cemetary, Highgate, Ontario, Canada
Children:
Death: 9 March 1865
Buried: Lot 177, Gosnell Cemetary, Highgate, Ontario, Canada
Source:
Father: Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Caroline (Dobbyn) Gosnell
Married: Isabel McKinley on 31 December 1884. Isabel was born on 27 March 1845 in Howard Township, Ontario, the daughter of Robert and Mary (McLean) McKinlay. She died on 12 December 1930, in Orford Township, Ontario.
Children:
Death: 3 June 1929, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary, Highgate, Ontario, along with his wife, Isabel
Notes: After the retirement of his parents, Henry took over the family farm on Lot 1, Concession 6, in Orford township. he is listed as the Head of Household on the property in 1881 even though his parents were still living there, and he is still "of the place" when his mother died in 1900.
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Sources:
Father: John Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Sarah (Reeder) Gosnell
Death: 11 October 1869, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada
Notes:
We have a slight problem with Henry's birth date; he is listed by Bob
Barker as aged 22 years, 3 months at his death in October 1869. This
puts his his birth in June or July 1847. Ted Bates also lists the birth
as July 1847.
the problem is that his older brother, James R. Gosnell, was born on 1
December 1846, so another child born in July of the following year is
unlikely. Also, I believe that Jerusha was born in late 1847 or early
1848. I guess either the age at death is wrong, or we have the wrong
parents for Henry.
Source:
Father: Christopher W. Gosnell
Mother: Christena (Ferguson) Gosnell
Death: 1945
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary, Lot Old 216, Highgate, Ontario
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Sources:
Father: Henry Gosnell
Mother: Margaret (Ryckman) Gosnell
Death: 15 September 1860
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary, Lot 174, Highgate, Ontario
Source:
Father: Thomas Hickey Gosnell
Mother: Margaret (McKenzie) Gosnell
Death: 1 July 1887, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Sources:
Father: John Gosnell
Mother: Sarah
Married: Mary Webb, of the Parish of Creagh near Skibbereen, County Cork
Children:
Notes:
James Joseph emigrated to Canada, leaving Ireland in April 1832. The
family stayed from April
to July 1832 in York, near Toronto, Ontario, where James died of
cholera.
Mary (Webb) Gosnell then took her family to Highgate, in Orford
Township,
Kent County, Ontario and settled on Emerald Farm (433 acres) next to
her
brother-in-law Lawrence Gosnell.
Mary Webb had to walk
twice to Toronto and back to secure the deed! Mary Webb invited the
Methodist
Circuit Riders to hold meetings in her front room, and later a
Methodist
Church was built across the road from her farm and around it was the
Gosnell
Cemetery, were many relatives rest today. This church was later moved
to
Highgate where the United Church now stands. Mary's brother,
Christopher
Webb also came to Highate and became a schoolmaster in the pioneer
school
there.
The following is an account of Mary (Webb) Gosnell's pioneer
life from the book "The Orford Story" 1827-1977.
"In 1832 the Asiatic cholera raged in Detroit and Toronto; old Mrs.
Gosnell moved in to Orford a mile from our place with her family having
lost her
husband in Toronto from the cholera. The family consisted of six sons
and
two daughters, and were all Methodists. She was 52 years old when she
came
to Orford and indeed she had borne twelve children - two had did in
infancy
and two more, Frances and Ellen were married in Ireland and came out
later
with their husbands (Thomas Tape and James Reycraft). Mary Webb Gosnell
must
have been a vigorous and courageous woman. Not only did she venture
alone
with her children into an unknown wilderness, but some time later she
walked
to Toronto to get the deed to her farm - and could'nt get it. So later
still
she walked to Toronto again. Looking back from today this seems a
formidable
undertaking, if not impossible. Certainly the journey was hazardous,
but
one fact of times made the long trek possible; the doors of most houses
were
never barred and the wayfarer was welcomed. The alienation, mistrust
and
suspicion of strangers that we known today was unknown by pioneers for
their
common antagonist was the environment, and there was such infrequent
contact
with others beyond the forest boundaries of their homesteads, that
people
were eager to break the monotony and hear stories from other parts of
the
land. On one of her trips, the story goes, Mary Gosnell came down with
sore
feet. She arrived at a cabin unable to go any further. The lady of the
house
noticing her plight, said that if she could stay three days she could
cure
her feet. Now Mary Webb Gosnell was a strict teetotaler and it seems
that
the cure involved soaking her feet in corn whiskey. The idea must have
been
disgusting to her, but she had no choice and after three days her feet
were
fit and ready to travel. She continued on her way, no doubt allowing
that
perhaps hard liquor had its uses after all!"
Source:
Mother: Mary (Woulfe) Gosnell
Source:
Father: Lawrence Gosnell
Mother: Catherine (Salter) Gosnell
Married: Ann Gosnell in 1833. Ann was James's first cousin.
Children:
Notes:
James Gosnell came to Canada with his parents in 1819 at the age of 20.
With his dad and brothers, he worked on the Rideau Canal at Kingston
until his mother
died in 1822 and then he came to Orford Township and
pioneered with his family on Lot 17/18 North Middle Road in
Orford.
Source:
Father: William Gosnell
Mother: ? (Reycroft) Gosnell
Married: Sarah Gallagher in 1842 in Cork and Ross Diocese, Cork, Ireland. Sarah (1819 - 1899) was born in Lissacaha, County Cork, Ireland.
Children:
Death: 1906, in Rochester, New York, United States
Notes:
Lived in Inchinagotagh, County Cork, Ireland. The family emigrated to
Rochester New York in 1878.
Jeffrey Gosnell
is a descendent of this branch of the Gosnells and is interested in any
information on the branch
Census:
1880:
Rochester, Monroe County, New York, United States
Source:
Father: William Gosnell
Married: Eliza Righworth on 2 January 1841 in St. Luke's Episcopalean Church, Rochester, New York, USA.
Notes: James emigrated to Rochester, New York in the 1830's with his brother John (note: James had two brothers named John)
Source:
Father: James Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Mary (Webb) Gosnell
Married: Elizabeth Salter in 1846. Elizabeth was born in June 1826, in Ireland, and died 9 April 1906.
Children:
Death: 30 August 1904
Notes:
James Gosnell accompanied his parents to Ontario in 1832, remaining
with his mother after the death of his father, and assisting her until
his own marriage in 1846, to Elizabeth Salter. Elizabeth was the
daughter of Thomas Salter, also of Irish extraction. After their
marriage Mr and Mrs James
Gosnell settled on a farm in Orford township where they have passed
together
more than a half century.
Census:
1871:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Source:
Father: John Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Sarah (Reeder) Gosnell
Married: Anise (Annie) Catherine Hauser on 29 June 1872 in Selton, near Botany, Howard Township, Ontario, Canada. Anise was born on 1 August 1852 in Humberstone, near Niagara Falls, and died on 1 April 1925 in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada.
Children:
Death: 9 December 1922, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary (New Lot 26), Highgate, Ontario, along with his wife, Anise.
Notes:
James R Gosnell was born on 1 Dec 1846. He was with his parents until
he was sixteen years of age (1862) and then began working among the
farmers, thus continuing for five years (1867) when he was 21 years
old. He then entered
a sawmill and worked there for eight years (1876) when he was 29 years
old.
On 29 June 1872, when he was 26 years old, he married Anna Hauser in
Selton
(near Botany) Howard township and then located to his fifty five acre
farm
on Lot 12
Middle Road in Orford township which he has placed in an excellent
state of cultivation. James has added to his holding by purchasing 75
acres in
the same township and he is regarded as one of the substantial men of
Orford
township. Both Mr and Mrs Gosnell are consistent members of the
Methodist
Church. In politics he is a Reformer, but he has never desired nor
sought
office.
The parents of James's wife, Anna Hauser, were Mathew and Catherine (Clicker) Hauser. They were both born and married in Germany. They came to Canada and settled at Humberstone, near Niagara Falls, then moved to Aldborough township in 1853 where they farmed for 25 years before moving to Buffalo New York. Mathew and Catherine Hauser had four children as follows: John Hauser - farmed in Alborough township; Mary Hauser - married George Schmeltz in Aldborough township. George Schmeltz was a brother of Adam Schmeltz who married Catherine Stricker; Mathew Hauser - had a commission business in Buffalo New York; and Anna Hauser who married James R Gosnell.
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Source:
Father: John F. Samuel Gosnell
Mother: Margaret (Fachnie) Gosnell
Married: Nellie Isobel Burnham
Death: 1942Census:
1881: Howard, Bothwell, Ontario
Sources:
Father: James Gosnell
Mother: Ann (Gosnell) Gosnell
Death: 15 August 1878, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada, aged 23 years 4 months and 16 days
Buried: Gosnell Cemetary, Highgate, Ontario
Source:
Father: James Sweetman Gosnell
Mother: Sarah (Gallagher) Gosnell
Occupation: Methodist Minister, in Lockport, New York, USA
Death: 1900
Notes:
James' death certificate indicates that he immigrated to the United
States in 1878. His elder brother, John, was at that time married with
two children and living in Rochester, NY.
Census:
1880:
Webster, Monroe County, New York, United States
Source:
Father: William James Gosnell
Mother: Catherine Jane (Gosnell) Gosnell
Census:
1881:
Mountain, Marquette, Manitoba
Sources:
Father: Lawrence B. Gosnell
Mother: Sarah (Lee) Gosnell
Married: Annie E. Swanton. Annie was born in 1867 and died on 29 April 1910.
Death: 1949
Census:
1881:
Orford, Bothwell, Ontario
Source:
Father: John Gallagher Gosnell
Mother: Katherine Skuse
Married: Alameda Whipple in 1907, in Rochester, New York, USA. Alameda was the daughter of Ira Whipple and Susan Bumpus.
Children:
Occupation: Executive at Skuse Cooperage.
Death: 11 October 1935, in Rochester, New York, USA
Buried: Riverside Cemetary, Rochester, New
York, USA
Notes:
James worked at Skuse Cooperage, a barrel making company in Rochester.
His mother , Katherine
Skuse Gosnell was a member of the family that started the cooperage.
They
made barrels for flour and vegetable storage.
Census:
1880:
Rochester, Monroe County, New York
Web Links:
Gosnell
- Butterfield tree on Rootsweb
Sources:
Father: Thomas Hickey Gosnell
Mother: Margaret (McKenzie) Gosnell
Death: 3 March 1892, of diptheria, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada
Notes: James died in a diptheria outbreak
that also killed his brother John, and his sister Sarah.
Sources:
Mother: Sarah (Gallagher) Gosnell
Notes: Is this the "Jennie" that we find in this family in the 1880 census? Bob Barker has a birth year of 1850, but this is believed to be a guestimate. If she is "Jennie" then the birth year is 1856/7
Census:
1880:
Rochester, Monroe County, New York, United States
Source:
 |
|
Ellen
Barker, Annie Barker, Arthur Barker, Jerusha (Gosnell) Barker and
Robert Edward Barker.
scanned
by Frances Read
|
Father: John Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Sarah (Reeder) Gosnell
Married: Hall Barker on 15 February 1869, in Highgate, Ontario. Hall was born 3 September 1841, in Nelson Township, Halton County, Ontario, and died on 26 March 1906, in Aldborough Township.
Children:
Buried: Duart Cemetary, Ontario, Canada, along with her husband Hall.
Notes:
Hall Barker, the fourth child of John and Mariah Barker, was born in a
log house in Nelson Township, Halton County, Ontario in 1841, one year
after
his parents came to Canada. The 1851 census show that Hall was age 11
and
of the Episcopalian Methodist faith. The 1861 census in Orford township
district 2 show Hall at the age of 21 years and a shoemaker.
Hall married Jerusha Gosnell who was the sister of Charlotte Gosnell who married his brother Robert Barker. After their marriage Hall and Jerusha lived on Lot 2 Concession 1 in Orford along with his brother Robert and Charlotte and their family. In about 1894, the two families moved to adjacent lots on 12th concession (Hogg Street) in Alborough Township and Hall farmed here until his death on 26 March 1906. They were also the best man and bridesmaid at Robert and Charlotte (Gosnell) Barker's wedding.
After Halls's death, Jerusha moved to Brigden Ont to live with her son (Edward Barker and family) until her death in 1919 -13 years after her husband.
Census:
1881:
Howard, Bothwell, Ontario
The 1881 census shows Jerusha aged 33, which indicates a birth year of 1847 or 1848; Bob Barker has the year as 1844, but he also refers to Jerusha as Charlotte's younger sister, and gives Charlotte's birth as 4 June 1845. Confusing things further is the birth of James on 1 December 1846. Thus I conclude that Jerusha was most likely born late in 1847 or early in 1848. This census also has Ellen as the older sister, born in 1874 or 1875. It agrees that Annie O. was born in 1876 or 1877. The photograph provided by Frances Read has the note that Ellen is the leftmost (and clearly older) girl.
Source:
Father: Thomas Gosnell
Mother: Mary (Wolfe) Gosnell
Married: Mr. Ward, in Ireland. Mr. Ward was born in Ireland. He was Johannah's first cousin - his mother was Mary Wolfe's sister. The couple moved to England.
Children:
Married: Sarah _____ cica 1765. Sarah may have been the daughter of Scottish parents who left Scotland shortly before her marriage.
Children:
The identfication of this amn as John is somewhat tentative; some sources name him as Joseph and Dan Carney, in perhaps the most rigourous investigation of this family, fails to uncover any definitive evidence of his name. In addition, despite the tradition of the "Seven Gosnell Brothers and Sister Sarah of Sherkin Island", the identifiaction of all the siblings is far from certain.Lawrence, Sarah and Thomas seem clearly part of the family, as is the man who married Mary Webb, sometimes described as James Joseph and sometimes just as Joseph. Evidence supporting Joseph, George, William and John is thinner, but they did all originate from the same area in County Cork, are all clearly related somehow so, in the absence of better evidence to dispute it, I have gone along with Mae barret's identification of these as the brothers.
Source:
Father: John Gosnell
Mother: Sarah
Children:
Notes: It is thought that this John Gosnell settled in Highgate, OntarioSource:
Mother: Mary (Woulfe) Gosnell
Source:
Father: Lawrence Gosnell
Mother: Catherine (Salter) Gosnell
Married: Sarah Reeder on 7 June 1831 in Howard Township, Kent County, Ontario, Canada . Sarah was born in Derbyshire, England in 1809. She was the daughter of Henry Reeder and his 2nd wife, Ann Black. Sarah died on 10 January 1865.
Children:
Death: 19 August 1871
Notes:
John Joseph Gosnell came to Canada with his parents in 1819 at the age
of 22. With his dad and brothers, he worked on the Rideau Canal at
Kingston
until his mother died in 1822 and then he came to Orford Township and
pioneered with his family on Lot 17/18 North Middle Road in
Orford..
Census:
1871:
Orford Township, Ontario, Canada
Source:
Father: Thomas Gosnell
Mother: Mary (Wolfe) Gosnell
Death: 9 December 1829, at the Coast Guard Station in West Lulworth, Dorset, England. Apparently he fell off a cliff in the fog, looking for rum runners.
Occupation:
John worked with the England Coast Guard. He
had only been in the Coast Guard for about a year when he died, but in
that
time he had received two promotions.
Web Links:
West
Cork Genealogy
Source:
Notes: Known as John "The Wiseman" Gosnell
Source:
Father: James Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Mary (Webb) Gosnell
Death: 1835, in Orford Township, Ontario, Canada
Notes:
John died two years after coming to Orford township.
Source:
Father: William Gosnell
Mother: ? (Reycroft) Gosnell
Married: Elizabeth Burchell
Notes:
Lived in Inchinagotagh, County Cork, Ireland. John and Elizabeth
emigrated to Rochester, New York.
John's great-great-great-grandson is Harry Eakin
Source:
Father: Joseph Gosnell
Mother: Esther "Hattie" (M