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F Dorothy L. McQueen

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1901 personal census, Gosfield South Twp, Essex Co., ON, G4-1:
McDonald John D., M, Married, 15 July 1850, 50, born Ont, origin: Scotch, Can, Meth, Farmer;
Dorothy L., F, wife, Married, 24 Sept 1849, 51, born Ont, origin: Scotch, Can, Meth;
Daniel T., M, son, Single, 7 March 1879, 22, born Ont, origin: Scotch, Can, Meth, Farmers Son;
Ethel E., F, daughter, Single, 5 June 1882, 18, born Ont, origin: Scotch, Can, Meth, 9 months in school;
Artotte R. B., F, daughter, Single, 19 June 1884, 16, born Ont, origin: Scotch, Can, Meth, 3 months in school.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 215-216:
Alexander Burns McQueen, a prosperous farmer of Gosfield South, County of Essex, represents the fourth generation of the family of that name who have resided in the Dominion. The great-grandfather McQueen was a native of Scotland, and as a young man he emigrated to Canada, and was one of the first settlers of Long Point, County of Norfolk, Ont.
     Among his children was Jacob McQueen, who was born at Long Point, and there married Dorothy Mitchell. Later he moved to Fingal, County of Elgin, and still later to the County of Essex, where he settled on the Stokes farm, now owned by J. D. McDonald, Lot 252, and there died, aged seventy-seven years. His wife died at Grand Rapids, Michigan. The children born to Jacob McQueen and wife were: Elizabeth, who married Nelson Tetzel, and died at Sparta, County of Elgin; Alexander, who married Barbara Barter, and died at Detroit; Phoebe, who married Francis C. Fulmer, of Windsor, and there died; William, the father of our subject; Sarah, who married W. K. Fulmer, and died at Grand Rapids, Michigan; Daniel, deceased; James, who married Olive Stewart, and lived at Ruthven, but later moved to Arkansas, where he died; John, a resident of Grand Rapids, who married Ann Hammond; Nancy, a widow of Alvin Orton, who now lives at Detroit; and Dorothy, who married John D. McDonald, of Gosfield South.
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Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers, 1905, p. 446-447:
William G. McDonald, an enterprising farmer of Gosfield South, is a descendant of one of the pioneer settlers on the Talbot Road in the township of Tilbury East.
     John McDonald, his grandfather, was born in the Highlands of Scotland, and there married Mary Calhoon... In 1815, accompanied by his wife and five children, he set sail for America, their destination being Canada. After a long voyage of more than sixteen weeks, they reached the Canadian port, came to Long Point, and very soon went farther west, locating on the Talbot Road, in Tilbury East, where the grandfather took up 200 acres of land through the government agent... He was interred on the old Shanks farm. His children were as follows: Hugh; ...
     Hugh McDonald was born Jan 8, 1801, in Scotland, and was fourteen years old when he came to Canada... Nearly sixty years ago he bought 230 acres in Mersea township, partly cleared, Lot 13, Concession 2... His first marriage was to a Miss Williams, and they had children, as follows: ... John D., who married Dorothy McQueen; ...

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Jacob McQueen ca 1797-   Dorothy Mitchell ca 1807-
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Dorothy L. McQueen 1849-