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Information from Ronald Cox's Ancestors, Cousins and their allied families, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.

1861 personal census, Euphemia Twp, Lambton Co., ON, transcribed by the Lambton Branch of the OGS:
Moorhouse Richard, M, Widowed, 45, born Ire, WM, Farmer, L25 C2;
Sarah, F, Single, 40, born Ire, WM;
Jane, F, Widowed, 79, born Ire, WM;
Georgina, F, Single, 13, born U.C., WM;
Thomas H., M, Single, 11, born U.C., WM;
John C., M, Single, 9, born U.C., WM;
Wilbert, M, Single, 7, born U.C., WM;
Drew William, M, Single, 18, born Eng, WM, Labourer.

Headstones Shetland Cemetery, Euphemia Twp, Lambton Co., ON, transcribed by the Lambton Branch of the OGS:
In memory of Thomas Moorhouse, Sen. A native of Wexford Co Ireland who departed this life Feb. 27, 1844, above 70 y'rs of age.
Jane wife of Thos. Moorhouse, Sr. died Feb. 12, 1869 ae 86 yrs.

Euphemia Township History 1849-1999, Euphemia Township Historical Society, 1999, p.371-374:
Moorhouse Family:
Thomas was the first Moorhouse to settle in Euphemia. Thomas and Jane had 11 children: John, William, Henry, Joseph and Thomas were all born in Ireland. The family's six daughters were Ann, Jane, Eliza, Sara, Maria and Susannah.
Ann (1809-1875) was the wife of William Pearce (1805-1890) of Elgin County. They had seven children.
Jane (1810-1890) married Richard Wilson (1802-1879) and they lived at Lot 27, Con. 2.
Eliza (1814-1904) married John Pearce (1815-1905). John served with the militia during the 1837 Rebellion. While on duty at Turkey Point he was given a pear to eat. He saved the seeds, took them home and planted them on his homestead at Tyrconnell, Elgin County.
Sara (1819-1912) resided on the old homestead. She raised Wilbert and Charlie, her brother Thomas' children, after his wife died at the age of 34 years.
...Maria, three years old, was drowned at Port Stanley when she was pulled into the water by a pail she was filling. Her father was closing a land deal with Colonel Talbot at the time of her death.
Susannah (1823-1892) was the wife of Joseph Backus of Kent County.
John Moorhouse (1804-1857) married Lorenda Scarlett (1810-1855) in 1829. They resided at Lot 24, Con. 1. John and Lorenda had 12 children: Thomas S., Edward, Joseph, Anne, William Henry, Winnifred Maria, John Wesley, Sarah Jane, Lorenda, Matilda, Alfred and Richard...
William Moorhouse (1805-1889) was 18 years old when his parents came to Canada. Rev. Mark Brigham married William and Catherine Pearce (1809-1850), daughter of John and Frances Pearce of Dunwich Township, Elgin County, in 1830... On account of his reliable character, he was frequently elected to office, serving as a township councillor, assessor, collector and also as township clerk. William and Catherine had nine children...John (1832-1881), born on the old homestead, married Mary Ann Langford (1831-1915) and settled on Lot 29, Con. 2... Thomas (1834-1913) married Hannah Mounteer (1834-1920), who was born in England, and they settled on Lot 22, Con. 6 with three children: Hiram, Adeline and Manley... William L. (1836-1912) married Maria Waddell of Kent County; they had four children and lived in Chatham. Frances (1838-1911) married John McDonald of Kent County. Mary Anne (1842-1918) was the wife of Thomas Guild. Joseph (1844) married Jane Huson of Lower Canada, settled for a time as a farmer in Tilbury, but moved to Hamilton in 1895. Catherine (1846-1945) married David Wilson, who farmed near London. Susannah (1848-1914) married James J. Waddell of Tilbury. Robert (1840-1918) married Louisa Sage Culham (1849-1938) and farmed Lot 25, Con. 5 where they raised a large family.
Joseph Moorhouse (1807-1851) had two military commissions of Captain in the Kent Militia of 1839, retaining his commission until his death. He was married to Mary Backus (1818-1887) and they lived at Lot 26, Con. 5. They had four children... Walter Hoare Moorhouse (1842-1922) was a teacher at Shetland and Cairo. Walter sang in a choir and directed music, playing a flute. He graduated from Trinity Medical School in 1874. His sister, Anna, married Alexander Graham, M.D. There were two more sons, Thomas Henry and Joseph Hopkins.
Henry Moorhouse (1812-1896) and his wife Winnifred Goss (1820-1867) settled on Lot 25, Con. 1 and had five children... Sarah (1855-1871) died as a teenager. Eliza died at age 18 years... Frederick William (1851-1881) married Catherine Elizabeth Tremaine. Frederick, a cabinetmaker, ran a sawmill on the Euphemia-Dawn Townline. Henry Hollingsworth (1846) graduated in medicine from Victoria College in 1871 and practised medicine in Toronto. He was a lover of horses, keeping both racing stock and jumpers. Mary J. (1840) married John Powell.
Thomas Moorhouse (1816-1865) and his wife Esther Ann Goss (1821-1855), who was born in Raleigh Township, lived at Lot 25, Con. 2. Esther Ann, who married Thomas in 1846, was a sister of Winnifred Goss, who married Thomas' brother Henry. Thomas and Esther Ann had four children... John Charles (1851-1935) married Hannah Johnston and they lived on a farm next to the bridge at Shetland. John Charles occupied the north part of the same Lot 25, Con. 2 until 1908... Georgina married Alfred Purdy. Thomas Hopkins married Elsie Fansher. Wilbert (1854-1905) lived on the south part of Lot 25, Con. 2 with his wife Jane Johnston (1860-1926), who was a sister of John Charles' wife Hannah. They had two children: Sara (1876) and Edwin Melville (1882-1965)...

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Lambton Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1907; pp.253-254:
Robert Moorhouse, one of the representative men of Euphemia township, Lambton County, a large stock and grain farmer, who is located on Concession 5, Lot 25, was born on the present home place Sept. 17, 1840, son of William and Catherine (Pearce) Moorhouse.
This is one of the early families of the county. William Moorhouse was born in County Wickford, Ireland, in December, 1805, son of Thomas and Jane (Hopkins) Moorhouse, who came to Euphemia in 1824, and settled on Concession 2, where the father cleared up a home from wild land. There he lived until his death, being at that time one of the prosperous farmers of the locality. While stopping for a time at Port Stanley, while the father was closing his land deal with Col. Talbot, one of the little children of the family was accidentally drowned, and it was with saddened hearts the family settled in a new home in a strange land.
Mr. Moorhouse was a man of progressive spirit and enlightened view, and he built on his own farm the first log school and church in Euphemia. He was a consistent Methodist, and his home was always headquarters for the travelling ministry. He was survived by his wife a number of years, she living to be ninety years of age. They left five sons and five daughters, namely: John, William, Henry, Joseph and Thomas were all born in Ireland, but settled and died in Euphemia; Ann, deceased, was formerly wife of William Pearce of the County of Elgin, and left a family; Jane married Richard Wilson of Lambton County, both deceased, survived by children; Eliza, deceased, was the wife of John Pearce, who died in Elgin County, leaving a family; Susan, deceased, was the wife of Joseph Backus, of Kent County, and left a family; and Sarah, who resides on the old homestead, is the only survivor of the children of Thomas and Jane Moorhouse.
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