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M Joseph Moorhouse

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

Headstone Shetland Cemetery, Euphemia Twp, Lambton Co., ON, transcribed by the Lambton Branch of the OGS:
Col. Joseph Moorhouse 1807-1851.
His wife Mary Backus 1818-1887.
Alexander Graham, M.D., 1841-1903.
His wife Annie Moorhouse 1844-1940.
Their children Ethel Annie 1881-1884.
Charles A. 1878-1886.
Mary Olive 1872-1940.
Bertha C. 1873-1963.

Euphemia Township History 1849-1999, Euphemia Township Historical Society, 1999, p.371:
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...

Euphemia Township History 1849-1999, Euphemia Township Historical Society, 1999, p.373-374:
Joseph Moorhouse 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.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Lambton Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1907; pp.253-254:
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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...
... 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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Thomas Moorhouse /1774-1844   Jane Hopkins ca 1779-1869
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Joseph Moorhouse 1807-1851