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Hannah
Mounteer
Information from Ronald Cox's Ancestors, Cousins and their allied families, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.
p>Headstones Shetland Cemetery, Euphemia Twp, Lambton Co., ON, transcribed by the Lambton Branch of the OGS:
Hannah Mounteer wife of Thomas P. Moorhouse Nov. 5, 1834 - Jan. 12, 1920.
Thomas P. Moorhouse July 8, 1834 - November 21, 1913.
Euphemia Township History 1849-1999, Euphemia Township Historical Society, 1999, p.373:
William Moorhouse Family
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. William and Catherine settled in the woods on the present homestead where William built a log cabin, later replaced by a brick home... William and Catherine had nine children...
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. Manley Stafford Moorhouse married Margaret Evelyn Burdon and it was their son, Eric Gelling, who became a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Lambton Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1907; pp.253-254:
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William Moorhouse was married Dec. 20, 1830, by Rev. Mark Brigham, to Catherine Pearce...
The nine children born to William and Catherine Moorhouse were: ... Thomas, married Hannah Mounteer, born in England, has three children, and they live retired on their farm in Euphemia township...