Information from Jeff Gosnell, Gosnell and Butterfield Family Genealogy Pages, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.
Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 120-121:
Richard L. Gosnell, a leading barrister of the County of Kent, who for the past twelve years has been in the active practice of his profession in the town of Blenheim, is a descendant of one of the early settled families of the county.
The Gosnell family is of south of Ireland nativity, and contrary to the general religious tendencies of the residents of that part of the Emerald Isle, they are Protestant in religion. Joseph Gosnell, the grandfather of Richard L., was born in Ireland, and there married Mary Webb, also a native of that locality. In 1832, with wife and children, Mr. Gosnell came to Ontario, stopping for a season in Toronto. His journey there ended, his death taking place the same year. The bereaved widow with her children pushed on into the County of Kent and located in 1833 in Orford township, where some of the descendants are still living. The children of Joseph and Mary Gosnell were: Joseph, George, Lawrence and Henry, all deceased; James, the father of Richard L., still living; Frances and Ann, deceased; Sarah, Mrs. James Ostrander, living in the State of Illinois; Ellen, Mrs. Reycraft, of Orford, deceased; and Mary (twin to Sarah), who died in infancy, in Ireland.
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James Joseph
Gosnell
Ellen Gosnell 1805-1847
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