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N Esther Rushton

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The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West, Volume 14, Western District 1786-1856, Compiled by Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai, Global Heritage Press, Milton:
Marriages by Rev'd Thomas Harman, Episcopal Methodist Minister (p. 73 & 74):
Joseph Goswald, to Esther Rustan, both of Howard. 14 Feb. 1833, by banns. Rev. Harman. Wit. Richard Rustan and Edward Willsan.

Death notices from the Christian Guardian 1836-1850 (from Jeff Gosnell, Gosnell and Butterfield Family Genealogy Pages, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project):
Gosnell, Mrs Ester, wife of Joseph Gosnell and daughter of Jacob Rushton, died July 5 1839 in Orford Twps, age 25.
Her son Joseph died July 6 age 3 Months.

Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 784-785:
John G. Hatch, who for many years was an honored resident of Orford township, County of Kent, passed away Aug. 6, 1897, in London township, County of Middlesex, Ont...
     On Feb. 14, 1856, at his late home, John G. Hatch married Ann Gosnell, and they became parents of children...
     Mrs. Hatch was born on the present farm of William Hatch, which consists of 100 acres in Lot 18, North Middle Road, Sept. 6, 1835, a daughter of Joseph and Esther (Rushton) Gosnell, of County Cork, Ireland, and Nova Scotia, respectively. About 1822 Joseph Gosnell settled with his father upon the farm above mentioned. The first settlement of the family in Canada was in 1819, at Kingston, Ont., where they remained three years, during which time the men worked on the canal construction. The mother died in 1840, aged twenty-eight years. Joseph Gosnell was a farmer, and in addition to the one farm which was given by the government he took up another in the same township, also of 100 acres, which he sold later on. His death occurred in 1870, when he was seventy-six years old. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Church, while in politics he was a Conservative. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Gosnell were: Laurence, who died at Detroit, Michigan, in 1866; Ann, Mrs. Hatch; and Sarah, of Rushton Corners, Howard township, unmarried...