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Helena Victoria (Victoria)
Tape
Other children: Bella, Frank, Margaret.
Index to birth record, Orford Twp, Kent Co., ON: Helena Victoria Tape born 17 November 1870.
1881 personal census, Orford Twp, Kent Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Tape Lawrence, M, Married, 39, born Ont, origin: Irish, E Methodist, Farmer;
Anne, F, Married, 40, born Ireland, origin: Irish, E Methodist;
Louisa A., F, 17, born Ont;
William L., M, 15, born Ont;
Jane, F, 12, born Ont;
Victoria H., F, 10, born Ont;
John, M, 5, born Ont;
Thomas, M, 3, born Ont;
George, M, 3/12, born Dec, born Ont;
Willet Frank, M, 22, born Ont, origin: English, E Methodist, Farm Labour.
Headstone Greenwood Cemetery, Ridgetown, Kent Co., ON, transcribed by the Kent Branch of the OGS:
Side 2: John Simpson 1873-1939.
His wife Victoria Tape 1871-1939.
1901 personal census, Howard Twp, Kent Co., ON, D4-5:
Simpson Jno J., M, Married, 25 Oct 1872, 28, born Ireland, immigrated 1874, origin: Irish, Can, Meth, Farmer;
Vick, F, wife, Married, 18 Sept 1871, 29, born Ont, origin: Irish, Can, Meth;
Thomas F., M, son, Single, 14 Sept 1898, 2, born Ont, origin: Irish, Can, Meth.
Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 422:
Lawrence Tape, one of the prominent citizens of Highgate, Orford township, County of Kent, engaged extensively in stock dealing, was born July 17, 1841, in Orford township.
Mr. Tape's parents, Thomas and Frances (Gosnell) Tape, were born in County Cork, Ireland, where they were married. In 1836 with three children, they came to Canada... Their children were as follows: William, Mary and Joseph, deceased; Elizabeth, deceased wife of John Baldwin; James, a retired farmer of Highgate; John, deceased; Lawrence; Thomas H., a farmer of Orford township; Susan, who married Samuel Attridge, of Highgate; and George, deceased.
In July, 1862, Lawrence Tape was married in Ridgetown, to Ann Lee, and they have had the following named children: Ada, married Edward M. Wood, of St. Thomas, Ont., and they have had two children, Lawrence and Grace; William, a farmer of Orford township, married Frances McLaren, and has one child, Esther E.; Jane, wife of John Wade, of Orford township, has two children, Crossley and Anna; Victoria is the wife of John Simpson, of Howard township, and has one child, Frederick; John, who is on the old homestead, married Rachel Gosnell, and has one child, Mary; Thomas is deceased; George, unmarried, is on the old homestead...
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