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Thomas
Tape
Information from Descendents of Thomas Taepe-Tucker, from the library of the Kent Branch of the OGS.
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 Gosnell Cemetery, Orford Twp, Kent Co., ON, transcribed by the Kent Branch of the OGS:
Side 1: Lawrence Tape died April 1, 1923 aged 82 years.
Annie Lee his wife died Jan. 30, 1896 aged 56 years 10 mos.
Thomas Tape died Aug. 18, 1898 aged 21 years 11 days.
Emily Tape died Nov. 11, 1923 aged 72 years.
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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