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M Richard Thornton

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Information from Kimberly Fraser, Kimberly Fraser's Ancestral File, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.

1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 5-3:
Thornton Richard, M, 67, born England, C of England, Farmer;
Ester, F, Married, 71, born U States, C of England.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers, Toronto, 1905, p. 600-601:
Andrew Whittle, member of the council of the township of Mersea, County of Essex, Ont., and one of the most prominent farmers of that place, was born in the township of Gosfield that county, Sept. 5, 1848, son of John Whittle, and grandson of Thomas Whittle...
     John Whittle, son of Thomas and father of our subject, was born in Colchester township, and was four years of age when brought by his parents to Mersea township. There he grew to manhood, and received a fair common school education. After attaining his majority, he removed to Gosfield township, bought 300 acres of land, and became one of the substantial men of that section...
     After settling in Gosfield township, John Whittle married Anne Thornton, a native of Pennsylvania, daughter of Richard Thornton, who came from England. The following children were born to the parents of our subject: Richard, a soldier in the Union army during the Civil War in the States, died at Nashville, Tennesee; Esther married Rado Orton, of Gosfield township; Harrison died in Illinois; George resides on the homestead of his grandfather; Isaac is a resident of Gosfield township; Andrew is mentioned below; Michael died young; Charles married Elizabeth McQueen, and died at the age of twenty-three, leaving a son, John; Mary Jane married Josiah Peterson, and resides on the homestead. The mother of this family died in Gosfield township, and is buried beside her husband. She, too, was a member of the Universalist Church...