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Agnes
Beatty
1881 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS 1881 census household record:
Nevill Thomas, M, Married, 56, born Ont, origin: Dutch, Wesleyan Methodist, Farmer;
Agnes, F, Married, 32[sic], born Ont, origin: Scottish, Wesleyan Methodist.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 482-483:
William H. Neville, one of the younger farmers of Gosfield North ... comes of one of Canada's old families, being a son of Edward and Sarah (McKenzie) Neville.
The first of the family to settle in Essex was Edward Neville, a native of Ireland, who came to Canada with his family of five sons, Robert, Edward, James, George and Francis, and one daughter. Francis Neville was born in July, 1798, married Nancy Williams, born Oct. 4, 1805, and settled on what is now Lot 271, Talbot Road South, in 1825, ... and of their eleven children, nine reached maturity: (1) Thomas married Agnes Beatty, and lived and died on the old homestead, leaving a family of three, James (of Cottam), Robert (of South Dakota) and Nancy (wife of Charles Boorman)...