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M William Keys

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1901 personal census, Gosfield South Twp, Essex Co., ON, G5-5:
Keys Rachael, F, Married, 18 Jan 1850, 51, born Ont, origin: Irish, Can, Meth, Farmer;
Wm., M, husband, Married, 25 Dec 1845, 55, born Ont, origin: Irish, Can, Meth;
William, M, son, Single, 28 July 1878, 22, born Ont, origin: Irish, Can, Meth, Farmer's Son;
Joseph, M, son, Single, 12 Feb 1880, 20, born Ont, origin: Irish, Can, Meth, Farmer's Son.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 465-466:
John Dalton, a prosperous and highly respected farmer of Gosfield North, living on Lot 270, on the Talbot Road North, has been a resident of the County of Essex since eary manhood, as he accompanied his parents hither in 1873, when they settled here. His parents, James and Annie (Sweetman) Dalton, were both natives of Lower Canada...
      James Dalton returned from New York to Canada and settled on a farm in the County of Durham, where he remained until 1873. In that year, as was mentioned before, he took his family to the County of Essex, and settled on wild land in Gosfield South, which he cleared, and on which he made his permanent home. There his wife died in June, 1889, and Mr. Dalton followed her two years later, in the same month. Besides our subject, John Dalton, they had eight children, all born in Canada, and all now married: ... (2) Rachel is the wife of William Keys, who lives in Gosfield South, and their four children are, Jennie (wife of Byron Staddon), Eliza (wife of Robert Higgins), William and Joseph (of Gosfield)...