George Gooderham

George Gooderham

Male 1824 - 1910  (85 years)

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  • Name George Gooderham 
    Birth 18 Nov 1824  Scole, Norfolk, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Immigration 1832  Toronto, ON, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 6 Oct 1910  Meadowvale, Peel, ON, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Churchville Cemetery, Peel County, ON, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I66  Gooderham -Worts | KEG family and descendants, Ezekiel Gooderham and descendants, MLG family and descendants
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2014 

    Father Ezekiel Gooderham,   b. 30 Oct 1794, Scole, Norfolk, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Dec 1870, Toronto, ON, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Mother Harriet Juby,   b. 4 Jul 1798, Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Jan 1888, Toronto, ON, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years) 
    Marriage 7 Oct 1822  East Feddingham, Norfolk, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • Harriet Tuby
      Wife
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      Name Ezekiel Gooderham
      Sex Male
      Event Type Marriage
      Event Date 17 Oct 1822
      Event Place Norwich, Norfolk, England
      Spouse's Name Harriet Tuby
      Spouse's Sex Female

      Harriet Juby's name is transcribed incorrectly in this record
    Photos
    Harriet Juby
    Harriet Juby
    York Mills Baptist Church
    York Mills Baptist Church
    The church shot from across the street looking north showing the cemetery to the east (right of the church).

    Pictures taken by Ronald M. Gooderham and George H. Gooderham. See EG_Cemetaries-3745.jpg for the story that goes with this image.
    York Mills Baptist Church Cemetery
    York Mills Baptist Church Cemetery
    Looking East with church behind photographer. Rev. Ezekiel Gooderham and his Wife Harriet Juby and other tombstones.
    Pictures taken by Ronald M. Gooderham and George H. Gooderham. See EG_Cemetaries-3745.jpg for the story that goes with this image
    Headstones
    Walter Gooderham (Son of Ezekiel and Harriet) Headstone
    Walter Gooderham (Son of Ezekiel and Harriet) Headstone
    Rev Mitchel headstone is in the background.

    Reverend Ezekiel Gooderham

    It is not known if Ezekiel took any part in the milling business - he may have if only for a short time. However he did settle on a farm at Wexford, Ontario, which is now part of the borough of Scarborough in Toronto.

    A few years after arrival in Canada, Ezekiel and Harriet became members of York mills Baptist Church, and Ezekiel served as Deacon for some years. In 1849, when the pastor Rev. James Mitchell died, Ezekiel took his place and served as pastor. Due to the urgent appeals of ministers and members who knew him, he consented to be ordained when he was nearing his 60th year. The ordination took place in Bond St. Baptist Church, Toronto. He served the York mills Baptist Church as Pastor for 15 years, resigning at last because of ill health.

    Many spoke with great tenderness of his worth and work. He died on December 28, 1870, at his residence, Mill Street Toronto, and on December 31 was buried at York Mills Baptist Cemetery. A son Walter who died at the age of 21 and his wife Harriet, are also buried there.

    When the York Mills Church held its 100th anniversary in 1929 there were still descendants of Ezekiel and Harriet Gooderham attending the church. Since then the church and parsonage have been torn down to make way for housing, but the cemetery on York Mills Rd. is still there and is being cared for by the Union of Baptist Churches.

    Provided By Mary Louise Gooderham-Sutton 1991
    York Mills Baptist Church Cemetery
    York Mills Baptist Church Cemetery
    Rev. Ezekiel Gooderham and his Wife Harriet Juby

    Pictures taken by Ronald M. Gooderham and George H. Gooderham.

    See EG_Cemetaries-3745.jpg for the story that goes with this image
    Family ID F17  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Catherine Macdonald,   b. Abt 1831, Argyllshire, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1905, Mississauga, ON, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Marriage c.1851 
    Children 
    +1. Elizabeth Gooderham,   b. 1853   d. 1938, Chicago, Cook, IL, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
     2. Harriet Jane Gooderham,   b. 1854   d. 1934, Meadowvale, Peel, ON, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    +3. John Hamilton Gooderham,   b. 1859   d. 10 Dec 1919, Gleichen, AB, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)
     4. George Walter Gooderham,   b. 1859   d. 1944, Meadowvale, Peel, ON, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
     5. Jessie Helen Gooderham,   b. 1861   d. 1936, Meadowvale, Peel, ON, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    +6. Archibald Roderick Gooderham,   b. 1863, Toronto, ON, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Nov 1904, Ripestone, AB, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years)
    +7. William Ezekiel Gooderham,   b. 21 Jan 1865, Wexford, York, ON, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Mar 1963, Meadowvale, Peel, ON, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 98 years)
    Photos
    John Hamilton Gooderham
    John Hamilton Gooderham
    John Hamilton Gooderham
    John Hamilton Gooderham
    John Hamilton Gooderham instructing modern farming techniques.
    John Hamilton Gooderham instructing modern farming techniques.
    DOMINION OF CANADA ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30th JUNE 1893.

    The agent speaks most highly of the herder's diligence and untiring energy in the performance of his duties under very unfavourable and trying conditions.

    I inspected all the cattle: with a few exceptions they all looked well, the two thorough-bred Galloway bulls, just purchased, have arrived; they are very fine animals, and they will,'no doubt, prove a good addition to the herd.

    I inspected the large now stables and corrals built last summer for the accommodation of this herd. They are well constructed and should afford every necessary protection against an inclement winter. These stables are adjacent to and near the river, and are very conveniently situated for watering the stock.

    Piapot Band No. 75 - J.H. Gooderham, Farmer, Farm 9.

    Mr. Gooderham, was sent to take charge of this band from Touchwood Agency. He is experienced in dealing with Indians, having been in the service of this department, in the same capacity, since 1879; he speaks the Cree language fluently. He took charge here in October, 1892.

    At the time of my inspection, the Indians had already left their houses, in which they reside during the winter, and were all living in tents. There was but one case of sickness in the whole camp, a returned Industrial School child, sick with consumption.

    These people were well clothed and appeared cheerful. They had their cattle with them at the camp, and I was able to make an enumeration of them without any difficulty, and also to observe their condition. While some of them looked as if they had passed through a hard winter, they were improving in condition, and some were looking very well indeed.

    I audited the books of this farm, balancing the same. They were kept with regularity, and they checked with those of the agency.

    I inspected the goods in use, and made a list of those worn out.

    I made an inventory of the tools and implements in the hands of the Indians. The list of goods "under Government controls" represents but a small portion of those they possess: since my last inspection, they have bought eleven bob-sleighs at twenty-six dollars to thirty dollars each, seventeen wagons, seven mowers and six horse-rakes; these they have paid for by selling hay and grain, they sell their hay in Regina, a distance of thirty-five miles. Last year the price there was five dollars and fifty cents a ton. They also sold over one hundred tons to the Indian Department at two dollars a ton; this was for the agency herd.

    At the time of my inspection, seeding was finished and they had renewed and re-established their fences in a substantial manner, using new rails when required; wheat was showing above the ground. About twenty-seven Indians are interested in the crops, and these farm in sixteen communities. The crops consist of ninety-three acres wheat, six acres turnips, two acres carrots, five acres potatoes, total one hundred and six acres; it is nearly all on land the second crop from breaking. Four houses and as many stables have been built within the past year, and the Indians work steadily during the winter hauling hay to Regina, and to the herd stables; although only twenty-seven Indians are interested as owners of crops, fifty-three are classed as working Indians of the two hundred and five in the band.
    Crop, 1892.

    In 1892 this band had in crop two hundred acres wheat, thirteen acres oats, eight acres potatoes, five acres turnips. It was a most disastrous year for them, as nearly the whole of the crop was destroyed by a hail storm: all that was harvested from this large area of crops, was fifty-six bushels wheat, thirty-four bushels oats, six hundred bushels turnips. Sixteen bushels of the wheat were used for seed, and the remainder put to stock; the oats were put to stock, and the Indians used the turnips.

    The same year, the farmer had in crop half an acre potatoes. It was a wonder that in the face of such ill-luck the Indians were induced to farm this year as largely as they have done.

    http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/indianaffairs/001074-119.01-e.php?page_id_nbr=8979&PHPSESSID=p27c1bmpa77sg18s1cpse6b0p0
    George Gooderham Sr with Catherine MacDonald and family.
    George Gooderham Sr with Catherine MacDonald and family.
    L to R: William Ezekiel, Jessie Helen, Archibald Roderick, Katherine, George Sr. and Harriet Jane (Jennie) which suggests that either John Hamilton or more likely Elizabeth (Libbie) may have taken the picture. (John would likely have been out west...)
    Jessie Helen Gooderham
    Jessie Helen Gooderham
    William Ezekiel Gooderham
    William Ezekiel Gooderham
    Katherine MacDonald
    Katherine MacDonald
    Croped from an image with her sister(?) Elizabeth and marked as Grandma Gooderham
    John Hamilton Gooderham
    John Hamilton Gooderham
    Prepared for his trip west in 1879. Image annotated by GHG on back.
    Katharine Gooderham nee MacDonald Wife of George Gooderham
    Katharine Gooderham nee MacDonald Wife of George Gooderham
    Family ID F18  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Mar 2013 

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 18 Nov 1824 - Scole, Norfolk, England, UK Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsImmigration - 1832 - Toronto, ON, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 6 Oct 1910 - Meadowvale, Peel, ON, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Churchville Cemetery, Peel County, ON, Canada Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    George Gooderham, son of Ezekiel and Harriet
    George Gooderham, son of Ezekiel and Harriet

  • Sources 
    1. [S50] England, Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NXX8-XLD.
      Ezekiel Gooderham
      Husband
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      Name Ezekiel Gooderham
      Sex Male
      Event Type Marriage
      Event Date 17 Oct 1822
      Event Place Norwich, Norfolk, England
      Spouse's Name Harriet Tuby
      Spouse's Sex Female