James Gooderham Worts, 1st

1818 - 1882  (64 years)

• Name	James Gooderham Worts
  Suffix	1st
  Birth	4 Jun 1818	Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	c.1830	Toronto, ON, Canada
  Lived at	1850	Lindenwold, Toronto, ON, Canada
  	The Worts Estate, Lindenwold, was built abt.1850 and expanded later.
  Death	20 Jun 1882	Toronto, ON, Canada
  Burial	St. James Cemetery, Toronto, ON, Canada
  Person ID	I38	Gooderham -Worts | WW family and descendants, JamesWorts
  Last Modified	12 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	James Worts,   b. c.1793, Bungay Parish, Suffolk, England, UK d. 18 Feb 1834, Toronto, ON, Canada (Age 41 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Gooderham,   b. 20 Aug, 1796, Scole, Norfolk, England, UK d. 8 Feb, 1834, Toronto, ON, Canada (Age 37 years)
  Marriage	1 Jul, 1817	Scole, Norfolk, England, UK   [1]
  	James Worts Husband M Name James Worts Sex Male Spouse's Name Elizabeth Gooderham Spouse's Sex Female Event Type Marriage Event Date 1 Jul 1817 Event Place Scole, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom Event Place (Original) Scole, Norfolk, England Source Details Item 7, pg 4 Note witness includes James Gooderham
  Family ID	F3	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Bright,   b. 9 May 1817   d. 30 Jun 1876, Toronto, ON, Canada (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	1 Oct 1840	Toronto, ON, Canada
  Children	1. Elizabeth Ann Worts,   b. 1841, Toronto, ON, Canada d. 1849, Toronto, ON, Canada (Age 8 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]   2. James Gordon Worts,   b. 1843, Toronto, ON, Canada d. 1846, Toronto, ON, Canada (Age 3 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] + 3. Charlotte Louisa Worts,   b. 29 Oct 1846, Toronto, ON, Canada d. 7 May 1928, Toronto, ON, Canada (Age 81 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] + 4. Clara Agnes Worts,   b. 19 Jul 1847, Toronto, ON, Canada d. 28 Dec 1932, Toronto, ON, Canada (Age 85 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] + 5. Emilie Ardelia Worts,   b. 11 Aug 1849, Toronto, ON, Canada d. 20 Nov 1897, Toronto, ON, Canada (Age 48 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] + 6. Alice Rebecca Worts,   b. Apr 1851, Toronto, ON, Canada d. 10 May 1927, Toronto, ON, Canada (Age 76 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] + 7. James Gooderham Worts, 2nd,   b. 1853, Toronto, ON, Canada d. 9 Dec 1884, Toronto, ON, Canada (Age 31 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] + 8. Margaret Elizabeth Worts,   b. 7 Feb 1855, Toronto, ON, Canada d. 1904, Toronto, ON, Canada (Age 48 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]   9. Thomas Frederick Worts,   b. 1857, Toronto, ON, Canada d. 18 Aug 1903, Toronto, ON, Canada (Age 46 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
  Family ID	F7	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Mar 2013

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 4 Jun 1818 - Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK Immigration - c.1830 - Toronto, ON, Canada Marriage - 1 Oct 1840 - Toronto, ON, Canada Lived at - The Worts Estate, Lindenwold, was built abt.1850 and expanded later. - 1850 - Lindenwold, Toronto, ON, Canada Death - 20 Jun 1882 - Toronto, ON, Canada Burial - - St. James Cemetery, Toronto, ON, Canada  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		James Gooderham Worts, 1864 Photo taken at the Notman Studio, Montreal, 1864
  		Map - Lofty Windmill, York, U.C, 1832 Map of York, Upper Canada, 1832, showing location of mill belonging to Worts and Gooderham, Millers. Also, approximate site of the Worts and Gooderham residence during their early years in York. This image was adapted by Douglas Worts from an early map of York.
  		Lindenwold - the estate of James Gooderham Worts, Mill St., Toronto This was the home of James Gooderham Worts. It was located on the north east corner of Mill and Trinity Streets, Toronto. This is the only known photo of the house. Information about the construction and destruction of the house remains elusive - probably built in the late 1860s or early 1870s, and likely torn down around 1890.
  		Worts & Gooderham plots - St James Cemetery.jpg St. James Cemetery, on Toronto's Parliament St, is the site of the final resting spots for Wm Gooderham, James G Worts and the founders of the Gooderham and Worts Distillery. At some point in the past - perhaps during the 1970s - the angel that decorated the original Gooderham monument was stolen or damaged, perhaps by a fallen tree.
  		Worts Monument - St James.jpg The limestone sculpture that sits atop the Worts plot at St. James Cemetery, Toronto.
  		Four dollar bill of the Bank of Toronto with James G. Worts' and William Gooderham's portraits and letter of praise for their service. The complaint reads (as best as I can make out): "May 9th this is the first Bill I received bearing the portraits of my worthy old bosses. in keeping with a pair of worthy businessmen who have stood the brunt of over forty years mercantile and other business with integrity and to the great benefit of the community..."

  
  

  Documents		Presentation of a "saluting" gun to the Oriole 1881 article about a saluting gun presented by James G. Worts, to the Oriole, owned then by John Leys, Vice-Commodore of the RCYC.
  		James G. Worts, Rector's Warden at Little Trinity Church

  
  

  Headstones

  Worts & Gooderham crypt, St. James.jpg The entrance to the crypt at St. James Cemetery, Toronto

  
  

  Family Stories

  1831 The Adventure Begins By Douglas Worts The motivating origins for the move to Canada and the family partnership.

  
  

• Sources

  [S14] England Marriages, 1538–1973, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJMF-FWR. James Worts Husband M Name James Worts Sex Male Spouse's Name Elizabeth Gooderham Spouse's Sex Female Event Type Marriage Event Date 1 Jul 1817 Event Place Scole, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom Event Place (Original) Scole, Norfolk, England Source Details Item 7, pg 4