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- Elizabeth was the fourth daughter of Mary Crawford & William Poole.
The first general store was opened on Lot 6, Concession 3 in 1835 by Alexander Totten. In the years that followed, Alexander Totten's store became a center point for the community that grew around it. When the first post office opened in 1858, it was suggested at a local meeting by Nicholas Eagan that the village be named Tottenham in honour of Alexander Totten for his contributions to the community. He also noted that Tottenham was a community in England. Tottenham is 40 Kilometers NW of Toronto.
. Poole Family, compiled by Mrs. T J Hutchinson, March 1986:
[Mary Crawford] Mrs. Poole of Lot 9, Con 8, Garafraxa Twp., 7th line, died about 1869.
"While attempting to head off a flock of sheep, she fell breaking her left leg between the knee & the ankle. A week later the leg was fractured again through movement in bed. Mortification set in & eventually death. The deceased was the mother of 19 children, not one of whom survived her.
Ref: Reported in Fergus newspaper, Belwood heading.
Note: No date on clipping, but with that age group. (?) It is not known if the 2 Poole girls who married Monkmen & settled in the Carmel-Bellwood area were her daughters, but from the following frescoers, they dies at an early age.
. ELIZABETH POOLE: 1831-1855, died at age 24 years & was buried in Carmel Cemetery. In 1849 she married Lawrence Moneyman 1829 - & in 1851 they moved from Tecumseh Twp., from the Tottenham-Newmarket area, to Garafraxa Twp., along with John Monkman & their father William Monkman 1793-1878.
They settled on W half Lot 15, Con 7, 6th Line of Gara. Elizabeth was the 4th daughter of William & Mary Crawford Poole. Later Lawrence Monkman married a neighbor girl, Martha Ann Felker.
Ref: Grandmother Blyth; Mrs. John Dobbin's Scrap Book & the Monkman Family History, & History of Tecumseh Twp. - - - [1]
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1831 - 1855 (24 years)