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- (Recorded for further research: Henry Catchpole, Resided 1814, Suffolk , England, Trial 1814, Sentence Imprisonment. - further verify identityof the many Henry Catchpoles).
. Henry C, b 1798 Dec 14, bap 1798 Dec 12, Wrentham, Suffolk, s/o Catherine Dyball & John C Catchpole.
GC, b 30.5.1802, Parish Uggeshall, Suffolk
s/o Wm. Gillingwater & Mary Cathcpole.
Example of life in England:
. 1814 Jan 26 - Bury, Suffolk: At the close of our court Sessions, Henry Catchpole, for stealing 2 whips, etc, from Wm. Baldwin of Shimpling, was sentenced to 3 months' imprisonment & to be privately whipped.
Ref: Bury & Norwich Post Newspaper, England.
. 1822 Jun 9 - Birth/Christening: Wanford Cum Henham, Suffolk: Henry Catchpole, son of Elizabeth & Simon Catchpole.
. 1825 Wangford Parish, Suffolk Co., England:
. 1825 - Henry Catchpole was excused from paying the poor rates, through poverty. He & Noah Cotton had property valued at £1 10s, & were both excused both times.
. 1826 & 1827 - Easter, Henry Catchpole was given 2 shillings of charity money.
. 1827 March - there were 91 persons on parish relief, including 21 able bodied men.
. 1831 November - 1832 January, Henry Catchpole (& a Simon Catchpole & also Noah Cotton were absent from the Parish rolls.
. 1837 Census Garafraxa, Wellington Co., Ontario
Henry Katchpole & family:
Total Six: 2 males, 1 female & 2 boy & 1 girl under 16 years.
(Town of Guelph): Uncultivated land 48 Acres. 4 A. cultivated. Value of Property £35 (?) Two story frame house.
Note1: Is nephew Henry Catchpole.2 living with them? - PJA.
. 1837 Jan 20, Fri. The House Met. The following petitions were severally brought up & laid on the table: By Mr. Wm. Chrisholm - Halton Co. - the petition of James Stringer & 67 others, of Esquesing, Erin, Caledon & Chinquacousy, praying for £1000 to repair the road from Guelph to Dundas: of John New, Thomas Works, Henry Catchpole, & 37 others … Pursuant to the order of the day, the Wiltsie Navigation bill, was read the third time. On the question for passing the bill, the years & nays were taken. Yeas 27, Nays 5. for An Act to afford aid, by way of loan, to the Gananoque & Wiltsie Navigation Co., & to amend the Act of Incorporation of the said Company.
Ref: Journal of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada, Ontario; 1st Session 13 Parliament, 7th Wm. IV.
. 1839 Guelph, Toronto Gore Twp. Census Assessment:
[Each living next to each other:]
John Skippen, - Two story brick house; 2 Males, 2 females, Total four.
Henry Catchpole - Two story brick house, 1 Males, 1 boy under 16, 1 female under 16 & one female. Total four.
Wm. Nichols, [Neighbour reference witness at Mary Ann Catchpole.]
Note2: Paterson, Archibald is the next Guelph neighbour, is there any connection to Richard Patterson? (Patterson, Archibald: Males 1, Boys 2, Women 1, Girls 4, Total 8. Garafraxa Twp. 1833 )
. 1840 Guelph Twp. Census & Assessment:
Henry Catchpole - Two story brick house with 1 additional fireplace! Value of property £ 70;
One male, Two females, One girl under 16, Total Four, Wesleyan Methodist.
TAXES WELLINGTON CO., GUELPH, Cash Book [pay out]
. 1841 Jan 14 - By Chairman orders cash to Henry Catchpole, White washing said Guelph jail. 8 s. 1 & half pennies.
. 1846 Smith's Canadian Gazetter, Province of Canada West:
Guelph, a township in Wellington district. Land generally sealed by respectable English families, Excellent wheat. River Speed, a branch of Grand Driver. 2 grist mills & 2 saw mills, Population i 1845 was 3,400.
. 1852 GUELPH ASSESSMENT
Henry Catchpole - Twp. of Guelph, Tinsmith, Freehold, 50 years [ b. 1802 ],
Part of 86 acres. Real Estate valued at £25, Taxable income £50, Quaker (?), tax £28, Value of horses £13, # of cattle: four, One dog*.
Note3: So Henry had a dog.Oddly, while doing this genealogy for many decades, this is the only mention of anyone having a dog & tax for it too! - PJA
See John Catchpole Jnr. for continuing joint assessment. Relationship was not stated & it is thought John Junior is his nephew.
. 1853 - Archives of Ontario, Surrogate Court, Wellington County, Ontario-Signed, 3 October, 1853 by lawyers, Henry Catchpole 1856 is valued at a total of £100.
WILL of Henry, Catchpole, Guelph, Wellington Co., Tinsmith, Plaster. dated: 3 October, 1853,
Bury him in the Common burying ground, Guelph. Pay funeral expenses.
Sell his wagon, sleigh, cattle & wood boards within three months.
To beloved wife [unnamed], the bedding & a parcel of land with the brick house on the lot of land at 86 Norfolk Street, Guelph.
Note4: Downtown Guelph near St. George's Square & Crowe Iron Works at 91 Norfolk St. - PJA.
Sell land except house.
If his wife remarries or dies, than divide among his grandchildren at the death of his daughter, Mary Ann Patterson.
To his nephew, Henry Catchpole, he leaves his tools.
Henry Catchpole, HisXMark. 13 November, 1852.
Surrogate Court, 3 Oct 1853, signed, his lawyers.
Notes5: Wife's name does not appear on documents & Henry Sr. appears not to have a son to give his tin & plaster tools. No actually date of Henry's death was given, but he was deceased by 3 Oct. 1853.
Elsewhere, Land transactions show granddaughter, Mary Patterson received money in 1856, implying the death of both grandparents & mother. The Will does not give the name of Mrs. Henry Catchpole, Sr. - PJA.
. 1856 GUELPH UNION CEMETERY, Description:
Court House, Guelph May 2nd, 1856, half past 2 P.M. forthwith that the disposal of grass on Union cemetery. Surveying the grounds of Union Cemetery will be completed by 1 July next. Payment of 1s. 3d for each burial in St. Geo. Cemetery isn equivalent for the expense necessary. Erection of the entrance lodge, roads, walks turf grass, plantations & adorning the grounds of both Cemeteries & exterior fences. St. Georges Cemetery & Guelph Union Cemetery purchased 30 acres for a Cemetery, adding 10 A. by St. George's Vestry. Cost of burial upwards £170. St. Geo. church desire the Cemetery Keeper to continue his services as grave-digger in their portion of the grounds.
In the event of Geo. Bates being dismissed from the situation of Cemetery Keeper, he be required to leave the Cow Shed erected on the property or if not the price of the lumber in the same to be deducted from his salary. Claim of £1. 5 as compensation for being deprived of feed for his cow on the Cemetery, be paid. Prepare 23 feet of fallowed & for planting trees in the Fall around Cemeteries, along Guelph & Arthur Rd. Dispose of the cedar post & lumber remaining on the Cemetery, the same not being required for present use. During the past year they have laid out walks on the Cemetery Grounds & erected a board fence about two-thirds of the way around the same.
The old Cemetery, situated in the angle between left side Wyndham & Woolwich streets, behind the American hotel, & on the opposite side, where the Alma block now stands, was a triangular piece of land, purchased by Mr. Pryor, & for many years afterwards known as Pryor's field. Later the burial ground, having been condemned, a plot of land, visiting of 40 acres situated in the Scotch Block, on the Elora Rd, was purchased.
Ref: Annals of Town of Guelph, published 1877.
. Woodlawn Memorial Park is an 80-acre historic cemetery located in the north end of the city of Guelph. In 1853, two adjoining cemeteries were established at this location: Union Cemetery, named for its joint ownership by the Town & the Township of Guelph, & St. George's (Anglican) cemetery owned by St. George’s Church. The first burial in Union Cemetery was that of James Scroggie in January of 1854. In the early1880’s, the bodies were disinterred from the 2 downtown cemeteries, St. George ’s Anglican Church, & Public Burying Ground, & transferred to the Woodlawn memorial Park. Woodlawn records indicate that 135 grave sites were removed from the Public Burying Ground. However, there are an estimated 200 bodies believed to have been buried in the Public Burying Ground. During construction in 2005,
additional 45 remains were uncovered (22 adults, 2 teenagers, 9 children, 10infants, & incomplete remains of 36 others).
Ref: Wellington County Pioneers Biography.
Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - - [1, 2]
PAGE TWO Henry Catchpole:
Ontario Land Registry Abstract Book, Plan 8, 1& 1a.
Canada Company Survey, Book 5 & Town of Guelph Book 1, p24 & 90?
[Location near: Land between Lot 65 & the River Speed]
Lot 86, Town of Guelph:
. 1836 Mar 16, Bargain&Sale, Attornies of the Canada Co., To Henry Catchpole, All Acres, £46 3/4 pence,
. 1836 Mar 26, Mortgage, Henry Catchpole, to Thomas Todd, All, 25 [what?]
. 1841 Mar 1, Certificate Release Mortgage., Thomas Todd, to Henry Catchpole, Mortgage. # I890,
. 1850 Sep 1, Registered 1853 Oct 26, B&S, Henry Catchpole & wife, to Henry Catchpole the Younger, N.E. corner, 40 ft. front, 50 ft. Back.
. 1853 Apr 2, B&S, Henry Catchpole & wife, to JOHN Catchpole, pt, 11.5 perches;
. 1853 Apr 2, B&S, John Catchpole & wife, to John Catchpole, Pt. 11.5 perches;
. 1853 Apr 12, Mortgage, John Catchpole & wife, to John McCrae, Pt. 11.5 perches, £150.
* 1856 Mar 29, B&S, Registered 1856 Sept16, Geo & Robt Sunley, Executors of last WILL & Testament of Henry Cathpole. Richard Patterson, father of Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, Phoebe, John & Caroline Patterson by Mary Ann his wife, only daughter of the said Henry Catchpole, died, to Richd Greet, pt. other land;
. 1856 Mar 29, Mge. Richard Greet & wife, to Geo & Robt Sunley, Executors of Henry Catchpole, 14 perch, £550 & pt of Lot 101.
. 1856 Mar 29, B&S, Geo. & Robt Sunley, Executors of Henry Catchpole & the Children of his daughter, Mary Ann Patterson, (as in instrument 9373), to Henry Catchpole, nephew of the said Henry Catchpole, decd., 14 per [perches?]
. 1865 Jun 5, Mge. to John McNeil & Wife, to Henry Catchpole, NE corner, pr 14, $400,
. 1866 Feb 8, Discharge Mortgage, Robt. Sunley Executor the WILL of Henry Catchpole, to Geo. Howard & John Jones, Part 9.41/100 perches. Remarks Mtg 21221 a9. [Page 90]
. 1865 Jun 4, Discharge of Mortgage, Harry Catchpole, to Wm. Hearn., Part Mtge 23675. [Page 90].
Canada Company Survey, Book 5 & Town of Guelph Book 1, pg 27.
Town of Guelph, of Lot 101 [ i.e. beside Guelph Wesleyan Methodist Church Lot 100]
. 1841 Dec 6, B&S, Canada Land Co. to Daniel Day the Elder, All, 47.5 perches.
. 1854 Nov 30, Registered 1856.8.18, Release of Dower, Elizabeth Day, Widow of Daniel Day, to Mrs Sarah Kirkland, Mrs May A Hugh, Mrs Sarah Knowes, Mrs Eliz Walker, by & with the priority & consent of their respective husbands,
* to Robt Thompson, Peter B Kelly, Elizabeth Catchpole, widow, Geo P Iatham?, John Sully & John Harris. ALL 47% perches, Gore Con: 101 per. & other lands.
. 1855 Oct 10, B&S, Robt Thomson & Wife, to Geo & Robt. Sunley, Executors of Henry Catchpole., Westerly part, 1 perches.
.1856 Mar 29, B&S, [as above in Lot 86 Quebec Ave], Geo. & Robt Sunley, Executors of the Last Will & Testament of Henry Catchpole, Richard Patterson, Father of Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, Phoebe, John & Caroline Patterson by Mary Ann his wife, only daughter of the said Henry Patterson, - to Richard Greet, Pt quarter NW pt. Lot 101, other lands.
. 1856 Mar 29, Mortgage, Rich Greet & Wife, to Geo & Robt. Sunley, Executors of Henry Catchpole, Pt NW part £550. other lands.
. 1864 Feb 18, Bargain&Sale, Registered 24 Nov 1881, Robert Sunley Executor & Henry Catchpole, to James Armstrong, Part NW Part. [also page 105 ]
Town of Guelph, Gore in REAR of Lot 101, p28 & dup. 105
Note6 A gore is a piece of irregular left over land, perhaps triangular shaped. - PJA]
. 1841 Nov 9, B&S, Canada Land Co., to Daniel Day The Elder, All, 101 perches
*1854 Nov 30, Release of Dower, to Elizabeth Day, Widow of Daniel Day, as above in Lot 101 [ front ], - to Peter B Kelly, Elizabeth Catchpole, widow, Geo P Jothan, John Sully & John Harris, All 191 perches, other lands.
. 1866 Feb 8, Discharge Mortgage, Robt. Sunley Executor the WILL of Henry Catchpole, to Geo. Howard & John Jones, Part 9.41/100 perches. Remarks Mtg 21221 a9.
. 1864 Feb 18, B&S, registered 1881 Nov 24, Robt. Sunley Executor, Henry Catchpole, to Jas. Armstrong, part. Remarks, except part xxx
. 1874 Dec 14, B&S, Harry Catchpole, to Wm Hearn, part, Mtge. 28675.
. 1865 Sep 30 - SHERIFF'S SALE OF LANDS. County of Wellington, SATURDAY, to wit the 23 December, A. D., 1865, at noon, will be sold at Public Auction, at my office, in the Court House, Guelph, the following lands & tenements of ROBERT SUNLEY, Executor of the late Henry Catchpole, deceased, seized under & by virtue of a Writ of Fieri Faoias [i.e. to enforce judgements obtained] issued out of the Court of Common Pleas, to satisfy costs of defense adjudged to John Newman, in said Court in a certain action of ejectment:
viz.: Lots Five A & Five B, Plan 8 in the Block known as Prior's property,, on the northerly side of Quebec street, Guelph;
also, lots numbers 86* & 101, Canada Company's Original Survey, in the said town of Guelph. Sheriff's Office, George J Grange, Sheriff C.W.
Note7: Henry & Mary Catchpole resided at *86 Norfolk Street, Guelph.
Sheriff's Office, Guelph, 19th September, 1865.
- First published 30th, September, 1865. 4005-6.
Ref: Canada Gazette, volume 24, number 39, 30 September 1865, page 96.
Note8: This Sheriff's Sale of Lands was rather many years after Henry Catchpole's death in 1853, & disbursements. - PJA 2010.
Note8: George Sunley was a Mayor of Guelph 1857, & a City Councillor for Guelph West Ward 1856 & 1857 the South Ward of Guelph.
Note9: 1873 Guelph Directory, Tinsmiths: Wm. Sunley, of Market Square & Geo. Howard corn. Norfolk & Quebec * (Work associate of Henry Catchpole, still on Henry's home street).
XRef: Work Associate. Also Wm. Sunley was also a member of Norfolk Methodist Church, Guelph.
Geo. Sunley, Business partner of Henry Catchpole:
. SUNLEY, George died March 1857, 1846 listed as a merchant, 1849 listed as a member of the fire company. The election for Guelph & the township it was part of was held in Thorp's Assembly Room at the British Hotel on January 7, 1850 with about 300 persons present. George Sunley was a candidate for the Reform Party & he was elected to Town Council with 251 votes. The first meeting of this council was held at the Frog Pond Tavern, on Eramosa Road on January 20, 1850 & the next at Alex Blythe's Tavern at Marden. 1852-1853 Town Councillor, 1853. Geo. Sunley, Guelph Councilor, 1852, 1853, West Ward Guelph, 1857; Mayor 1857.
Ref: Early Methodist Church, Wellington Co.
. Guelph Advertiser Almanac advertisement G. Sunley, Tin, Copper & Sheet Iron worker Market Square Guelph. Box, Parlor & Cooking Stoves in great variety. Call & see us before buying of peddlers. Old Copper, Brass, Rags, &c, taken in exchange, 1854 listing as Sunley & Melvin, stoves, tinware, etc., Robert Melvin entered business with George Sunley on August 2, 1854 & 1857 March died.
. Bills Paid to G Sunely: - 3 Dec 1841, pd. George Sunley for stove pipes to the Court house & sheriff's office £8.10 7.
1843, pd. George Sunley for stove & tinsmith work £ 5. 9 .4.
X-Ref: Richard Patterson, who lent mortgage money to his brother-in-law, Geo. Sunley.
. SUNLEY, Noah was born on February 25, 1828 in England 1871, nurseryman living in Guelph, & died on March 12, 1904 buried Woodlawn Cemetery Guelph married Esther Ann Webster, 1847 listed as a businessman 1873 Director of the Guelph Horticultural Society, 1881 listed as a gardener on Grange Street. - - - [3]
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Abt 1798 - 1853 (55 years)