Brief Life History of John Lee
When John Lee Gosnell was born on 29 April 1882, in Harwich, Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, Lawrence McLaughlin Gosnell, was 25 and his mother, Charlotte Maria Baldwin, was 21. He married Anna Rosella Keown in 1903, in Essex, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Essex, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died in 1950, at the age of 68, and was buried in Blenheim, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada.
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- J Lee in household of Lewran Gosnell, "Canada Census, 1901"
- John Lee Gosnell, "Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
- John Lee Gosnell, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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World Events (5)
1883 · Mining Boom
In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
1886 · First Workmen's Comp Act
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Name Meaning
English:
perhaps a habitational name from Goss Hall, in Ash, Kent, recorded as Gosehale in 1210–12 and as Gosenhale (in a surname) in 1230. It may have denoted ‘Gosa's nook of land’ (Old English Gōsa, genitive singular Gōsan + halh, dative singular hale). By the early 1200s a member of this Kent family had apparently acquired property in Fritton, Suffolk, where the surname subsequently ramified in the later medieval and early modern periods.
apparently a habitational name from Gonsal, in Condover, Shropshire, but the place name is recorded in medieval documents only as a manorial surname (de Gosenhull) and it is possible that the place was named after a 13th-century owner who came from elsewhere. On heraldic grounds the Shrops family has been tentatively identified with the Suffolk/Kent family in 1 above. The early spellings of the Shrops name, however, consistently point to a derivation from Old English hyll ‘hill ’, thus ‘Gosa's hill’, not ‘Gosa' s nook of land’. While the possibility cannot be ruled out that Gosenhull was a local re-interpretation of Gosenhale, the linguistic and the heraldic evidence are not easily reconciled.
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