James C Roadhouse (1808 - 1904)

Born 3 Mar 1808 in Selby, Yorkshire, England

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Died 12 Jan 1904 at age 95 in Peel, Ontario, Canada

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This profile is part of the Little Britain, Ontario One Place Study.

Biography

James was born in 1808 in Selby Parish, North Yorkshire, England to William Stevens Roadhouse (1774-1857) and Elizabeth Crissey (1774-1864), the seventh of twelve children. The family came to Upper Canada in 1819 (as declared in the 1901 Canada Census), and they settled in Albion Township, Peel County.

James married Nancy (Monkman) Roadhouse (1809-1849) about 1827. They settled in Albion and raised three children there (Rachel, Sarah and Morrison). About 1840 they sold their land and resettled in Mariposa at Little Britain where their youngest daughter Margaret was born. He farmed, and operated a general store there.

His wife Nancy died in 1846. James traveled and sold medicinal herbs. He retired back to Albion, to live with daughter Margaret, and passed away in 1904, 96 years.

Excerpt from the Little Britain book (1939), page 37:

JAMES ROADHOUSE and his wife drove with oxen and followed surveyors' trails by way of Manilla ^[1] to Mariposa [township]. He owned the farm where the Canadian Bank of Commerce now stands^[2], also a store near the same site, one of the first stores in the village. He is said to have harboured two rebels at the time of the Mackenzie rebellion. One of his many descendants living in or near by the village is Mrs. Mary (Mark) Heatlie ^[3].

Research Notes

• there are extensive records, photos, and additional biographical available at ancestry on James' father William Stevens Roadhouse (1774-1857).

Sources

1. ↑ Manilla is on the Mariposa township border, three miles west of Oakwood, which is in turn is two miles north of Little Britain
2. ↑ roughly, concession 5, lot 15, Mariposa Township, Victoria County
3. ↑ James Roadhouse's grandaughter by his daughter Rachel Roadhouse-Mark

• Church Centennial, Little Britain 1839-1939, Archive.org; Little Britain United Church Women, eds. Norma Jane Yeo and Phillipa Mark Sloan; (https://archive.org/details/little-britain-centenary-1839-1939/page/38/mode/2up) — fully browseable, searchable digital version of original booklet;
• Baptism: "England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1936"
  The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; General Register Office: Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths Surrendered to the Non-Parochial Registers Commissions of 1837 and 1857; Class Number: RG 4; Piece Number: 3680; Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry ca Record 2972 #397048 (accessed 16 February 2022); James Roadhouse baptism on 10 Apr 1808 (born 3 Mar 1808), son of William & Elizabeth, in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England.
• 1901 Census of Canada; district 51B, Cardwell, sub-division 6 Albion, page: 4, family: 41; Jas Roadhouse; relation to head: father-in-law, age 93;
• Death: "Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1948", Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Collection: MS935; Reel: 117; Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry ca Record 8946 #2040661 (accessed 16 February 2022)
  James Roadhouse death 12 Jan 1904 (age 95) in Peel, Ontario, Canada.