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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1971-10-28, Page 23Maple Leaf IODE 0 to Christiari,_slandi ••• 41 • lhese memb to Christian Christmas pr children, stud the group, w left to ri1-1, Mooney. -.L-• A rs of the Maple Leaf Chapter of the 1.0.D.E.'inGoderich set out Tuesday on a safari kland Indian Reserve near Penetang with two car loads of winter clothes and sents for a group of school children they have adopted at the school there. The nts in grades from pre-kindetgarten to grade four, have in a form been' adopted I:3V o helped provide services for the past four years. Helping with the final packing are, Mrs. R. Hughes, '.Mrs. J. Leitch, Mrs. J. Stringer, Mrs. S. Anderson and Mrs. D. ff photo 1 • When did -7'0o* • first•arriveat ... 000 cij SIONAt,44:1Aft,Tguno AY: , • Godeidich4nthe4tuthl. Brvv. E; Who was the first white child ,born in Goderich? Presumably, ,,....... nobOdy kept track of Indian babies; in fact, no government branch kept any birth records in tile early years of settlement. The question about the first baby arises pow as result of an enquiry addressed to Clerk -Treasurer J. Harold Walls, by Mrs. Courtland Lee, Mount Clemens, Michigan. Slie. Writes: "My great -great-grandfather, Goderuh.Crouter Benton, according to-- family tradition was the first white child born in Gdeicli. • I woiild like very Much , to know' if there is a record of his birth." Mr.: Benton died Nov. 21, 1902, aged 64, andso was born in 183, 11 yeaik after - the beginning of settleinent here. The first marriage was. in 1829, 'only two years after the settlement began, the partieS- being William Gooding (son of W.F.-yand Jane GoOte. Brothers, Jasper and Edwin married Mary and Nannie Goode, daughters of Ronald Goode, from Ayrshire. First of these cerbmonies took place in Detroit, there being no .clergyman in Goderich. -Rev:: Robert „F. , ,Campbell,. first Anglican minister, arrived in 1934, and his first recorded ,act here was a baptism. James andRebecca Peacock, of Gi4rich township, brought a child for baptism, on January 2, 1835. tlistory-prov),des,7.,,Its',-, with mOre information about young ... PeteOck; it is unlikely that, he was the first Godericirliative. the family name.„was once well known. Belden's' Atlas records that James Peacock farmed on Lot 19,, Con 1, Goderich township (Bay field road.) The usually . reliable. Atlas states that "the first -white child to be born in Goderich was a boy called John,son of Samuel Gibson. The Canada Company gave him 100 acres of•lind. Unfortunately, no date is. mentioned. Samuel Gibson is. not immediately identified, but . the name was',well known in the northern part of the county. There was a Benton in Coderich in the 1830'S, all right, Isaac, of that name, purchased from the Canada Company on April 12, 1832, the Cobourg St. lot originally numbered, and the Lighthouse Street lot behind it. He sold these lots in 1834 to W. F. and J. K. Gooding: In the deed from the Canada Company, the only information about Benton is .that hewas a ,merchant. This deed, one, of the earliest recorded.. here, bears the ,signature of Robert G. Dunlop. • as registrar. He was a retired navy captain, brother -of Dr. William Dunlop. Harry" Ford, former registrar of deeds for Huron, discovered that Capt. - Dunlop was the first registrar, anyt'. found .office was 'orf' South Street. Deputy registrar was David -Don, reputedly a jovial young man,. noted as . a good singer and flaUtist. The printed form of this deed sets forth that George IV empowered the Canada Company to sell land, and this particular transaction -is - validated by William Allan and Thomas Mercer Jones, as "attorneys" for' the company. Witnesses were James Robertson Stanton and Arthur Cruickshank Webster, both, of "York." Benton paid the company "ten pounds currency" for the lots. So,far as dates go, Isaa Bentocould have been the .father of Goderich C, Benton. Mrs. Lee, the great -great- granddaughter, writes that "GodericIF. Benton and, his wife, Jemima Pliller,had a son, Henry, born in Goderich in 1866, according to his daughter. The family moved to Port Huron and the to.Mt.. Clerrions in 1875. Goderich Benton WLigla tinsmith. Mr. Benton, hi wife, parents-in-law, four of his children .and .a -daughter-in-law; ..buried• in ;one pint at Clinton Grove Cemetery a short distance from ' my horne...A daughter of Godertch Benton, Alice, married Augustus Canfield, a grandson of Christian' Clerrlens, the town's founder." GODER ibH 524-8985 8 a.m.. to 11 a.m. WINGIFIANI 35.74306 ANYTIME, • 225eICTON$T., GODERICk FOR' YOUR FIRE INSURANCE axfoeriAifAx374 See or Phone • MALCOLNII MAINERS GENERAL -INSURACE AGENT 46 WEST ST. 524-9442 1971 'TA).ES Tqwn• of Goderich 2nd Installment Due October 29th, 1971 Payable at any local chartered bank or Victoria & Grey: Trust Co. Present your tax bill when making payment. 4 ntrestat-therate or 12% per annum added to overdue instalments. J. Harold Walls, A.M.C.T. Tax Collector. • • ••• isral,ca . • Dressed warinly in anticipation of the cold ferry ride from the mainland to Christian Island members of the Maple Leaf Chapter of the Goderich IODE prepare to embark on a northward Safari taking winter clothing and other material to an adopted school on the Incliah reserve thre. The Chapter has • been supplying extra needs to the chi ren of 'that schoolnow for four years. -staff photo .• • Ns. The Factory Door' Wayto Save on Snow -Tires! Imagine getting two tires for what you Trehaly consider a reawn'able price for one! Tha's the advantage of shopping the 'Factory Door' way. 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