HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-06-30, Page 122+^
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Thomas Kneeshaw
First buiider
in
brick
' "T Niohuw^ was working
on the kitchen fireplace t
Guirbc,idonJune 28th`lR4i
The event was recorded and
the name spelled thus by
Bailey McLean. Dr. William
Dunlop's secretary, In his
diary he added the in-
,
formation that a house for
James Tewsley had been',
completed with stories from
the Maitland.
Thomas Kneeshaw, 33 at
the time he attended to the
r)unlop fireplace, had corne to
Co4orich at least as early as
I S33. vhcri the settlement was
hut six years old. In 1831 ho
had built a frame house for
himsc|[ expecting to be
mu,riod, hut when the first
Church of England minister�
arrived to take up residence,
his house was requisitioned
by Dr, Morgan Hamilton for
the c|org n, It is said to
have been ''u rough luU`'onU'
p|xstr, house. with brown -
painted. French windows.
and wings of many - h| "
hut Rev. Robert Francis
(arnphell and his farnily were
accommodated. •
Mr. IKnooybowon August
of the following year married
Ann Alexander, of Stanley
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The Kneeshaw house on Waterloo north was built on land
purchased by Thomas Kneeshaw from Rev. R. F. Campbell in
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1846It vioas first a one -storey house tacing Arthur St., but
1876 was turned around and a storey added.
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