The Mulcaster Family in Canada

 

1828-present

 

Descendants

of

Edward Mulcaster and  Esther Cottrell

Edward Mulcaster, according to the gravestone marker at Northridge Cemetary, was born March 1, 1805.

EDWARD MULCASTER

born near Carlyle, Cumberland England 

March 1, 1805

Died - April 10, 1878

MULCASTER (on base)

verse: God gave/He took/He will restore He doeth all things well 

The Irthington Parish Registers (a small parish near Carlisle, England) have note of Edward Mulcaster, baptized March 11, 1805.

He immigrated to Canada (1828), and settled in Huron County (near Goderich, Ontario) He purchased land from the Canada Company, lot 12, concession 2, Goderich Township, Huron County.

He married Esther Cottrell who was born in Hertfordshire, England, 1811/12?. They had four children and spent their married life in Goderich, Ontario area where she died April 2nd, 1851 (two weeks after the birth of their youngest son, Thomas. She is buried at the Maitland Cemetery, Goderich, Ontario and is listed in the Huron O.G.S. Maitland Cemetery Index as being in Section G #220. The actual location according to the Maitland Cemetery maps is Lot Range E, Section 6, Lot #119 and is listed under Edward Mulcaster. As of November 1997, the white marble stone in the ground is in excellent condition and reads as follows: -

MULCASTER

Esther wife of Edw'd Mulcaster

Died April 2, 1851

Aged 39 years

Edward Mulcaster and his son(s) purchased land in Gosfield North Township, Concession 8, County of Essex in 1873. Edward and his youngest son George came to Essex County cross country and through the bush to the land they purchased and spend the winter of 1873 on the land. The rest of the family came later. The story as told by Edward's great grandson, Arnold Deane Mulcaster, is that Edward and George built and lived in a shed that was approximately three (3) logs high and probably no bigger than 12 feet square.   They had four children:

1. Richard Mulcaster, b. 1844

2. George Mulcaster b. 1848

3. Mary Mulcaster, b. 1850(?)

4. Thomas Mulcaster b. 1851

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[1] RICHARD MULCASTER

Was born 1844 in Goderich Township, County of Huron. He died in Essex County in 1921 and is buried in Northridge Cemetary, Gosfield North Township.

He married first at age 24 in 1868 to

(1) REBECA SARGANT, born 1851 or 1852. She died September 23, 1898 in her 47th year in Northridge Cemetery and in same plot with Richard and his second wife Eliza Batten Mulcaster. They moved to Gosfield North with his father and brothers and then later moved to Windsor. They had 10 children.

After Rebecca's death Richard married again to (1900?) 

(2) - ELIZA BATTEN, born 1861 and died in 1936. They had no children.

Children of Richard and Rebecca

1. Clara Mulcaster, Born 1870, In 1992 she married William Parker, born 1861, died 1962.

2. George Edward Mulcaster, Born 1872. Married Martha O. Clark in 1896

1. child born January 1898

3. Florence Mulcaster, Born 1873, married ------Smith

1. Ralph

2. Homer

3. Gladys

4. Betsey Mulcaster, Born 1875

5. Albert Mulcaster, born 1877 and died 1957, married Gertrude, born 1879, died 1954. They had 5 children

1. Blake Mulcaster

2. Ruby Mulcaster

3. Cameron Mulcaster, died August 10, 1992 age 81

4. Delbert Mulcaster, d. June 28, 1965 age 52

5. Clara Mulcaster

6. Mary Mulcaster, born 1880

7. Martha Mulcaster,born 1882

8. Nelson Mulcaster, born 1884. Married Elizabeth

1. Viola

2. Catherine

3. Pat

9. Wellington Mulcaster, born 1886

10. Myrtle Mulcaster, born 1888, married -- Mellenger and lived in Jackson, Michigan. She attended the 1958 Mulcaster Family Reunion and at that time was the only surviving child of Richard Mulcaster. Back to top of page 

 

[3] MARY MULCASTER

She was born in 1846, in Goderich Township, County of Huron. She died in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on September 12, 1903 and is buried in the Nutana Cemetery.

On December 24, 1866 she married ROBERT DULMAGE in Goderich, (Wesylan Methodist Church Records) with Wellington McCutty of Hullett and Mary Churchill of Goderich as witnesses.

Robert Dulmage was the son of Jonathan and Christina Dulmage of Morris Township, Huron County.

At that time he was a teacher at the S.S. #6 Union School, Goderich Township in 1865-66.(1) (The school was located only a mile or so from the Mulcaster farm). After they were married they moved to the Northwest Territories (now Saskatchewan) and in Mary Dulmage's death notice he is said to have been a tinsmith. There are descendants today in Saskatchewan from her family. They had four (4) children)

The Nutana Cemetery, Saskatoon, Sask. 

Contains burial notice of Mary Dulmage (Mulcaster)

The Nutana Cemetery listing by name. 

the daughter of Edward Mulcaster who came from England in 1828.

1. Esther Dulmage

2. Lucy Dulmage

3. Howard Dulmage

4. Anson Dulmage

[4] THOMAS EDWARD MULCASTER 

was born March 16, 1851 and baptized April 13, 1851 (Weslyan Methodist Church Records) in Goderich Township, County of Huron. His mother died the same year. He died in 1862 at age 11. There is no record of his death or place of burial in Goderich Township

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[2] GEORGE MULCASTER

George Mulcaster was born July 14, 1848, and baptized on April 13, 1851 along with his brother, Thomas, at the Township of Goderich, Huron County, Ontario, Canada. He bought property with his father in Gosfield North Township in 1873. He died in August 1919 and is buried at Greenhill Cemetery, Kingsville, Ontario. Death notice appeared in the Leamington Newspaper - August 28, 1919 at page 2. George Mulcaster married twice

(1) - (1870) JANE LIPPATT/LIPPETT, born December 8, 1848, daughter of Samuel Lippatt of Huron County. She married George Mulcaster in 1870. She died December 2, 1884 and is buried in the Cottam Cemetary.

George and Jane had 5 children

(information taken from 1891 Census, Gosfield North, Essex, County and announcements in the Amherstburg Echo)

1. Thomas E. Mulcaster - b. October 11, 1871 in Goderich 

2. Henry Mulcaster - born August 4, 1873, in Goderich 

3. Margaret Mulcaster - born July 26, 1875 in Goderich 

4. George William Mulcaster - born October 18, 1877 in Goderich 

5. Esther Mulcaster - born June 5, 1880

 

(2) - (1886) MARTHA THOMAS, 

She was born February 25, 1954, and was raised in Darlington, England. She married George Mulcaster in 1886. She died in 1940. She was the daughter of Capt. Richard and Rebecca Thomas of England. Her siblings were -

(1) Mary Thomas who married Garance Haynes of Mitchell;

(2) Lazarus Thomas of Gosfield North; and

(3) Joseph Thomas who married and had three children - Ann, Lotta and Vida.

George and Martha had 6 children. (information obtained from 1891 Census, Gosfield North, Essex County and announcments in the Amherstburg Echo)

1. Mary Rhoda Mulcaster - born March 31, 1886

2. Elsie Mabel Mulcaster - born Apirl 18, 1888

3. Wesley Mulcaster - born September 5, 1889

4. Lillian Ruth Mulcaster - born December 29, 1890

5. Ernest Richard Mulcaster - born April 18, 1894

6. Howard Mulcaster - born October 15, 1896

Wesley Mulcaster Family

[5] ESTHER MULCASTER

Was born June 5, 1880 in Gosfield North. She married THOMAS McBETH (2 children)

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[1] THOMAS EDWARD MULCASTER

Thomas Edward Mulcaster was born in October 11, 1871 at Goderich, Ontario. He died in 1954 and was buried at Greenhill Cemetery, Kingsville, Ontario. He married SELENA M. LEWIS (Lena), born September 22, 1876, died 1964, buried at Greenhill Cemetery, Kingsville, Ontario

Their Children (3)

1. Leathia P. Mulcaster, Was born in 1901, and died 1977.She married NORMAN E. MELLOTT, who was born November 4, 1905 (no children)

2. Alma V. Mulcaster. Was born in 1903, and died 1974. She married LES ALLEN (3 children)

1. Living Allen

2. Keith Allen b. 1930 (?), died April 3, 1974. Was inside the curling rink in Windsor that was destroyed by a tornado April 3, 1974 where 9 people

died and 11 were injured.

3. Dale Allen

3. Irene Rhoda Mulcaster, Was born February 15, 1916, and died March 13, 1996. She married EVERETT P. FAROUGH, who was born 1911, and died 1993. (3 children)

[2] HENRY MULCASTER

He was born August 4, 1873 at Goderich, Ontario. Died in Essex County (s) He married ROSE SWEETMAN (1 child)

1. Melvin Mulcaster, Was born April 11, 1904 He married Ruth ----- (2 adopted children)

 

[3] MARGARET MULCASTER

Margaret Mulcaster was born approximately 1875 at Goderich, Ontario. She married LIONEL BLAIR at Gosfield North Township (3 children)

1. Manley Blair, Born November 3, 1903, He married Norma Durham (no children)

2. Mildred Ruby Blair, Born June 21, 1906, and died September 1, 1989

She married Adolph J. Gilbertson, who was born August 2, 1902, and died June 9, 1990 (3 children)

1. Joan Gilbertson

2. Carold Ann Gilbertson

3. Mary Alice Gilbertson

3. Elmer Blair, Born June 1908, died 2000. He married Edna Margaret Niece, who was born January 25, 1912, and died August 2, 1995 (6 children)

[4] GEORGE WILLIAM MULCASTER (Billie) GEORGE MULCASTER AND MARY MELINDA SALTER

GEORGE WILLIAM MULCASTER, known at Billie, was born on the farm in Gosfield North Township, 8th Concession on October 18, 1877. He died January 12, 1972 and was buried at Greenhill Cemetery, Kingsville, Ontario. He attended school a short time at the 7th concession of Gosfield North. He worked as a farmer all of his life. On November 3, 1903 he married

MARY MELINDA SALTER, known as Linnie who was born in Colchester North Township, on February 28, 1883, the daughter of James Salter, b. February 14, 1847 in St. Tudy, Cornwall, England and Esther Robb b. April 6, 1858 in Lower Canada.

Evalena & Melinda Salter (Linnie)

 

Children of Billie & Linnie(5)

1. Hilda Loraine Mulcaster 

2. Horace Glen Mulcaster 

3. Marvin Mulcaster 

4. Arnold Dean(e) Mulcaster 

5. Murray James Mulcaster

[1] DESCENDANTS OF HILDA LORAINE MULCASTER AND ELMER LANDON

HILDA LORAINE MULCASTER was born on July 17, 1904 at Colchester North, died 2000. On August 12, 1929 she married ELMER LANDON who was born on February 19, 1900, died ?. They had one childElmer Landon disappeared 1931-32(?) and Hilda returned to lived with her parents in Colchester North, South Malden Road until 1940 when she moved back to Windsor after getting a job with the government in the Employment office. She worked there until she retired.

[2] HORACE GLEN MULCASTER

HORACE GLEN MULCASTER was born July 15, 1906. As told by Hilda Landon, at that time school began after Easter in the spring of the year. Hilda started grade 1 that Spring of 1910 (April), and Horace was still too young to start school ( only 3 years old at the time). Being without Hilda to play with he went to play outside on his own around the farm. He came into the house and asked his mother for a drink. He didn't want any milk but only water and once he had drunk the water he went into convulsions and died on April 14, 1910. His pockets were full of toadstools and although not confirmed by a doctor it was assumed that he died from eating poisoned toadstools. Inscription on a heart shaped small headstone: Horace Glen son of G. Wm. and Mary M. Mulcaster died April 14, 1910 ages 3 years, 9 mos. He is buried at the Cottam Cemetery , Cottam, Ontario in the Anglican Section.] 

[3] DESCENDANTS OF MARVIN MULCASTER AND VELMA ELSIE BARLOW

MARVIN LLOYD MULCASTER was born May 21, 1909. He died February 19, 1993 and was buried at Greenhill Cemetery, Kingsville. He married Velma Barlow at the Gesto Parsonage. They had 2 children.

[4] DESCENDANTS OF ARNOLD DEAN(E) MULCASTER AND MARY ALICE DENISON 

ARNOLD DEAN(E) MULCASTER was born November 2, 1914 at Colchester North at his parents home. Attended public school at the Batten School, S.S. No. 6, Colchester North and High School at Essex District High. On May 11, 1935 he married MARY ALICE DENISON who was born August 28, 1915 at Miller City, Ohio, USA. She came to Canada with her family on October 27, 1920. She died November 8, 1991 at Essex and buried at Greenhill Cemetery, Kingsville. After their marriage they lived at Marvin's home until the fall of 1940 when they moved into the Mulcaster farm (as his mother and father moved to Essex until 1946 and then they returned to the farm) and on the May 24th weekend 1947 they moved into their home on the 10th Concession. They had 7 children, all of which were born at home except their youngest child was born in the hospital at Windsor.

[5] MURRAY JAMES MULCASTER 

MURRAY JAMES MULCASTER Was born on March 30, 1930. He died December 23, 1979 and was buried at Greenhill Cemetery, Kingsville. (never married)  

[5] ESTHER MULCASTER 

Was born June 5, 1880 in Gosfield North. She married THOMAS McBETH (2 children)

1. Douglas McBeth married Eleanor Ciphery (3 children)

1. The Goderich Township History, Vol. 1: 1984, Published by the Corporation of the Township of Goderich (ISBN:0 969 1701) Chapter 6, page 149, S.S.#6 Union, Article on Education and Schools in Goderich Township, researched and written by Margaret Powell and Marion Powell.