Estelle "Stella" Godbold

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• Name: Estelle "Stella" Getman
• Name: Stella Godbold
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-142489
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Estelle married James A. Getman 27 Jun 1899, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. James (son of John Getman and Rebecca Bechtel) was born 3 May 1872, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

1. Arleigh Gateman was born 24 May 1900, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-24529
• Residence: 1853, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; England Church
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Occupation: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Benjamin married Barbara Hewitt 1850. Barbara (daughter of John Hewitt and Barbara Wildfong) was born 1821, , Ontario, Canada; died 16 Nov 1899, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Barbara Godbold
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-24530
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Free Church
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; S. Methodist
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

Barbara is supposedly was the daughter of John Hewitt and Barbara Wildfong.

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-5911
• Occupation: 1851, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Occupation: 1881, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

Notes:

King Street , North Side

From Francis to Water Street.

he ground was used by H. F. J. Jackson for stabling, etc., on his contract for building the Grand Trunk Railway through a large part of Waterloo County. Later he built his residence on this plot.

The plot east of Water Street was used as a drill ground by the Berlin Volunteer Company of the Waterloo Battalion, 1864-67. They mostly drilled in the evenings and had some quite young volunteers, Jacob Stroh, 16 years, one of them. The trustees of the New Jerusalem Church bought the corner in 1869 and in 1870 erected the present Church. This had the first pipe organ in Berlin, built by Claus Maas of Preston.

Haller's hat and felt-working shop. He made the first felt boots and shoes, worn largely by the farmers, in winter, in this vicinity.

Open space up to Henry Brickner's house.

A frame building one and one-half story high and located a little back of the street. Later a brick building was erected on the open space. At the westerly corner of Young Street Mr. Bricker built a cooperage in 1860.

At the easterly corner of Young and King Streets was Wendell Brunner's blacksmith shop, a rough frame building. Behind it, on Young Street, was another frame building used as a waggon shop by Christian Huinbrecht.

Vacant place and next a three story brick building, lengthwise with King Street, divided into two parts, used as stores for a short time. Later it was a paint shop and still later a warehouse for the Simpson factory across the road. The third floor of this building was the first habitat of the Berlin Militia, organized in 1864 at the time of the American Civil War. Colonel Pickering was the first drill master. He was sent from England to drill the Canadian Militia. The local company had at first no rifles and had to use Wooden substitutes for their drills.

A three story brick building erected by C. Schneucker and used as a hotel. The third floor was a large hall used for a number of years, for balls and concerts. Paul Schmidt moved into the building in 1860. It was then called the Schneucker and Schmidt Hotel. A later landlord was Mr. Zinger and the name was changed to The North American Hotel. Toward the rear and just east of the Hotel was a barn and horse shed, with wide approach from King Street.

A one and one-half story frame house 15 or 20 feet back from the street line with gable and veranda facing King Street, occupied by Paul Schmidt and later by his widow.

A very early building one and one-half story, rough cast; the dwelling of Sam Trout, a blacksmith. A later occupant was James Godbold, son of Godbold who lived on the corner of Wellington and King Streets. Jacob, son of James, brakeman on the Grand Trunk, was killed while on top of a freight car in St. Mary's, the train passing under a low bridge which Godbold did not see as he was looking at a circus beside the track.

A tailor shop was also in this building which stood originally at the corner of Foundry and King Streets.

A two story brick building with gable toward King Street and occupied by Henry Gauntley. On the second floor there was a paint shop and at the rear a wagon shop.

A brick building, the blacksmith shop, for many years, of Sam Trout.

A vacant lot.

At the Foundry St. corner a frame building, Reinhold Lang's tannery with his house, alongside, one and one-half story with frame porch. Later Mr. Lang moved his business to Charles Street, the site of the present Lang Tanning Co. plant. Jacob Y. Shantz erected the Canadian Block, three story brick, corner of King and Foundry Streets, in 1856. The front was set back from the street line and had a verandah extending to the edge of the sidewalk. There were three stores, the corner, Cole and Graf, druggists; then Wm. Young, groceries and liquors; and next H. S. Huber, general store. The old blacksmith shop was used as a warehouse by Huber.

The Canadian Block while still fairly new, burned down about 1862 in the Spring. The fire started in the corner drug store, during the night. The walls remained standing after the fire was out but were considered dangerous and were pulled down by the firemen. One wall, in this operation, fell on H. S. Huber's warehouse, which had not been burned and in which he had large quantities of supplies. The firemen were blamed for not having notified Huber so that he could have removed his goods before the wall was thrown over.


REMINISCENCES OF BERLIN (NOW KITCHENER) By JACOB STROH Contributed by Joseph M. Snyder.

Part I. Settlement - Early Villagers and Buildings, Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1930

Charles married Elizabeth Edwards 29 Mar 1819, Blundeston, Suffolk, England. Elizabeth was born 4 Mar 1798, Bungay, , , England; died 5 Aug 1854, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Godbold
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-7171

Notes:

Elizabeth's last name may have been Townsend, it is possible that she was mother of Robert Townsend who married Charles Godbold's daughter.

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-129632

Notes:

A-1-21 John Hewitt: Citation of the Heirs of John Hewitt, formerly of Wilmot, deceased. To William Miller, Esquire, Judge of the Surrogate Court, Waterloo. The Petition of Benjamin Godbold, of the Township of Wilmot, Yeoman.

That John Hewitt, formerly of the Township of Wilmot, in the said County, Yeoman, departed this life on or about the twenty fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, leaving divers goods, chattels and credits within this County; that to the best of the knowledge of your petitioner the said deceased made and left no will at his departure, and therefore died intestate. That the said deceased left no widow lawfully to administer unto his estate, that your petitioner called upon the several sons of the said decease, viz: Joseph Hewitt, George Hewitt, John Hewitt and Elias Hewitt, all of them living within this County of Waterloo (Martin Hewitt, another son, living in the County of Oxford, was not called upon by your petitioner) neither of which said sons appeared desirous lawfully to administer unto the said estate, and moreover did hitherto actually fail to do so; this is necessary, in order to arrange and settle the estate affairs of the said deceased, and the goods, chattels and credits left by him your petitioner verily believes do actually suffer waste, there being no person lawfully to take charge of them not withstanding the long interval of time since the death of the said deceased, that Letters of Administration should issue to the Estate of the said deceased. …that the said deceased was at the time of his death not possessed of goods, chattels and credits to the amount of five pounds in two or more counties of this Province, or to that amount in any County of than this County of Waterloo. The prayer of your petitioner, he being one of the sons in law of the said deceased, therefore is, that letters of Administration be granted unto him in order that the said Goods, Chattels and Credits may be justly and truly administered as the law requires. Dated at Berlin, in the County of Waterloo 16 November 1853

Witnessed by C. Enslin, Registrar
Administration granted to Benjamin Godbold of Waterloo.

Citation of next of kin dated 19 November 1853

To Joseph Hewitt, of the Township of Waterloo, laborer, and to George Hewitt of the same place, laborer, and to John Hewitt, of the Township of Wilmot, yeoman, and to Elias Hewitt, of the same place, laborer, and to Charles Cooper, of the same place, yeoman, and Anne Cooper his wife, and Jacob Ollsh, of said Township of Waterloo, and his wife Sarah Ollsh, and to Joseph Wismer, of the same place, laborer, and Charlotte Wismer, his wife, and to Mary Hewitt, of the said Township of Wilmot, Spinster, all of the County of Waterloo, next of kin and interested as legal representatives in the Administration of the goods, Chattels and Credits of John Hewitt, late of the aforesaid Township of Wilmot, Yeoman, deceased. All were required to appear before William Miller, Judge of the court, in the Registry Room, Court House, town of Berlin, on Saturday the twenty sixth day of this present month of November at the hour of nine o'clock in the forenoon to show good and sufficient cause why letters of Administration to the estate of the said deceased shall not be granted to the said Benjamin Godbold, as prayed for, and why not rather you, and either of you, the said sons of said deceased as his next of him and hence first entitled….

None of these people showed up for the meeting so son-in-law Benjamin Godbold was granted Letters of Administrated.

Letters Granted and issued 26 November 1853 to Benjamin Godbold.

Surrogate Court Records Copybook Register A 1853-1871 transcript to 1863. Frances Hoffman transcriber

John — Barbara Wildfong. Barbara was born Abt 1790, of, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Barbara Hewitt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-129633

Notes:

Barbara is supposedly the daughter of George of Pennsylvania.