William Henry G. Knowles

1834 - 1897  (63 years)

• Name	William Henry G. Knowles
  Born	1834	Guelph Township, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Name	W. H. G. Knowles
  Occupation	1861	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Merchant
  Residence	1861	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Wesleyan Methodist
  Occupation	1867	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	dry goods merchant
  		Kitchener-business-Knowles,WilliamHenryG-001-DryGoods-1867-WaterlooChronicle.JPG Waterloo Chronicle 16 Jan 1868, p. 4
  Occupation	1875	Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	clerk
  Occupation	1891	Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
  	dry goods clerk
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-152975
  Died	9 Apr 1897	Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada   [2, 4]
  Buried	Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada   [4]
  Person ID	I152975	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	William Samuel Goodwin Knowles,   b. 18 Sep 1808, Basford, , Nottingham, England ,   d. 27 Jul 1886, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Sarah Masters,   b. Abt 1800,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F38673	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Jane Idington Nichol,   b. Dec 1835, Guelph Township, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 3 Apr 1918, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age ~ 82 years)
  Children	1. William Alexander Knowles,   b. 13 Aug 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 13 Jan 1933, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 71 years)   2. Mary Elizabeth Knowles,   b. 18 Jan 1863, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Kate Florence Knowles,   b. 6 Jun 1865, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1 Apr 1866, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 0 years)   4. Knowles,   b. 6 Jun 1867,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F38300	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  King Street Foundry [Ontario Street] to Queen Street- Almost the whole of this block was a spongy swamp, with willow trees along the edge. Cattle could scarcely go into it as they would sink. Up to 1850 there was no building up to Gaukel's Hotel at the corner of Queen Street. Along the street front there was an elevated sidewalk erected on cedar posts with stringers. The sidewalk was about six feet wide and high enough to enable boys to explore underneath as, of course, they used to do. About 1858, Osborne Spiers & Co., erected a three-storey brick building, later known as Spiers' Block, on the Foundry Street corner. The building contained two stores fronting on King Street, one occupied by Wm. Spiers as a grocery and wine and spirit merchant, and the other a dry goods store first occupied by Mr. Stanton and later by W. H. G. Knowles who had been clerk at Stanton's. 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

  
  

• Sources

  [S123] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1861, Div. 3 Page 23. [S116] Vit - ON - Death Registration. Name:Wm H G Knowles Gender:Male Age:62 Birth Date:abt 1835 Birth Place:Guelph Tp, Ontario Death Date:9 Apr 1897 Death Place:Guelph City, Wellington, Ontario, Canada Religion:Presbyterian Cause of Death:Paralysis of Heart [S57] Vit - ON - Birth Registration. Name: Charles Oswald Knowles Sex: Male Birth Date: 13 Mar 1875 Birthplace: Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada Father's Name: William H. G. Knowles - clerk - Guelph Mother's Name: Elizabeth Jane Idington Nicoll [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/236674673.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1834 - Guelph Township, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Occupation - Merchant - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Wesleyan Methodist - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - dry goods merchant - 1867 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - clerk - 1875 - Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Occupation - dry goods clerk - 1891 - Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Died - 9 Apr 1897 - Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth