{"id":77044,"date":"1915-02-06T20:05:32","date_gmt":"1915-02-07T01:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=77044"},"modified":"2025-09-19T20:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:11:20","slug":"richardson-william-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/1915\/02\/06\/richardson-william-t\/","title":{"rendered":"RICHARDSON, William Theophilus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/58221048_128373268704.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-77045\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/58221048_128373268704-157x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/58221048_128373268704-157x300.jpg 157w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/58221048_128373268704-313x600.jpg 313w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/58221048_128373268704.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/a>Erected to the memory of William Theophilus Richardson, lighthouse keeper at Gros Cap for many years. Died at Gargantua on February 6, 1915 aged 63 years.<\/p>\n<p>Also Daughter Laura<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notes from Ancestry.com: 1911 Ontario Census, Ontario, Canada Deaths 1869-1946. Lighthousefriends.com.:<\/p>\n<p>William Theophilus was born in England, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Allen) Richardson.<\/p>\n<p>The 1911 census record reports that he immigrated in 1863, but no immigration records have been located. In the same record, he is married to Jane and has a daughter Jane with whom he shares a stone. His wife and daughter were born in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>William was the first lighthouse keeper at Little Gros Cap which is a peninsula in Michipicoten Harbor, Ontario. The lighthouse was established in 1902. William lived in the area for twenty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erected to the memory of William Theophilus Richardson, lighthouse keeper at Gros Cap for many years. Died at Gargantua on February 6, 1915 aged 63 years. Also Daughter Laura &nbsp; Notes from Ancestry.com: 1911 Ontario Census, Ontario, Canada Deaths 1869-1946. Lighthousefriends.com.: William Theophilus was born in England, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Allen) Richardson. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2663],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 15:29:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77044"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77051,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77044\/revisions\/77051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}