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The Hulses Thomas and Mary Hulse settled in Upper Canada in 1842, arriving with young Henry Hulse aged 3 years and his siblings: Joseph aged 18, John aged 16, Matthew aged 14, and Mary Ann aged 12. The youngest son, William G. was born in Canada the next year. They had come from Nottingham, England. Thomas was a school teacher and innkeeper in Pottageville and in 1851  kept a two story frame inn with three staff.

Historical summary: 1850's    
 
Hulse grave 
Hulse grave -- Lloydtown
 In 1857 Thomas passed away, and Henry, his mother and brother William moved to a one-story frame house in Lloydtown. Henry was a mail courier, transporting mail from Lloydtown to Aurora for six years. Brother John ran a farm in the 10th concession, lot 35, and was the enumerator for the 1861 census in his district; he recorded his own family's entry and gave his signature on 9 Mar 1861. John eventually ran a hotel in Schomberg. 
 
The Lloydtown Post Office was on the corner of Centre and Main Streets, just south of two inns and taverns. Henry would surely have met one of the innkeepers, William Doyle, who lived with his two sisters Jane and Alice Doyle. See map.
The Doyles Alice was born in Tecumseth Township in 1843 to James and Jane Doyle. Both her parents were Catholics born in Ireland, and came to Upper Canada as early as the 1820's. The Doyles, with their three children, lived in a shanty on the farm of Englishman Benjamin Jennings in the 10th concession, lot 30. Jennings employed James as a labourer, and Jane as housekeeper in his two-story mudbrick home during the 1850's. James does not appear in the census after 1851, and so he may also have passed away before Alice's marriage.

Alice's brother William eventually came to run an inn in Lloydtown, also a two-story frame building.  Along with Alice and WIlliam there were sister Jane, a tailoress; and possible cousin John, a shoemaker. 

Henry and Alice continue this story would married in 1864.