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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Topic started by: cheshiremog on Monday 02 July 07 01:12 BST (UK)
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Can anyone help with a look up for Emma Trist Clift born 1864 Brixham, Devon who for a number of years lived in Canada - but sorry I don't know where. She never married and later returned to Brixham (date unknown) and died in Brixham in 1955.
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Sorry I forgot to say that she was in Brixham in 1891 as a servant at the Rock House, Brixham - but I can not find her on the 1901 so she may have travelled to Canada any time after 1891. And sorry she was not born in Brixham she was born in Plymouth Devon.
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Hi chesiremog
There is a Miss Clift travelling to Canada in 1894, dosnt give an age or Initial, so hard to tell if its her ??
Date of Departure : 31 July 1894
Port of Depart: Liverpool
Passenger destination port : St Johns Nf, Canada
status : Single
Ship : CARTHAGINIAN
ship no. : 0
Ship line : Allan Line
Masters name : John France
Passengers on board : 39
maybe one to keep ??
Craizi daizi
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You can check the manifest (for free) at the National Archives Canada.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/passenger/index-e.html
Janice
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From the passenger lists on findmypast;
There is a Miss E Clift
Departing Liverpool on the Victorian 27 Apr 1905 fro Quebec/Montreal.
Her age is recorded as Adult. She was single and her occupation was transcribed as Spinster :) although this is hard to read on the original.
A possible but wouldn't explain her being missing from UK 1901 census.
Regards
Clive
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Dear All, Thank you for your help.
I did find Miss E Clift on the Victorian in 1905 from the Canadian Passenger List site you recommmended but I think this is possibly not her as the age given is only 22 and it looks like the lady listed was from Lincolnshire.
I think the arrival in 1894 is more likely but I could not find this entry on the link JaniceM posted. The Clift family of Brixham were distantly related to the France family and the captain's name was France. As for the destination being - Newfoundland, this is also likely as the port of Brixham had connections with this area. But I can't find the Carthaginian entry on the Canada National Archives :'(
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Sometimes less is more on the LAC site, try putting in just the ship name and year of arrival.
There are only 8 dates to choose from for the Carthaginian and if it left July 31st the one it should be is the one arriving in Halifax NS August 12, 1894.
Karen
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Thanks Karen
I looked at that one and all the others
Have just looked again
I can't see it
Carol
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As the link was too long for the page showing the ships arrival in 1894, I made it into a "tinyurl". Just click this link and it will take you to the right page. It is # 3 where it says August 12th, 1894.
http://tinyurl.com/324fqo
I can't see her or anyone by the name Clift on that ship, but "Ancestors on Board" does show that "Clift" arrived in 1894 on the Carthaginian.
http://www.findmypast.com/passengerListPersonSearchStart.action
Janice
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This is the only "Emma Clift" that I could find at all.
Emma CLIFT
Age: 62
Departed: 1925 from London
Arrived: Australia Sydney
I also tried the last name of "Cliff", but still no Emma
Janice
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All,
I have only recently joined this website and saw the 2007 research into Emma Clift. She is a distant relation in my wife’s family. My mother-in-law remembers meeting Emma Clift in Brixham at her grandmother's (Anna Maria Langdon ) house in the early 1950s. She remembers her Canadian accent and shock of white hair.
I have since found http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vfarch/genealogy-data/wc38/wc38_077.html which shows Emma Trist Clift as one of the children of John Clift and Mary Trist.
I hope this is of interest and help in your search.
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Emma Trist Clift is reported to have gone to Canada with John West, the Superintendent of Brixham boys home on 20th Dec 1892. She travelled as Emma West on the SS Mongolian from Liverpool to Halifax, Canada. She returned to Brixham in the early 1950s, and died in Brixham in 1955. She is buried with her brothers in St Mary's churchyard. I have a photograph of her gravestone if requested.
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http://www.brixhammuseum.org.uk/index.php The blue brixham book should have details on this. Contact Chris Potts at Brixham Museum on this link. We do research on the boys home and can be contacted at bsbh@live.co.uk
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I hope this will help.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=241954
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I hope this will help.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=241954
That's a link to this thread.