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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Topic started by: martha42 on Thursday 17 March 11 17:12 GMT (UK)
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Does anyone know where I could search for death/cemetary records for Oakville, Ontario 1990-2000.
Contacted official website where they could search records and tell me if my releatives died there or not (which I already know they did) but cannot help me with death certificates unless I have a date - which is the crucial bit I am missing - not even sure of the correct year, at the present time.
So not getting very far at the moment, any help appreciated.
Thanks
Martha
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Hi Martha,
Oakville is just west of Toronto. I would suggest looking for obits in the Toronto Star newspaper. You can search from Jan 2001 for free on their site. For earlier obits, you can search the Star on a paid site called Pages of the Past. Some of us get this free at our libraries, so if you post the names you are searching for - we can look for you.
Also, I would have a look in the Oakville Beaver. You can find it here (for free) on the Ourontario site. Look under Halton Region.
http://www.ourontario.ca/demo/News.html
You can see if you can locate the cemetery where your relatives might be buried:
http://www.islandnet.com/ocfa/
If you know where they are buried, then there are ways to look up tombstone inscriptions. Most transcriptions are available from the Archives of Ontario - on microfilm through interlibrary loan.
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/archival-records/interloan/cemetery.aspx#table
Also, local libraries usually have the transcripts in printed form and may do lookups for you (cemetery transcripts/obituaries)
Toronto Public Library:
http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/
Oakville Public Library:
http://www.opl.on.ca/
I hope this gives you a good start. Also, have a look under the Ontario part of the Canada Resources thread.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,313320.0.html
RK
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Hi RK
Fantastic - thank you very much - looks like I will be busy tomorrow!
Family are Winifred Driver (although sometimes used her maiden name of O'Brien) born 1916 in England and died sometime after 1986 but more likely to be early 1990's in Oakville and her husband Gerald Driver born 1920 England and died 1997 in Oakville, Canada.
I have posted about this couple before, but didn't know where they had died until recently, so thanks to everyone who has helped so far.
Martha
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Hi again,
I see your other post:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,473198.msg3411488.html#msg3411488
There are some good leads here. I see that someone already did a check of the Pages of the Past site and didn't find your Drivers. I also just did a check of this site and I don't see them either. Perhaps the Oakville paper will turn up something for you.
RK
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Found 2 "Driver" matches in the Halton-Peel Cemetary Records but don't understand what they mean. Doesn't say whether these are people with the surname driver of just have the word driver in the title somewhere.
This is what is says
Brampton Public - Lot 6 A&C Plan BR13 Conc1E Chinguacousy
and Laurel Hill Bolton Lot 10 E 1/2 Conc 6 Albion
Can anyone decipher this for me?
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Thanks RK - still working my way through all the websites - must be something somewhere (I hope)!
Martha :)
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Hi,
You asked about all the letters/numbers after the cemetery names. These would be the addresses of the cemeteries. In Ontario, the farm land (and areas "in the country") is divided into parcels by concession roads and "lots". If you have a look at an old map or historical atlas, you will see what I mean.
I see from the OGS site that there are people surnamed Driver in these cemeteries - it would not be a title.
http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogspi/165/a165d011.htm#driver
The thing to do now is look up the cemetery transcripts. In a previous post, I gave you the link to the Archives of Ontario. You can check and see if they have the transcriptions for these 2 cemeteries available on microfilm. If so, you may be able to access them through interlibrary loan. Also, the transcripts should be available in printed form in the local library. I would suggest that you contact the Oakville or Toronto library to see if a librarian would look these up for you and tell you about the Drivers in these 2 cemeteries. Hopefully, they are yours. See the links I posted earlier.
Perhaps there is someone on Rootschat who has access to the Oakville library. If nobody can look this up for you/the librarians won't do a search/you are unable to access the microfilm records, I could check for you in a few weeks. I am going to be in downtown Toronto right next to the Reference Library and I can see if they have the relevent transcripts. I expect they do :). They have quite a large collection of Ontario Cemetery transcripts.
RK :)
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Hello There:
A lot of my family come from Oakville and I see you have lots of web sites to check. I found the Oakville Library to be very helpful - they respond to email querries really fast. One other email address I have is for the Cemetery Clerk for Oakville but I probably shouldn't post that here in such a public forum. If you can't find the death date for your Driver family just post a reply and I will contact the Cemetery Clerk for you. Since the death is so recent (in ancestry terms anyway) you may have to provide proof that you are related to this person before they will release any information.
Let me know if I can help...
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Thank you Fruitsnuts - still waiting to hear from library and thank you for your offer, will keep you posted.
M
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Hi Martha,
Perhaps if you contacted the local Genealogy Society and explained that you are over seas and have exhausted the online data searches, they may be able to help out.
Here is the link for the Halton-Peel branch. I noticed that there is a link for "Research Queries" about half way down the page. You will be looking in Halton:
http://www.halinet.on.ca/sigs/ogshp/
Let them know the years you think they died. As it is recent in genealogy terms, this rules out many of the cemeteries. Trafalgar Lawn Cemetery is the largest most active cemetery for recent burials but you never know. These individuals may have purchased their plot long before the cemetery was "Sold Out".
I hope that helps.
Nancy
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Try this site:
http://news.halinet.on.ca/search
It took me a bit to get used to it. It has everything on line - cemeteries, articles, etc.
The base of Halinet is in Milton, close to Oakville.
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I have looked in Ontario cemetery finding aid. Did not find the forenames, and the Drivers that were buried were not in HAlton.
Also the Halton website. There was a marriage announcement.
I could not make out the names or dates - but they were earlier than I think you were looking.
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Thank you everyone.
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One last hope!
http://ocfa.islandnet.com/
The url is for the Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid
You could nust enter the last name and see if any names are recognized. If you get a group of Drivers, you might find they are buried elsewhere
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Hi,
I hope you have had some luck with your searches.
I found the two "Driver" references from the OGS transcripts at the Toronto Reference Library. Most of the transcripts there are current as of the mid 1980s - so earlier than you were hoping. I looked in the indexes of the Trafalgar Township transcripts in the Toronto library Halton County collection - no Drivers. (I believe Trafalgar Twp is where Oakville is located)
However, the Oakville library may have more recent versions of the transcripts. I would suggest that you contact the OGS (I am sure there is a link somewhere on this thread) and see how recent their transcripts are. Either of these sources may have more up to date cemetery records.
Here are the two that you located and wondered about:
Laurel Hill, Bolton, Albion (current to 1986)
Peter Mitchell Dec 27 1863 - Sept 11 1946 and his wife Maggie DRIVER Jan 8 1873-June 27 1944.
Brampton Public
Lawrence DRIVER 1920-1979, beloved husband of Joyce Miller (no dates - so she was likely alive as of 1986)
RK
P.S. Have you tried this site:
http://www.trafalgartownshiphistory.ca/trafalgartwp.html