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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Canada Lookup Request => Topic started by: axecalibre on Saturday 08 October 11 12:38 BST (UK)
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Help, please
Wonder if someone could assist with information
I am looking for information on the death certificates of
Arthur LLewelyn E Meredith,
born 8th Jan 1875 in England, died Vancouver 1st July 1944
and
I believe he had a daughter Wendy Desiree Alymer Meredith
born 1915 died 2006,
I think Wendy married to Cy Bromley (who died 2010) between 1940-1950
and any information on
Joan Odette Foulis Meredith b 1907, married William Archibald McKinnon
Any information I would be grateful
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www,familysearch.org
go to the section including Canada, then to British Columbia deaths and marriages
has deaths for
Arthur Llewellyn Edward Meredith
Joan Odette Warner
22 May 1906 - 10 May 1975
William Archibald McKinnon
d. 16 Oct 1953
marriage of
Joan Odette Foulis Meredith
22 Sept 1928
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Thank you for that Valerie, I had explored FS in Canada and USA for traces and found the deaths of Arthur LLewllyn Meredith and William McKinnon but had not thought to look for a different surname for Joan Odette, looks as if she remarried after death of William.
I was hoping someone could get sight of the death certificates for details of Wendy or even point me in the direction so that I could purchase copies
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I went to the obituary archives at the Vancouver sun and found the obituary for Cyril "Cy" Bromley
He died Dec 4, 2010 and it appears that Wendy died 2006 or before
His son is and grandchildren are listed in the obituary. I have saved the site in case you can't access it.
http://classifieds.canada.com/vancouver/archives/results.aspx?
or do an internet search for Vancouver obituary archives and the site should come up. You will probably be able to find the obit for Wendy but you will need to scroll through all the pages.
If you think you want to try to track down a living relative, go to the online directory and search for M, D, or S Bromley
www.canada411.ca
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I just tried using the site that I posted and it doesn't seem to work so do an internet search for
Vancouver Sun Obituary Archives and the site should come up.
Val
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Wendy A.D.M. Bromley (Meredith) obituary is in the Times Colonist September 21, 2006
b. July 17, 1915, d. Sept. 15, 2006
It is a pay site so I would go to the Vancouver Public Library to see if they can access the obituary for you.
Hope this helps.
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Oh Valerie, so many thanks.
Have found a bit of this Obit but not in entirety. Am in UK which is why have tried to enlist help of Rootschatters. I hesitate to contact living relatives. Am trying to find names of Wendy Bromley nee Meredith's parents
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the parents of Joan Odette Meredith are
Arthur Llewellyn Edward Meredith and Sarah Muriel Jessie Aylmer Lewis
On Arthur's death registration, he is listed as widow but I haven't been able to find a death registration for Sarah Muriel Jessie aylmer Lewis.
On Joan's death registration, it states she was born in Toronto Ontario. I looked at the records that are available for Ontario and couldn't find a birth registration for Wendy as it only goes to 1912 or a marriage for Arthur and Sarah. Do you think they married in Canada or England.
I also checked the 1901 and 1911 census for both Ontario and BC and then the rest of Canada and couldn't find them on the census.
On Arthur's death registration, his parents are listed as John Meredith and Mary Maltby.
With Wendy having Aylmer as one of her middle names, I would assume that her and Joan have the same mother.
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free bmd has marriage of
Arthur Llewelyn E. Meredith
Sarah Muriel J A Lewis
1st quarter March, 1905 Oswestry vol 6a page 991
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Thank you Valerie, yes Arthur and Sarah married in UK and Sarah died in UK. Sarah used her second name of Muriel which caused confusion.
It appears that sarah's brother Thomas Frederick Alymer Lewis also came to Canada and fought in 1st WW, don't know what happened to him....... There are no more records in the UK for him......
Yes I agree we should presume that Wendy was the daughter of Sarah and Arthur. My enquiry was to check the fact.
They are recorded in 1910 US Census in Michigan along with daughter Joan born 1906, Joan married McKinnon, then Warner, died 1975 in Canada.
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Thomas Frederick Aylmer Lewis
Regimental # 349396
dob 2 Nov 1897
enlisted 30 Sep 1916, Kingston Ontario
residence Glower Lodge, Port Credit Ontario
student
gives his mother Mary Lewis as his next of kin with address in Oswestry
You can view the attestation papers on line and also order his complete military file from Library and Archives Canada which may give you lots of information. The file will include pay allotments, medical info, battation info, when he arrived back in Canada and where he was going on return to Canada. Sometimes death info is also in the file.
I did check the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and he wasn't listed among the dead.
www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/index-e.html
www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/001042-119.01-e.php?
hopefully this link will get you directly to his attestation papers.
Val
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Greetings!
I hope that you are still out there and able to reply.
I am one of Wendy's only two grandchildren. She passed away 13.5 years ago. Sadly, her only child, my dad, also passed away nearly four years ago. The shuffle which follows people's passing leaves me without ready access to her death certificate.
Perhaps if you can tell me more about who you are and your interest in my grandma, I can provide more info?
On this end, I'm trying to learn more about her family. (Sadly, to her chagrin, I paid most attention to the family she married into.) Would you be able to tell me what you know? I'd be grateful to know more about my roots...
Thank you in advance and hope to hear from you...or any other relatives/roots-helpers! :D
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Good morning.
My grandfather Hubert Spence-Thomas married Jean Robertson Foulis (b1862) who on marriage changed her name to Ruby and knocked 10 years off her age! Jean R Foulis's sister was Mary (Marie) Margaret Foulis born 1855 in Edinburgh Scotland. It was a large family, father Robert Foulis was a teacher then Headmaster but they fell on hard times. Marie's brother was a doctor and I guess she met her husband William Alma Aylmer Lewis in Northumberland where he was working. They married in 1878, had three children Georgina Emily Mary Aylmer Lewis 1879, Sarah Muriel Jessie Aylmer Lewis in 1880 and Rose Aylmer Lewis in 1881. Marie died 1884 and her husband married again in 1886 and went on to have more children.
Not sure about the turning away from the door, marriage to a doctor was security, father (Robert Foulis) by this time had left the family and was living in New Zealand. Both Georgina and Sarah married in 1903 and 1905 and went to live in Canada.
For more information on the Foulis/Aylmer Lewis families suggest you go back over the postings I have made in Rootschat under axecalibre, would love to know more stories of Meredith family. A sister Mary Anne (Marianne) born 1864 married Havilland le Mesurier Chepmell of Ottawa Canada, later lived in Ontario, they had six daughters and a son Bruce. Also another sister Annie (Nan) Sturrock Foulis came out to Buffalo via Ellis island in 1893, wonder if she made contact with her family??
I hope all this makes sense!! The Foulis children's names were all very similar and they had nicknames, I found 15 registered, several who died in childhood. A hard life!
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Hello!
My deepest apologies for such a lengthy pause on my part. I deeply appreciate you taking the time and care to detail what you knew of my great-grandmother's mother, Marie Foulis, and her father, Dr. Aylmer-Lewis.
It's interesting the contrast between your take on marrying a doctor at the time (i.e. provision of economic security) and the tale I heard growing up.
I was told that this doctor was "English." I wonder now if the perception of him as English came with the consequences of his education and the push on Scotland to assimilate to many English ideals.
In Canada, colonisation of Indigenous peoples has occurred in many forms, including through higher education (at one time, anyone pursuing higher education would be stripped of their "Indian status" and thus rights to be near their community on reserve and any treaty or Indian rights.) Historically and presently, childhood and post-secondary education away from community poses risks and challenges. It often means being in a 'foreign' cultural environment which often knows little or fails to support or respect Indigenous cultures, languages, or values...if not requiring you to change to reflect that of the mainstream. When colonisation comes up in conversation in my circles, it's often understood that the English honed their colonial practises on nations such as the Scots, Irish, and Welsh before/while digging into colonising and settling Canada....
Do you have any thoughts or ideas on that?
I find these connections interesting, especially in regards to the family dynamics and stories which can be traced to the traumas associated with colonial practices, policies and systems... Whether looking at the Indigenous lines in my family, or those of folk who settled and colonised here (but who came from cultures colonised elsewhere), similar patterns of challenge emerge...
What I know of this line is very little... what I do know is of Sarah Muriel, my grandmother, Wendy, and her sister, Joan and her son. I could privately message you these bits of info.
I wish I had more to offer you in return. I did not know of all the connections and family members you kindly told me about.
And I will gratefully look over your former posts as suggested!
Wishing you all the best for 2020 :)
Thank you again for your help... I'm very grateful!
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Joan McKinnon nee Foulis (became Warner by her second husband) was my grandmother on my father's side. I believe I met Aunt Wendy and Uncle Cy when they came to visit us in Vancouver Canada in the 1970's.
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Hello!
@Mckinnon: Today I was JUST sharing with someone the tiny bit of info I knew about your father, Joan’s son.
Been missing my grandma, Wendy, and pulled out pictures. I have several that include Joan.
If you are out there, good relative, and wish to connect further about this and any other family info, please reach out. I really want to know more about my Scottish and Welsh roots (which we have through our Grandmas Joan and Wendy).
Best wishes!