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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Topic started by: the pretender on Wednesday 25 January 12 09:44 GMT (UK)
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Looking for a marriage of May H Stewart probably in Port Dalhousie, Ontario.
Last record of her is in the Port Dalhousie public school records in 1917 as M Stewart, born Scotland 1904, mother Isabella Stewart, Main Street, Port Dalhousie. Her mother is know to have been in Port Dalhousie in 1932 so suggests May would have got married in the area.
Her family is listed on the 1911 census in Thorlold, Ontario under STWART with the E missing. John M Stewart is given as her father though she was born four or five years before her parents were married. So many possibilities, Her father was married twice, her mother married twice, adopted, conceived before her father went to Canada on his own before coming back to marry her mum and bring them both to Canada in 1911, he killed in WW1, 1916 (I have all info).
He came to Canada in 1910, marriage 1909. Still think she would marry under the Stewart name though. If anyone has any knowledge of her I would love to hear from them.
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The index to Ontario marriages is only publicly available to 1928 for privacy reasons so if she married after this currently available year she her marriage will not yet be available. A new year is added annually. Simillar rules apply to the records in the other provinces in Canada as well (there is no national index).
I didn't see s suitable marriage in the currently available index under Stewart or Stuart.
You might try googling the Dalhousie Public Library to ask the Librarian if there might be a newspaper report of the event. Would probably be a bit difficult without at least an approximate date, however.
The 1921 Canada census is expected to be released next year so this may provide you with more info about her whereabouts.
Polarbear
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There really isn't anything in Port Dalhousie that would help you it is all part of St. Catherines. I suspect you are the chap who made the post on CGW website.
http://www.stcatharines.library.on.ca/content/bmd you can email them as well.
Don
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Thank you both for your reply.
I do off course want to hear from people who may have information on May Stewart and her family but another reason I post on this site is it is so good on a search for the individual I am looking for information on and I live in hope that her/their living relatives will do a search on her and connect with me enabling us to share information.
Thanks again to both of you, I did not know the 1921 census was out next year nor the Port Dalhousie library option.
_Alan