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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Topic started by: ivorjbody on Sunday 24 June 12 19:57 BST (UK)
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Hello. I have found out almost everything about my family the Body's in England since 1700 every house, farm, employees, servants etc. Everything about my my uncle Fred Body married to Bella Alvinia Whiteley born Goderich Canada. My Grandparents James Alfred Body and Alice Mary Indcox who lived in Winnipeg for about 10 years and had Fred and my auntie mabel there. I cannot find out anything about Alfred their son and a later daughter. Can anyone help please?
ivor
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Hi Ivor
Can you give us an idea of time frames? Do you have birth dates / years for James Alfred Body, his wife Alice May Indcox, & their children Fred & Mabel?
Is it specifically info re the children (Al)Fred & Mabel that you're seeking?
Might you have an idea of when they lived in Winnipeg?
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Hi again Ivor
I think I found your tree on *A*. What a nice job you've done with all the pictures & stories.
Can you please clarify what/who you're asking us to search for?
According to your info, Fred is 71, an accountant, sailing for London in 1959. He plans to stay 4 months, is married and has 2 children (who are not traveling with him).
Sister Mabel died in Kent in 1960 at age 75. She does not appear to have married.
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This may help with people looking at this thread
http://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/Query.php
birth
Body, Mable
b. 26/09/1885, Winnipeg
mother-Alice A Indcox
Reg# 1885-004595
Body, Fred
b. 12/11/1887, Winnipeg
Registration date is 26/11/1926
Reg#1887-10911643
this doesn't make sense though - mother's name is Wittershane England which sounds more like a place than a persons name. This also looks like a late registration of birth.
marriage
Fred Body
Bella Alvina Whitely
02/02/1915, Brandon
I am confused as to what information ivor is looking for.
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As of 1937, I have found newspaper archives, involving sports, placing Fred Body in Regina, SK.
Will keep looking....
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Fred (12.11.87) and Bella A. (5.11.90) Body were both still living in 1959 when they travelled on the Empress of Britain from Montreal to Liverpool arriving 12 May 1959. Fred was an accountant and they were planning to viist for 4 months. Destination address was 28 Calais Gate Cormont Rd. London. Unfortunately their return passage to Canada falls under privacy laws (after 1935). If you had access to that list it would probably have shown their current address in Canada.
Debbie
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Given the 1937 Regina, Sask info, you might want to use the Saskatchewan white pages to track down the Body surname. There aren't very many of them.
http://www.whitepages.ca/name/Body/SK
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I now have an excerpt from a 10/29/1943 Winnipeg Free Press article:
"Among them were Fred Body, a former member, who has been located in Alaska for the past few years..."
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Thank you all for your great replies. I have all the information on my grandparents in Winnipeg and Fred and Bella and their addresses 1904 and 1916. Firstly 274 Hargrave street where Fred alone lived ( Shame I do not know the numbering in this postcard) and 141 Evanson Street which is on maps.google.com. Fred and Mabel were born in the Winnipeg hospital, but cannot find any photos, as to where the maternity ward would have been. Fred and Mabel prior to 1904 had returned to Brighton/Hove with their parents. Mabel stayed, but Fred returned to Winnipeg when the family broke up.
I am looking for Alfred and Florence who were born after Fred and Bella's marriage in 1915 as I may have some cousins, if they married.
Thank you all again for your help. Will keep looking?
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Sorry missed something off. It is Wittersham. It was a large farm and the house was called Wittersham Farm House and then renamed and is still Wittersham Court, but now houses on the farm land. Held by the Body's until 1949 after Colonel John Body's wife (who defeated the Turks and entered Baghdad in 1917) left it to a cousin who sold it almost immediately.
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I found another article from the 60s that places him in Fairbanks, Alaska. When you do a present day search, one lady's name in Fairbanks seems to come up associated with them. Surname is Body... first name is a common Royal and Biblical name. ;)
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Nicely done DitzKnitz - & belated welcome to RootsChat. :)
Thanks for the photos ivor. You have a fascinating family.
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Thank you very much RedMystic . . . I am a self-confessed Geneaology Junkie. I will be starting my third year in University, pursuing a double major in History and Native Studies. I have perused and obsessed over so many databases and documents, that it would be a shame not to help others by looking over my own 'beaten paths'. Hopefully, one day soon, I will also a History Graduate in addition to a Genealogy Junkie. LOL
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I do not know if any of you are Canadians , but must mention this. Around about 1904 Fred returned to Winnipeg a Younger brother to Santa Barbara USA and a third Harold was transferred from the Montreal Bank to Montreal. He is in the Montreal bank Book of the dead, which is online for anyone to look at. Most have photos. I also got a lovely email from the bank about him. He signed on for Princess Patricia's Canadian volunteer force in 1916. Was badly injured in France and after a few weeks hospitalization in England was sent back to France and was killed 3 days later at Mount Sorrell at Ypes 1916. Have many photos of the terrible conditions . I do not think anybody could understand what these many thousand of Canadians who lost their lives went through. This also applies to all the armies on the front line in the first world war. What a waste and what for?? i agree it is good these things can be discussed on rootschat. I found out about 10 months ago that my father was shot by the IRA at North Wall Dublin in 1921 none of us knew, expect mum did? Who told me and gave me details a grandson of one of the attackers on the day.