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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Topic started by: garrvian on Sunday 04 August 13 10:36 BST (UK)
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Hello Chatters,
Jimmy came to Australia in the 1920s and lost his paperwork on the docks, so we have nothing in that regard.
Would like to find details of his birth/baptism and at least his WWI service. Apparently was wounded, had a plate inserted in his skull and came to Aust not long after the war. His parents thought to have died of the Spanish Flu.
Any help gratefully appreciated.
garrvian
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Followup
His parents were James Briarley and Kathleen Fitzgerald
gv
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http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/001042-100.01-e.php
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/navyledgersheet/001102-100.01-e.php
- no hits for "Briarley", some for Brierley but nobody that fits your man.
I'm not seeing anyone that could be them on the Canadian census either.
Do you have his WWII records? According to Australia Recordsearch he signed up as James Fitzgerald Briarley (giving dob as 29 Apr 1902 Quebec ).
Did his parents' names come from his marriage certificate, death certificate, or both?
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The parents names have come from marriage and death certs.
The dob for WWII service is understood to have been advanced in order to fit in with age criteria, so 1898 is correct.
Family knowledge is that Jimmy's place of birth was Three Rivers.
gv
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The seeming lack of info tying in with the details that we know, suggests all may not be as straightforward as we think.
Possibly the loss of documents on the docks in Melbourne wasn't accidental and there is some mystery to unravel.
Ancestry has a record of a Kathleen Fitzgerald arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia, however I can't access the record to see if it could fit. If it could, the possibility of her marriage to someone of a different name and subsequent birth of a male child at Three Rivers in 1898 is a slim possibility. Does that seem feasible?
gv