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Title: Nova Scotia birth record
Post by: sue14 on Wednesday 03 April 24 21:09 BST (UK)
Hi

I wondered if anyone could help me with birth record for Edna Annie Growcott abt, 1914 in Nova Scotia. In particular I would like the mother and fathers name. Mother should be Alice Maud but do not know the Father.
Any help would be appreciated.

Sue
Title: Re: Nova Scotia birth record
Post by: *Sandra* on Wednesday 03 April 24 21:20 BST (UK)

Needs checked but ancestry tree says ??

Edna Annie Growcott 1914–1932
BIRTH 9 MAY 1914 - Nashwaak Bridge, York, New Brunswick, Canada
DEATH 26 APRIL 1932 -Eldridge, Sonoma County, California.

Sandra
Title: Re: Nova Scotia birth record
Post by: *Sandra* on Wednesday 03 April 24 21:26 BST (UK)
Nothing showing father so far...........


1920 census San Francisco Assembly District 24, San Francisco, California.

Alice M Growcott   49 widowed.
Ewart J Growcott   22
Harold I Growcott   18
Ida D Growcott   16
Eveline M Growcott   13
Edna A Growcott   5 born Canada. Imm 1917
Arthur Pitchford   53

1930 San Anselmo, Marin, California.

Alice M Growcatt 60 Head
Harold A Growcatt 29 Son
Evelyn M Growcatt 23
Daughter Edna A Growcatt   15   Daughter



FIND A GRAVE gives the same birth date

Edna Annie Growcott 9 May 1914 - 26 April 1932 Eldridge, Sonoma County, California.

Burial -  Mount Tamalpais Cemetery
San Rafael, Marin County, California
PLOT Section J, Lot 455

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/225076896/edna-annie-growcott

San Anselmo Herald
San Anselmo, California 
Thu, 1 Jan 1942
Page 1

https://www.newspapers.com/article/san-anselmo-herald/144700436/

No husband on any passenger list checked

Sandra

Title: Re: Nova Scotia birth record
Post by: sue14 on Wednesday 03 April 24 21:30 BST (UK)
So quick

Thanks for that sorry I did have some of those but it is her fathers name I was hoping to find

I have not located where he travelled to Canada from England.  So don't know  if he was with his wife in Canada.

Sue
Title: Re: Nova Scotia birth record
Post by: Daisypetal on Wednesday 03 April 24 21:32 BST (UK)

Hi,

I had the same idea Sandra you were posting while I was typing :)

I found this,

https://www.rootschat.com/links/01t3g/

Regards,
Daisy

Title: Re: Nova Scotia birth record
Post by: *Sandra* on Wednesday 03 April 24 21:43 BST (UK)

Hi,

I had the same idea Sandra you were posting while I was typing :)

I found this,

https://www.rootschat.com/links/01t3g/

Regards,
Daisy

Well done Daisy  :) :)
Title: Re: Nova Scotia birth record
Post by: *Sandra* on Wednesday 03 April 24 21:49 BST (UK)

Made an appointment for an eye test  :) :)
Title: Re: Nova Scotia birth record
Post by: aghadowey on Wednesday 03 April 24 22:36 BST (UK)
Is the father Harry rather than Harvey?
Title: Re: Nova Scotia birth record
Post by: *Sandra* on Wednesday 03 April 24 22:51 BST (UK)
Is the father Harry rather than Harvey?

The diabetic test result should have told me to make that opticians appointment sooner rather than later.    ::)

Thanks
Sandra
Title: Re: Nova Scotia birth record
Post by: sue14 on Thursday 04 April 24 10:10 BST (UK)
Thank you all for your replies

I now have the answer to my query

Thank you again

Sue
Title: Re: Nova Scotia birth record
Post by: polarbear on Saturday 06 April 24 15:56 BST (UK)
About Ewart and Harold….

I realize your original query has been answered but I found these records about the boys that might be of interest to you if you don’t have them. Better you have them twice than not.

The boys are in a Middlemore Home in the 1911 England census and travel to Canada later the same year as Home Children. The first 2 records indicate the family was deserted by Charles which would explain his absence from shipping records and you now, of course, know who Edna’s father was. Ewart is down as Edward on some records.

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/home-children-1869-1930/immigration-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=172047

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/home-children-1869-1930/immigration-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=172046

The next 2 records are related to their placements. Harold was sent to Nashwaak Bridge, Ewart to the same area.

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/home-children-1869-1930/immigration-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=166139

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/home-children-1869-1930/immigration-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=166143

Harold can be found here in the 1911 census (line 5). I haven’t found Ewart. He doesn’t yet seem to be with the family he was going to (or possibly wasn’t recorded).

https://central2.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?id=e001964526&app=census1911&op=img

2 more records without much info posted.

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/home-children-1869-1930/immigration-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=178559

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/home-children-1869-1930/immigration-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=178562

All records courtesy of Library and Archives Canada. It is possible to order copies of the Middlemore Home records.

Alice and the girls left England in late 1912 and apparently ended up in Nashwaak Bridge, where Edna was born, so presumably Alice was reunited with her sons at that time.

PB

EDIT: one record was inadvertantly duplicated…I have replaced it.
Title: Re: Nova Scotia birth record
Post by: sue14 on Sunday 07 April 24 19:41 BST (UK)
polarbear

Many thanks for these I had no idea of this website

I assumed father had deserted I found him in the 1921 census in Wales

Thank you again for these

Sue
Title: Re: Nova Scotia birth record
Post by: polarbear on Monday 08 April 24 15:15 BST (UK)
You are very welcome, sue14.

Ewart and Harold were very fortunate to have been reunited with their mother and sisters in Canada. That would have been a rare occurrence for a Home Child.

I don’t know if you noticed that there was another page related to Edna’s birth registration posted above by daisypetal? At the top of the record you can see that it says page 1 of 2. Click on the arrow to see the second page.

PB
Title: Re: Nova Scotia birth record
Post by: sue14 on Monday 08 April 24 19:18 BST (UK)
No I hadn't noticed that but have now checked it

Thank you again

Sue