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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Davedrave on Sunday 23 February 25 09:49 GMT (UK)
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I would aprreciate help with George Humphreys. He married Hetty Light in Toronto in 1932. According to the record, he was aged 23, and born in England. (Hetty was born in Ontario of English parentage. I have lots of info about her.)
The record states that George’s father was Alfred Humphreys, and his mother’s maiden name was Emily Owens. I can see an Emily Humphreys in 1911 in Church Stretton, who is married, and has a son George, whose age agrees. Also, suggestively, she has a son, Alfred. However, her husband was not present for the census.
I don’t know when George immigrated to Canada.
Dave
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https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp
Shows a birth for George Humphreys with mother Owen.
Free BMD shows a marriage - 1903 Llanwrst
Alfred Humphreys and Emily Owen
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George Humphreys, 22, born England, in Toronto in the 1931 Canada census.
Parents Alfred and Emily.
With link to image
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6RS5-JCQN
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The Humphreys arrived in Canada in 1912 on the Tunisian
Image
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-X9GP-V3
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Free BMD shows a marriage - 1903 Llanwrst
Alfred Humphreys and Emily Owen
marriage at Ysbyty Ifan on 21 Mar 1903, his father John a labourer, hers was James a farmer
Alfred's occupation was a forester
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Many thanks for all your help. It would seem that both George and Hetty’s families emigrated around the same time, but Hetty was brought to England very soon afterwards, where her father died in 1920, and her mother took her back to Canada shortly afterwards.
Dave :)