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Somerset / Re: Reverend George Jekyll
« on: Tuesday 23 February 16 17:28 GMT (UK)  »
Have just spoken to Nadine Dodge. Several very old photos were found in the church including the George Jekyll picture. However, as George Jekyll died in 1843 there is a question mark over the picture. Is it really a photo of the man himself or is it a photo of a portrait? I'm no expert on early photography so don't if it's an actual photo from 1843 - doesn't sound likely to me but others may know better! ND is making enquiries for me!

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Somerset / Re: Reverend George Jekyll
« on: Tuesday 23 February 16 17:03 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks v. much for those further thoughts. Have contacted the West Coker village website but no joy so far!

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Somerset / Re: Reverend George Jekyll
« on: Tuesday 23 February 16 16:53 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you very much. Kind. I have the book and have written to a D Shorey but no reply so far. I'll see if I can find Michael and Nadine Dodge.

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Somerset / Reverend George Jekyll
« on: Tuesday 23 February 16 16:15 GMT (UK)  »
The Reverend George Jekyll was rector at West Coker parish church, Somerset during the first part of the 19th century.

At page 100 of his very nice book, "The Book of West Coker" the author, David Shorey, includes a portrait of George Jekyll. I'd like to know where the portrait is. Can anyone help please?

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Canada / Re: Alfred Thomas Wilson (ATW)
« on: Tuesday 29 April 14 19:06 BST (UK)  »
The latest information to come in from RootsChat has enabled me to speak this afternoon to a descendant of the Moore family in Montreal.

She is 90 years old and very willing to do all she can to help. It seems the Moore line is close to extinction! I have agreed to write to her setting things out so that she can consider how best to help. She knows of Kathleen Wilson's place of burial in Montreal and has a photograph of her. As I feared she knows nothing of Alfred Thomas Wilson but I'm truly delighted that part of the mystery will shortly be solved.

My thanks to the many people who have contributed to this research without which there could not have been such an exciting outcome.

Thanks and good wishes,

Geoff

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Canada / Re: Alfred Thomas Wilson (ATW)
« on: Monday 28 April 14 08:35 BST (UK)  »
Wonderful replies, thank you.

There's quite a lot to follow up but it should now prove possible to find living descendants of this family. I will post progress!

Geoff

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Canada / Re: Alfred Thomas Wilson (ATW)
« on: Saturday 26 April 14 14:24 BST (UK)  »
There has been a little bit of movement on the mystery of what became of Alfred Thomas Wilson senior and his wife Kathleen.

The WWI Service Record remains inconclusive but cannot yet be ruled out. I have, therefore, taken an interest in the family story that Kathleen and ATW senior apparently separated after which Kathleen is thought to have made a new life for herself with George Moore. Could descendants of that couple (thought to be three children) solve the riddle?

The Grandson of ATW believes his own father, ATW junior, attended the funeral of his mother, Kathleen, in Montreal in the early 1960s. This prompted me to look further for the couple in the 1921 census. There is an entry for KATHELEEN MORE, born 1889 living with "husband" George More at 55 Canning in Quebec. Not everything fits but I note she states she is RC which is certainly correct.

I think this is a promising lead. Is there anyone out there who can help a mere Englishman to take this forward please? Is there an easy way to find Kathleen's death and perhaps next of kin?

I'd be most grateful for any help with this.

Geoff

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Canada / Re: Alfred Thomas Wilson (ATW)
« on: Wednesday 09 April 14 11:09 BST (UK)  »
I'm very grateful for all the interest in this puzzle.

Thanks, PB, for the thoughts on ATW's occupation. Certainly that would tie in with "labourer" as we see elsewhere.

The correction carried out to Kathleen's entry in the 1911 passenger list could be "widow"; it might even be "wife" or indeed "single".

Certainly the 1911 UK census entry is Manchester not Belfast. It's Kathleen who signs the completed census form surely indicating ATW was not present on census night. So, was he in Canada, or on his way there, or dead? I've had a look at the UK death indexes 1910 plus or minus five years for Manchester but see no entry.

The Canadian Attestation Paper and Service record show that particular AW to have been in the army before (or so it says). Alas, there is no surviving Service Record for him over here in the UK.

All in all, this is a tough nut to crack. I'll pursue the new Manchester addresses and await the return from holiday of ATW's grandson to see if he might just have a clue that has been overlooked. He has told me that his own father (ATW junior) left home when he was 14; surely he must know just a little bit more? I can but hope. If ATW junior left home when he was 14 it may well explain how difficult it is to spot him and his mother in the 1921 census.

Unhappily the mysteries of the past cannot always be unravelled! I'm not quite ready to give in just yet!

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Canada / Re: Alfred Thomas Wilson (ATW)
« on: Tuesday 08 April 14 17:08 BST (UK)  »
I have had a preliminary look at ATW senior's Service Record; it neither rules him in nor out as the husband of Kathleen Wilson from whom he may have been estranged.

It is clear he is the same man that died in Vancouver in 1953 and appears to have been living there at the outbreak of WWI. He can be found at 1247 Homer Street, Vancouver in 1921 and this address appears in the Service Record; I cannot make out his occupation though the index gives "hostina keeper". There is no sign of a Kathleen Wilson nor of ATW junior in Vancouver.

The Service Record provides two new addresses in Manchester to try: 4 Shakespeare Row, Stockport Rd, Ardwick, and 12 Thorpe Street, Aspley Grove, off Stockport Rd, Ardwick. Neither is familiar to me but I will check them out.

There is a reference to Mrs Mary A Wilson, mother, and also to the dependant sailing to Canada apparently in 1919. I can't see her in the sailings at the moment.

This remains tantalising!

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