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Canada / Re: Dorothy Keating sent to Canada 1894 aged 6
« on: Monday 28 July 25 15:09 BST (UK)  »
A sad tale indeed.

I have not been able to find any trace of Dorothy after her arrival in Montreal. I suspect that given her age she might have been adopted into a family there and had her surname changed.

Anyway, food for thought.
PB

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Williams Ontario 1930s
« on: Friday 18 July 25 00:45 BST (UK)  »
Doesn’t find Robert outright but…..

The 1939 Register has an Ellen E Bennett widow b. 25 Dec 1890 living in Wellington Somerset who appears to have 2 redacted people living with her. Assuming she might be your Ethel, I wonder if one might of the redacted people might be Robert? Did Robert have any siblings?

Ellen Ethel Bennett of Wellington Somerset died in 1964. There is an Administration to Irene Ethel Williams widow.

Anyway, food for thought.
PB

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Canada / Re: albert charles edward fitzjohn
« on: Friday 11 July 25 15:05 BST (UK)  »
About the voters list…

The one with the Fitzjohn family is the finally revised urban list of electors for polling division No. 1, St John’s, Woodstock, of the electoral district of Oxford. It is dated 01 June 1945. The election was apparently the 11th of June that year. So a marriage would be after 1st June.

The Ontario Archives currently has marriage records up to 1943 I think. A new year is added annually. Digitization follows and I believe is currently up to 1942 or soon will be.

PB

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Canada / Re: albert charles edward fitzjohn
« on: Friday 11 July 25 01:04 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the extra info about the 1943 marriage of Albert Fitzjohn and Kathleen Winters, Sandra. I hadn’t thought to look at the 1939 Register. Settles that then….not the Albert from Canada.

So we have…

Albert Jr. and family in Woodstock in 1940 and 1945 Voters Lists.
Mrs. K. Schlimme Widow in Woodstock in the 1945 Voters List. Hubby Morris died in 1942. S
We know she was Kathleen Nicholls from her sister’s obit and she lived in Woodstock.
Edward and Kathleen Fitzjohn in Woodstock in Voters Lists going forward. Name change?
Deaths for Edward and Kathleen on Findagrave. Buried in Woodstock.

The only thing missing here really is a marriage record for Edward and Kathleen to connect this Edward to the Albert Charles Edward but this won’t be public yet due to privacy laws. Are they one and the same? My sense is that the circumstantial evidence points to them perhaps being the same man. But I would also advise a wee bit of caution and to keep looking for more info to help connect the dots. New info is always coming on line.

PB

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Canada / Re: albert charles edward fitzjohn
« on: Thursday 10 July 25 17:25 BST (UK)  »
Hi again,
As I mentioned above, you can find Albert with his parents and sister Winnifred in the 1945 Voters List. They are living in Woodstock Ontario and young Albert appears to be in the armed forces as he is noted to be On Active Service.

The four of them are in Woodstock together in the 1940 Voters List as well.

Unfortunately, if he stayed in Ontario, privacy laws are going to hamper the search for a marriage or death record for Albert, or any children. Births are protected for 100 years, marriages for 80 years, and deaths for 70 years if I remember correctly. You would need something like a newspaper notice or obit for the time period in question.

Having said that, where Albert seems to disappear from the Woodstock Voters Lists there is an Edward Fitzjohn with a wife Kathleen in the Woodstock Voters Lists going forward. Findagrave has his 1992 death and burial in Woodstock with birth year of 1913 but no other info. So there is no apparent way to know if this is Albert using Edward instead but food for thought.

If Albert was overseas with the armed forces, it is possible that he married in England during the war. FreeBMD has a possible marriage in 1943 but you would need to purchase the cert to see if the groom is your Albert.

PB

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Canada / Re: albert charles edward fitzjohn
« on: Wednesday 09 July 25 01:21 BST (UK)  »
Albert is proving to be rather elusive but here are a few bits.

Albert crossed the border to the USA 19 Dec 1928 accompanied by his mother Rose. He was going to his father in Detroit Michigan and was planning to reside there. Image on Ancestry if you have access.

Albert and Rose crossed the border from the USA to Ontario in March 1932. They indicated they had been in Canada before from 1912 to 1923. Just the 2 of them so I wonder if young Albert remained in the States at this time? If they had been in the US since 1923 I would expect them to be on the 1930 US census but haven’t been able to find them yet. Their Ontario destination was to their daughter Ivy in Woodstock Ontario. It looks like they are planning to stay in Canada. Image on Ancestry.

Next actual sighting of Albert is a 1945 Canada Voters List for Woodstock Ontario. We have…
Albert Fitzjohn Laborer
Mrs Albert Fitzjohn
Miss Winnifred Fitzjohn Operator
Albert Fitzjohn On Active Service (so looks like he joined up in WW2)
This image also on Ancestry.

PB

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Rejected by US Authorities in 1913
« on: Saturday 21 June 25 12:38 BST (UK)  »
I believe that would indicate they planned to go on to Budapest at the time of the sailing.

PB

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Rejected by US Authorities in 191S
« on: Friday 20 June 25 23:24 BST (UK)  »
Personally, I don’t think your Sieradski family was rejected by the USA?  I believe it would be the 2 passengers found at the end of the passenger list below the statement that reads rejected by US authorities?

About the Sieradskis….

Under the column on the passenger list that asks country of which citizen or subject it looks like Austria.
Under the next column that asks country to which through or return tickets are held it looks like they indicate Budapest.
Under country of last permanent residence they have USA.
They indicate that final destination is a foreign + (word I can’t read).

So to me it looks like they had spent some time in the USA? Anyway, food for thought.

I haven’t been able to find them on a USA-bound passenger list.

PB

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: George Arthur Riley 7 Feb 1910 Perth, Ontario
« on: Saturday 14 June 25 17:15 BST (UK)  »
Some food for thought…

1912 passenger arrivals (image on ancestry).

Jeanie Allison 25 married, destiation London Ontario, going to husband (no name given but has possible occupation an Iron + something worker?), Presbyterian.
And Helen age 2 - doesn’t match ages given later but…
The two arrived St John New Brunswick 06 Feb 1912 which would have given Jeanie just about enough time to travel to London by train to marry David Allison on the 9th of Feb as a single woman.

This looks like David in the 1911 census indexed as Albinson (courtesy of Library and Archives Canada). He is living with his brother Alexander and all are apparently living with Alexander’s in-laws. Alexander’s marriage cert (1909 Ontario) has his name as Allison and parents appear to match those of David in his later marriage.

The key word here is that David is working in a foundry in 1911 which would potentially match the iron + something stated on the above passenger list.

https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?id=e002001470&app=census1911&op=img

So, did Jeanie say she was married to make it easier for her to come to Canada? Or is this someone else? Anyway, food for thought.

PB

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