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« on: Tuesday 11 October 11 08:29 BST (UK) »
I am trying to find out about the family of the brother of my grandfather who was killed in WW1.
He is remembered on the Merritton cenotaph but his wife seems to have moved to Port Dalhousie when he enlisted. They could well have had children in Merritton.
He is John Stewart, born Edinburgh, 25/06/1879 and married to Isabella Frew White born Dalziel, Motherwell, 01/10/1878. Parents of John were John Stewart and Margaret Hendry and parents of Isabella were James White and Elizabeth Rowley. They were married in Edinburgh on 1909 and emigrated to Canada where they became Canadian citizens.
John was killed in Belgium, dying of wounds on 13/04/1916, his army papers give him as a Canadian, bricklayer, Presbyterian, red hair, married. Private, No. 406941, 1st Btn, Canadian Infantry (CEF). His burial place is also listed.
He had a sister who I know lived in Kingston, Ontario for a time she was also Isabella b. Edinburgh 1881 and married to Peter Campbell with an adopted girl Muriel, I have nothing else on them.
Would really like to connect with living relatives if possible and am more than willing to do some Scottish research in exchange for a Canadian looking into my relatives, will be going up to Edinburgh in the next week so please get in touch ASAP.
My grandfather Hendry the brother of the above John was killed in the Somme a few months after John's death so I am afraid there was actually no knowledge of John in my family, he only came to light while researching in Edinburgh during the last twenty years and the Canadian information is a week old.
Alan (Dumfries, Scotland)