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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Ebenezer White - where are you?
« on: Thursday 23 October 08 20:31 BST (UK)  »
We have no idea at this stage who the nurse was and indeed we did not even know he had married Jessie Shuttleworth before he left England.  So if he did marry again in Canada it would have been illegal..
....but maybe that is why he left?  who knows

thanks again.

Heather



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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Ebenezer White - where are you?
« on: Thursday 23 October 08 07:58 BST (UK)  »
Thank you everyone for your help
The old record was on Ancestry and when I tried to click into it it said that the user was no longer a member of Ancestry and they would send a message to see if the member wanted to rejoin.  It simply said Ontario marriage in 1916 and death on 22nd July 1950.  It may not have been the same person.

I found it highly complicated to try and look on the directories - can anyone give me a clue how to do it?


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Occupation Interests / Re: Do you have corkcutter ancestors?
« on: Wednesday 22 October 08 12:25 BST (UK)  »
Jopseph Shuttleworth  (1873) and his father Joseph Watts Shuttleworth (1842) and his mother Elizabeth Shuttleworth (1842) were all cork cutters.  They both were born in Devonport Devon were listed there (1861 census) as cork cutters

and then they all moved to London, Bow to carry on as cork cutters.

Can anyone tell me why they might have moved?

Thanks

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Ebenezer White - where are you?
« on: Wednesday 22 October 08 11:44 BST (UK)  »
I forgot to say that he was a cabinet maker/journeyman when he left England. In case that helps?

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Canada Lookup Request / Ebenezer White - where are you?
« on: Wednesday 22 October 08 11:41 BST (UK)  »
Ebenezer White was born on 6th April 1888 in Bethnal Green London.  His parents were Charles and Belinda White (nee Wilkes) and his brothers were Charles, Herbert and Percy.  He had a sister Rosina. He appears on the 1901 UK census.

He married Jessie Florence Shuttleworth (nee Evans - widow) on 31st May 1914 and had my grandad Alfred White on 30th April 1915.

We know he left them both in 1916 to travel to Canada with his girlfriend who was a nurse.   He wrote to my Grandad (Alfred White) in about 1923 to say he had made a new life in either Toronto Canada or Ontario.

We lost all trace of him and my Grandad spent his life looking for him.

Can anyone help me find him? 
I found and old record once on the internet but no back up to say he died on 22nd July 1950 in Ontario.  But have found no record since.

Did he change his name?  Does any Canada family know his real name was Ebenezer? 

Please please help me I am desperate.  My dad (Robert White son of Alfred White) would dearly like to find his relatives in Canada.

THanks anyone who even gives me a clue.

Heather


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