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Canada Lookup Requests Completed / Re: Burgess, Bala, Ontario 1901 onwards - Completed but still ongoing
« on: Thursday 23 July 09 18:19 BST (UK)  »
 ;D ;D ;D Aquarius. Apparently Thomas Jr. and Isabella kept their birthdays a secret from their children.

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Canada Lookup Requests Completed / Re: Burgess, Bala, Ontario 1901 onwards - Completed but still ongoing
« on: Thursday 23 July 09 17:42 BST (UK)  »
...and now we've got Burgers ??? ;D A schoolteacher, a nurse, an innkeeper and...a spy! Please! ;D
Thanks Gadget

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Canada Lookup Requests Completed / Re: Burgess, Bala, Ontario 1901 onwards - Completed but still ongoing
« on: Thursday 23 July 09 17:36 BST (UK)  »
just to compare once more:

006046-94 (Kent Co) Thomas BURGESS, 28, lumber merchant, Bruce Co., Bala Simcoe Co., s/o Thomas BURGESS & Margaret McTAGART (McTaggart?), married Isabella Spence McTAVISH, 25, Bolton Ont., Toronto, d/o Peter McG. McTAVISH & Mary Ellen FALLS, witn: Hattie E. McTAVISH, Ella KETTYLS, both of Blenheim, 9 March 1894 at Blenheim

#013529-89 (York Co.) Thomas BURGESS, 23, b. Bruce Co, of Muskoka District, Lumberman, s/o Thomas & Margaret BURGESS, married Bella ELLIOTT, 20, b. Bolton, of City of Toronto, d/o Peter & Mary ELLIOTT, witnesses: John S. DICKSON of Newmarket & Margaret AMOS of Aurora, on 13 July 1889 at Aurora

In the first extract Hattie E. McT., witness could be Isabella's brother Hector's wife.



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Canada Lookup Requests Completed / Re: Burgess, Bala, Ontario 1901 onwards - Completed but still ongoing
« on: Thursday 23 July 09 17:25 BST (UK)  »
I've always thought of Isabella Spence (b. 10 Feb. 1869 - d. Jan. 1921) as Isabella Spence McTavish. I don't know where she was born although Peel County is a guess. I imagne that she died in Bala.

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Canada Lookup Requests Completed / Re: Burgess, Bala, Ontario 1901 onwards - Completed but still ongoing
« on: Thursday 23 July 09 17:10 BST (UK)  »
No mention of ELLIOT(T) in the cemetery and not in the doc that you propose. The following is from Debbie:

The grave of Isabelle Spence is linked with the Thomas Burgess born in 1866, not the father.  However there is a discrepancy between the date of birth on the headstone and census and marriage records as well as her death record. 

There is a submitted LDS file for Isabella Spence Elliott which references the above cemetery.  They have her father as Peter Elliot and spouse as Thomas Burgess and they use the 13 July 1889 wedding date in York.  The wedding references Peter and Mary Elliott.  There is a family living in Albermarle, Bruce North in 1881 consisting of Peter(47), Mary(36), Elizabeth(18) and Julia(8 ).  I haven't found them in 1871 to see if they have an Isabelle with them.

Debbie


Curiouser and curiouser

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Canada Lookup Requests Completed / Re: Burgess, Bala, Ontario 1901 onwards - Completed but still ongoing
« on: Thursday 23 July 09 15:59 BST (UK)  »
The Burgess cemetery in Bala is a private cemetery. In terms of other cemeteries - no ideas.

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Canada Lookup Requests Completed / Re: Burgess, Bala, Ontario 1901 onwards - Completed but still ongoing
« on: Thursday 23 July 09 15:36 BST (UK)  »
sorry...mixing threads

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Canada Lookup Requests Completed / Re: Burgess, Bala, Ontario 1901 onwards - Completed but still ongoing
« on: Thursday 23 July 09 15:33 BST (UK)  »
I know what you mean...Coultart, Wilkinson, Kennedy, etc. It's just that she was the only one so named among her siblings. But we've already seen similar that before. As, Debbie said, Isabella Elliott is even referenced in the Burgess cemetery in Bala. I'll keep digging. 

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Canada Lookup Requests Completed / Re: Burgess, Bala, Ontario 1901 onwards - COMPLETED WITH MANY THANKS
« on: Thursday 23 July 09 14:09 BST (UK)  »
No idea, Gadget. Beginnining to think "dirty little secret". Maybe sent over the Bala Falls in a barrel.
Apparently, Euphemia and Jennie Stewart didn't get along - to put it mildly, Wee Tom was unhappy and the boys "paid her to leave". Quick, check the closets! I
s it strange to you that Isabella's second name, Spence, is a "family" name whereas some of her siblings have "christian" second names?

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