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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Bernard Hibbert
« on: Monday 21 February 11 16:34 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Laura,

I'm so pleased to meet you too.  I'm so excited about all of the information you have about Bernard and his family and so pleased that you want to share!

I lost track of Bernard after the 1881 census in England.  I found him again in the 1906 census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta.  Then again in the 1916 census, widowed and living with James and Mary.  I have him going back to England in 1919.  I could find no information about his life in the USA.

I'm sending you a personal e-mail off line.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Bernard Hibbert
« on: Sunday 20 February 11 22:49 GMT (UK)  »
I live in British Columbia.  I still have cousins in Stettler.  I'm going to visit them in July.  I hope to get more information then about the Wilson side of the family. My Mother left my father when I was 2 and I lost track of that side of the family. One of my cousins is 80 and still very sharp with many memories of my father's (Wilson) family. I keep in touch with her by e-mail.

It's wonderful that you have Bernard's ID card showing port of entry.  I know his first wife Martha died in 1912 but I wasn't aware that he had remarried. I can't believe your Grandma remembers going to my Grandfather's funeral.

I'm having a great deal of trouble tracing James Wilson's family.  I know he was born in Ontario but I don't know where and there are several James Wilsons born in Ontario around that time.  My cousins in Stettler have pictures and other information. 




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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Bernard Hibbert
« on: Sunday 20 February 11 18:03 GMT (UK)  »
Hello LL,

I'm pleased to meet you.  Bernard Hibbert is my great grandfather.  His daughter Mary married James Wilson.  Their son Allan was my father.

James was much older than Mary and in ill health.  He died in 1936 leaving Mary with several children still at home.  Perhaps that is why Bernard at age 81 came back to Canada.

I didn't have the information about Bernard at Blaine, Washington.  Do you mind if I ask where you found that information so that I can add it to my family tree?

Albert is my great uncle.  So we are cousins:-) Do you live in Canada?

Regards,
Codd

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Grandfather's birth certificate
« on: Sunday 23 January 11 16:05 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Mort,

Thank you so much!!  I totally missed the clue that James had married Sarah in 1883.  I do know from what little my mother told me that Wm J's mother died at a young age from TB, one reason why I thought Mary A was a stepmother. I also totally lost track of Mary Ann 1881 and 1871.  I have much to learn about searching :)

You have saved me money and time and I'm most grateful!

Codd




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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Grandfather's birth certificate
« on: Saturday 22 January 11 22:17 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Mort,

Thank you so much for the information!

Yes, I think I have all of the information.  His name was William John Roberts and he was born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, S. Wales on Jan. 17, 1885.  I got that information from his Attestation Papers when he signed up to join the Canadian Forces in 1916.

The BMD birth index has his birth as County of Dyfed, Pembrokershire, Wales.

I need to find out who his mother was.  His father James Roberts was apparently (according to family whispers) married three times.  I have found census records showing his mother as Mary Ann  but I'm not sure if that is his mother or his stepmother.

Thanks again for the help :)
Codd


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Family History Beginners Board / Grandfather's birth certificate
« on: Saturday 22 January 11 18:21 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Everyone,

I live in Canada and need to obtain my grandfather's birth certificate.  He was born in Wales in 1885.  I can't seem to be able to order it through ancestry because I live in Canada.

I know when and where he was born.  Could someone please tell me how to go about obtaining his birth certificate?

Thank you,
Codd :)

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Bernard Hibbert
« on: Monday 10 January 11 20:34 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you, heywood.  I did see that story and it gave me quite a bit of good information.

Thanks again.

Codd

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Bernard Hibbert
« on: Monday 10 January 11 16:58 GMT (UK)  »
Good Morning Carol and Heywood!

Thank you so much for all of this information.  I don't understand why I haven't been able to find this information esp. the census records.  I thought I'd searched for alternate spellings.  I'll go back and try again. 

I didn't know Family Search existed.  I'll be using that one more often now! I thought I'd checked all the Hibbert related family trees on Anc.  I'll look again.

I knew Bernard was widowed because he appears on 1916 Manitoba/Saskatchewan/Alberta census living with his daughter and son-in-law in Innisfail with marital status widowed.

Thanks again!

Codd

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Bernard Hibbert
« on: Monday 10 January 11 00:10 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Heywood!  I do have the 1881 information but don't have him in Canada before 1903. 

Which census did you find information about he, his wife and son?  His daughter Mary was born in 1887 and she's the only child I've found so far until Carol told me about Abraham Lincoln.

Thank you!! :)

Codd

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