Helen (Nellie) & Jessie Hannah of Crail Fife [Descendants]

[Bob S]

I need some help to find the descendants of the above two sisters who emigrated to Canada (The Prairie States - Saskatchewan) in the early 1900s. I am working on my wife's Family Tree and all information on the Canadians has been lost. I found an old posting from an R. Slater of Saskatoon, dated 1999, but the e-mail is no longer recognised.
Their parents were Adam Sands Hannah and Jane Wann Douglas Bayne of Crail in Fife.
My family connection by marriage is through their brother Richard Bayne Hannah

Bob S.

[KarenM]

Hi Bob,

There is a Nellie Hannah living in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1912 according to the Henderson's Alpahbetical Directory.

Karen

[Bob S]

Karen thank you for your reply. That looks about right for time. Is this directory on-line and available? Does it give any other information like age etc.

Bob S.

[J.J.]

Manitoba ( Prairie Province beside Saskatchewan )
There is a Jessie H. Hannah...immigrated in 1906 from Scotland - age 22 on the 1906...
go to blue link, then at top of next page hit split view and line 28 for image view...
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census06/SurnameList06.jsp?surname=Hannah

Do we have any ages, and why is the name Slater mentioned please?

and a hearty welcome to rootschat...hope we can find something for you...J.J.
 

[J.J.]

Hve found 2 Manitoba marriages for the name Jessie hannah...
One in 1907 to a Herbert Kent in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
One in 1908 Robert Tholman in Winnipeg, Manitoba
http://web2.gov.mb.ca/cca/vital/Query.php
Anything sound familiar?  J.J.

[KarenM]

There's a Nellie Hannah who married William F. Gregory in Nanaimo, British Columbia, July 11, 1912.

Karen

[Bob S]

J.J. & KarenM.
Thanks for your help and interest. To give you more information and answer your queries.....
Helen (Nellie) Hannah was born Helen Morgan Hannah in Crail, Fife, Scotland on March 10th 1896, and her sister Jessie Hannah was born on May 1st 1894.
They both emigrated to Canada (I guess) in the mid to late 1900s as they were both at home in the 1901 census, and I can find no record of either marrying before leaving. As a young girl, my wife wrote to Nellie on behalf of her grandparents in the late 1940s/50s, but we have lost all record of those days. She remembers them as living in Saskatchewan, in a typical farm house.
The "Slater" reference is as a result of my finding a record in the Rootschat archives under Bayne (their mother's name) from someone called Rosemary Slater asking about her husband's family, having been to Crail in 1997 without much success. I guessed that this would be one of the descendants and tried to e-mail her [after about 6 years] but the e-mail address was unknown.... so near and yet so far!!

Bob S.

[J.J.]

Finally found the entry...
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,74122.0.html

Post a reply on the thread for the person to contact you.  Don't leave an email
address on the posting, instead also send a personal message by hitting the
green scroll link to your left on their entry page...This person is also new so you
 may need to tell them how to do it also. The reason we don't add our email
addresses to the page is that spamming is prevalent once you have put it directly
 on a site.
  Hope they can help you.  J.J.

[Bob S]

Tks J.J. but that's not the one. I already have a contact with that person and we chat privately regularly. I have tried to find the appropriate link again and it is at .....
http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/textindices/B/BAYNE-ROOTS+1999+93711454+MESSAGE-BODY

I have tried to contact both people on this page and neither e-mail address is recognised today.

Bob S.