Hi Martha and Karen,
WOW! This is fantastic. You've found out so much I dont know what to say! You now know as much as we do about our Canadian cousins.
I have a Canadian cousin who found out the census details but we didnt know Annies maiden name. RMC info is interesting. He became a lab. assistant. I shall look at that website. Thankyou.
Garnet became a Captain- his title was Capt. Shea M.B.E. S.B. St. J. He was in the Royal Army Medical Corps (hence RMC I suppose). He was in the field ambulance division (medic stretcher bearer). He was in both wars. We think the S.J. is a St. John of Jerusalem tied in with St. Johns AMbulance. Dont know about the MBE yet - my cousin is looking into this, but any suggestions would be gratefully received. He lost both his sons in the 2nd war - Lieut. Cecil Nelson P.P.C.L.I (Princess Patricia Light Infantry) was killed in action, W.O. 11 Omar Cornelius Shea QMS. RCAMC (??) lost at sea. There is a stone erected by their mother in their honour.
Thankyou for the birth registrations. Atlast we have Annies name, and a marriage. (I am speechless). And they had a baby girl still born. So sad.
Cornelius, the father, had a brother Dennis who stayed in Britian. I know a little bit about him through my cousin , who left Britain in 1955. There was a feud between the brothers and Dennis told the family nothing about Cornelius. We dont know if we have any family from Cornelius in Canada now, but hope to find them if there is.
As far as we know Cornelius went to Canada alone but this could be wrong, it is possible we had family over there or went with him - we dont even know if Dennis and Cornelius had siblings. We've only just found out their fathers name was Daniel from Dennis marriage cert. , but no more info.
I am so grateful to you Karen and Martha. Thank you so much.
best regards
Angela (pugs)
