Great Day for Canadian Genealogy - Passenger Lists

[krissy]

hijj,
awe !! what a sad story but great that he managed to see his first grandchildren, bless im!
like you i havent sent  for the papers yet but this has definatley got to be done soon.
i have been  chasing fred for so long  it really is a  must to find out what happened to him.as no one knows in the family.
miss marplesis on the case tho!
krissy

[krissy]

hi karen
wow what a story you have ! and such a  sad  love story ,why on earth did he come back to uk  since he obviously had a lot of feelings for your grt grandmother to keep in touch!  have you followed  up his english family?
with our fred all we know is that he came back around 1930 to see his mother and my grandad and went back never to be heard of again,  so will have to send for his military papers you never know he may well have changed his name too!

[halsaps]

do they have a list for people emigrating from Canada an also by name trying to find a George Alton Cherry who was in England by 1887.

[krissy]

hi karen,
have you checked out the brantford library archives wow! i found my fred there twice they have listings of all the soldiers that went to the great war and so much history on the area that fred went to? ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh im gettin closer i can feel it in me water
krissy

[KarenM]

Hi Krissy,

Yes, the Brantford Library has some great information there, sorry I probably should have given you the link for it    My dad was born in Brantford and my family still live there, so if you need to know any details about it just let me know  I'm in Brantford quite a bit in the summertime, but go throughout the year as well.

We did find my gr-grandfather's second family over in England, they obviosly did not know of our existance here.  I am also also in contact with my-grandfather's siblings children, according to them they knew he had "ditched his family in Canada" and I spoke with my gr-grandmother's niece last year who still lives in Birmingham and she said she had heard he had "run off with a woman", but really only my gr-grandfather and gr-grandmother know the truth, so I like to try and keep an open mind as to what happened   (Mind you I'd would of like to be in heavon when they met up again  )  It's a shame though that none of his children, including my grandfather ever knew what happened to him, at least they never mentioned anything.

Karen

[krissy]

hi karen,
these stories just get sadder and sadder but lucky you being near the town eh? bit far for me to go wandering about hee hee! but maybe you can let me know what sort of info is available locally, all i have is that fred went back there  in 1917 and lived at 30 high st before enlistment and then it seems 43 high st after. when he came to england c1928 he bought with him a his future wife, bu no one seems to know wether they married or if he stayed in brant. fred was never heard of again.
i had one  chatter looking and found a fred jefferies (variants) of similar age in massechusettes, so possibly he moved but not sure, i cant find any death records of him or marraige anywhere, but thanks to your help i have a starting point so if you do know of any other sources i would be grateful. its a little like your grt grandad fred argued with his dad and just took off from bristol england it was only thro this site that we found out he went to canada.
its one of those relies that you are just determined to find!!!
krissy

[J.J.]

For those who need more information, ancestry has this search for immigration
information site for free until the end of the month...
http://landing.ancestry.com/immigration/main/?o_iid=27769&o_lid=27769&o_it=27769

You can check out images, but the index won't be complete...   J.J.

[Robneve]

The Archives are not that accurate, or they are not yet completely up to date.

A relative of mine returned from W.W. I and his service record indicates that he left Liverpool on May 21, 1919 and arrived in Halifax on May 28 1919 on board the Carmania.

The archives only have one entry for carmania and that is 1911 from New York to Halifax.

[J.J.]

Thanks for that info Rob... so wonder if they are going to complete those, or if the information is missing? ( How wonderful is it to have the actual date, though!?)

Does anyone know how soon after admission into Canada one was issued one's immigration papers? I am a newbie in this area....so laugh all you want...Was it upon arrival?

Thanks for the help....J.J.