Burgess, Bala, Ontario 1901 onwards - Completed but still ongoing

[Gadget]

Found a death for Agnes Margaret Amess, Ladysmith, B.C.,2 May 1975. Aged 73

Reg # 1975-09-008285   BCA # B13342


Can't find a marriage though 

[LemonMallie]

I have to stop in at the library tomorrow to take back the Bleak House video I borrowed (for the record, if Denis Lawson asked me to marry him, I would have, no doubt about it!).  But I digress.  I'll check the Amess death - well done deciphering that, I couldn't make out anything close -  and also check for obituaries for Donald Ralph and Margaret Burgess Martin.  The death registrations are only available up to 1988 and the indexed obituaries don't begin until 2000 so there is a bit of a gap.  But the library has all the past issues of the major Vancouver newspapers so a quick check should uncover them.

I appreciate your thanks but we really have it quite easy out here.  The vital events are all indexed on line, the library has all the film neatly organized, plenty of film readers and copy machines.  It only takes a few minutes to pull up a registration - and thank goodness the civil servants were so nosey and collected so much information!

Now I am off to marvel at what the geniuses on the photo restoration board did to the photo of my great-grandmother!

Have a nice weekend all!
Lynwen

[Gadget]

I'm doing a little cameo of your grt grandmother, Lynwen. It will take a while cos my eyes are bushed doing restores and  squinting at records    Will send it to you via e-mail when it's finished 

Could someone point me in the direction of Alberta records*, please. I'm trying to chase that James Kennedy Burgess, b. 1871 (m. Esther Miller, 1905)  and his children.


Gadget

* found Alberta Online, etc. but not found anything on James K yet 


Just been looking at maps of Ladysmith. They couldn't have got much further west could they 

[J.J.]

There are other deaths in Ladysmith for Amess...Trouble is they may have married in Alberta...
 have fun looking in there...hard to access...not a lot free...


Your Donled Kingan ( brother to Eswrd no doubt, hehe ) is elusive even as such, as he's been transcribed as something else on census site...maybe as ?? ?? ?? but I'd looked high and low...good that you have found him!


James probably had land, although a barrister, not a farmer....
 http://www.rootschat.com/links/05fg/  this is in Strathcona   http://www.rootschat.com/links/05fh/   

Alberta resources...you may find a directory or two?
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,209587.0.html

[Gadget]

Thanks J.J. 

I think I've exhausted the Albeta resources - might have to smile at Dolly 

I found Donled by searching on Agnes, b. England 1875 ish, living B.C. Page 2 had this Kingan one with a husband called Donled and living in the right place 

Fun isn't it 


Gadget

[J.J.]

Oh, dopey me I thought she was born Ontario.... Duh...
Poor Dolly...she wishes she could get more...but perhaps she can still squeeze something out for you...
I can also check newspapers for you next visit, as they were prominent and may have posted births...I only have a limited amount of papers I can search tho....
Let's see what Dolly can find for you!

This may be a second section of land as well for James...May have been the other location
 http://www.rootschat.com/links/05fk/   sorry no time to check...J.J.

[Gadget]

Hi J.J.

The first land entry link contained two refs to James, so looks as if he might have bought up 3 lots. 

Will have another go at Alberta tomorrow. The sites are very frustrating - very minimal indexes 


Gadget

[dollylee]

You expect me to find anything in this wasteland?? 

I was just starting and did find that

James Kennedy Burgess was the Returning Officer for Wetaskiwin in the 1905 Federal Election.  Wetaskiwin was an electoral district that existed from 1905-1971.

So he was in Wetaskiwin in 1905.....or did we already know that?   I will have to re-read the thread to see what we know and don't know.

Right now, I have to be a "mommy".......daughter in a bit of a pickle.  Will try to get back to it soon.

dollylee

[J.J.]

Oh sorry, should have said, one record, ending one microfilm and patially beginning another...
Camrose is a beautiful area , by the way...They were likely enthralled with the landscape in the region...Quite breathtaking....and the last one I sent he owned the east part  of that section , & it states et al, with another name in the Western land grants database...Wallace J McKay. but the first one isn't listed
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/western-land-grants/001007-100.01-e.php
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Returning Officer meant that he was in charge of the ballot...nice that they put it in the hands of a competent.
there seems to be no real screening here... Need work/ Still breathing, I suppose might be a prerequisite....