Looking for Fred Price: Born 1895 in Merthyr Tydfil

[RonPrice]

I will try and keep this thread and any new ones I initiate or respond to in the weeks ahead--updated so that, as you say, we/I/you don't end up doing the same work twice.

I will also try and make an effort to ask on the World War Two board about my father's two sons in case there are records giving next of kin information available.

Thanking you again for this useful information.-Ron

[KarenM]

Library and Archives Canada has a database of Canadian Soldiers who died during the 2nd WW.

Daniel Miller Price is listed on there son of Fred J Price and Emma F Price of Hamilton, Ontario.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/072x/

Karen

[Arranroots]

Excellent Karen!

Does that mean they were there on the 1911 census, by any chance?  (I don't know whether you have access?)

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[KarenM]

Fred's first marriage was to an Emma F. Price (whose single name is unknown to me). They were 'probably married in the

Fred married Emma Speirs, I posted the marriage information earlier.  They married in Hamilton, Ontario.

Karen

[KarenM]

Here is Fred's information from his signup in WW1 in the USA

Fred James Price
Age:  27
Address:  603 12th Street, DesMoines, Iowa
Date of Birth:  June 25, 1890
Birth:  Merthyr Tydfil, C. Glam., Wales
What is your trade:  Stenographer
By Whom Employed:  Jones Chataqua Co., Perry Iowa
Have you a wife, child, father, sister, brother dependant on you for support:  Invalid sister of 20
Do you claim exemption from draft:  Curviture of spine from accident in mine

Tall, medium or short:  Medium
Colour of eyes:  blue
Hair:  Lt Brown


Karen

[KarenM]

Does that mean they were there on the 1911 census, by any chance?  (I don't know whether you have access?)

Fred is still in the USA in 1910

Fred Price, border, age 20, coal miner
year of immigration:  1908
Douglas, Polk County, Iowa


The 1911 Canadian census is free to view at www.automatedgenealogy.com

[RonPrice]

This is looking good; I will check this out tomorrow after going to bed and sleeping tonight.-Ron

[KarenM]

Hi Ron,

This looks like your mother's birth

Lillian Annie Cornfield
Date of Birth:  January 6, 1904
Father:  Alfred Jno Cornfield
Mother:  Sarah Alice Andrews
County of Wentworth

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[KarenM]

On the UK Incoming Passenger Lists there this is the following

Lillian Cornfield
Age:  30
Occupation:  Stenographer
Proposed Address in the UK:  Oxford Group, House Party, Oxford
Name of Ship:  Empress of Australia
Port of Arrival:  Southampton
Date of Arrival:  June 28, 1934


Karen