Lost Family in Oakville, Ontario

[martha42]

Does anyone know where I could search for death/cemetary records for Oakville, Ontario 1990-2000.

Contacted official website where they could search records and tell me if my releatives died there or not (which I already know they did) but cannot help me with death certificates unless I have a date - which is the crucial bit I am missing - not even sure of the correct year, at the present time.

So not getting very far at the moment, any help appreciated.

Thanks

Martha

[RunKitty]

Hi Martha,

Oakville is just west of Toronto.  I would suggest looking for obits in the Toronto Star newspaper.  You can search from Jan 2001 for free on their site.  For earlier obits, you can search the Star on a paid site called Pages of the Past.  Some of us get this free at our libraries, so if you post the names you are searching for - we can look for you. 

Also, I would have a look in the Oakville Beaver.  You can find it here (for free) on the Ourontario site.  Look under Halton Region. 

 http://www.ourontario.ca/demo/News.html

You can see if you can locate the cemetery where your relatives might be buried: 
http://www.islandnet.com/ocfa/

If you know where they are buried, then there are ways to look up tombstone inscriptions.  Most transcriptions are available from the Archives of Ontario - on microfilm through interlibrary loan. 

http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/archival-records/interloan/cemetery.aspx#table

Also, local libraries usually have the transcripts in printed form and may do lookups for you (cemetery transcripts/obituaries)
   
Toronto Public Library:
http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/

Oakville Public Library:
http://www.opl.on.ca/

I hope this gives you a good start.  Also, have a look under the Ontario part of the Canada Resources thread.   
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,313320.0.html

RK

[martha42]

Hi RK

Fantastic - thank you very much - looks like I will be busy tomorrow!

Family are Winifred Driver (although sometimes used her maiden name of O'Brien) born 1916 in England and died sometime after 1986 but more likely to be early 1990's in Oakville and her husband Gerald Driver born 1920 England and died 1997 in Oakville, Canada.

I have posted about this couple before, but didn't know where they had died until recently, so thanks to everyone who has helped so far.

Martha

[RunKitty]

Hi again,

I see your other post:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,473198.msg3411488.html#msg3411488

There are some good leads here.  I see that someone already did a check of the Pages of the Past site and didn't find your Drivers.  I also just did a check of this site and I don't see them either.  Perhaps the Oakville paper will turn up something for you.   

RK

[martha42]

Found 2 "Driver" matches in the Halton-Peel Cemetary Records but don't understand what they mean.  Doesn't say whether these are people with the surname driver of just have the word driver in the title somewhere.

This is what is says

Brampton Public - Lot 6 A&C Plan BR13 Conc1E Chinguacousy

and Laurel Hill Bolton Lot 10 E 1/2 Conc 6 Albion

Can anyone decipher this for me?

[martha42]

Thanks RK - still working my way through all the websites - must be something somewhere (I hope)!

Martha 

[RunKitty]

Hi,

You asked about all the letters/numbers after the cemetery names.  These would be the addresses of the cemeteries.   In Ontario, the farm land (and areas "in the country") is divided into parcels by concession roads and "lots".  If you have a look at an old map or historical atlas, you will see what I mean. 

I see from the OGS site that there are people surnamed Driver in these cemeteries - it would not be a title. 
 http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogspi/165/a165d011.htm#driver

The thing to do now is look up the cemetery transcripts.   In a previous post, I gave you the link to the Archives of Ontario.  You can check and see if they have the transcriptions for these 2 cemeteries available on microfilm.  If so, you may be able to access them through interlibrary loan.  Also, the transcripts should be available in printed form in the local library.   I would suggest that you contact the Oakville or Toronto library to see if a librarian would look these up for you and tell you about the Drivers in these 2 cemeteries.  Hopefully, they are yours.  See the links I posted earlier. 
 
Perhaps there is someone on Rootschat who has access to the Oakville library.  If nobody can look this up for you/the librarians won't do a search/you are unable to access the microfilm records, I could check for you in a few weeks.  I am going to be in downtown Toronto right next to the Reference Library and I can see if they have the relevent transcripts.   I expect they do .  They have quite a large collection of Ontario Cemetery transcripts.

RK 

[FRUITSNUTS]

Hello There:
A lot of my family come from Oakville and I see you have lots of web sites to check.  I found the Oakville Library to be very helpful - they respond to email querries really fast.  One other email address I have is for the Cemetery Clerk for Oakville but I probably shouldn't post that here in such a public forum.  If you can't find the death date for your Driver family just post a reply and I will contact the Cemetery Clerk for you.  Since the death is so recent (in ancestry terms anyway) you may have to provide proof that you are related to this person before they will release any information.
Let me know if I can help...

[martha42]

Thank you Fruitsnuts - still waiting to hear from library and thank you for your offer, will keep you posted.

M