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Re: Winnipeg manitoba canada
« Reply #9 on: Monday 25 June 12 17:21 BST (UK) »
Sorry missed something off.  It is Wittersham. It was a large farm and the house was called Wittersham Farm House and then renamed and is still Wittersham Court, but now houses on the farm land. Held by the Body's until 1949 after Colonel John Body's wife (who defeated the Turks and entered Baghdad in 1917) left it to a cousin who sold it almost immediately. 

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« Reply #10 on: Monday 25 June 12 18:05 BST (UK) »
I found another article from the 60s that places him in Fairbanks, Alaska. When you do a present day search, one lady's name in Fairbanks seems to come up associated with them. Surname is Body... first name is a common Royal and Biblical name. ;)

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« Reply #11 on: Monday 25 June 12 18:27 BST (UK) »
Nicely done DitzKnitz - & belated welcome to RootsChat.  :)

Thanks for the photos ivor. You have a fascinating family.
MACDONALD of Benbecula, Scotland, Earlswood/Wapella Sask
BAIN of Aberdeenshire, Trafford district, Red Jacket and Moosomin, Sask
CHEYNE of Aberdeenshire & Trafford district, Sask
FISHER of Yorkshire, Ontario & Saskatchewan
INKSTER of Shetland, Edinburgh, Sask and BC
GAUNT of Yorkshire, Kent, BC & Australia
KINCH of Ireland, PEI, Ab, Sask
CORCORAN of Ireland, PEI & Sask
GOTZ / GOETZ of Soufflenheim, Alsace & Ont
MITTELHAUSSER of Soufflenheim, Alsace
MULLER or MILLER of Drusenheim, Alsace & Ont

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« Reply #12 on: Monday 25 June 12 18:33 BST (UK) »
Thank you very much RedMystic . . . I am a self-confessed Geneaology Junkie.  I will be starting my third year in University, pursuing a double major in History and Native Studies. I have perused and obsessed over so many databases and documents, that it would be a shame not to help others by looking over my own 'beaten paths'. Hopefully, one day soon, I will also a History Graduate in addition to a Genealogy Junkie. LOL

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« Reply #13 on: Monday 25 June 12 22:21 BST (UK) »
I do not know if any of you are Canadians , but must mention this. Around about 1904 Fred returned to Winnipeg a Younger brother to Santa Barbara USA and a third Harold was transferred from the Montreal Bank to Montreal. He is in the Montreal bank Book of the dead, which is online for anyone to look at. Most have photos. I also got a lovely email from the bank about him. He signed on for Princess Patricia's Canadian volunteer force in 1916. Was badly injured in France and after a few weeks hospitalization in England was sent back to France and was killed 3 days later at Mount Sorrell at Ypes 1916. Have many photos of the terrible conditions . I do not think anybody could understand what these many thousand of Canadians who lost their lives went through. This also applies to all the armies on the front line in the first world war. What a waste and what for?? i agree it is good these things can be discussed on rootschat. I found out about 10 months ago that my father was shot by the IRA at North Wall Dublin in 1921 none of us knew, expect mum did? Who told me and gave me details a grandson of one of the attackers on the day.
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