What does c/o C.P.R. Belfast mean?

[josey]

However working on the railway was a coveted job in Canada and the UK at that time.

I didn't know that. A great uncle Jeremiah O'Driscoll started work for them sometime in the early 1910s, then in 1913 his wife Julia [Allen] went out with their 3 children Mary Ann, Edmund and Cornelius to meet him in Ontario. Their immigration record states "JULIA O'DRISCOLL 30 GOING TO HUSBAND IN OTTOWA, ONT - RAIL ROAD LAB ROMAN CATHOLIC GOING VIA C.P.R. WITH MARY A 7 EDMUND M 4 CORNELIUS 2MTHS". They ended up in Montreal, where Cornelius married. I have long wanted to contact their descendants but have so far failed.

[Ian999]

Josey,
Not to hijack Snoons’ thread, but it looks like you got a considerable amount of information in 2009 from Ancestry.ca.

Cornelius will be long dead, but you are now into the area of living relatives and the best source is by picking up the phone and chatting with people. Cornelius O’Driscoll is an unusual name so it should not take long.

Do a lookup on www.Canada411.ca and you will find that there are only 8 O’Driscoll’s in the province of Quebec, mostly clustered around Montreal. In addition there are 5 C. O’Driscolls in Ontario. Fathers tend to force their names on their children!

[josey]

Yes, I was helped a lot a few years ago. I will pm you with earlier results of carrying out the sort of contacts you have suggested.

Josey.