William Fawns - Winnipeg

[charliec]

Looking for descendants of William born Marykirk Scotland 1888 d 1966 in Winnipeg.

[cosmac]

Marriage at Manitoba Vital Statiscs page between
William Fawns and Ethel Lloyd Stills 12/08/1921 St. Bonfiac

Voters lists on ancestry show residence at St. Boniface in 1957 and Winnipeg in 1963 for William and Ethel.
In 1945 William is a teamster and living in Winnipeg North with Miss Mary, lab worker also in the household.

http://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passages-search/date-range-all/keyword-fawns/
Should be a link to obituaries for 3 of the seven daughters for this couple.
A daughter Ann died May 14, 1941 - memoriam posted in Winnipeg newspaper in 1949.

Canada 411 can be used to find addresses and phone numbers in Canada

[vbain]

Nice to be back.
The Fawn family, William,Annie May,at #26904
Brookside Cemetery


The site gives names, and date of Death

[charliec]

Thanks for that information, very helpful. Do you have any information on his brother John Fawns who died in Kelowna, British Columbia in 1962, as all I can find out was that he never married.

[cosmac]

http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/images/getimage/genealogy/screensize/79654b03-be64-49c4-aab1-c4ed4f1dbefc
Image of John Fawns death registration

[J.J.]

Seems Wm came in 1912 http://www.ancestorsonboard.com/ Don't see John on there offhand...
William at CEF signup WW1, father John N.O.K.  http://data2.archives.ca/cef/gpc003/319451a.gif

[charliec]

Thanks for the replies this info was very helpful, we think John 1st went over around 1919 and was in Midway BC around 1924, the rest is a mystery until he died in 1962.

[J.J.]

He might have worked at a sawmill near kelowna...There is this one which moved locations, Manhattan Point is just a drive Northwest of his address... http://www.kelowna.ca/CM/page482.aspx
 
Here is a map showing his street and the location for some sawmills, but just found that the one south was really old so likely not in his era...
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=214572614927371654877.0004cdb6d2c7f945c1d92

His friend Charles lived in Winfield , North of him, but perhaps they worked together at the mill at one time...

[J.J.]

I forgot about these directories, but he isn't listed in Kelowna  ...and if he worked in Winfield it hasn't any listings, so may just be a rural location only...but you can have some fun looking through it all....
http://www.vpl.ca/bccd/index.php
Doesn't show in Midway until 1927...Tie contr   ( Doesn't say which railroad )   
1929 still in Midway Tie maker
Random checks of 1936, 1942 & 1947 are same...so seems he just retired to Kelowna

adding: silly me, he was only in Kelowna a little over a yr. according to the death cert....I forget the B.C. ones were that extensive...