Geoff
My name is Terry Wilson. We live in Dwight Ontario Canada and I believe that Kathleen Josephine Doherty may be my grandmother.
We, my wife and I, have done a lot of research on her family and my mothers family but have been frustrated trying to find the roots on my fathers side. He never spoke about his back ground and only gave my sister a brief oral history before he passed in 1996. Since then we have found that much of what he told her was in fact wrong.
Here's what we have learned:
- Kathleen married Alfred Thomas Wilson in Jan. 1907
- My father, Alfred Thomas, was born May 1907 in Chorlton upon Medlock- County of Manchester
- Kathleen's father was Owen Doherty who resided in Manchester but was from Ireland
- Kathleen returned to Ireland sometime between 1909 and 1911 and we have found a Kathleen Josephine Doherty living in Belfast in 1911
- Per my father he and his mother immigrated to Montreal in 1911
- Kathleen married a Mr. Moore who then became my father's step dad.
- My father, who called himself Alfred Timothy Wilson, left home when he was 14 and from that point on had virtually no contact with his family.
- Dad married Helen Jean Baker in Montreal and had 3 children [ 2 boys and a girl ]
- He was a successful business man and we moved around Canada as he advanced in his career.
We did not know that his real name was Alfred Thomas until his death.
We thought that Kathleen had been born in Ireland but now think she was born in England of Irish parents.
I would appreciate any further info you may have or confirmation on the details that we have.
Thanks
Terry
