Please please help

[Heather Walsh]

The rest of the article above is same family.....he was 48 when he died in  british columbia, been there 34 years...........  how can this be?

[rosie99]

A 16 year old Robert Laurison left Londonderry for Montreal 14th July 1905.  Occupation Farmer has been dittoed against all the names on the page.

[AlanBoyd]

Rosie 99 has beat me to it, but here is my version with comparisons of dates.

At FindMyPast there is a record from 1905 of a Robert Laurison, age 16 [1889], farmer, sailing from Londonderry, ship Tunisian, and bound for Montreal.

The newspaper article from 1937 about the death of RL in Canada says that he was born 48 years ago [1889] and that he was resident for 34 years [1903].

[JenB]

What documentation have you got about the Robert Laurison who appears on the CWGC site?
I can't find anything (so far) that gives his age or parentage?

[Heather Walsh]

hope this works

[Heather Walsh]

again

[AlanBoyd]

The CWG record for Robert Laurison d 22/7/1916 has him as RIR, Rfn. 809

The medal rolls index has Robert Laurison RIR Pte. number 16/809 but the card is annotated 'see Laurison Joseph x'

It’s unclear what this ‘see Joseph’ annotation means, but there does seem to be some sort of a mix-up.

[JenB]

Heather, I see that the information on Findagrave has been added by you.
But what primary evidence do you have about the age and parentage of Robert on which you based your information on Findagrave?
There is no age or parentage given on the CWGC site.

[AlanBoyd]

Following on from my reply #15, I have found the medal card for Joseph Laurison. It confirms the number, 16/809 and says KIA. It is annotated "see Robert x" and in the 'Action taken' field it says

Corr. initial 'R.' (Robert.) see x @ [??]"

And I now realise that the two cards occur consecutively in the record.

My inference is that the record was intended to reflect that the card completed for Joseph Laurison was supposed to relate to Robert Laurison, but why didn’t they simply correct the Joseph Laurison card (which has more detail of medals)? As I said before, the record is confusing.