Alfred Albert Taylor - Comox, BC

[dbree]

Hi,

I think it's someone who has gone back to fix the fading of a few entries. If you flip forward
a couple of pages there is a very faint Seymour that didn't get the corrected darker ink.

DB

[Lisa in California]

Death registration: Alfred’s occupation - Fisherman (retired)
Informant for his death: S Woods.  A Syd Woods lived in Courtenay, BC.

Canada Voter List, 1963
Alfred Taylor, Fisherman, Courtenay

Could this be your Alfred?

Added:  S Woods’ address was Courtenay. 
The voter list for Courtenay includes part of Comox District.


Thank you, DB. 

[grlune]

Hi Lisa, Michelle and dbree

Great work, thank you. I now feel some headway is being made and everything you all say and found seems to make sense and fit. Based on what was said earlier about Alfred possibly leaving for England and returning I've been searching incoming passengers to UK 1930+ and found this on Ancestry:

Hope you can open the link. Could it be Alfred ? Age fits and occupation is fisherman ?

[grlune]

Grimsby was a major fishing port so may be with the Canadian recession he went back for work. Looking now for a return trip back to CA.

[michelle43]

I'm not sure. I'd like to see some evidence that he travelled across the country to take up fishing. By 1929 (the last date on in his BHC record), he only had experience farming. There are lots of Alfred Taylors around the same age in the Vancouver area that were already fishermen by the 1930s. One of them could easily have traveled to the island to fish in a new area.

Is there any proof that your Alfred Taylor is the one that died in Comox?

[grlune]

Mmm.. Yes I see what you mean Michelle. The D.O.B on the death cert. matches his birth certificate. That's about as much evidence really. I had noticed other Alfred Taylor's too. I don't think we'll ever know for sure unfortunately. But I will keep digging 😊

[Lisa in California]

Registration of Death - Alfred’s birthdate was recorded as November 19, 1912
Alfred Taylor (Albert’s father) WWI Service Record - child mentioned: Alfred Albert, 19th November 1912

There could have been two men in Canada named Alfred Albert Taylor, with the exact birthdate, one born in England, one supposedly born in New Zealand.  I wonder how common that would be?  (To have exact names, exact birthdates.)

Added:. The death registration is for Alfred Taylor.  No middle name.  So, they didn’t have exact names.

Added:  There’s always a possibility that Alfred was adopted and changed his name. 

[Lisa in California]

Perhaps a search could be done for Alfred Albert Taylor, born 1912, New Zealand. It might be possible to confirm that the 1968 death was actually for this man.  Can he be found prior to 1965. 
[His death registration did not include a middle name.]

Also, a search for Alfred Taylor in Grimsby, England, c1933 and later, might also shed clues.

[grlune]

... I can't see him on the 1939 England Register so if it is Alfred may be likely he returned to Canada  between 1933 to 1939. Can't identify him on any lists leaving England for this period however.