Isaac Newton - North-West Mounted Police / Royal Canadian Mounted Police

[Joy Dean]

My great-uncle Isaac Newton, known as Ike, was born in 1878 in Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, son of John and Mary; he was two years older than Ben, my grandad Ike was in Hughenden in the 1881 and 1891 censuses. He attested 2 March 1896 3rd Battalion Oxford Light Infantry Regiment age 17 years and 9 months. Service number 2811.

It is believed that he emigrated to Canada in the early 1900s. However, I have not been able to find him in Canada, and I have searched again and again!

My grandad joined the Met. Police in 1909. It had been said in the family that, if he hadn't been in the Met., he would have joined his brother Ike in the Mounties in Canada.

Can anyone help find him, please?

[amondg]

Have you contacted  RCMP ?

You could ask if they have a record of him, born 1878 reg. Wycombe Buckinghamshire, Father John Newton mother Mary nee Green.

https://rcmphc.com

[amondg]

His enlistment record says he was "embodied" 1900 -1902

I'm not sure what that would mean in this context.

[Joy Dean]

Have you contacted  RCMP ?

You could ask if they have a record of him, born 1878 reg. Wycombe Buckinghamshire, Father John Newton mother Mary nee Green.

https://rcmphc.com

I hadn't, no. Why I hadn't thought of that before, I don't know! I shall do it straightaway, thank you.

[Andy J2022]

His enlistment record says he was "embodied" 1900 -1902

I'm not sure what that would mean in this context.

The full title of his unit was 3rd (King's Own Royal Buckinghamshire Militia) Battalion, and so he needed to be embodied in order to go to fight in the Second Boer War in South Africa. He needed sign up for Imperial service as the militia could not legally be sent overseas unless they consented. He would have gone to South Africa as part of the 1st battalion as the 3rd battalion only provided individual reservists and didn't deploy as a formed unit.
More of their deployment to South Africa here: http://www.lightbobs.com/boer-war-1899-1902-regimental-overview.html

[amondg]

Thank you Andy J2022

[Joy Dean]

Have you contacted  RCMP ?

You could ask if they have a record of him, born 1878 reg. Wycombe Buckinghamshire, Father John Newton mother Mary nee Green.

https://rcmphc.com

I hadn't, no. Why I hadn't thought of that before, I don't know! I shall do it straightaway, thank you.

I have had a reply that, regrettably, they do not keep complete records on individual members, unless they have been donated to them, and I was referred to the following:

 Library & Archives Canada www.collectionscanada.gc.ca

history_histoire@rcmp-grc.gc.ca

RCMP.NHQPhotoArchives-ArchivesPhotographiquesduQG.GRC@rcmp-grc.gc.ca

www.warmuseum.ca.

I have made contact and await replies.