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janan
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Thanks Karen
I have a 1911 postcard with name of ship and date of arrival - it is unsigned but was always thought to be from my grandma's younger brother who we knew emigrated to Toronto before WW1. Searched the passenger list no sign of Fred but there was her older brother William George who we had no idea went to Canada  Have since found him on 1911 census and his marriage in Cobalt in 1913.
Cheers Jan 
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ALL CENSUS DATA INCLUDED IN POSTINGS IS CROWN COPYRIGHT, FROM www.nationalarchives.gov.ukbedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell buckinghamshire- pain cambridgeshire- bird, carver hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey derbyshire- allsop, noon devon - griffin, love, rapsey dorset- rendall, gale somerset- rendall, churchill surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge |
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Zelley
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Thanks Karen I have a 1911 postcard with name of ship and date of arrival - it is unsigned but was always thought to be from my grandma's younger brother who we knew emigrated to Toronto before WW1. Searched the passenger list no sign of Fred but there was her older brother William George who we had no idea went to Canada Have since found him on 1911 census and his marriage in Cobalt in 1913. Cheers Jan
I would welcome help in finding the date & the ship in 1883 that William & Elizabeth Zelley and three of their daughters arrived
in Canada from England.
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Zelley, Lovell, Godbold, Woods, Phillips, Lewis, Emery,
Magee, Baker, White. Flisher, Kyne, Tilston, Valence/Vallens,
Mabb/Mabbe, Bellamy, Selley, Martha Smith, Arno (of Dartmouth, Devon}.
Dorset, London, Warwick, East Anglia, Kent, Devon
North Wales
The ancestors lived here and there, in many scattered
places, with various occupations
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Wendl
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Hi there...
Looking for someone's interrpretation to help me define a year of immigration for my grt grandfather James Thompson....
I have a marriage entry for him from Smithfalls, Ontario....states, "James Thompson, Smith falls, lately of Londonderry Ireland to Miss Grace Wilkie Walker, Smiths falls by D N Coburn Monday" ....appeared 12 Sep 1913 in the Perth courier newspaper.
My thots are that he immigrated sometime in 1913? anyone concur???
All the Best
Wendy
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Barrie/Barry-Forfar
Broun/Brown-Kirriemuir, Forfar, Angus
Carr-Belfast
Close -Belfast, Antrim and Down; Ontario, Canada
Crowe- Belfast
Gardiner-Belfast
Hedley- Belfast
Lawlor-Belfast, Down: Ontario, Canada
Ramsay-Kirriemuir
Thompson-Derry; Ontario-Canada
Walker- Kirriemuir,Forfar,Dundee Scotland
Wilkinson-Belfast
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J.J.
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Depends on how wide that single person's span of interpretation for lately was...
everyone's is different...within the year would be mine...but some might say otherwise...husband thinks it could mean a great deal of time...
Well, at least you have a date to go backwards from!  and since I am also looking for a James "Thomson"....one of umpteen dozens of similar age...I wish you all the luck in finding him! J.J.
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J.J.
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As long as he was born within a year of 1878...don't see him on the 1911 as they are all married ( including the one in Smith falls ...( but if his age was out, there's 54 more ) Census began June 1st
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Wendl
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Hi J.J.
Thanks for your insight....his d.o.b is a bit of a quandry....He lists his birthday as 31 Jan 1877 on his Canadian enlistment papers for WW1....however, when I search for him in Londonderry, there is an entry on the IGI...with his parents...31 Jan 1874??? Soooo, it's a bit of a guesstamat at this point...the marriage record from the Ontario Archives says he's 35 yrs in 1913....so that puts him born in 1878....ahhhh, no joy! hee hee hee
All the best
Wendy
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Barrie/Barry-Forfar
Broun/Brown-Kirriemuir, Forfar, Angus
Carr-Belfast
Close -Belfast, Antrim and Down; Ontario, Canada
Crowe- Belfast
Gardiner-Belfast
Hedley- Belfast
Lawlor-Belfast, Down: Ontario, Canada
Ramsay-Kirriemuir
Thompson-Derry; Ontario-Canada
Walker- Kirriemuir,Forfar,Dundee Scotland
Wilkinson-Belfast
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J.J.
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Well the name Livingston isn't there for the mother...not saying it isn't his . but because he has stated on his marriage recently that he is that age, that's the age he "hopefully" will have stated on his recent voyage... 
( She says...weaseling in and out of this one )
*I looked at this again and I did'nt word it very well...meant to add that as he'd also stated a similar age on CEF papers these seemed to be the age he remembers....
so hopefully there aren't too many Irish James Thompsons as you have quite a range!
I haven't looked for my James Thomson , but I think I may have found him on an index...it only goes to 1910, but if you're patient the goal is to do up to 1920....
http://members.shaw.ca/nanaimo.fhs/
with hundreds of the same name & similar age, plus no others travelling with him to identify, I probably will still have trouble singling mine out.
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KarenM
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Kia Ora Karen M
You wee beaut! I know it was 1870 that my Faireys arrived so am ploughing my way through!!
Do you recall mentioning that I could get Land Records? To whom would I write? I have a likely person to search Baysville/McLean Records but need to tell them where to go - politely!!!
Thankyou again!
Marlene
Hi Dale,
The Muskoka Land Registry Office is located at 15 Dominion Street, Bracebridge ON P1L 2E7. Tell your friend to go to the office, which I believe is beside the Court House, go to the counter and tell the staff that he/she wants to have a look at the Title book for Lot ??, Conc. ?? in The Township of ??. They will help him get the book, then he just has to turn to the page to the correct lot and concession. I'm attaching a copy of what's called "abstract of title" which is what your friend will be looking for in the book. Good Luck and let us know how you/he makes out.
Karen
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Gandley (but known as Stanley in Canada)- Ireland to Birmingham
Ball, Kempson & Franklin - Birmingham
Shorter - Surrey
Dyer - Devon
Dawkins - Co. Cork, Ireland
Heffernan - Ireland
Huck - Alsace, France
Reinhart - Baden, Germany
Bowman & Ellis - England
Etheridge - Glouchester
Who all came to Canada in a little row boat, clap clap, clap your hands!!
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janan
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How lucky you are to have the postcard!!
Yes. It's a lovely card - the picture was taken on the voyage showing the sea and part of The Empress of Ireland during a storm. I would not have wanted to be on board
Jan
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ALL CENSUS DATA INCLUDED IN POSTINGS IS CROWN COPYRIGHT, FROM www.nationalarchives.gov.ukbedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell buckinghamshire- pain cambridgeshire- bird, carver hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey derbyshire- allsop, noon devon - griffin, love, rapsey dorset- rendall, gale somerset- rendall, churchill surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge |
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J.J.
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Hmmm, with such interesting postcards, Jan & Karen...Maybe you two could start a postcard site ....I remember your postcards, Karen, so unique!!! What a great souvenir you have, Jan...and with information on it to boot...bonus!
I love that stuff....J.J.
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janan
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JJ
Yes it was very helpful of him to carefully write down the name of the ship and date and place of arrival - did he guess that in nearly 100 years time his great niece would be trying to trace him
Jan
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ALL CENSUS DATA INCLUDED IN POSTINGS IS CROWN COPYRIGHT, FROM www.nationalarchives.gov.ukbedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell buckinghamshire- pain cambridgeshire- bird, carver hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey derbyshire- allsop, noon devon - griffin, love, rapsey dorset- rendall, gale somerset- rendall, churchill surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge |
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J.J.
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When I went up to reread Jan's reply, I saw the Zelley query, and I was sure that I'd answered it...crazy browser doesn't like rootschat lately.... 
anyway:
William and Elizabeth arrived in Halifax Nova Scotia in 1884...with daughters...
Annie, Kate & Rose... $7.23US/$8.31Cdn. for the information which will list all passengers they were travelling with also...
http://www.ingeneas.com/free/index.html put in surname, then on next page hit the image for your results... J.J.
p.s.....good thing you didn't trawl through the 1883 listings...
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KarenM
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Well Done JJ on Zelley's information.
I know on some of them it says "British Bonus Allowed", anyone have any thoughts as to what that means exactly? Do you think it was money?
Jan, my grandfather loved to tell the story of when they came over to Canada from Birmingham and his younger brother spent the whole trip "looking over the side of the ship", LOL My poor gr-grandmother was pregnant and had 4 kids when she sailed, I don't think I could have done it. I Have trouble with 3 going to the grocery store
I had a postcard that said "arrived Sept. 21, 1907" and a name, for the longest time I knew it must be something, obviously, but could not figure it out, then finally once the 1911 census came out, I found out that it was a postcard with the birth of a new daughter for my gr-uncle who had left to go west.
Karen
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Gandley (but known as Stanley in Canada)- Ireland to Birmingham
Ball, Kempson & Franklin - Birmingham
Shorter - Surrey
Dyer - Devon
Dawkins - Co. Cork, Ireland
Heffernan - Ireland
Huck - Alsace, France
Reinhart - Baden, Germany
Bowman & Ellis - England
Etheridge - Glouchester
Who all came to Canada in a little row boat, clap clap, clap your hands!!
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Dale
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Hi Karen M and many many thanks for your 'gems"! Thanks to the passenger lists i have now found that my Thomas F travelled with a wife Hannah, daughters Sarah Ann , Hannah and a surprise addition LUCY , an infant, in April/May 1870
BEST of all the party included his brother John (exactly the brother I had hoped it would be!)
John & the wife he left behind in England have completely disappeared off the radar after 1871 but their children grew up with their grandparents. (Another wee mystery to solve!)
Thanks very much for the info re the Land Deeds I'll get that organised but it's not so crucial now I know it was John that travelled to Canada!
A huge debt of gratitude to yourself and JJ who have steered me through "foreign" territory and established the whereabouts of another branch of my family.
I owe you 2!
Best Regards
Marlene
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HUNTS: Fairy, Ding, Scotney, Swinton, Burgess, Brace
BEDS: Farey, Fairy, Young, Rootham, Gell, Wildman, Cooper. Deighton, Flavel.
NORTHANTS: Hills, Mobbs, Twelftrees,
DERBY: Fairey,
LONDON: Fairey, Fairy, Burgess, Williams, Tanser, Picknell, Vinall, Plampin, Mullins, Day, Folwell, Bamfield, Brown
WATFORD HERTS; Burgess, Williams
WARKS: Fairy, Ward, Stephens, Reeves, Hodgkiss, Byrne, Hunt, Edgeworth, Harper, Dudley,
WORCS: Callow, Lowe
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