Inverkeithing Orphanage

[crazycaz]

I will ask my friend.  His grandfather was quite clear that he was born in Scotland and was taken to Canada.  I wonder if they have found this Leishman family and thought this was the one he was taken to. 
He definitely said that he never saw his sister again once they had left the ship.  I know that there are WW1 records of Eddie Leishman who came to England and that is where some of the information came from.
Many thanks for your help.  I will ask for more info.   

[MonicaL]

I am sure grandfather is right  It is just trying to find the records back to help now. The fact that his adoptive parents showed him as born in Quebec doesn't really mean anything for him. Just worried they also changed his original first name too...

Eddie's 1901 census entry in Canada also gave a birth of 22 June 1895.

I can see his marriage and death in Devon as you mentioned. Guess he didn't include a father's name on his marriage reg?

Monica

[crazycaz]

He fell out big time with his adoptive father! Said later that he was an unpaid farm hand and treated differently to the other children which us why he ran away and joined the lumberjacks at 15.  Said this was one of the best parts of his life, started off being teabiy basically, then the other guys taught him to roll huge bundles of logs down the river.  He could walk on them.  Up until his death, people always called on him to help look after their trees!
Isn't genealogy marvellous even if you do have difficulties. Sometimes!

[MonicaL]

His 1911 entry, still with the Leishmans, shows him as a labourer at a Lumberyard there. Likely events took off after 1911 and that entry.

Just for background to this family, this looks like some further details www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103867263  Daughter we had, Annie May, married a James Costello in 1919 in Arundel.

Monica

[MonicaL]

Edmund's attestment papers won't help further unfortunately 

[MonicaL]

Just thinking about dates...he enlisted in April 1916 and then married in Devon 1917 (not sure if this is the right marriage)?

Monica