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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Alan Edward Elton in Montreal b1877
« on: Today at 00:04 »
The service record for Canadians serving in the Boer War is online and searchable and I haven't found him there.

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/982306?availability=Family%20History%20Library

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Canada / Re: Edward BLAKEY, Born 28/07/1843, Blackburn, Lancashire, UK
« on: Yesterday at 16:06 »
Quote from: Ashtone on Yesterday at 15:50
Snippet from his 1904 obit. Should we presume his time in Canada followed his release from prison circa 1860? Did he enlist with the army shortly after?

I suppose the Canadian time-frame is anything circa 1860 to 1889?

I posted about a possible in 1871 in Ontario, but this one seems to be in England in the 1871 England Census.  He is missing from the 1861 English Census.  Most of the west was not settled in this timeframe, so he was probably in Ontario or Quebec (Canada West and East at the time).

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Canada / Re: Edward BLAKEY, Born 28/07/1843, Blackburn, Lancashire, UK
« on: Yesterday at 15:52 »
The 1871 Census in Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario has an Edward Blakely, aged 20, born England, with a wife Mary Ann, aged 20, also born in England, with a baby son Edward A., aged 4 months, b. Ontario. The family professes the Baptist faith. He is a moulder by trade.

This young couple seem to have arrived into Canada aboard the SS Medway in August 1869, both aged 19. Also listed with them are an Alfred Blakely, aged 17.

This should provide you with enough info to determine if he is the right individual.

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Alan Edward Elton in Montreal b1877
« on: Tuesday 23 April 24 23:22 BST (UK)  »
I'm seeing an A. Elton, aged 24, planter leaving the UK bound for the Cape, aboard the SS German, on 9 November 1901 which would be just before he re-enlists (or enlists) in December 1901.

I'm also seeing him coming back into the UK  July 27, 1922 aboard the Walmer Castle.

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Alan Edward Elton in Montreal b1877
« on: Tuesday 23 April 24 02:19 BST (UK)  »
There seem to be a couple of Facebook groups that deal specifically with the Boer War which may help you track down the service records. If he was indeed born in Canada, why didn't he join a Canadian regiment?  How did he get to South Africa?

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Alan Edward Elton in Montreal b1877
« on: Monday 22 April 24 21:36 BST (UK)  »
He was Church of England (Anglican) based on enlistment record I've seen.  Quebec's BMDs were recorded only by the churches up until quite recently (last 20 years). And the records are all online for the timeframe in which he was born altho' the transcriptions are often not the best.

My theory goes like this.  Isobel met Alan in South Africa and he followed her back to the UK where they had a relationship and he finally married her in 1920. Doesn't explain why he left shortly afterwards or why she maintained the use of her first married name. It is possible that the marriage was annulled for some reason. 

Have you found Isobel on the 1921 Census in England or Scotland?

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Alan Edward Elton in Montreal b1877
« on: Monday 22 April 24 18:09 BST (UK)  »
They weren't married for long as he was on the next ship (almost) back to SA in 1920.  Fiona's online tree indicates that Isabel Campbell (nee Cameron) had been married before whose husband died in 1914.  She remarried again in 1943 to a John Stewart.

There seems to be a site (Anglo Boer War) which may have the records, but it's currently offline.

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Alan Edward Elton in Montreal b1877
« on: Monday 22 April 24 02:27 BST (UK)  »
I'm also seeing a John Elton, also a trooper in the Imperial Light Horse, Service #1586, also references services #40755 which links to a William Johnson which must be a mistake.

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Alan Edward Elton in Montreal b1877
« on: Monday 22 April 24 01:53 BST (UK)  »
Well done bbart.  Unfortunately, I'm not seeing either name in the Montreal directories of the time.

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