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Re: Cooke/Sturgeon marriage in Vancouver?
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 29 November 12 23:03 GMT (UK) »
The Obituary Index lists a Agnes Pearl Cooke - Victoria. British Columbia - died 2 nd January 2004 (born 1913) Could that be your Agnes ?

http://obits.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/obit.cgi?Surname=swrovick%2Bagnes&type=Keyword&Start=6750

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Re: Cooke/Sturgeon marriage in Vancouver?
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 29 November 12 23:48 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Sandra;  it's a possibility but I don't have a birth year for her. The parents of the Agnes I am hunting married in 1911 and the bride was already 37.

If I can get useful details (age, name of father/mother) from the marriage registration then I can check that obituary.


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Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
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Re: Cooke/Sturgeon marriage in Vancouver?
« Reply #11 on: Friday 30 November 12 01:40 GMT (UK) »
I checked for the marriage at Royal BC Museum but the image isn't available to view. I didn't find a death for Arthur or Agnes but the deaths only go to 1991 so the Agnes in 2004 is worth checking further.

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Re: Cooke/Sturgeon marriage in Vancouver?
« Reply #12 on: Friday 30 November 12 02:30 GMT (UK) »
http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy/BasicSearch

has a marriage in 1935 for
Arthur James D. Cooke
Agnes Pearl Sturgeon
Registration # 1935-09-424064
Sadly no image of the registrationis available at the museum.

death
September 27, 1955
Florence B. Sturgeon
Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC
She had been in the Municipality and Province for 41 years and in Canada 63 years
Permanent residence - 3519 Barker St, South Burnaby
date of birth - November 11, 1874
profession - at home
Widow of Ernest William Sturgeon
Father - ? Rainer/Raines
mother - Charlotte Herman
informant - daughter, Mrs. Agnes Cooke, same address as above
Burial September 30, 1955 at Mt. View, Vancouver, BC
undertaker - Harron Bros Ltd, 55E, 10th Ave, Vancouver, BC

You can view the registration at the site given above.



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Re: Cooke/Sturgeon marriage in Vancouver?
« Reply #13 on: Friday 30 November 12 02:39 GMT (UK) »
at the Royal BC Museum site
Death
Ernest Sturgeon, age 65
1944-09-03
Vancouver, BC
no image available to view.

In one of your posts, you stated the bride was 37 when married in 1911 and Florence was definitely that age in 1911.

www.deathindexes.com/canada.html
you can access the Manitoba bmd's at this site
marriage
Winnipeg, Manitoba
22/12/1911
Ernest Sturgeon
Florence Raines

http://automatedgenealogy.com
1911 Census/Manitoba/Selkirk
Ernest Sturgeon,  b. Nov 1878, age 33
1911 Census/Manitoba/Winnipeg
Florence Raines, domestic, single, b. Nov 1880, England, age 30, immigrated 1895
This wouldn't be the first time someone lied about their age on a census.

thought I would include all the info that I found just in case this is the family you are searching for.
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Re: Cooke/Sturgeon marriage in Vancouver?
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Re: Cooke/Sturgeon marriage in Vancouver?
« Reply #15 on: Friday 30 November 12 08:58 GMT (UK) »
Thanks folks!

Florence and Ernest are in my tree and I've some of those details; Florence was like some of her sisters......flexible ages.   ;)

Florence did have another child, Beatrice, who died young;  that obituary sound a good possibility.


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Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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Re: Cooke/Sturgeon marriage in Vancouver?
« Reply #16 on: Saturday 16 February 13 10:48 GMT (UK) »
Hi all,

Although the museum did inform me that the marriage details would be online "in a few weeks", I have been unable to confirm so I will ask the moderator to move this to completed.


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Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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