A. Turner Family Butcher

[Schoch]

Must have travelled alive then 

[keyboard86]

  Just google, the SS Dunedin was fitted with a refrigeration unit and the first frozen load came in 1881.

Did your Grandfather have a brother Arthur Swinbourne b c 1917 if so I can see him in 1939 as a Butchers Assistant?

Arthur E Swinbourne June qtr 1917 Birmingham 6d 275 mmn Hunt

In 1939 I can see an Albert/Albert J and Arthur J Turner who were Butchers in Birmingham?
Keyboard86

[saraslater]

keyboard86 -- Arthur Swinbourne was my grandfather's only brother (5 sisters). Mom's maiden name Hunt.

Arthur Ernest Swinbourne
1917–2001

So 9 years my grandfather's jr., & would have been 14 when my grandfather came to Canada (he was the only one in his immediate family to come).

[keyboard86]

Hi again, then just wondering who Arthur was a Butcher's Assistant to in 1939 maybe one of the A Turner's in my amended post above, so who was Harry, your Grandfathers father?
Keyboard86

[saraslater]

Keyboard86. (I mentioned earlier)

His parents are:

Harry Swinbourne
1883–1965

Lilian (Lily) Hunt
1885–1959

(Winson Green)

Arthur *could* have been the boy on the right in the photo. He does look like he could be 9 years younger.

On another note, my mom says he was a butcher here in Toronto too though.

I'm wondering:

- does the stamp 'postcard' stamp on the back look like something that would have been done in Birmingham?

- does the building look like a building that would have been in Birmingham in the 20's?

[keyboard86]

  OK I get all that so your Grandfather was William ( Harry ) is that correct?
Keyboard86

[keyboard86]

Hi again, Harry Swinbourne arrived 13th April 1931 via Liverpool on Vessel Scythia in Halfax aged 22  occ Butcher host in Canada, Uncle Arthur Hunt, 449, Miller Avenue, Westmount Height, Oshava, Ontario
Parents Mr & Mrs Harry Swinbourne 43, Carlyle Street, Birmingham
Keyboard86

[saraslater]

keyboard86 - I knew he came in 31, ship and everything, but knowing that he was a butcher in both Birmingham and Toronto doesn't help me to know where the photo is, right?

[keyboard86]

Hi again as the message is "Harry do you remember this" I would suggest that it was one of his family in the UK reminding him of where he used to work in Birmingham?
Keyboard86