I'm not finding anymore after 1905.
Did you notice the way the girls names are spelt in the 1901 Census, the parents seem to have their own way of spelling the names so it's no wonder there are so many variations.
Also in the will calender William (we assume it's the son not a brother of James!) is listed as a shopkeeper, but that could of course be his father's shop.
Do you know if any of them married before emigrating?
Yes, spelling variations are abundant.
Another forum member said a lot of the transcription was done by foreigners (perhaps Canadians) so another reason for errors.
Yes, I saw William listed as shopkeeper and wondered if that was as at time of death, or time of will writing.
No, about when marriages took place. That is one of the elements I would like to learn, specifically where and when Eileen and Richard met and were married.
I always believed they met here but there are two glitches in that idea;
...it would be pretty unusual for the two of them to have separately made their way to such a small remote mining community where my father was born.
...you have raised the concept of William, Eileen and Richard being tight with Richard and Eileen doing the vows there before heading to the bush in BC.
Complicating that is Canada mostly and BC in particular were wilderness and census reflected the remoteness. A lot of the settlers of the 1880s-1920s were happy to not be known.
Blackrock has not responded to my queries about Richard's time there.
And I really should start calling him Jack, as that's what he was known by.
That brings up another layer; all up and down the line they messed with given names. Both my grand father and my father had three given names yet none were use day to day. My brother was called by his middle name and I went by a name that made no sense at all.
