Hi fellow Fifers
I've hit another brick wall - the bruises from the last time having just healed
ELIZABETH BLACK, daughter of James Craig Black (1850-1932) and Catherine Cunningham (1849-1934) was born at 8 Market Street, St Andrews on 27 October 1880. She lived at the same address up until the 1901 Census.
Sometime after 1901 Elizabeth made her way south and in 1907 married Charles Joseph Curtis (1866-1940) in Dorset. In the 1911 Census I found them residing at High Street, Swanage, Dorset. Elizabeth's sister Jessie was living with them at the time.
Charles and Elizabeth had a daughter, Kathleen, born 10 June 1912 in Swanage, Dorset, England and in the 1939 Register of England and Wales the family were residing at Glendale, Christchurch Road, West Parley, Dorset.
[The 1939 Register provides a snapshot of the civilian population of England and Wales just after the outbreak of the Second World War.]On 20 November 1947, Elizabeth and her daughter Kathleen sailed from Southampton, England to New York, USA on board the S.S. "Queen Mary" (Cunard Line) - from 10 Oxford Road, Abingdon, Berkshire : destination Canada.
In 1948 they went to Alaska, then crossed the border in 1949 to Washington and stated they had a cousin Mr Campbell of 1518 Vining Street, Victoria, BC as nearest relative living in Canada. The last journey found for Elizabeth and Kathleen was in 1950 from Seattle to Vancouver.
What happened to them after that?
I'm hopeful that the answer is out there to work on the wall
Regards
Chiad Fhear