Josephine Whitehead

[*Sandra*]

If that was the family - father was David Whitehead and Mother Hellen/Helen/Ellen Joyce (parents Michael Joyce and Euphemia Eadie)

This would be brother William Whitehead - 26 February 1893 - 13 July 1963 New Westminster, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia.

FIND A GRAVE

Valley View Memorial Gardens Surrey, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
Plot   Garden of Christus

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147952001

DC :- http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/77274557-0308-437b-b322-a1c34f3d1c24

Sandra

Maybe a few obituaries for this family to discount - wouldn't go amiss.

[RunKitty]

How about this...

Winnipeg Free Press, Jan 8 1916.  Montreal - "Canadian Girl is a Prisoner in Bulgaria"  It is about a Joy Whitehead, daughter of Charles Whitehead, manager of  cotton mills in Three Rivers.  She saw active service in several hospitals on various fronts over the last year.  When taken prisoner, she was acting as a lieutenant in a corps of the Serbian Army, having given up hospital work so she could be closer to the firing line.  It also says that prior to her departure from Canada last May, she had spent a couple of years in outdoor life in the Laurentian Mountains at Val Morina.  It says she was extremely fond of outdoor life and wore "semi- male line garb" on her tramps through the woods.  She could handle a canoe and a rifle better than most men.

RK

[RunKitty]

No idea if this is the correct person

Here is a Charles Ross Whitehead, Winnifred Thomas Whitehead and Leslie Joy Whitehead entering the USA via Ellis Island in March 1916.  They are going to Trois Riviers.  Charles is a manufacturer.   Leslie Joy is 23, so born in 1893. 

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9TX-33MY-X?i=847&cc=1368704

RK

[RunKitty]

Charles Ross Whitehead died in 1954.  Winnifred in 1920

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172999691

RK

[MaureeninNY]

Yes,indeed,RK!!!!

Well done.

If you look at the Drouin Collection on Ancestry  there seems to be two children born to Leslie Joy and Voukata Voinovitch/Voyinovitch in 1917 and 1923.

Maureen

[dbree]

Hi,

Nice one RK

Baptism Trois Rivieres, Quebec 1917
Charles Meela daughter (should be son I think) of Voukata Voinovitch, Lieutenant of the Serbian
Army of the city of Ujitre, Serbia and of Leslie Joy Whitehead his wife, born 14 Oct 1917.

DB

[dbree]

Sorry Maureen, didn't see your post before I posted 

Baptism, Quebec 1895
Leslie Joy, daughter of Charles Rofs(?) Whitehead, manufacturer of Montmorency, and Winifred
Thomas Stevenson born 26 February 1895.

1901 Census, Montreal, Quebec
Whitehead, Chas, 31, b Ontario, cotton manufacturer
Whitehead, Winifred, 28 b. Ontario
Whitehead, Joy, 6, b. Quebec
Whitehead, William J, 4, b. Quebec
Whitehead, Pillans, 2, b. Quebec
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/ViewFrame.jsp?id=89698&highlight=11

DB

[SWH1]

This is all just fantastic.  Massive thank you to you all. 

[SWH1]

Winnipeg Free Press, Jan 8 1916.  Montreal - "Canadian Girl is a Prisoner in Bulgaria"  It is about a Joy Whitehead, daughter of Charles Whitehead, manager of  cotton mills in Three Rivers.  She saw active service in several hospitals on various fronts over the last year.  When taken prisoner, she was acting as a lieutenant in a corps of the Serbian Army, having given up hospital work so she could be closer to the firing line.  It also says that prior to her departure from Canada last May, she had spent a couple of years in outdoor life in the Laurentian Mountains at Val Morina.  It says she was extremely fond of outdoor life and wore "semi- male line garb" on her tramps through the woods.  She could handle a canoe and a rifle better than most men.

All of this fits, more or less.  Only she was a POW in Serbia.  But its feasible she was also a POW in Bulgaria.  The timings etc are all compatible..Brilliant.  I would love to see a copy of the Winnipeg article.