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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Canada Lookup Request => Topic started by: manawakian on Wednesday 22 August 18 12:54 BST (UK)
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Seeking obituary for subject lady who lived her married life in or nearby Humboldt, Saskatchewan. If not available then obit for her husband Garfield Chauncey WHITMARSH (1884-1971). Humboldt obits might appear in Saskatoon daily papers.
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Humboldt Public Library has newspapers but without a exact DOD it could be a very time consuming search. No exact DOD on the headstones either. ::) ::)
Only other solution would be to contact Saskatchewan Vital Statistics and that will cost you a few bucks. I believe they will do a 2 or 3 year search but it is non refundable if they do not find a death
Lilybell
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What information were you hoping to find in the obituaries ?
Lilybell - If it helps - Chauncey Garfield Whitmarsh - 17 September 1971 Humboldt Saskatchewan.
Notice a son Garnet Whitmarsh 1 June 1909 - 30 May 1986 passed away in Parksville, British Columbia. Aged 76 years - spouse - Catherine Therres.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLKW-31Z
Sandra
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Hi Sandra I do have the year Hannah Mae and Chauncey died but no day and month of their deaths.
The library has obituaries for the Humboldt newspaper on Microfiche and a stick but it is too much for them to try and go through all their records to find a obit. Probably don't have enough staff.
I even checked with Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness for Saskatchewan but no one volunteering for that city.
??? ???
Lilybell
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Hi Sandra I do have the year Hannah Mae and Chauncey died but no day and month of their deaths.
??? ??
Lilybell
I gave you the date of death for Chauncey Garfield Whitmarsh - 17 September 1971 Humboldt Saskatchewan but nothing so far for Hannah.
Sandra
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Sandra sorry I did not have my glasses on and ran in quick while making breckfast and missed Chauncey's dates..
May I ask where you found the death for him. The Humboldt newspapers do not appear to be online.
Lilybell
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Lilybell, I searched the Humboldt library site a few days ago and learned they have the Humboldt newspaper archive on microfilm and, like you, realized that searching a year’s worth of papers would be simplified by knowing the date of Hannah’s death. I live a 5 hour drive away from Humboldt so doing the search myself would be more time-consuming and expensive than practical. I plan to phone the cemetery, local undertakers and the library to see if the search can be simplified and made more economical. Sandra, thanks for trying to help, I tracked down Hannah’s grandson (the one who signed his father’s death cert in BC) some years ago and still have his old e-mail address which might still work. Finding Hannah’s parents identity is a brickwall I have been banging my head against for ten or fifteen years now and I have recently had dna tests done which lead to matches which might involve Hannah’s descendants, whom I had no great interest in until now.
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Not sure this would help you - There is an anc tree which shows Hannah parents as - Miles Edward Morris - 11 November 1849 - Caledon, Peel, Ontario, Canada passed away 3 September1928 - Winnipeg Manitoba. Burial - Winnipegosis municipal cemetery, plot 331
Mother Mary Ellen Harris - 2 August 1850 - Kentucky - passed away 4 April 1926 - Humbold, Saskatchewan. Burial - 7 APR 1926 - Winnipegosis municipal cemetery, plot 331
Died at the farm home of her daughter Hannah Mae Morris Whitmarsh on Section 18-38-22 W2 near Humboldt Saskatchewa
Miles Edward Morris appears on Manitoba death Index - 3 Sept 1928 - Winnipegosis, Manitoba.
http://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/Query.php
Sandra
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They show family under Marriott - 1900 census Agnes, Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Merivn Marriot 48 Canada
Ellen Marriot 47 Kentucky
Marion Marriot 9 N Dakota
Welcome Marriot 8 N Dakota
Ethel Marriot 5 Minn
May Marriot 15 N Dakota
Hannah Marriott Mother 75 Canada widowed.
Sandra
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Hi the funeral home that was in business at the time is no longer in business. If I am spelling it right
the name was Scharff.
I sent off a request to the library in Humboldt for Chauncey's obit. Thanks to Sandra coming up with a DOD.I had previously been in touch with them on your behalf so if they can find his obit I can forward it on to you.
If you can PM your e mail I will forward it on to you.
Lilybell
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Sister Ethel Morris married Charles Walter Blake -
FIND A GRAVE
Ethel A Blake -
Charles Walter Blake - buried Edmonton Municipal Cemetery 1975
Edmonton Municipal Cemetery Edmonton, Edmonton Census Division, Alberta.
PLOT E 19 01A
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155965560
Ethel A Blake - 1895 - 1973 -
Mountain View Memorial Gardens Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta.
PLOT Everlasting Life
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135708202
Sandra
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Sandra, I think you found my late wife’s family tree on Ancestry which I still manage. All the info on that tree was found by yours truly and none of it is copied from other trees. I have Mary Ellen’s death certificate from Saskatchewan which lists her birth date, her birth in Kentucky and her parents names, none of which can be confirmed. The first trace of Mary Ellen which can be found in the records is the 1885 North Dakota census. You are free to try and find any trace of her before 1885, but I will bet you a moderate amount that you will fail. I have tentatively added a sister for Mary Ellen recently through dna links but am not convinced of the relationship.
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Thanks to Lilybell for obtaining Chauncey Garfield Whitmarsh obituary. Sandra, please see if you can find any trace of daughter Fay (Mrs M.O. Lewis) who was living in Daytona Beach, Florida at the time of her father's death in 1971.
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1950 BC death for Fay Harriette Lewis at age 7 gives her parents as Morris Orville Thomas Lewis (born Wales) and Dorris Fay Whitmarsh (born Humboldt, Sask.). Might find it easier looking with more complete names.
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Nice find Cosmac, Doris Fay LEWIS was living in Collingwood, Ontario at the time of her brother Clair's death in 1980. Thanks to RunKitty for Orville & Clair WHITMARSH obits, will PM her to see if she can find Fay's.