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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Topic started by: SWH1 on Friday 21 September 18 19:50 BST (UK)
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Hello all, I wonder if anyone can help here? I am trying as part of a WW1 project to find out about Josephine Whitehead. Who was an young engineer working in Serbia with the Serbian Relief Fund in 1915. I think she may have been born around 1893. I would love to know about her and what became of this lady. Just anything would be fantastic. I have read some bits and bobs on the net and from a relevant diary. But nothing apart from her war in 1915.
Thank you for reading this
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Mentioned in this article.......
https://mdprogram.mcmaster.ca/docs/default-source/MUMJ-Library/v4_53---57---history-of-medicine.pdf?sfvrsn=0
Is that an educated guess at the date of birth ? Dorothea Clara Maude who befriended Josephine was a bit older, that's why I ask the question ? (1879-1959)
Sandra
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Hello Sandra, I did come across that link but not sure if it was ok to post it. I found in another ladys diary that Josephine was 22 and that was 1915.
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Oh right - ok - looking at the picture I wondered if she had seemed older. Have only found one Josephine Whitehead in that sort of age group so far and she was originally born 11/1897 Scotland living in Saskatchewan - immigrated 1911. Would only make her 18 years old in 1915 so maybe not this one. ???
1911 census Saskatchewan
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1911/jpg/e002101079.jpg
1916 census Saskatchewan
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMPT-SGW
1921 census Saskatchewan (no Euphemia)
http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1921&op=img&id=e003220137
Sandra
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Sandra, Its not a bad shout as her nickname was "Kiltie" in the photo. Had a feeling this one was going to be challenge.
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This would be the same family back in Scotland 1901 Clunie Perthshire. Could Josephine be Euphemia ??? I have seen reference to this alternative.
David Whitehead 34 Helen Whitehead 52
Robert Whitehead 13 Mary Whitehead 11
David Whitehead 9 William Whitehead 8 John Whitehead 5
Euphemia Whitehead 3
Euphemia Eadie Whitehead - F - 1897 - 345/ 8 - Dron
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/PER/Dron
Sandra
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Sandra, am not sure.
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Sorry SWH - neither am I :-\
Sandra
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Thank you for spending your Friday night looking tho.
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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.
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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
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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
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Charles Ross Whitehead died in 1954. Winnifred in 1920
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172999691
RK
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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
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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
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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
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This is all just fantastic. Massive thank you to you all.
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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.
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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
Hi, this is very interesting. So she married and had children? This is great.
Excellent
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Have found Joy, husband and Meera on a passenger list, departure Port as Trieste and Naples, Italy and Patras, Greece. Arriving 14 Jul 1920 on the President Wilson.
Keep getting an error on the Canadian site so can't post a link to the image ???
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Found this one in the English newspapers
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There are passenger lists some with family on ancestry, also she is as Leslie/Leslie J./Joy when searching
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That article certainly sounds like her. There is quite a lot online about her father Charles Ross Whitehead and his businesses.
Here is something about her grandfather William James Whitehead
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01mrh/
RK
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Hi
Her father did have a pulp and paper company, but he was well known in the cotton business, founder of Wabasso (it was a well known company here)
http://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?methode=consulter&id=26953&type=pge#.W6ZNQehKhPY
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ross_Whitehead
DB
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Have found Joy, husband and Meera on a passenger list, departure Port as Trieste and Naples, Italy and Patras, Greece. Arriving 14 Jul 1920 on the President Wilson.
Keep getting an error on the Canadian site so can't post a link to the image ???
The Library and Archives Canada site has been acting up today...
Here is the passenger list you found
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01mri/
Joy and family are on page 4 out of 7.
RK
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Everyone, thank you so much.
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It appears she later married a George Andrew Vaughan.
1937 immigration card mentions Leslie Joy Vaughan as formerly Voyinovitch, nee Whitehead
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8MX-24R
She passed away in 1964:
http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/genealogy-images/004479258/004479258_01072.jpg
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Perfect Thank you.
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Just confirming that Charles Meela was the eldest daughter of Leslie Joy Whitehead. Meela was my grandmother, and from what I have read, as fierce as her mother.
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Hi CanadianAbroad,
I'm currently doing some research on your great-grandmother, Jo Whitehead, and would love to hear more about Meela, too!
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