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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Topic started by: amber39 on Wednesday 23 June 10 20:59 BST (UK)
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On behalf of a friend I am trying to find what happened to an ancestor of his.
Vincent Conrad Huys Schroeder was born in 1910 in Islington, London, England. He emigrated when he was 15 on his own. I have him on a passenger list then and on two further lists at the ages of 19 and 23 probably visiting home.
The last voyage his destination was Halifax.
I have been unable to find any trace of him subsequently.
Does anyone have him in their tree ? I would love to know if he married and had a family.
Regards Amber39
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When he returned to Canada, arriving Port of Halifax 30 March 1930 on the Alaunia the passenger manifest shows that he had been in Canada from 1925-1929 at St. Gregor Saskatchewan. He was returning there to his employer G. Eelse.
St. Gregor is a town between Humboldt and Engelfield, all of these towns east of Saskatoon. A google map search will pull up its location.
http://www.ourroots.ca/toc.aspx?id=4440&qryID=974618ed-0208-4366-90b0-9af0ef1af8aa
An online local history book on Engelfield and there are references to Vincent Schroeder. Not much information but it seems he stayed in the area from 1926 to the 1940s and then it was thought he went to Winnipeg. If you put the Schroeder name in the search area it will pull up the references. One is under his employer, George Eelse.
Debbie
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Hi
Found this, he is buried in Brookside cemetery in Winnipeg why they wait in burial...hmm. Oh J.J. do you live near Brookside cemetery?? There may be an obituary for him the paper, unfortunately not that late I'm afraid.
Schroeder Vincent Conrade 75230 Ash Blk 1-0306-0 8/15/1979 5/3/1980
Jeff
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Ooooo... he did have a wife...PM your email addy and I will let you link up to the obituary for his deceased wife (can't post it in here though)
Jeff
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Many many thanks to cosmac and jeffster for answering my posting and for providing so much information.
I am having some difficulting in finding my way about the web site that you gave me, cosmac , but I am sure I'll get the hang of it eventually.
The obituary you sent me jeffster was very useful we now know he had a wife and family. All I could have asked for.
Like you I wonder why he was left 7 months before burial !!
Perhaps there- by hangs another story !!
Kinds Regards Amber39
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Hmmm, missed this one when it came up... ;D Peggy was born 1920 England
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=bobstrong&id=I191039
obit son in law http://www.obituariestoday.com/Obituaries/ObitShow.php?Obituary_ID=34421
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Hello J.J.
Thank you for your reply,
The Obituary of Gary Spillett was in particular very infomative, from having a single man ,Vincent Schroeder, I now have a man with a wife and 5 Children.
The only thing that still puzzles me is why was there 7 months between Vincent's death and his burial ?
Regards Amber39
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If someone doesn't find anything online I can go see if I can find the newspaper microfilm but not right now as I won't go downtown for only one request..... There can be some very grave mistakes in those transcriptions ;D but that is a fair distance in time J.J.
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Thanks for the offer of a look whenever you are in town I am most grateful.
I love the 'grave' mistakes !!!
Regards Amber39
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Here is your obit*, although it hold no extra information...There was nothing elsewhere regarding the death...If there was an inquest, it wasn't newsworthy...
I seem to be having problems with getting spammed as people are adding my email address to their address list when I send them info...also some are not getting the email, so am trying something different...
Your lookups will be posted here so go and look right away as I will want to delete them as soon as I can so as to not load up my service provider with huge files...Please acknowledge that you have seen/copied them!!
*My url since removed...contact thread owner for the obit information...
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Thank you so very much for taking the trouble to look for the obituary in Winnipeg newspapers.
It is lovely to have and there was the information that Vincent served in the 2nd World War in the R.C.A.F.
Thank you again this means so much to the family.
Regards Amber39
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Hi Amber,
I live not too far from Winnipeg, just across the provincial line in Northern Ontario. At times the cemeteries in our town, bodied were put in a storage building during winter after freeze up. The reason given was that when the ground was too hard to dig (by hand) during winter freeze up (and some winters were extremely long) the bodies would not actually be buried till the ground thawed. This was before in the days when they didn't have big machinery to do the job. The storage could have been as late as early May. But, not sure if that would have happened in Winnipeg with your ancestor?
Hope that helps, JDC
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This was August...but... I just realized there was a flood that year, so the ground was likely too saturated !!
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Thank you both J.D.C. and J.J. for your suggestions as to the postponed burial
Both of you have a point. If the ground was flooded and then it subsequently froze , there is the answer !!! Solved.
Regards Amber39