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Canada / Brick wall in Montreal
« on: Tuesday 05 June 12 14:09 BST (UK) »
Hey Rootschatters - long time no see.
I'm facing a brick wall in Montreal and would love some help. Here's what we have to start with:
Earl Charles Taylor (may have gone by "Charles" - not sure)
b. 24 Apr 1905 (according to family - haven't found birth cert yet)
Place of birth unknown (somewhere in Canada)
Father Charles, mother Rachel (maiden name unknown)
Charles senior was apparently from Glengarry County, Ontario (near Dunvegan), but later moved to Montreal
Rachel was apparently from Nova Scotia.
Charles and Rachel are supposedly buried in Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal. Rachel died circa 1941.
I don't know when Charles moved to Montreal and so don't know where the marriage and Earl Charles' birth took place.
Earl Charles apparently worked at Eaton's in Montreal.
What I've tried:
I can't find any sign of them in the 1911 census (when Earl Charles should be age 6), or any earlier census for that matter. There are only a few Taylor families in Glengarry County, and none named Charles.
I've had a look through Lovell's Montreal Directories, but there are too many Charles Taylors to be sure of anything. There was an Earl Taylor, salesman at Eaton's, in 1938, 1939, and 1946, but that doesn't really get us anywhere - no Charles living at the same address that might be his father.
There are no appropriate BMDs in the Ontario records or in the Drouin collection on Ancestry.
There is a Rachel Taylor in the database at Mount Royal Cemetery who died in 1940, but the year of birth given would make her 53 when Earl Charles was born in 1905. There is a Charles Taylor also, who died in the 70s at age 99.
I think my next step will have to be to order up those records from Mount Royal Cemetery and see what they say. I suppose it would also help to get Earl Charles' marriage certificate - but I will have to ask the family I am doing this for if they have it or if they want to order it. I'm not up to speed on the privacy rules for Quebec vital records.
Any other ideas???
I'm facing a brick wall in Montreal and would love some help. Here's what we have to start with:
Earl Charles Taylor (may have gone by "Charles" - not sure)
b. 24 Apr 1905 (according to family - haven't found birth cert yet)
Place of birth unknown (somewhere in Canada)
Father Charles, mother Rachel (maiden name unknown)
Charles senior was apparently from Glengarry County, Ontario (near Dunvegan), but later moved to Montreal
Rachel was apparently from Nova Scotia.
Charles and Rachel are supposedly buried in Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal. Rachel died circa 1941.
I don't know when Charles moved to Montreal and so don't know where the marriage and Earl Charles' birth took place.
Earl Charles apparently worked at Eaton's in Montreal.
What I've tried:
I can't find any sign of them in the 1911 census (when Earl Charles should be age 6), or any earlier census for that matter. There are only a few Taylor families in Glengarry County, and none named Charles.
I've had a look through Lovell's Montreal Directories, but there are too many Charles Taylors to be sure of anything. There was an Earl Taylor, salesman at Eaton's, in 1938, 1939, and 1946, but that doesn't really get us anywhere - no Charles living at the same address that might be his father.
There are no appropriate BMDs in the Ontario records or in the Drouin collection on Ancestry.
There is a Rachel Taylor in the database at Mount Royal Cemetery who died in 1940, but the year of birth given would make her 53 when Earl Charles was born in 1905. There is a Charles Taylor also, who died in the 70s at age 99.
I think my next step will have to be to order up those records from Mount Royal Cemetery and see what they say. I suppose it would also help to get Earl Charles' marriage certificate - but I will have to ask the family I am doing this for if they have it or if they want to order it. I'm not up to speed on the privacy rules for Quebec vital records.
Any other ideas???