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Hi Susanmj, J.J. and polarbear,
This is how I have distilled all the info supplied by your good selves.

Joseph Sealey Married Henrietta Laronde        John McNeiley Married Catherine Dubreuil
                             -                                                                            -
                             -                                                                            -
                       Francis Chas Sealey                 Married              Mary Ann McNeilly
                            (Died 1899)                                               -                      =
                                                                           -                                       =
                                                                 Joseph Eligah Seeley                     =
                                                                     (Born 1897)                             =
                                                                                                                   =
                                                                                                                   =
                       Edward Dubreuil                    Married                 Mary Ann McNeilly                 
                                                                                                        (2nd Marriage)
                                                                                                         (Married 1901)
Questions
Am I right in assuming  there is no evidence that Joseph had 2 full brothers called Charles and Ned?

If Mary Ann McNeilly's mother's maiden name was Dubreuil, do you think her 2nd husband, Edward Dubreuil, was in fact her 1st or 2nd cousin? I certainly do!! 

If Francis Chas died on 20/12/1899, and Mary Ann married Edward Dubreuil on 10/02/1901, then who is the father of William, born December 1900(as per 1911 census). I presume it was Edward,before they got married.

Susanmj, we now know our great grandparents and our Great great grandparents on Joseph Eligah's side.

City Hall.

Hi JJ and polarbear. JJ, sorry for the delay in replying and thank you both for welcoming me to the forum. Please regard this post as a 'holding' reply. Things are starting to look very interesting from both your most recent posts. I have only glanced over them very quickly, but I am getting excited. Please indulge me while I read them more thoroughly, and then I will post a more comprehensive reply. Thank you again for taking the time to help.

Regards.

Hi all, I know this is a very old thread, but rather than start a new one I thought I would re-activate it. I am also a grandchild of Joseph Eligah Seeley, though from a different stem than that of Susan. I have carried out much research into the elusive J E and have acquired a lot of additional info, but still cannot find his family on the various Canadian censuses.

I suppose the best place to start is to list the additional information I have. So in no particular order (as they say), here goes.
On his son James(my late father) birth cert, he is listed as Joseph G. Seeley.
On his marriage cert in 1920, he is listed as Francis Joseph Eligha Seeley and his father's name is listed as Francis Chas Seely(no final E) and his father's occupation is listed as a miner. My only surviving uncle has told me previously that Joseph's father died of copper poisoning at a young age from working in the mines.
My uncle has also previously informed me that Joseph had 2 brothers, Charles and Ned.

The following information is taken from Joseph's Canadian Army service record.

His mother's forenames are variously listed as J E and Mary Ann. i think we can discount the J E as these are Joseph's initials! So that leaves his mother  called Mary Ann something. In different parts of his service record her surname is listed as Dubroy, Dubriel and Dubreil.
Her place of residence is variously listed as Coniston, Sudbury and Dill Siding. Tellingly, I presume, the details listed on where Joseph's army pay should be sent to are
Mrs Mary A Dubreil, Dill Siding Ontario.

His DOB on his attestation papers is given as 18-1-1898 but at his demob he gives his DOB as   25-1-1900.

He travelled from Canada to England on 30-4-1917 on board the SS Megantic and returned to Canada after the war on 4-10-1919 on board the SS Belgic.

The only other piece of info I have that may help identify his family is that in 1908, as a young boy aged 8 or 10, depending on which DOB is correct, he lost half of the thumb and 2 fingers of his left hand in the exploding of a dynamite detonator. This event may or may not have been newsworthy at the time.
As I say, although I have all this information, I appear no nearer to finding his family in any census.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.