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Can anyone help with this please?

Harriet Pike born 1882 in Gillingham married James Venemore on 23rd September 1906 at Gillingham.  I cannot find a birth record in England for James but the marriage record says his father, George was a Baker, as was James.

In 1907 Harriet and James travelled on the Tunisian to Montreal, Canada - their destination is Quebec.  There is a note next to their names 'To Be Deported'.  What would this mean?  Does it mean James was born in Canada or in the UK?

James was born c1880 and, presumably, died between 1909 (they had a son in 1909) and 1911.  There is a James Croxford Venemore with father George in Leighton Buzzard that fits with the birth and death dates but this appears to be a red herring.  James Croxford Venemore married Minnie Frost in 1902 and it appears that Minnie died in 1904 but Harriet's James is shown as a batchelor on the marriage record in 1906.

Harriet returned to the UK in 1910 with her two children but James was not with them and I have found no other record of him returning.  In the 1911 census Harriet is shown as a widow.

If anyone could help with James's birth and/or death records it would help a lot and I would be very grateful.

Rishile

I 'stopped' doing Family History about five years ago because of other commitments and being unable to continue financially.  However, I never got rid of any of my documents or work.  Since then I have re-found two cousins who seem to constantly want me to continue.  They are on different sides of the family but they always seem to contact me at the same time.  Yesterday I received a package from one cousin with lots of interesting family items including letters sent from my grand-father to my grand-mother plus lot of other things.  Now the other cousin is asking me to verify information for her.  I have also received a lot of help from people originally found on RootsChat that was originally in contact years ago.  People keep sending me things and I'm not complaining at all but I wonder when it will stop.  Does it ever stop?

Rishile

Social distancing now seems something from our dim and distant past.  At the beginning of the lockdown everyone was dodging everyone else, waiting patiently while someone walked towards them along a narrow path or walking into the road to keep their distance.  Supermarkets were full of people waiting while someone else was looking at the shelves or fridges.  Queues were very orderly with everyone standing 2m apart.

So, what has happened?  Since the face-mask in shops regulation, social distancing doesn't seem to exist any more.  It was so bad in our local supermarket yesterday that it looked as if everyone was panic buying again.  There was also a queue for the newly-opened restaurant in the supermarket and everyone appeared to be from the same household because nobody was social distancing.

 

Rishile

And now for the rest of the news...

Please leave the room if you don't want to hear the football results

That was a sensible comment from Donald Trump

This house is filthy.  Shall we do some housework?

Let's have a day browsing around the shops

Your hair looks nice.  Have you just had it cut?

I've just booked a holiday

I'm sure there are lots more
Rishile

Once all of this is over, I am hoping this will be a better world.  I am hoping we will realise how fragile life is and how precious our family are and how vulnerable our parents can be in a crisis.  I am actually very pleased my parents and in-laws are not around now because they all lived a long way from us and it would be a huge problem trying to help them through this.

But there are a lot of smaller things I hope will continue.  I hope the obsession with mobile phones may lessen and people will actually talk to each other face to face.  I hope people can slow down and enjoy the smaller details of life.  For example - sit down and enjoy a cup of coffee rather than gulp it down on the run.  I hope people that started courses continue them or those that took up a new hobby continue to get pleasure from it.  I hope the people that have helped others in their community still feel it is important to do that even when they don't think they have the time.

I'm hoping but I'm not that optimistic at the moment, but it's early days.
Rishile