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Family History Beginners Board / Quebec death records 1931
« on: Friday 12 March 21 05:11 GMT (UK)  »
My great-grandfather, William Hughes Clark died July 3, 1931 at his home in Ste.H. Fron-Tenac, Montreal, Quebec.  He was immediately to Hamilton,Ontario by the funeral company where he was buried in the family plot.  Questions:

1) Where do I look for Quebec death records which seem to be only linked to churches?  W.H. Clark was during his lifetime a Methodist, a Christian, a Congregationalist, a Bible Christian, & at the latter part of his life a member of the Plymouth Brethren (who tell their records are quite spotty). Is there some sort of civil registration index in Quebec at the time?

2) I found a link on ancestry.ca to a newspaper archives to an obituary in the Winnipeg Free Press, Monday, Feb.09, 1931 (see attached image).  However when I leave the ancestry site the site I arrive at wants me to pay a minimum $30 for 6 months to see the obituary. Any ideas where else I might look?

Many thanks for any leads you can provide.

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Family History Beginners Board / Marriage LICENCES
« on: Tuesday 08 January 19 02:55 GMT (UK)  »
One of my ancestors married via licence which he got through the Vicar General of Canterbury on June 4, 1819.  He married the next day.

Does a licence usually note the spouses' ages & parents?  For the wife there is absolutely NO information about her other than her name so I have no idea when or where she was born or who her parents were.  All I know is that the parish register (St. Botolph without Aldersgate, London) indicates that she was "of this parish" which says very little.  She MAY have been born in the parish or, like her husband-to-be, she may have come to London from afar (in his case, Reading, Berkshire).

Does anyone know if the licences were kept or if the Vicar General of Canterbury had some sort of ledger where they noted the nitty-gritty details then issued a less complete licence?

PS - their first child arrived over a year later so I don't think she was pregnant at the time.

Thanks.

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Canada / Mary Emma Williams death
« on: Tuesday 08 January 19 02:26 GMT (UK)  »
My great-grandmother, Mary Emma Williams Bowen, is buried in Montreal.  I have a photo of her headstone with the life dates 1863 - 1903.  I had accepted that as gospel truth shall we say until last week; when I found her STILL ALIVE and still married to her husband Howard Prime Bowen!  The census was taken June 11, 1911.  Howard Prime married a second time on December 14, 1912 & he was listed as a "widower". Therefore I'm assuming that Mary Emma died after June 11, 1911 and before December 14, 1912. Is THIS a logical assumption?

I have to assume that the census records are accurate i.e. that the person taking the census actually saw Mary Emma & just wasn't told she was still alive.  Is this a correct assumption??  What makes it more difficult is that there is no record of her death; the province of Quebec has a really convoluted method of registering a death & I can't find her death in their archives, Ancestry.ca, Find My Past, LDS - nowhere.

Let's add another wrinkle.  Both Mary Emma & Howard were UNITARIANS.  I contacted the Unitarian Church in Canada & was told that quite frankly, the Unitarian's BMD records were sparse to non-existent. 

Until about 2 decades ago, all Quebec BMD records were left in the hands of the parish church.  Unitarians' records aren't available so it's almost a circular problem!  Add another layer and Quebec usually registered women under their MAIDEN names but the Unitarian Church came from England where women were registered under their married name!!  Anyone have some ideas what might have happened or where I might look for her death?  Since I don't have a specific date of date I can't order a death certificate either.

Thanks!

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The Lighter Side / It isn't just stolen photographs.... !!
« on: Tuesday 08 January 19 02:11 GMT (UK)  »
It isn't just photographs that are being "used" without asking permission!!  I have found researching many of the branches of my maternal & paternal family trees that EVERYONE seems to have "lifted" the family trees from ONE family tree - mistakes and all.  I'm sitting there with the Clark family Bible for instance messaging so many people who have gotten it wrong & I finally gave up.  People just don't seem to cross-check what they're taking as "facts" with what the records actually say. They also don't seem to put themselves back in the time & think about the fact that if someone was born in Reading, Berkshire, in 1790 there's a good chance that they did NOT marry someone in Welshpool, 50 or miles away! Long way to walk or take a cart!

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Family Bibles / WILLIAM HUGHES CLARK Family Bible
« on: Tuesday 08 January 19 01:26 GMT (UK)  »
If anyone is interested, I have the William Hughes Clark family Bible started by his first wife, Rosina Eleanor Birkett (b. 1844) & can provide some information on the descendants.

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Occupation Interests / Chemist & Veterinary Chemist
« on: Tuesday 08 January 19 01:20 GMT (UK)  »
What did the occupations of "chemist"  and "veterinary chemist" actually DO?  One ancestor, George William BIRKETT is described as a "chemist" when he took an apprentice in 1802.  His son, William BIRKETT (b. 1795, St. Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire  d. July, 1863 in Cambridge) was a "veterinary chemist".  I haven't been able to find out what exactly they might have done.

Thanks.

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