Hi,
As you mentioned, James served in WW1, b. Dec. 27/1885, there is a WW1 service file, you can view it here, 54 pages, it is slow to load.
https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B4332-S045
Mentioned within the file, wife Catherine Higgins, parents John and Margaret Higgins, Simond St., both still living and 3 children James aged 10, Albert Addington 7, and George Henry 5. On page 28, there is a death notification, the date is hard to make out. It looks like 1929 but must be 1979, as he was the informant on this mother's death in 1932 and assumed still living with wife Catherine's death in 1954.
New Brunswick deaths are not available/privacy protected after 1969.
DB
Hello dbree
Thank you very much for the link to the War Papers for James Higgins.
As you say it mentions his wife Catherine (Kathleen) and three of his children at 149 Millidge Avenue, St John.
The War papers are very interesting. He even went to Liverpool where I was born. I am now in Australia.
It mentions his parents at Simond Street, St John, N.B. so the Death Record for John Henry Higgins on 7 May 1922 is the correct one. I have since looked on google and saw Adelaide Street was off Millidge Avenue.
I read the Date of Death on the Veterans Affairs Death Notification for James Higgins as 3 May 1979 and he died at West St John Community Hospital.
I have since found that John and Margaret Higgins and two children Charles and William were living next to Margaret's mother Martha Connell (who was Darrah or Darragh) and a few children. Martha Connell was a Widow. That was on the 1881 Canada Census.
So it appears that the correct records have been found.
I will now put them into Date order.
Thank you once again.
Take care
Pat
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