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Canada Lookup Request / head stone photos
« on: Tuesday 22 August 06 04:40 BST (UK)  »
If you are looking for a headstone photo from a cemetery in Hamilton Ontario Canada, I can get to some of them. Ask and I will let you know. Two for sure that I can get pictures from are Eastlawn Cemetery and White Chapel Cemetery. I live next to Eastlawn and I was raised next to WC. The city bus goes near enough some of the cemeteries in the city but if I ask my mom really nicely she might drive me to one of the ones I can't get to by bus. My husband thinks it is a little creepy that I am willing to go take pictures of headstones for other people, but then again he has never lived near one until now.

And sorry no, I am not willing to go digging around to find headstones in the winter so anyone interested take advantage in the next 3-4 months before the snow starts to fall. I don't even dig out my father's or grandfather's head stone for the winter, I just know where they are so I don't need to.

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Canada / Re: 2006 Canadian Census
« on: Tuesday 22 August 06 04:18 BST (UK)  »
Hunter, what will our future genealogists do if you didn't fill out the form?  Sure, the government has tax information, as long as you file, but there is no way from you tax info that they would know what your ethinic orgin was.

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][/color]I agree about that, this is why I said I didn't understand why 2 of my aunts checked no to having their  information released after 90 years, why should they care if they are going to be long dead anyway. I just didn't realize that we could be forced into filling out information like that.

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Canada / Re: 2006 Canadian Census
« on: Tuesday 22 August 06 04:13 BST (UK)  »
that is real nice, send an old lady to jail over something like this when they are already over crowded as it is, plus all those people who aren't in jail who really should be. The legal system is really getting stupid.

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Kent Completed Lookup Requests / Elizabeth Boughton born 1868?
« on: Sunday 20 August 06 07:12 BST (UK)  »
I have run into a problem once I found some information on Elizabeth. The census record I have from 1871 places Elizabeth at the age of 2 living with her father and his parents. I figured with no mother listed she must have died during or shortly after delivery. I was looking at another copy of the same census record, a little clearer which lists Elizabeth's father as unmarried as far as I can see, not widowed.

What happened here that I am just not seeing? I wouldn't have thought a man in his 20's would raise a baby living at home or not at that time. It would make sense to me for the baby to go to the mother's parents to be raised unless they couldn't afford it.

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Canada / Re: 2006 Canadian Census
« on: Sunday 20 August 06 06:22 BST (UK)  »
I never heard anything about there being a fine for people who don't fill it out. I thought it was all optional if you filled one out or not. The government has your income tax information so they know where you are, what you do and how much you get, if you have children and if you are still claiming them for baby bonus, GST and tax break purposes.
The ones we got were all sent out by mail as far as I know. There were 2 different forms sent out a long one and a short one. 4 of my aunts got the short ones while my mom, sister and myself got the long version ones.
I wouldn't mind doing enumerations and door to door for the census forms but I don't think my little one would sit in his stroller long enough for that and people can get down right mean when it comes to things like this, or anything door to door really.

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Scotland / Re: looking for David Hunter
« on: Wednesday 16 August 06 15:20 BST (UK)  »
nope, David(2) and Elizabeth were born and married in Scotland and their son David(1), my grandfather was born in Ayr Scotland 1919.
David(1) Hunter was born in Scotland, I don't know when he came to Ontario but he was here by his late teens, he served in WW2 stationed in Africa, north south I don't know. I have the discharge paper at my mom's place so I may be able to scan that sometime. He married Ann Patricia Campbell in 1939 I think then they had 3 sons born 1940, 1946 and 1952, all 3 deceased now in opposite order 1997, 1998, 1999. David(1) Hunter died 1979 in mid to late July. I know that he was burried July 24 1979 as it was my father's brithday and only a few months after he married my mother.
If I have missed anything else or something is unclear, I will try to straighten that out, but right now I am off to meet my mother. I am going as support for an appointment, she had a mamagram a couple weeks ago and they found something small, she already has pre-cancerous skin spots so I am really hoping that this is going to turn out to be nothing, or at least nothing serious. Cancer runs rampant in her family already claiming one of her sister way too young. It is on my father's side as well. 2 of the 3 brothers I spoke of died of stomach cancer, my father was massive heart attack. My husband's grandmother is dying right now of cancer that lead to a stroke over a year ago. I fear for what my own family now has to look forward to with it being on both sides of my family and at least one of my hubby's.

Anyway if no one can find anything yet after this, maybe this line is just not meant to be traced right now.

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Scotland / Re: looking for David Hunter
« on: Tuesday 15 August 06 16:40 BST (UK)  »
I just got my mom to check my sister's baby book for some info, hers has a small family tree in it. I was mistaken on the name. David Hunter born 1919 Ayr Scotland, his father is also David Hunter, I don't have a birth or death date on him or even a location for either, so unfortunately I still don't know if David, my grandfather, came here as a baby, boy or older. I don't think he was all that old because he married my grandmother around 20 years of age. Anyway his father the next David hunter on my list was from Scotland and married a woman named Elizabeth. I know nothing so far of siblings since I never knew the man.

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Cemetry Lookup Please
« on: Wednesday 09 August 06 05:03 BST (UK)  »
washing is the chore of the day here too, moving has turned up a lot of dirty laundry and dishes that I didn't have time or energy to do before moving. This is the second time we moved with dirty dishes and I hope to never do that again, boxing up dirty dishes and then forgetting about which box you put them in for a week or more is a horrible sight to come across once you do. The laundry I was supposed to do that today but my taxi, I mean my mom didn't get to my place until 20 minutes before last load and it takes about that amount of time to drive to the cleaners that I prefer to go to still. Since Shaun has no plans for tomorrow I have signed him up for laundry and now we are going litterally from one extreme end of the city to the opposite extreme end of the city to my mom's place while she is babysitting my cousin's daughter to do laundry and get this present for Shaun made and hidden while he is in the same apartment and my little cousin can't keep a secret to save her life so I think that we will be waiting until after she gets picked up to do the shirt and card then Shaun can go ahead and give Gabe his bath and hopefully he won't get too suspicious as to why his son has blue hands.

And yes, that is true that he won't be going anywhere soon, but I would be one of the first to know if any were to come back as zombies. lol

If thursday is going to be like today and not too hot then I will send Shaun to visit his Nana and take Gabe but if it is too warm that day I am still aiming for friday.

Janine

PS ~ you don't happen to know the name of the cinema(s) do you?

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: CEMETERY LOOKUP PLEASE
« on: Tuesday 08 August 06 05:08 BST (UK)  »
Gerome,

just so you don't think I have forgotten about you, I haven't. I keep finding things that I have to go out to get with just moving in here a week ago, then putting up the new blinds, 2 down 3 more to go, now since my washer decided to stop working on me a few weeks ago I have to go out again to do my laundry and with moving that wasn't a top priority until someone is one pair away from being out of clean underwear again. Half of the clothes I washed 2 weeks ago are still clean in a bag, somewhere around here. Tuesday it is supposed to be cooler with no humidity and the same for wednesday. Both days are filled now with Laundry and wednesday I am going to my mom's so she can help me and Gabe make Shaun's birthday present without him seeing what it is for a few more weeks. Thursday is supposed to be humid again but the weekend is looking really nice so I am going to make my best effort to go on Friday to the cemetery and get the picture for you.

I was just looking at the name again and relation, do you know if you are related to Ernie Coombes? Or better known as Mr. Dressup children's television actor?


Also MJP, where are you from? I figured that you are from Canada since we were talking about the census form from this year, but I also saw that you are a relation to Prior, I know a family by that name in the city here.

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