Cardiff and Keyboard, it was very kind of you for that info.
My estimation of 1876 for James was simply based on him being probably 20 years older than Edward…, sorry for that misleading calculation. As such and if the 1901 census report is ours, he's now born in 1863. If this is correct, he moved back to Canterbury from Blean before Edward's birth. This evening I'll try looking at the 1871 census.
Of course…, if James died in Kent in 1910, this excludes him from being a Canadian immigrant while at the same time substantiating the Bernardo's theory. Extremely interesting !
As for Cilia or Celia, (my father's aunt) …, I have her living in Uxbridge, Ontario and she married into a family called Morden. (even although my father had scribbled "nee Wood, Ogden Mrs.")
As for Edward's birth certificate, unfortunately no…, but with a couple of signed military documents, he personally states his dob as being 02/03/1896. When his wife Mary Elizabeth Dennett died, (I remember her in Glasgow Scotland at the time) she was on her own. And this could indicate that they were divorced, because in a 1934 military document, he indicated his next-of-kin as being a certain Mrs. R. A. Wood of 29 Pleasant Avenue, Toronto.
As for a profession for James…, on Edward’s wedding certificate, James is reported as being a "general laborer." (so he couldn’t have been blind…, unless of course Edward didn’t want to reveal that his father had been an organ grinder, which is more than possible as the Dennetts were apparently a special bunch)
As my maternal side all come from Scotland, I was hoping to stumble over an English "Jack Sparrow" but instead, I seem to have found myself an organ grinder ! (but being blind…, perhaps he had a patch, so I suppose I'm on the right road
) And with him being musical, perhaps it's in the family genes…, as I was a piper in the Pipes and Drums of the Scots Guards for 10 years !
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