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Canada / Re: Stokes/ VANDUSEN / George Robert William Deegan
« on: Saturday 17 February 24 01:47 GMT (UK)  »
  UGH...He pulled a runner... (again) George Robt Wm Deegan   Age 35  Birth Year 1887 ( Irish)  Immigration through  Vermont, United States  1922 - Says salesman - last residence Montreal headed for Syracruse N.Y. USA--- says wife Florence is in Prescott Ont.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99D9-4RWR

A first marriage, perhaps in 1903 ??? https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP44-9CMG
1891 census has him b. Birth  1886 - birth reg. 1886 Leicestershire, England
adding:   Blimey... FreeBMD shows he had two children who died young...and another in 1912 just before he headed to Canada? So was Ivy hers with another?
You can find what is likely another marriage ( 1940 census with a wife) & his death in U.S.

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Canada / Re: Stokes/ VANDUSEN / George Robert William Deegan
« on: Saturday 17 February 24 00:28 GMT (UK)  »
Deleted CEF info as not correct...     Found no Deegan/Stokes marriage as yet. Is there one?
adding:
   Ivy Deegan  age 5   d. 03 Nov 1916 ( 287 Main St. East) Hamilton, Wentworth, Ont. Ca   
birth 1911 England  parents  Geo. Deegan  &  Florence Stokes
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-694S-NJ7
FreeBMD shows a birth registered Jun 1910 - an Ivy DEEGAN  W. Derby
adding- Oops just found a death for same... Dec 1910
  Frank Hamilton Deegan   Birth  14 months  (241 Grosvenor Ave.)  Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Death  27 July 1916  Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada
Parents George Deegan, Florence Stokes
So looking for them immigrating to Canada somewhere betw. 1911 & 1916
see he came on his own 1912- says married / occ. clicker/shoemaker
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6LP9-BJJ?i=16

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Canada / Re: VANDUSEN help
« on: Friday 16 February 24 21:12 GMT (UK)  »
You likely have this but posting for others searching...
 (James) Howard Oran Van Dusen of 215 Fifth Avenue died Friday after a lengthy Illness, age 50. He was sales manager for Ernest Cousins Dairy, Montreal
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174362137/james-howard-vandusen
Sadly buried with married name rather than maiden name
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/226044752/florence-van_dusen
Found an online tree with an obit that says they married 1923 in Hamilton, Ont. Canada
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Vandusen-297

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Alexander McKillop, cabinetmaker, immigrated to the Miramichi area (formerly Douglastown) in 1820 from Arran, Scotland ( shows his residence built prior to 1850)
https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=8912
The 1851 census confirms Alexander McKillop, now a farmer, with wife Flora, 8 dau. & one son, arrived in June 1820
https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1851&op=img&id=e002293943

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Canada / Re: Calgary Soldiers' War Memorial
« on: Tuesday 13 February 24 18:03 GMT (UK)  »
adding...to see the full military file in the previous post's url, just hit the pdf.
  The Calgary memorial is dedicated to the war dead of Calgary's Army Reserve Regiments, and the Regiments that they perpetuate...
  To help commemorate him virtually, photos , etc. can be submitted here:
 https://canadiangreatwarproject.com/person.php?pid=7328
   &  here:  http://www.rootschat.com/links/01szw/
  Someone has added his newspaper report with an image of the lad.
He was attending University, & originally signed up with 196th Western Universities Company Overseas Battalion ...so hoped to see him on the UBC War Memorial Gym plaque...
He's not on the 196 plaque. Argh! I guess because he was shoved into another battalion heading for the trenches.  https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/arphotos/1.0020602?v=oc
  There is a larger plaque which may have his name, though. However, online image appears to only be a thumbnail image... useless to view in the low res. format provided. Maybe someone can get it to show the higher res. image it was obviously meant to have in the viewer.
   https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/arphotos/items/1.0143243

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Canada / Re: Calgary Soldiers' War Memorial
« on: Monday 12 February 24 03:22 GMT (UK)  »
  Sad that these young lads did not get to have their own families.  He states on attestation born in Calgary...he & his family were in Vancouver, B.C. at the time of his signup and his parents are recorded as being there at the time of his death. He was also fighting with a Saskatchewan battalion.
   They're in Gladys, Alberta in 1901-he's down as Russel J. - b.  Dec. 5 1898- age 2
   1906 -Calgary Dist. as Wm. Jno. Don't see them in 1911
   adding 1921 just because for some reason Rowles was hard to spell? (as Rolles )
    https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=census&IdNumber=66785271

His military file
https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=pffww&IdNumber=616640

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Canada / Re: DIONNE Family- METIS Bloodlines???
« on: Saturday 27 January 24 03:42 GMT (UK)  »
Welcome to the forum CC....Sorry to say that Bria had never answered this post from almost 18 yrs ago...
  As you can see there was no proof of any metis families in this old post.
   I'm sure everyone knows that sharing a metis surname does not make one metis.
  There does appear to be a few records of Dionne/ Dion metis scrip claims from the Red River/Rupertland/Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta...You'd need to do some extensive investigation into their & your genealogies to prove any relationship.
   Note there appears to be a lot of a.k.a./Dit Blandion in those as well.
   https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Search?q=scrip%20dion&
Here is an online Dionne family tree which claims metis status. I am only sharing it, not confirming.
a https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dionne-767
 all the best, J.J.
 

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The Lighter Side / Re: RootsChat 20th Anniversary - 31 st December 2023
« on: Saturday 13 January 24 02:40 GMT (UK)  »
  Sorry for the late reply...This site has helped so many people over the years. Thanks for all the hard work of putting together & hosting such a busy & helpful site...Used by families all over the world.
   Happy Anniversary, Rootschat! J.J.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Jean Horn birth details
« on: Saturday 06 January 24 16:12 GMT (UK)  »
   Here's a (not entirely accurate) placement of some of the crofts...The old & new information seems to not be the same, so placed William's somewhere in between what the 2 eras had noted. On 1861 census, previous to Wm. are Gateside, Hardford, Gateside, Old Mill, Silvermoss, Keithfield, Mosside Of Keithfield.  Ord. Survey Book re: Overwood Hill says- 2 small farms consisting of dwelling houses with outhouses and gardens. Situated abt. ¼ mile north of Netherwoodhill
   1851 - William lives on Over Wood Hill  settlement  - The 7th dwelling before him is BartleChapel
The George found in 1851 is in the Kirktown Of Bartle Chaple although he is buried near Tarves which is down in the SouthEast.
*** adding: Also found William buried Barthol Chapel! Which is exactly where I found George Horn in 1841.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162736485/william-horne
 
   For anyone who doesn't believe these strong people could have walked or ridden these small distances back then...The Scots who were expelled from their homeland braved a whole ocean to immigrate to Canada, and some ended up moving from the east coast of Canada all the way to the West coast. Trains weren't available in Western Canada until the 1880s. Walked...Horse...or Cart
   For further clarity, you could probably fit 2 plus British Isles into the central Province of Manitoba alone...

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