PRICE - maiden name, unsure of married name

[legs11]

Hi to everybody,

I don't know if anyone can help me, but i have found out that there were 19 children in my hubby's grandmother's family, which includes her, and one of her sisters after she married moved to Canada with her daughter and son-in-law. Now when this was I don't know. Her daughter's name is Gladys, but what her married name is I don't know.

What I'm asking is is there anyway that I can find out which sister went over there.

Her father's name would be Harry and her mother would be Matilda Price (nee Ball).

His grandmother never spoke about her family much, so I don't have alot of information about them at all.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

thanks

legs11 

[Lauraine]

Hi:  This is probably not a lot of help, but did see some family with name of Price in the Long Point Settlement in Upper Canada.  To reach this site try:

http://www.nornet.on.ca/~jcardiff

There is a section on BMD's.  Very interesting site if you want to know anything about Emprire Loyalists, early Canadian transportation modes, food, building, etc.  There were some people who settled in this area early who were not Emprire Loyalists.  The transcriptions of Tasher (not totally accurate) give some interesting points on the transportation modes, etc.  Lauraine

[J.J.]

First of all to establish a timeline to figure some dates....

The marriage of the two parents of this person was in:
Marriages Sep 1879     Warminster    5a 237   
Ball   Matilda        PRICE  Harry

Source BMD     http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

Have you no names for the children? The BMD has so many entries for warminster!  Have you tried to get an entry for the 1891, and 1901 census in Wiltshire from that thread in rootschat....Would help to have the list of names first?

[J.J.]

After you have found out the names..there are Prices on this list longer than any list I've seen....however, this does not assure it is your ancestor, until you follow up with further info... http://members.shaw.ca/nanaimo.fhs/
J.J.

[MJP]

legs11,

As JJ said, you really need some more names and some dates before you can try to find them in Canada. 

It sounds like we are looking at an emigration that took place well into the 20th century, if Harry and Matilda were married in 1879.  In order for the sister to have emigrated with a married daughter, we are looking, at the VERY least, at 1919 (if the sister was the first child of Harry and Matilda and then had Gladys at a young age herself).  Do you have a more precise sense of the date?  A birthdate for the sister would be a good clue. 

And, from what I understand, we are not actually looking for someone named Price, since she would have a married name.  So you need to use English BMD records to try and find which Price sister you are talking about, her married name (this would be the same as Gladys' maiden name, right?) and, ideally a married name for Gladys and her husband's full name.  Perhaps someone on the Rootschat County Board for the area where they lived might be able to help you find all the pieces.

There are a few possible sources to try finding them in Canada.  Once you have some names, please let us know and we will do our best to point you in the right direction. 

Martha

[J.J.]

If it's Bristol, this could be a start, altho may not be recent enough...

Simcoe Co., 1885, part 1  http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maryc/simcoe85.htm

#010730-85 - William SMITH, 30, butcher, Gloucestershire England, Midland, s/o Edwin & Ruth, married Selina Matilda PRICE, 24, Bristol England, Midland, d/o Emmanuel & Clara, witnesses were George PRICE of Tay twp & Alice Elizabeth TRILL, 16 Dec 1885 at Midland


1920 & 1921--
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maryc/revhanna.htm

Stanley SMITH, 25, farmer, Tiny twp., Tay twp., s/o William SMITH & Selina Matilda PRICE, married Mary Irene COULTER, 24, Port Hope, Midland, d/o William George COULTER & Elizabeth ZANE, witn: Oliver SMITH & Mabel A. CAMPBELL, both of Midland, 7 July 1920 at Midland

[J.J.]

Must read my own stuff, as I just saw the parents aren't right....

i'll wait for a name or two....LOL

[Lauraine]

Definitely need a surname and approx. date thought to arrive in Canada.  If you have any old letters with an address, might be able to find in City Directories - if they went to a city!

Lauraine

[Josephine]

legs11,

Do you have the family in any of the British census records?  That would give you some names, approximate birth dates, birthplaces, etc., so others would have a starting point.

So you'd need your husband's grandmother's maiden name, her parents' names, and approximately when and where they were born, and where they were living at the time the British census was taken.

After you have found them in the census records, then you could go through the process of elimination by finding marriage records for the daughters on FreeBMD (or elsewhere), etc.

Regards,
Josephine