1901 Census Help Please

[KarenM]

Minnie could be Mary Eliza Bowman, just a nick name.  She was married to Archibald Wilson who was a doctor.

Did you see that Sawmills and Planning Mills book that had Ben Bowman?  Benjamin was a mill wright and an engineer, so maybe there's a connection?

Karen

[Janice M]

1851 Census - Williamsburg, Dundas County
http://ontariocensus.rootsweb.ancestry.com/transcripts/477-14.html

I will look for the other book. I didn't even notice that one.

[waiteohman]

Hello Karen

This is interesting, this person has Bowman and Hefferman's in Rochester in 1890s.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NYMONROE/2006-05/1147114109

With the missing US census for 1890 it doesn't help matters.

Linda

[KarenM]

Here's Alice McDougall obituary.  Says she was born in Inkerman (same place as Scotty Bowman  ) and that they moved from Fenelon Falls to Ingersoll 45 years ago in 1955.

http://www.ocl.net/tribune/search_me.asp?ss=Bowman&ss2=&wildcard=3&RS_per_page=10&SortBy=Surname&Start_RS=40&sf=Surname

The lady who I emailed about the cemetery has emailed me back saying she found Sophia in the 1901 listed as a widow and living with Alice.  I've emailed her back and asked how/where she found that.

Thanks for that Linda, it's me that posted that.  I have a picture of John Bowman and on the back says taken in Rochester New York. My gr grandmother, Mary Heffernan's brother lived in Rochester and my grandma used to spend alot of time at Uncle Charlie and Aunt Kitty's house in Rochester.  I've often thought John Bowman and Mary Heffernan must have met in Rochester??  But I can find no marriage in Rochester or Guelph    I can find no border crossing for either of them also.

Karen

[J.J.]

Well, there you go, they are all down there for the wedding!!!     

Actually, that might just be a prospect...

I wonder if the lady found her in 1911 with Alice....? seems likely as we have
all searched high and low using different methods...

[J.J.]

Plus now you know John worked in leathers!

I can't get nos racine to work at all... I am not sure if they are just busy or what,
but even though I have a really fast and gutsy computer now ...so many
databases work less well than before...

[J.J.]

another expense,($50.) but if this newspaper index is complete it might help you a lot
Directory of Birth – Marriage - Death Notices Appearing
in Fenelon Falls & Bobcaygeon ON Newspapers, Births
1880 -1905, Marriages 1880 –1920, Deaths 1880 – 1930
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onwob22/publications/Durham_Publication_Booklet_2007.pdf

[J.J.]

Have you checked on the company of Green & Ellis who owned a sawmill
in Fenlon Falls? Being that many of your fellows seem to be lumbermen...
   mentioned here...
http://www.ontariogenealogy.com/Victoria/history/fenelonpioneers2.html

also a peek into this 1871 household wouldn't hurt...
Ellis, William age 71, Farmer...born England
BRUCE SOUTH Sub-district: Culross (C) Div:1  p.49
Microfilm  C-9934 / Ref RG31

Who knows might have a wife named Ann b. Ireland...

[KarenM]

Thanks JJ, I'll have to follow up with that Green & Ellis, could be a lead.

In replying to another thread, I was thinking about my gr uncle Joe Bowman, who died in the Sanitorium in Kitchener.  For some reason I didn't have his death certificate, so I brought it up on ancestry from 1932, well......

It lists his father, John Bowman born Rochester, New York and mother May Heffernan, Marden, Ontario (I knew that)  The informant is my gr grandmother, May Heffernan/Bowman, surley to god she would know where her husband was born wouldn't she   She's also put "Scotch" for racial orgin.  She also has her son as a maker of shoes.

LOL, think I'm going to call May's granddaughter (my mother  ) and see if she can shed anymore light on this, but I'm sure I'll get the same old thing...."you just didn't ask back then" 

Karen