Border crossing - Joseph Dyson & family

[fairlane]

Hello

I wonder if anyone can help?

Joseph Dyson (b.1873), his wife Alice (b.1876) and son Ernest (b.1902)emigrated to Canada in 1904 stating their destination as Westville. N.S. Joseph was a pharmacist. The family later moved to Connecticut and I would be most interested to find out which year.  I do not have access to U S census/ border crossing details. I do have dates and places of death.

Best wishes,

Fairlane

[tazzie]

   Hi .....

 They had hopped the boared by 1905 occording to the 1910 US census..

   Brooklyn  Windham Connecticut USA

 Joseph Dyson hd m w 35 mar 9 years  Eng  Father Eng mother Eng
                                                              Weaver in factory imm 1905
 Alice                wi f w 30 mar 9 years 1 child b 1 child living Eng
                                                                  father Eng  mother Eng imm 1905
 Earnest            son m w 7 s                 Eng mother Eng father Eng

   However they are not showing on Boarder crossings yet so I will look for a mis-spelling

                            Tazzie
                 

[tazzie]

   Have you got Ernest on the 1930 census?

  On there he gives date of immigration as 1906.

                          Tazzie

[aghadowey]

Alice Dyson died 1 Aug.1964 Killingly, Windham, Connecticut (resided Brooklyn, Windham Co.) age 87, spouse: Joseph, widow

Ernest Dyson died 16 Feb.1954 Putnam, Windham Co. (resided Killingly) age 51, spouse Maud.

[aghadowey]

WWI Draft Registration- Joseph Dyson born 4 Apr.1873, weaver, lists Alice as person who will know his whereabouts.
1930 U.S. Census lists Ernest, wife Maude and a daughter living in Brookyn, Conn.

[fairlane]

Thanks Tazzie and Aghadowey. You have given me several unknown facts which help to fill out their lives in U.S.

In 1891 Joseph was a weaver as were most of his family but in 1901 he was a drugstore shopkeeper on his own account. On the ship's manifest in 1904 he was a "farmer" which I assumed was a corruption of "pharmacist" but he obviously reverted to his original trade in America. I also hadn't realized that Joseph at age 40 would be drafted.

In appreciation,

Fairlane

[aghadowey]

World War I Draft Registration (United States) was a registration not an actual draft. See here for more details:
www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/wwidraft.htm

[fairlane]

Thanks for another very interesting source.