Montraul?? completed with Thanks

[chinakay]

I saw that too...I don't think they're actually that stoopid...I think it's a map for the benefit of somebody who's looking for Montreal, I dunno, it's in Canada somewhere, oh yeah it must be Ontario, I've heard of Ontario and it's in Canada.....

OTOH maybe they are that stoopid...

[KarenM]

Must be cause 514 is a montreal area code 

[incah1]

  Thankyou for your replies.

This was meant to be the easy part of her grandfathers life... where he was born.......obviously not!!  

 Her grandfather was Charles William..... b.1872 ish in Montraul Canada, ran away from a seminary when he was about 15yrs old, and went to sea. On arrival in Liverpool U.K in abt 1902 he changed his surname to Thompson or so the family was told. He said he would reveal his true name before he died unfortunatley he had a fatal heartattack and hadn't told anybody his name!

 He named his daughters Eulalia and Rosa, we think this was after his mother or sisters.

  She did say she thought it was a fishing village....which probably doesn't help!

Thankyou all again and I will now go and have a look at the links!

Kate

[chinakay]

I think it would be much easier to

1) find a seminary
2) go to sea, &
3) set out for Liverpool

from Montreal, rather than from some village in Ontario. The province of Quebec was and still is heavily Catholic and there were/are probably a dozen seminaries there. Montreal is a huge port which entertained innumerable ocean-going ships, and there was regular sea traffic between Montreal and Liverpool.

Also the terms "fishing village" and "Ontario" don't seem to fit well together, to me....

Just a few thoughts, cheers
China

[chinakay]

Although I suppose you can have a seminary that isn't Catholic....

C

[KarenM]

I agree with China's thought's.  Ontario and fishing village just don't go together.

Do you have him on the 1911 UK census?

Karen

[J.J.]

Yeah, exactly, china... I was trying to find seminary's anywhere  eastern  and I think more Lutheran & Anglican came up in ont., so that was going to be my question today, did he keep his faith, or did that go out the door with the surname? Ontario has lots of fishing lakes, I guess, but nothing seemed to come up for both seminary & fishing...
 

[J.J.]

The seminary of ST. SULPICE was a well known fishing area...so just for fun I google mapped it and it still thrives on...
so I tried "seminary" Quebec while I was in there, and still only that one came up...
The funny thing is, all the ones I saw yesterday in Ontario came up and many of them surround the western shore of lake Ontario...Just thought it was odd that almost a dozen came up for Ontario and only one in Que...unless others did not thrive...
Reading a little about  the Quebec one reminded me of local so called "priests" who were more greedy landowners than saints...Somehow they got poor farmers and hunters to sign over large pieces of property to the church with their huge "X"...in wills handwritten by the same priests...go figure...

  If I thought I was giving up my regular life to become someone representative of the faith, and then saw all that greed...I'd have high-tailed it out of there myself....

  Quite the rotter to go and pop off without giving up a surname tho...


Just tried "SEMINARY  montreal" and lots come up...which is rather odd...
 

[cosmac]

Search of 1911 British census shows Mary Eulalia b. 1907 living in Birkenhead Cheshire as is Charles William Thompson.  Have you checked this record to see what is recorded as his place of birth?

Debbie