Herbert Armishaw Emigrant

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Hi Does anyone have access to passenger lists and able to look up the following for more info please?

Herbert Armishaw and his wife Catharine left England for Cananda. They had around 12 children though I'm not sure which children left with them, which stayed behind and which may have been born in Canada.

Any info greatly recieved.

Thank you,

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[Jacquie in Canada]

I think I found your family on the 1891 census in England. Herbert was born about 1850 in Walsall, Staffordshire and Catherine about 1860 in Dudley, Worcestershire. If that is them and you think they settled in Canada there are a couple of possible deaths in British Columbia as follows:

Herbert Armishaw, 86, died 22 Sep 1933 in Vancouver (registration #1933-09-481596)
Catherine Armishaw, 56, died 24 Apr 1914 in Vancouver (registration # 1914-09-139238)

Jacquie

[Jacquie in Canada]

I found them on the Canada which departed from Liverpool on 31 Aug 1911 and arrived in Quebec on 8 Sep 1911. Herbert and Catherine are travelling with 9 children (the eldest Joseph appears to have a wife named Maggie with him). Here's a link to the image at Library and Archives Canada (first family on page):
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/e/e143/e003573633.jpg

Their final destination is listed as Vancouver so that fits with the death registrations I mentioned.

Unfortunately they arrived a few months after the 1911 Canada census was taken.

If they had any children born after their arrival, the birth registrations will not be available as they are protected by privacy laws. You can search for marriages up to 1933 and deaths up to 1988 at the British Columbia Archives website. Here's a link to the site:
http://search.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/sn-4FC5D21/gbsearch/Births,Marriages,Deaths

Jacquie

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Hi Jacquie,

Great that's them!! Will take a closer look later, I'm just getting ready for work right now, 8am start! 

Thank you very much.

Regards,

Michelle

[Jacquie in Canada]

Here are links to the attestation papers for two Armishaw men who were born in Walsall, Staffordshire and list a father named Herbert as next of kin:

Herbert Armishaw:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/069l/
Robert Armishaw:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/069m/

And one for Joseph Armishaw which just indicates he was born in Staffordshire and has a wife named Margaret which matches the passenger list:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/069n/

Edited to add:
There are also attestation papers for a James Armishaw who is the right age and his next of kin is his father Herbert but his birth place is listed as British Columbia. Whether he made a mistake when filling out the forms or if it is a different James, I couldn't say. Here's a link:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/069o/

There are instructions at those links on how to order the military files online. The cost depends on how big the files are.

Jacquie

[Jacquie in Canada]

I just noticed that the youngest child travelling with them was named Herbert. I wonder if he was actually Joseph and Margaret's son. It seems strange that Herbert and Catherine would have two living sons named Herbert.

Jacquie

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Hi, yes. I think you're right, 2 sons named Herbert wouldn't be right, just checking  my records.

Michelle

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Yes, looks like the son of Joseph and Minne Wiggin who married in Walsall 1903 - misread as Maggie, but makes sense....whoops, I really must get on with the packed lunches, it's so addictive!! 

Michelle

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Sarah anne from 1881 isn't on freeBMD as such so she may be hard to locate....thought she might have been born as Annie, but there's an Annie born later to Herbert Armishaw & Catherine ( Kate) Woodall ( added : see now that sSarah Ann died in 1884
Seems to be your Ruth ( actually born 1902, I think)...but dates are out
http://www.torreygenealogy.com/Nova_Scotia_Branch/WC01/WC01_237.htm


Here is a "J. Armishaw born Wales" and wife with a boarder also a "J" says they're born England...in case they are rellies in Vancouver who enticed the others to join them in B.C. ( There were 2 Josephs born Cannock 1882)
http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=62808