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Offline Colin Cruddace

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Re: Help with surname of informant please
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 24 December 13 00:42 GMT (UK) »
I see it as Mrs Margaret Webber, daughter of George Nelson the deceased.

George was described as being of Indian race, so I was wondering if voting rights weren't available in the 60's (I'm making a stab in the dark and hope it doesn't offend anyone). Perhaps a check on the occupants of 90 Totemway at that time might be a better way to find her.

Best wishes  :)
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Re: Help with surname of informant please
« Reply #19 on: Thursday 26 December 13 04:53 GMT (UK) »
Merry Christmas to all.

To Colin who wondered when First Nations got the right to vote in Canada. I had to look that up - 1960!  :o The good thing about that is it means they should be on the Voters Lists. The bad thing is that Port Alice doesn't list residence by addresses so the Totem Way address is no help.  :'( In addition, all the wives (like Margaret are listed by their husband's initial instead of their own names.  :'(

Heavy sigh. By process of elimination:

I have found a Mrs A Webber in Port Alice in 1963 so that is a possibility. :-\ The main problem with this assumption is that by 1973 there is a Rosemary A Webber in Port Alice & no others so it makes me wonder if Mrs A Webber is Rosemary who is subsequently widowed.  ::) (Mind you, I can find no death of an A Webber, male after 1965 and before 1973. :P)

There are no Nebbes or Nibbes - thanks for the suggestion though annclare. There are also no:
Stebbes, Stubbs, Stebber, Miller, or Nibber.

Sheesh - I'll go with Webber for now to see if it leads me anywhere even though the Voter's list I'm trying to decipher is for 1963 rather than something closer to the 1969 date on the death record.

Thanks again for your help.  :) I'll let you know if I land on anything more decisive.  :P






MACDONALD of Benbecula, Scotland, Earlswood/Wapella Sask
BAIN of Aberdeenshire, Trafford district, Red Jacket and Moosomin, Sask
CHEYNE of Aberdeenshire & Trafford district, Sask
FISHER of Yorkshire, Ontario & Saskatchewan
INKSTER of Shetland, Edinburgh, Sask and BC
GAUNT of Yorkshire, Kent, BC & Australia
KINCH of Ireland, PEI, Ab, Sask
CORCORAN of Ireland, PEI & Sask
GOTZ / GOETZ of Soufflenheim, Alsace & Ont
MITTELHAUSSER of Soufflenheim, Alsace
MULLER or MILLER of Drusenheim, Alsace & Ont

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« Reply #20 on: Thursday 26 December 13 05:15 GMT (UK) »
Ha! With your help & switching browser to do some searches I've found Margaret Webber & husband Andrew Webber! They appear in a newspaper article following a 1977 murder attempt on her life.  ;D

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1185&dat=19770804&id=Bl0OAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lYADAAAAIBAJ&pg=4001,3131032

I think we can now consider this one closed. Happy day. :)


MACDONALD of Benbecula, Scotland, Earlswood/Wapella Sask
BAIN of Aberdeenshire, Trafford district, Red Jacket and Moosomin, Sask
CHEYNE of Aberdeenshire & Trafford district, Sask
FISHER of Yorkshire, Ontario & Saskatchewan
INKSTER of Shetland, Edinburgh, Sask and BC
GAUNT of Yorkshire, Kent, BC & Australia
KINCH of Ireland, PEI, Ab, Sask
CORCORAN of Ireland, PEI & Sask
GOTZ / GOETZ of Soufflenheim, Alsace & Ont
MITTELHAUSSER of Soufflenheim, Alsace
MULLER or MILLER of Drusenheim, Alsace & Ont

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Re: Help with surname of informant please
« Reply #21 on: Thursday 26 December 13 07:26 GMT (UK) »
Well done ...... do the few of us who got it right now split the prize?.......... whatever it is. :) :) :D
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Re: Help with surname of informant please
« Reply #22 on: Saturday 28 December 13 19:29 GMT (UK) »
Brilliant !! :) :)
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Re: Help with surname of informant please
« Reply #23 on: Tuesday 31 December 13 05:40 GMT (UK) »
Too Late, :'(
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