These free access weekends to non-UK records always give me more questions than answers
Charles Eltham married Jesse Stewart on 24 June 1869 at Wentworth, Ontario. He was 28 (b abt 1841) and his parents were John and Ann according to the transcription. I have failed to find a suitable Charles on the GRO index. (He is not Charles Collins Eltham b 1846 Whitechapel - his parents were Matthew Eltham and Honorah Collins). However there is a Charles of right age on censuses s/o of John Eltham and Ann Maria Holloway in Brightwell (Oxon/ Berks) who disappears after 1861, so unless anyone can find a better candidate for Charles I think he's the one.
Charles Eltham Harrison married Alice May Peebles on 3rd June 1922 in Wentworth Ontario, Charles was a 41 year old widower. He says his parents are Edward E Harrison and Mary Grayson. Going back a generation, Edward Harrison and Mary Grayson married on 1st Sep 1880 at Wentworth county, he was a 35 year old widower born in England ( b abt 1835) and says his parents were John and Maria Harrison.
1851 census lists John Eltham, wife Ann Maria, children William 19, James 16, Charles 11, Jane 6
1861 census lists John Eltham, wife Maria, children Charles 21, Edward 19, Ann 16.
So where was Edward in 1851? Charles and Edward don't seem to have birth registrations, Ann was registered as Ann Maria in Q4 1844 Wallingford district and maybe the one recorded as Jane in 1851. John and Ann Maria Holloway married in 1827, so Charles and Edward would not registered as Holloways. John Eltham died Q1 1862.
Can anyone find any more about Edward Harrison in Canada and confirm or disprove he is brother of Charles Eltham?
