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Offline Lindyloowho

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WARD - a challenge….
« on: Sunday 29 January 23 14:54 GMT (UK) »
Albert WARD b. 1868, Chilham to John and Lucy. He married Emily Horton and is shown in 1901 with her in Chilham.
Emily dies in 1903 (shown as Emily Horton Ward) and Albert remarries in 1904 to Sylvia Frost.
1911 census of Pimps Cottages, Tovil, nr. Maidstone shows Bert Ward, 41, Waggoner, b. Chilham and wife Sylvia, 36, b. Petworth, Sussex. They had one living child who doesn’t appear with them.
I can find nothing of Bert and Sylvia beyond 1911. No obvious death, or future census. Albert is a common name, but Sylvia isn’t!
Can anyone with a fresh pair of eyes find them?😂😂

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Re: WARD - a challenge….
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 29 January 23 15:02 GMT (UK) »
Do you know the name of the living child?
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Re: WARD - a challenge….
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 29 January 23 15:23 GMT (UK) »
A published tree shows her sister, Mary Serena, went to Canada in 1911. Did Sylvia follow?
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Re: WARD - a challenge….
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 29 January 23 15:32 GMT (UK) »
Death recorded in Wentworth Ontario :

Sylvia WARD
38
died 11 Dec 1912
St Joseph's Hospital
Cause of death peritonitis
father Fred Frost
mother Mary Hadden
she is described as married rather than widowed

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https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JD5B-MXV
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Re: WARD - a challenge….
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 29 January 23 16:03 GMT (UK) »
Good find, Christina   :)

Poor Sylvia - dying so young.
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Re: WARD - a challenge….
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 29 January 23 16:08 GMT (UK) »
Well that’s a great start! I didn’t think about them going overseas, presuming them to be a bit old!
Sorry, I don’t know the name of the child.  I wonder where Albert is?

Strangely enough I live about an hours drive away from Hamilton, in Ontario. I imagine it would have been very rural then.

Thank you, Linda
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