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Hi Jill,

I am so sorry not to have replied earlier to your message re the postcard of Skipton. I have not looked at the site for ages. i will check with my friend to see if that Mr. and Mrs. Preston possibly had any connection to her family. Thank you so much. Will get back to you if i have any news.

Best wishes Helen

Hello Helen
I have in my possession an old postcard of Skipton that belonged to a deceased relative of my husband. I think she liked Skipton. It was sent from Mr and Mrs Preston of 4 Union Terrace Skipton and dated 22 December 1947 \to Mrs Wagner and Nora.
Would your friend like to have it?
Jill

Correction to the birthplace of John Stanley Preston - think it was Peterborough, Ontario, NOT Edmonton, sorry.

Helen

Yes Dee but was hoping to get information from living relatives of his sister, certificates are expensive now and an informant might not even be a relative. It could even be that my friend has his death certificate as she did know where and when he died. Contact with the living is what my friend desires now as she feels she has no family although she did have a half brother and half sister who have now both passed on.

Thank you though

Helen

Helen,

If you order J S Prestons death certificate it will say who registered his death ... maybe a relative???

Dee x

I see what you mean MM about Alice dying in York, England. As she returned to England in 1932 with the intention of living in Skipton, Yorkshire, that would be quite logical. I am now going to check up on her marriage and family. Contact with her living relatives would be fantastic for my friend.

Once again thank you.

Helen

Couldn't fit all the stuff on previous message!

I am hoping J.S. Preston was not married before/when he got my friend's mother pregnant! Do not know where he went after he did the dirty deed but obviously stayed in England, he did not marry her mother though. (Catherine Ruby Ogden).

I will look at some of the other stuff you have suggested. Once again thank you everybody.

Helen

Thank you to all the additional contributors. The fact that John Stanley Preston was born in Edmonton was given to me by his daughter. Dee - His daughter was born in East Sussex, England, in 1943. I know that J.S. Preston came back to England before 1943 and died in Sheppey, Kent, on 10th January, 1967.
Margaret - the tree you mention is correct. I didn't know about James Walter Preston's daughter - Alice. So thank you for that. I can perhaps find something else out about James' and Annie's other children apart from J.S.P. James & Annie's marriage location was York, Canada! Toronto I believe. Perhaps Alice Died (1998) in York, Canada?

carrying on from MM, looks like Alice coming into the Uk;

UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 about Alice Preston
Name: Alice Preston
Birth Date: abt 1915
Age: 17
Port of Departure: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Arrival Date: 13 Aug 1932
Port of Arrival: Liverpool, England
Ports of Voyage: Quebec
[Greenock]
[Belfast]
Ship Name: Antonia
Search Ship Database: View the 'Antonia' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Cunard White Star
Official Number: 145937

Her proposed address is 7 Mosely Road, Skipton, Yorks.


Dee x

MM - practically begging for a correction, and I'ld normally oblige excepting I think you're right. Aside from Edmonton AB, the only similar sounding city I can think of is Edmundston in the NW corner of New Brunswick. Of course, like most Canadians, I've only got the vaguest idea of what's north of 60.

Just to confuse the issue more, there's a tree on Ancestry that has James Walter Preston born 1884, Skipton, Yorkshire, son of William H. Preston & Alice Lomas. He was married to Annie Elizabeth Newsome and had a daughter Alice Mary Preston (1915-1998). She died in York (England, I presume) This Alice Mary was married to a living Sayner and had a daughter living Sayner.

There's a thread here about John Stanley Preston:

http://boards.msn.ancestry.com/localities.northam.canada.ontario.simcoe/2668/mb.ashx

James Walter's address on his attestation papers in 1915 was 198 Simcoe St., Toronto.

Helen, I don't believe there's an Edmonton in Ontario, the only one I know is in Alberta.
Malcolm might correct me on that one too.

I wonder why they didn't marry in England before they left so they could travel as a married couple? You don't suppose he was already married?

I took that train trip in May, Malcolm, still about 5 hours and our train was 1 hour late arriving Toronto.

Helen. York is the old name for Toronto.

Hi Helen,

was John Stanley's daughter born in Canada? And when was she born? Just trying to establish some movements on him.


Dee x

Hi following on from all that wonderful correct information you have provided - what a result - back of the net! could we take it a step further peeps.

Anybody know about the birth of John Stanley Preston in January, 1912 in Edmonton, Ontario, Canada? Or if he got married at all?

Helen

yes mgnv I noticed the marriage date was the following date but didn't like to quibble, lol

Interesting to read about the distance from Montreal to Toronto, is that where York is then? They must have been shattered by the time they got there.

Helen

Margaret - not quite. They arrived 18/8/1911 and didn't get married until 19/8/1911. Course, they arrived in Montreal and still had ~550 km to get to Toronto. I once did that trip by train back in the 1970s - it took 5-6 hours - quite pleasant and a lot easier than driving it.

Surprise, surprise Dee, lol