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Criss cross. ;)

My family settled in southwestern Ontario. The west would have been an obvious choice for a single man, though -- loads of railway construction just a little earlier, and lots of railway business.

And I meant to scoff at your weather comments. ;) Here in my bit of Ontario, we've barely had a dusting of snow so far this year! But yes, the west a century ago would have been a bit harder.

You need to set those godparents to work! It's easy to imagine that if he stayed in Canada, he did start another family.

There are 9 Sharpes in Brandon phone listings at present -- you could always give them a try:

http://www.whitepages.ca/dir/brandon-manitoba/sharpe

I don't subscribe to FMP, but maybe someone who does will provide the details of that passenger record.


Just to clarify -- I'd be pretty confident the 1911 census record is your William. If you got his English birth cert to verify his birthdate, you could confirm -- the Cdn census helpfully provides the full birth date provided by the individual.

It's the link to the 1901 census record I think is bogus. The 1911 record says he immigrated in 1906, so he could hardly have been in the 1901 census ... with a different date and place of birth and occupation.

Are you sure the daughter was Mary, and can you give best guess for year of birth?
Thanks

This could possibly be Doris' marriage and death but there is no birth for Mary Sellers.


Marriages Jun 1927 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sellers William B - Sharpe - Sculcoates 9d 499
Sharpe Doris - Sellers - Sculcoates 9d 499

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Deaths Sep 1929
Sellers Doris - 28 - Grantham 7a 433 ........ (right age)

................Colsterworth comes under Grantham

There's this one ( maybe her middle name was Mary )

Births Mar 1928 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sellers Eva M - Sharpe - Bourne 7a 569

Are you in touch with the person who has William Sharpe 1976 (oops, 1876) Lincolnshire in their tree here at GR? Not that there weren't more than one.

Also, you don't have him in your tree, and it would certainly be wise to do that. In fact, I would put him in your tree as both Sharp (as registered at birth) and Sharpe -- just pretend he's two different children of the same parents. That way, anyone who searches trees by either spelling will find you.


I like Mike's theory about Eva M Sellers -- can't find a later trace, exept for a maybe unlikely marriage in1970 in Yorkshire.

... No, maybe not so unlikely -- the Sharpe-Sellers couple married in Sculcoates. So this could be the father's second marriage:

Name: William B Sellers
Spouse: Doris Greenfield
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1933
Registration district: Sculcoates
Registration county (inferred): Yorkshire - East Riding
Volume Number: 9d
Page Number: 557

There's also a marriage for the name William B Sellers in 1938 in Wakefield.

On the Subject of Mary, I think you might be right. My father was born in 1926 to Irene, and Mary was I beleive a little younger than him making the 1931 date about right. I'm still not totally sure who her mother was,though it doesn't seem to fit with Evelyn.

On William, well done on finding his passage- I couldn't.He was born around 1877, so would he have been eligible for WW1? his grandson Frank died in the battle of loos and my grandfather was a prisoner from his 18th birthday til the end.I'm certain the family never heard from him again- any idea what were they building around 1906?

Thank you very much for the help, all this was new info just 2 days ago, did you find any possible death for William Janey? I will add every thing onto GR in the next few days.

I also have another tricky and sad mystery to solve on my husbands side, that i will post tomorrow.
Bernice

" I'm still not totally sure who her mother was. "..................

That's easily solved.

I'll bet the birth cert for Eva M Sellers has Doris (nee Sharp ) as her mother.

You're welcome.

On looking at WWI attestation records at the CEF site, one does see older men like that -- he would only have been 37ish when the war began. My gr-uncle was 34 when he was killed, 3 weeks before the war ended.

Re building in 1906 -- I don't think it was so much a matter of building then, as his skills as a railway engineer maybe being in demand, with the great railway links that had been built by then, across the country. The Last Spike was driven, connecting the eastern and western rails in British Columbia, in 1885.

A little railway history:

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006655

The passenger record might give details of his actual destination -- any FMP subscribers around, who would take a look?