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Surely a Alexandrina Ann June Campbell Duncan must appear in a Canadian census ...

Can someone please help.

Ian

Could this be sister Lily, arriving as a home child in Canada? Date of birth and port of departure work.


http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/home-children/001015-100.01-e.php


Surname: DUNCAN
Given Name: Lily
Age: 15
Sex: F
Ship: Hesperian
Year of Arrival: 1913
Departure Port: Glasgow
Departure Date: 1913-08-01
Arrival Port: Quebec
Arrival Date: 1913-08-09
Comments: Individuals
Source: Library and Archives Canada
Reference: RG 76 C1a
Microfilm: T-4802
Type of Record: Passenger Lists
Group of Children Traveling Together


at FMP:

DUNCAN Lily 1898 F 1913 Glasgow Canada Quebec


But the parents were living until much later so could be unlikely?




sylvia

Have you searched on ancestry???


There is one Public Family Tree that has Alexandrina ...... of course, I have no idea how accurate the information is!


Dunbar+McKay
Owner: Kirtland_Ohio


Alexandrina Ann June Campbell Duncan
Birth 2 Nov 1892 in Nigg, Kincardine, Scotland
Death


Parents

Henry Thomson Duncan 1873 – 1956
Elizabeth Cunningham Campbell 1871 – 1932


Spouse

James Fordyce
b. 14 Feb 1891, Kennethmont, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
d. 1981
NOT MARRIED

Child

James Duncan Fordyce
Birth 27 Dec 1912 in Inverurie, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
Death 10 Apr 1993 in Fielding, New Zealand.



Unknown Spouse

Child of Unknown Spouse

Private (still alive)




it might be worth sending an email through the ancestry system to that tree owner, if you have not had contact before





sylvia

Ian,

Following Sylvia's suggestion that you look in the trees on this site, you say that you have tried to get in touch with siblings. Have you actually looked at the trees on here?


If you put her name into the Search Trees box above, you will see that there are two other people besides yourself who have Alexandrina in their family. It may be worthwhile contacting the tree owners.


Cx.


It's always worth checking.

Cybthia,

Yes we have done all the checks and also we know about the Fordyces and the Fordyce descendants....But not Alexandriana herself....Where did she end up after 1912. (she would have been aged 20 then)....That is the question.....
Any mention of her on any other trees reveals no further information...
A brick wall.....
Just maybe someone in Canada might read this and come up with the answer....

What a shame. I was hoping that William or Robert may have been able to help you.



A couple of the people helping you are in Canada. Don't forget that Canadian records are not all that easy to access because of the 100 year closure period.

I think that the Canadians can probably suggest nothing else.

We can in fact do nothing more than look on the internet ............. none of us is about to travel around the country visiting record offices in person, for the reason below ..................

I have explained to Ian via pm that one has to know in which province of Canada someone was born / married / died because all such records are maintained by the province. There is no Central registry

......... and in addition there is the 50 / 75 or 80 / 100 year rule before the records can be released into the public record.


everything that has been found so far has been dismissed as already having been found ..... thus very much a waste of time

........... and there are 2 pages of similar on that rootschat thread given on the previous page.


My only suggestion now is that Ian google the following ............

Canada - Vital Statistics


then that he scroll down the lists that result, picking the individual provinces

Access the provincial site, and see if anything can be found


That time-consuming task is something that is best done by Ian ............. not by a helper.




sylvia


edited once

I agree Sylvia.


I spotted the Rootschat thread whilst googling and saw how much info there was on it.



As most of us know, there are just some relatives who seem to do a disappearing act.


Cx

Alexandrina and all descendants have been located.!!!

Thank You all.

Best Wishes 2015.

That's good news then Ian. Best wishes to you and yours in 2015.