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This is the only Sarah Belmont showing -has the age been mis-recorded on the Canadian records?
Births Dec 1883
Belmont Sarah Ann Barton R 6a 163

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1891 Census of Canada
Sarah Belmont Gender: Female Marital Status: Single Age: 7
Birth Year: abt 1884 Birthplace: England
Relation to Head of House: Adp D
Religion: Methodist French Canadian: No
Father's Birth Place: England Mother's Birth Place: England
Province: Ontario
District Number: 73 District: Hastings East Subdistrict: Thurlow
William Gates 23 Ontario
oooo Father's Birth Place: Quebec Mother's Birth Place: Quebec
Eleanor Gates 21 Ontario
Sarah Belmont 7
(Ancestry has these as same household, but not so
Harold Yates 26
Eliza Yates 25
William Yates 12
John Yates 9
Arthur Yates 5
Nilson Yates 4)
Source Citation: Year: 1891; Census Place: Thurlow, Hastings East, Ontario; Roll: T-6342; Family No: 106.

Many Thanks Vera will pass this info on to see if it helps with the search.Regs Derek

Patchem/Derek

The original emigration record could read aged 5 for Sarah. Its not very clear.
I gather the children were not sent out until the age of 4 from something I read during my look ups.

Vera

Thanks Vera, could be another thread to follow. Regs Derek

Dear All,

Now can confirm that 1911 census details are correct. The family believe that James was a orphan and he sailed from Bristol to Canada to work on a farm. Also he was born in Dec. 1882,he drowned in the St. Lawrence river in Canada onboard the Ocean Hawk which was a tug boat that sank with all aboard in 1925.
He married Irene Agnes Cameron and they had 5-6 children one being Florence Irene.

Regs Derek

The more I read this I'am sure James Richard Belmont/Balmont is connected.

He was born dec 1884 and Christened by Richard and Caroline 1885 the same couple who had sarah Ann 1883.

Richard Balmont/Belmont @ 1866 married Caroline Cummings 1883 in Bristol.

No sign whatsoever for any of them 1891.
1901Census Great Ann Street.
Caroline has daughter Susan age 1(Susan Louisa Belmont 1899 Bristol)
Caroline married but Richard is with brother James Thomas Balmont born @ 1868 Bristol in Wales.
On that census Richard married.

Caroline died 1905
1911 Susan inmate at Childrens Home 862,Fishponds Rd Bristol.
1911 Richard still at brothers in wales now he is a widow.

Richard's parents Thomas and Elizabeth.
Caroline's dad James.

Maryb.

Thank Maryb,

I will forward your ideas to my friend in Canada.

Many thanks for help it is much appreciated.

Derek

Just in case your friend does not have this. The original marriage documntation has

James Belmont aged 21, residing at time of marriage at Kings County, born England, occupation Steamboat, parents Edgar M and Aggie.

married

Agnes Irene Cameron aged 22 residing at ? Browns Flats, NB

Vera

So his age would fit 1884 but the parents are a mystery.
I wonder if they were who he lived with in Canada!

He maybe had been adopted like Sarah Belmont.

Maryb

Hi Vera and Mary,

He was an orphan, so may well have been adopted.

Thanks for your efforts.

Derek