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Web: Canada, GenWeb Cemetery Index
about Bertha J Whittingham

Name:Bertha J Whittingham
Birth Date:1880
Age at Death:73
Death Date:1953
Cemetery:Clinton Cemetery
Burial Place:Huron County, Ontario, Canada

More at

http://geneofun.on.ca/cems/ON/ONHUR11587

Andy

Hey thanks Andy, I will give it a go! :-)

oh boo :-\ just followed the link but it goes to a gravestone and her husband is surnamed as Potter. So I don't think it is ours, but thanks for the hint Andy

Ok, so he was born in 1911, sadly no DOB noted on the baptism,

Name: John Watson Whittingham
Baptism Date: 19 Dec 1911
Parish: Burnley, St James
Father: Joseph Whittingham
Mother: Bertha Whittingham
Reference Number: Pr 3103/1/4

I live in Cornwall, Ontario. We have a wonderful website here where volunteers have photographed all of the tombstones in the area. You'll find a photo of Joseph's gravestone here:

http://cornwallroots.info/cms/cornwall/tombstones/Tombstones_list.php

Thanks BM's daughter! Yes I have found that about 15 mins ago! so on we go …..

Margee - I have just tried that link but sadly I wasn't allowed on :-( but will copy and paste to a different server and see what happens. Can you tell me anything about community cremation graves in Canada? I have found a grave for a J W Whittingham at the Maple Grove cemetery on line, it is the same year of birth, but no other info and there are lots of other names on the gravestone but none seem related?? sorry if that sounds confusing!! Eunice x

Is this him? At the same address, 512 Sherbourne Rd. is Mrs Yvonne Whittingham.

Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980
about John Watson Whittingham Name: John Watson Whittingham
Location: Carleton, Ontario
Occupation: Army
Electoral District: Carleton
Year: 1957

looks like it could be! mmmm this could be another brick wall though as I bet the army can't help, well, security reasons etc. I think I might try to email that cemetery I spoke of earlier. A long shot but worth a try! Thanks again

Name: Mrs Yvonne Whittingham
Location: Carleton, Ontario
Electoral District: Carleton
Year: 1965


Looks like John is now under the name of Jack, as we know this is a nickname for John.

Look here,

http://www.federationgenealogie.qc.ca/avisdeces/avis/pdf?id=79065

Eunice, is the Maple Grove Cemetery that you mention the one in Cornwall? If so there are no Whittinghams buried there according to that Cornwall Roots site. Actually the only Whittingham on the whole site is Joseph. The tombstone reads:

In loving memory of
JOSEPH WHITTINGHAM
1883-1957
Husband of
BERTHA WATSON

oh my goodness me!!!! Thank you very much. I wonder …. you see, it is son born in the uk who is looking for what happened to him…. he never married his mother and never knew his son Jack. Oh the mystery deepens ...

Hi Margee -this is definitely them. The other grave is a community/communal one , I have a photo from online. It is interesting about Yvonne BM'sD, i have now got them on the 1962 and 1968 voters lists. on the '62 he is down as retired/ Ri-Tirixl but on the '68 simply as Rep.

Margee's, it's this one,

http://www.canadianheadstones.com/on/cemetery.php?cemID=593&pg=22

States he died in 1982.

Found this,

The Ottawa Journal › 7 January 1971 › Page 31 - Newspapers.com
www.newspapers.com/newspage/46148349/
E. Deans Berry, was married to Patrick Gerald Whittingham, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Whittingham, in St Barnabas Anglican Church, Ottawa, on Saturday, ...

whoo-hoo!!!!

followed by boohoo:-( can't open it, but one of the names in the link about Yvonne mentioned son Patrick ……..

I see, not the Maple Grove Cemetery in Cornwall. Sorry, Eunice, I've never heard of a community cremation grave before. Most of the cremations that I know of are in a columbarium wall.

Seems possible that the son mentioned who married in 1971 may have done well for himself if you google the name. The clipping that I posted, think you need to join that site to see more, no doubt it would cost though.