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Arrived in canada about 1900 in the army - Leinster Regiment from Ireland. Produced a family George. Maude, Queenie, Tom, Tilly and Jim. last contact was from Toronto in 1934. Any hooks welcome.

Do you know when he was born, John? Who he married?
Margaret

John, do you have any dates of birth? Also, what was his wife's name, please?

Sorry, didn't see Margaret's message.

We're just on the same wavelength, Lisa. Good Canadians with out roots over 'ome.
Margaret

Well! Leave it to the Brit to get the answer.
So, if that's him, Jim, he was born 1867.

Can't find one that matches in the 1901 or1911 Canadian census.

Hi Margaret: Didn't see you posting earlier, as I was looking for him before I posted. :) Then I had to leave for a while. Back now. :)

Hope the weather is nice where you are - it's a bit cool here - in the 30's at night. Not typical for California!

Don't you dare mention weather. Lisa!!!!
We're in the midst of a horrific storm. Completely snowed in. They're forecasting up to 60 cms.
"I'm dreaming of a White Christmas" NOT!!!

Got him!


Name: Charles Chamber
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Age: 43
Birth Date: Sep 1867
Birthplace: Ireland
Family Number: 123
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Mary Ellan
Immigration Year: 1910
Tribal: Irish
Province: Ontario
District: Toronto East
District Number: 125
Sub-District: Ward 1
Sub-District Number: 29
Place of Habitation: 60 Tailor St
Census Year: 1911
Page: 14

Charles Chamber 43
Mary Ellan Chamber 29
-- she's 39, not 29; DOB 1872
Arthur Chamber 20
William Chamber 18
James Chamber 16
Loura Chamber 14
Thomas Chamber 13
Victoria Chamber 10
George Chamber 5
Maud Chamber 2


Soon I have to leave my office and walk next door to my house ... and try not to disappear into a snowdrift and not be found 'til May ...

None of the children seem to have married in Ontario before 1924. Since one might expect that the older children would have married not long after 1911, they may have moved to BC (or somewhere in between) not long after that census.

All of the children are shown in 1911 as born in Ireland, btw, and the immigration year is stated to be 1910.

I find the BC vital stats site to be too irritating for words. Half the time it doesn't respond.

John -- you can search here:

http://search.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/sn-216BB74/gbsearch/Births,Marriages,Deaths

for marriages up to 1931. That's the closest you'll get from official records to finding what the kids got up to, since birth info is protected for 100 years.

You might find death records for some of the kids, as well. If you know any of their middle names, it would help a lot for searching for their deaths.

Why can't I find the family on the 1911 census, Kathryn? I'm using Automated genealogy. Tried both Chamber and Chambers.
Hope you didn't disappear into a snowbank. Whereabouts are you? I'm in Cornwall where we got 50 cms yesterday. That's on top of what we already had!
Margaret

There's no accounting for mistranscriptions, is there? ;)

Somebody at TTF is having the same problem between Ancestry and FindMyPast. I found her family at Ancestry by searching for a child by personal details only; they have the mother as N??? and the surname as Williams instead of Wilson -- and in this case I don't blame Ancestry really because the writing on the page is almost invisible. But what FMP has done with the same household, who knows? Ditto for Chambers in 1911 at automatedgenealogy!

I looked at the image to suggest a neighbour you could look for on the same page. Well, there's Max Finkelstein. And there's someone who is probably Edith Lebovitch, but it looks like it's written Leboveth. If they didn't get Chamber/s right ... Maybe William McGuire or James Mehuish? I can't even make out most of the rest, but there may be a Thomas Johnston at the bottom.

If one of them gets you the page, Chambers is the second household on it.


Now forgive me for being cagey, but I never give out my location in public on the net. I didn't hear our total this morning, but I expect it's not much different from yours!

Clever of those Chambers-s to move to lotusland on the Pacific ...

Thanks, Kathryn, found it, transcribed Chambes.
Queenie must have been Victoria, makes sense to me.
Margaret

I just realized that too, when I was looking through the names checking them off to make sure it was the right people!

It actually looks more like Chambes than Chamber, and it isn't really Chambers. Blame the enumerator here, I think.

Now if only we could think of some way of finding their offspring today. I asked canada411. It cut me off at 300 Chambers-s in BC ...

They saw the light and crossed the border -- and very kindly did so before the 1911 Canadian census! Some of us have obliging family like that ... some of us have great-grandfathers who randomly change their surname, wander off to Australia for a few years on a whim, and refer to all their daughters as "Isa" no matter what they were registered as ...

Good one, Jim!
I see you haven't lost your touch.
Margaret
p.s. Want some snow for Christmas?

Like you, Kathryn, we have awkward relatives who crossed the border the other way, going from Canada to US between US 1880 census and Canadian 1881, so they're on neither!
Margaret