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HELP! My GG Grandmother Julia Taylor fled to Canad

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Beverley

Beverley Report 4 Aug 2008 13:43

Thanks everyone for your suggestions - that should keep me busy!
Bev :o)

mgnv

mgnv Report 31 Jul 2008 11:30

You can search the Canadian 1911 census via:
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/index.html

HelenBrissie

HelenBrissie Report 29 Jul 2008 22:31

Hi Beverley

You can search Findmypast.com. passenger list 1890-1960 index and then ask for a lookup for details. A couple of kind people on the boards are offering lookups.

Also you can search Canadian Census 1901-1911 on http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/census11/index.jsp

Gives you quite a bit of background info on your ancestors.

bye Helen

Beverley

Beverley Report 29 Jul 2008 22:11

I know my great great grandmother (Julia Taylor nee Keeton B-16th Jan 1848) absconded to Canada - Vancouver I believe - with the family inheritance (after illegaly selling dockland property to a biscuit manufacturer?!!) but her trail has gone cold in the UK after the 1881 census, in which she was the head of household after her husband Samuel Taylor had died. They lived in the parish of St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, London.
I'm sure she didn't go to Canada until after the 1891 cenus or even the 1901 census, as my nan remembered her and wasn't born until 1895. I've a feeling it was in the early 1900's, and according to family folk law, she followed her 'illigitimate' daugter (Amy O'Rourke) out there - I can find no mention of HER whatsoever!! It's a mystery!
One of my questions is - how did people get to Canada, from where, and to where, and how do you find them in Canada once they got there????
ALSO, are there any other good sources of info other than the census I can look up in the UK to find her after 1881 - she can't have just vanished!
I was wondering where you can find evidence of property sales as big as this as this may give me a time frame??
I have a feeling this ellusive lady may have taken the name O'Rourke at some point but still have no proof of this and don't think she was legally married to an O'Rourke (Amy's father?) this is all making her very difficult to find and ever more interesting, but very frustrating!!! HELP SOMEONE!!!!