marieorton
24-02-2009, 06:57 PM
My grandfather left a wife and four children to go to Canada and my grandmother also left children behind to live in Canada.
The Canadian Passenger Lists showed that they came to Canada a year apart so they may or may not have known each other before immigrating.
They started a new family (my mother and her sister) here in Vancouver.
There was no marriage certificate so I was against a brick wall for years until my search exhausted the possibility of marriage in other countries and I accepted the fact that they may never have married.
My grandfather changed his name to FREDERICK but not before he was listed on the 1911 census as ALFRED J. Had he not be listed as ALFRED J on the census I would not have been able to find his birth certificate because my mother's birth certificate showed him as FREDERICK. Luckily, I had his birth date on a couple of documents and it confirmed that I had the right person when I receive his birth certificate .
My grandmother also changed her name. She used my grandfather's last name of Harris. She also did not change her birth date and so I was also able to confirm her birth certificate by the exact birth date.
I used other clues to confirm their real identities but the exact birth dates were the final clue which brought the search and their secret to an end.
The Canadian Passenger Lists showed that they came to Canada a year apart so they may or may not have known each other before immigrating.
They started a new family (my mother and her sister) here in Vancouver.
There was no marriage certificate so I was against a brick wall for years until my search exhausted the possibility of marriage in other countries and I accepted the fact that they may never have married.
My grandfather changed his name to FREDERICK but not before he was listed on the 1911 census as ALFRED J. Had he not be listed as ALFRED J on the census I would not have been able to find his birth certificate because my mother's birth certificate showed him as FREDERICK. Luckily, I had his birth date on a couple of documents and it confirmed that I had the right person when I receive his birth certificate .
My grandmother also changed her name. She used my grandfather's last name of Harris. She also did not change her birth date and so I was also able to confirm her birth certificate by the exact birth date.
I used other clues to confirm their real identities but the exact birth dates were the final clue which brought the search and their secret to an end.