Albany Royston Troughton

[exiled brummie]

This wonderfully named relative was born in 1889 in Ulverston Lancashire, the son of a Bishop of the Free Church of England.

He seems to have been a rover as he made a number of transatlantic voyages, the last found in the records dated 3 January 1930, when he sailed on board the Canadian Pacific liner Duchess of York to New Brunswick.

According to the passenger manifest his intention was permanent emigration to Canada. So far as I am aware he never married, certainly not in England or Wales.

Does anyone know what he got up to in Canada?

[Coromandel]

Google finds this article, describing a court case between 'Albany Troughton, a Canadian businessman, and J. Murray Bartels, a New York City philatelic dealer'. Mr Troughton's mother-in-law, one Mrs Erskine, comes into the story.

http://www.
stampnotes.com/PhilaTopics/Troughton_v._Bartels.htm

[olliecat]

Is this your chap?

Deceased: ALBANY ROYSTON TROUGHTON
Date of Death: January 23, 1947
Service Number: B/76733
Rank: Corporal
Regiment: Toronto Scottish Regiment (M.G.), R.C.I.C.

wwii.
ca/memorial/world-war-ii/155744/corporal-albany-royston-troughton/

[Coromandel]

Sadly, Google also led me to this, on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site:

Name: TROUGHTON, ALBANY ROYSTON
Initials: A R
Nationality: Canadian
Rank: Corporal
Regiment/Service: Toronto Scottish Regiment (M.G.), R.C.I.C.
Age: 47
Date of Death: 23/01/1947
Service No: B/76733
Additional information: Husband of Jean R. Troughton, of Toronto.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Veterans' Plot. Sec. 7. Grave 4580.
Cemetery: TORONTO (PROSPECT) CEMETERY

The age is puzzling: if he was 47, he's some 11 years younger than your Albany. Perhaps the age is completely wrong (a mix-up with the year of death, 1947?) - in which case maybe he is a son of your Albany?

[Kerrywood]

Albany Royston TROUGHTON (born Ulverston, England, bachelor, aged 25, Traveller, son of Wm TROUGHTON and Isabella LAMB) married Jean Reip ERSKINE (born Glasgow, Scotland, spinster, aged 21, daughter of Robert ERSKINE and Jean REIP), on 12 December 1914 at a Methodist ceremony in Toronto. Witnesses were Frank D? LAMB (296 Perth Ave) and Bessie ERSKINE (297 Bathurst).

(source: Ontario, Canada. Registrations of Marriages, 1869-1928)

[exiled brummie]

Thank you so much for the information Kerrywood. It will be interesting to find what, if any, relationship the witness had to Albany. He wasn't an uncle but Isabella did have 4 brothers. Searches coming up soon!!

[exiled brummie]

Thanks to Kerrywood's find, it looks very much as though you have the right person - his wife was named Jean Riep, which makes things pretty compelling, not to mention his living in Toronto.

Looks like there is a mistake on the CWGC site.

Your find concerning the court case is also quite some find.

Thank you very much indeed.

[exiled brummie]

A bit of searching has found another record in the Library and Archives Canada. The record gives Albany's DOB as 14 November 1899, when he was actually born in 1889.

The site states that dates of birth are not carved in granite as soldiers often lied about their age as they were either under or over age for active service.

[exiled brummie]

Reckon this thread should now be on the Success Stories forum. A casual mention to a relative set her searching with her worldwide Ancestry membership, and no fewer than 7 e-mails packed with information and images arrived this morning.

Some of the information is duplicated, all of it confirms that Coromandel, Kerrywood and Olliecat had found the right relative. My searches have found details of his final resting place in Toronto, together with a photograph of his headstone, plus the probability that he shed 10 years in order to enlist with Toronto Scottish Regiment. His DOB is given as 14 November 1899 wheres the year was actually 1889.

There are also copies of his marriage certificate in Toronto, plus several passenger lists now sitting on my hard drive. One amazing find is that one voyage to New York possibly took the scenic route, via Sydney Australia!!

The most tantalising piece of information though has to be that of a Mrs Albany Troughton listed as a resident of Droitwich in Worcestershire. Sadly the document is undated, but gives me something else to search on.