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[astral276]

My paternal grandparents were from England (Cheshire) and the maternal side from Bessarabia / Moldova. Both sets of my grandparents came to Alberta as homesteaders in the early 1900s.

I have lost family in Canada. Last record of them found was on the steamship MELITA bound for St. John N.B. in 1921. Family lore says they ended up in Toronto, but have found nothing of them after their arrival.

[FirstGreenIsGold]

As did my absentee gt grandfather, Walter SCOTT - oh I do wish his parents had given him a middle name as that would make looking for him so much easier !

I just checked the homestead index, but couldn't find Walter. Did you manage to find where their land was located?

[FirstGreenIsGold]

I have lost family in Canada. Last record of them found was on the steamship MELITA bound for St. John N.B. in 1921. Family lore says they ended up in Toronto, but have found nothing of them after their arrival.

Did they have one those Smith / Baker type names that easily get lost? I haven't checked Ancestry for directories for Toronto. Too bad they didn't come over before 1921, as the census has been released.

[astral276]

Did they have one those Smith / Baker type names that easily get lost? I haven't checked Ancestry for directories for Toronto.

No, the head of the family had one of the better (i.e. less common) names to search for: Willie Atherton Warwick. He was actually named Willie on birth registration and not the more usual family forename of William (like his father), though I suppose he could have used William at times.

Yes, an awkward period; long enough ago to have slipped from family memory, but not long enough ago for a lot of records to be released. Ho Hum.

[Anniemcc2]

Wot you moanin' about? My family is full of Smiths and Bakers.

I have SMITHs as well !

[Anniemcc2]

I just checked the homestead index, but couldn't find Walter. Did you manage to find where their land was located?

Family legend has it that he went to British Columbia - but he could have gone anywhere. I've been searching for him in Canada since 1999 with no joy

[FirstGreenIsGold]

I have SMITHs as well !

I don't have Smith, but Shaw is in the same category.

[FirstGreenIsGold]

Family legend has it that he went to British Columbia - but he could have gone anywhere. I've been searching for him in Canada since 1999 with no joy

No ages close to matching your Walter on the British Columbia Vital Statistics index? ... only goes up to 1989 though , if I remember correctly.

[cajo712]

Annie this page shows 17 Walter Scott's in Alberta in 1911 without middle names. If you know what age he was in 1911 or what area of Alberta he settled in, it would narrow it down quite a bit.

My relatives are recorded in the 1921 census but the handwriting is not very clear, so there are a few names with incorrect spelling in the typed form.

http://automatedgenealogy.com/census...range=1&month=

Joan