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Friend, Alfred Henry

Alfred Henry (Harry) Friend was born on 22 May 1880 in Totterdown, Bristol Gloucestershire, England. His father Silas Samuel Friend, an engine fitter by trade, was from Corsham in Wiltshire while his mother Ellen Tinker  was from Stirt, also in Wiltshire. Silas and Ellen had married in 1878 in the registration district of Barton Regis, Gloucestershire…. Read More »

King, William Charles

William Charles King was born 11 June 1870 in Hammersmith, England. He was the eldest child of William King and Emma Sarah Tomlin. His siblings were: Ellen Sarah (1872-1934; m. William J. Granville), James Edward (1876-1929), Emma Elizabeth (1880-1938; m. John E. Pike), Edward George (1884-1943), and Mary Annie (1887-1910). The family was living in… Read More »

Fawcett, Edwin

Edwin Fawcett was born on 14 September 1900 in Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England. His father Edwin Fawcett was from Birstwith, Yorkshire while his mother Mary Whitteron was from nearby Follifoot in Yorkshire, the communities about 80 kilometres from Stockton-on-Tees. The couple married during the second quarter of 1899 in the registration district of Knaresborough, Yorkshire. Edwin… Read More »

Denault, John Arthur

  John Arthur (Jack) Denault was born on 28 April 1896 in Fort Coulonge, Quebec. His parents, both born in Quebec, were Joseph and Marie Anna (née Paré) Denault who had married in 1879 in LaPasse, Ontario. Children born to the couple were Joseph Edward (1880), Mary (1882), James Frank (1886), Jane (1889), Michael William… Read More »

Muggaberg, Thomas

Private Thomas Muggaberg was the youngest son of Julius Muggaberg and Isabella (Elizabeth) Sinclair. Julius was born in Norway and immigrated to Canada (British North America) when he was in his twenties. Isabella was Scottish Métis and born in the Red River Settlement in what is now Manitoba. Julius and Isabella were married in 1860… Read More »

Kelley, John Henry

Although he gave his year of birth as 1891 on his attestation papers, John Henry (Jack) Kelley was born on 7 November 1890 in Keewatin, Ontario. Located in northwestern Ontario, Keewatin was a thriving community of the time, largely due to the Lake of the Woods Milling Company. Jack was the first born  son of… Read More »

Clemons, Charles Edward

Charles Edward Clemons was born on 2 February 1894 in the Portland, Leeds area of Ontario where his family farmed. His parents were George Clemons and Fanny Victoria Preston, the couple marrying in 1890 in Singleton, Ontario. Children born to the family were Gertrude (m Henry Primrose) (1892-bef 1964), Charles, Emily (m Edward John Mott)… Read More »

Potts, George Alexander

George Alexander Potts was born on 10 July 1880 in Buckholm, Ladhope, Selkirk in Scotland. His father George Alexander Potts was from Wilton, Hawick in Roxburgh while his mother Elizabeth (Betsy) Tait was from Jedburgh, also in Roxburgh. The couple married in 1877 in Ladhope. George’s first wife Agnes Drummond had died in 1871, leaving… Read More »

White, William Gregory

Birth date: William was born in Aylmer, Ontario, September 6th, 1896 to William Robert White (born October 1, 1869, Elgin County, Ontario) and Ethel Elizabeth Gregory (born November 4, 1870, Belmont, Middlesex, Ontario). They were married in Aylmer, Ontario June 1, 1893. William is descended from and related to historic families in early Ontario and… Read More »