X00055: James Farrage and William Chisholm

So, I was doing some thinking. William Chisholm (who signed the George Miller-Margaret Farriage marriage bond) was living in Nelson in the 1830s. He operated a general store and supplied local shipping companies. He later became a ship builder. So could he have been the connection between the Farrages and George Miller?

Perhaps Margaret’s parents died and so she traveled with James. James knows William Chisholm as a supplier who finds her work in her home town as a domestic, where she meets George. Just a thought.

X00317 Update on Ernest Ashton

An update on the search for Ernest Ashton after 1931. I did check some of the city directories

I found him in the 1952 City Directory for Toronto living at 128 Jamieson Ave:

....but not in the 1953 City Directory:

So, while this doesn't prove anything, it is consistent with the death date of 23 January 1953 in the Ashton family bible.

X00055: James Farrage

This weekend MyHeritage is offering their Canadian collection free on honour of Canada Day.

I didn’t find much there that I couldn’t find anywhere else, but I did have a look in the newspapers for the surname Farriage in hopes that I might find some more clues for X00055. I managed to find a couple of references in the Quebec Gazette in 1834 to a James Farrage, master of a ship called the Eleanor.

From 27 June 1834:

And from 7 July 1834:

It’s not much, but it’s about the only time that I’ve ever seen the name Farrage mentioned outside of the UK in the 1830s. So, it could be a clue!