X00262 Everett Delahaye Timeline

Everett Delahaye is the son of John Delahaye and Nancy Lawson. He was born 23 March 1890. But here's where it gets interesting.

A birth registration has been found for him showing him as having being born in Romney, Kent, Ontario. But there is also a second birth certificate out there with the exact same birth date and parents names, showing him as being born in Chicago:

Now, is it a delayed birth registration, so it was created many years after the birth took place and so there are reasons to be a bit suspect. There may have been reasons to suggest an alternative birth location. but this does require tome analysis to determine which birth location is correct. There is the possibility that there could be two individuals with the same name born on the same day, but with the same parents names, it seems very unlikely. It should be noted that his birth location is given as Chicago in his death registration.

Another interesting note is in his delayed birth registration, both parents are listed as being born in the US, which goes against all other information that I've found. I'm inclined to think that the information in the delayed birth record is inaccurate, but I need to do more of an analysis first before ruling it out entirely.

Harriet Hardy

I was requesting some look ups from the Anglican Church archives, and although they weren't able to find what I was looking for, they did manage to find something that I was not expecting: A daughter of Lancelot Hardy and Jane Tricker that I did not know about previously, named Harriet.

Her baptism record gives a date of birth of 11 July 1846 and a baptism date of 11 July 1847:

Her burial record gives a burial date of 13 January 1851

So, she died before civil registration started in Ontario and did not live long enough to appear in a census (although the section of the 1851 census where the Hardy family would have been living has not survived). I've never come across a gravestone for her. So these two records might be the only records that survive for her.

X00310 Norah Eleanor Hewett Knox date of death - solved!

I have posted previously about finding death dates for the Hewett sisters, Annie F., Olive and Clara. I still haven't found anything for them, beyond 1965, where I found the three of them in a 1965 voters list.

But I have managed to find their sister Norah's date of death. It seems that someone has recently added her gravestone to find a grave. The stone gives a date of death of 9 April 1957, which means that I'll need to wait a few years before the Archives of Ontario releases the death information.

But it's another X-File solved!

X00356 More on Lancelot Hardy's date of death

In last week's post, I introduced X00356 about the dates of death for Lancelot Hardy (born 1827) and Frances Snowden Hardy Johnson. For Lancelot, I had estimated his date of death to be between 1865 and 1868.

I have since come acorss a Gazeteer and Directory for the county of Perth for 1867. There is no Lancelot Hardy appearing in the listings for Blanshard Township. While this is not definitive proof, it would suggest that Lancelot died before 1867 and a more likely date of death range to be looking in would be from 1865 to 1866.

X00356 Lancelot Hardy and Frances Snowden death information

You may remember Lancelot Hardy b. 1827 from X00192. He is the son of Lancelot Hardy and Ann Wood and from married Frances Snowden in 1853 in Toronto Township [D07213].

I'm trying to find the death information for both Lancelot Hardy and Frances Snowden.

At the time of the 1861 census [D07143], Lancelot and Frances Hardy were living in Blanshard Township, Perth County. They had a child, Harriet Hardy, born about 1860 in Meadowvale, Ontario according to her marriage registration, so it is likely that they moved to Blanchard Township sometime between 1860 and 1861.

Frances Snowden remarried a William Johnson on 20 April 1868 in Perth County [D07145] so it is likely that Lancelot died before then. The last child that the two had together (as far as I can tell) was born about 1866 in Perth County. So, that would suggest a death range for Lancelot Hardy between 1865 and 1868.

As for Frances, she remarries William Johnson in 1868. They appear together in the 1871 census, but then William Johnson appears in the 1880 US census in Minnesota as a widower. In the 1880 census, he is living with only his children; the children that Frances and Lancelot had together are all living in Canada. So, it would appear that after Frances died, he moved to the US with only his children.

The last child that I’m aware of Frances having was born in 1875, so that would put her year of death between 1875 and 1880.

So, I have estimated ranges of date years for the two of them, and likely locations of Blanshard Township, Perth County. But nothing more definite than that.

Lancelot Hardy died prior to the start of civil registration in Ontario, so no death record is to be found. Frances died after the start of civil registration, but I have not been able to find a death record. I haven't been able to find cemetery records for either of them.

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Sources
[D07143] 1861 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Blanshard, district 02, Blanshard, p. 26; RG 31; digital images, Ancestry.ca

[D07145] Ontario, Ontario County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869, GS Film Number 001030063: 194, Johnson-Hardy, 1868; digital images, FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch

[D07213] (Toronto Township, Canada West), "Marriage Registration - Lancelot Hardy and Frances Snowden"; United Church of Canada Archives, Toronto.

X00062 Charlotte Ann Hennell Baptism - Solved!

Charlotte Ann Henneel is my third great grandmother and the wife of Adam Clarke Hook. I knew that she was born around 1830 due to various census records and her death record. But I wasn't able to find a bpatism record. I had checked a number of sources including Ancestry, FindMyPast, FamilySearch and the British Isles Vital Records Index, with no luck.

I had a note in my genealogy database that she had been baptised 1 September 1830 at St. Mary Abbott Church in Kensington, although I'm not sure where that came from.

I had a look for records of St. Mary Abbott Church in Family Search. The church was listed, but unfortunately the year 1830 was missing:

I went back to Ancestry and did some creative searching and found that the record had been indexed under the surname "Kennell" rather than Hennell. It did confirm a date of 1 September 1830 as a baptism date:

A number of trees on Ancestry, however, also give a birth date of 6 August 1830. I haven't found a source for that yet. The year is consistent with all the other sources, but nothing that I've found gives an exact date of birth

X00038 William Douglas Passenger List - Solved!

I finally managed to find a passenger list for William Douglas, my fourth great-grandfather.

I knew that he was born in Scotland and from the letters that he had sent, had relocated to Vermont to teach at a school there. I checked a number of passenger and immigration lists, including Filby's, but couldn't find anything.

I did find a mention in Volume 2 of A Dictionary of Scottish Immigrants to the U.S.A. by Donald Whyte:

All of the other information checked out, and it gave a date of "before 1825". I next was able to find a reference to a William Douglas, teacher, who arrived in New York from Scotland on the Sceptre on 24 July 1822.

Here is the port registration for the Sceptre:

And here's the actual passenger list: