Wilson family

fmackay · Post by **fmackay** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:31 pm

Have been trying to find birth entries for the following people on Ancestry but I'm not having much luck. I've found them in the census for 1911 and i have their year of birth - would just like to find the entry. Are all births on Ancestry? I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to searching.
I'm looking for
Edwin Laurence Wilson - born 1885,Osnaburgh House(no more details, have been unable to find him anywhere else.
Lousie Wilson(spelling taken from census)born 1898 Ontario. I have found Lousie on 1901 and 1911 census.

Edwin's parents were Robert Cummins Wilson and Elizabeth Jobson. Elizabeth died in 1894 in Orkney. Sometime after this Robert married again to Margaret (possibly Louttit)and they had Lousie.
Robert and Elizabeth also had two other children, Christopher Thomas Jobson born 1887 at Osnaburgh House and Violet Jane Isabella born 1892 also at Osnaburgh House whose birth certs i have found.

Not sure where to go next etc .
Any help or pointers in the right direction would be appreciated
Thanks
Fiona

Post by **paddyscar** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:50 am

Hi Fiona:

Not all births are listed on Ancestry.

Osnaburgh House is located in Northwestern Ontario in the Kenora District. Translation: closer to the Manitoba border

Edwin Laurence Wilson - born 1885,Osnaburgh House. Edwin's parents were Robert Cummins Wilson and Elizabeth Jobson. Elizabeth died in 1894 in Orkney

I'm reading that Edwin was born in Ontario in 1885, and his mother died in 1894 in Orkney- where am I going wrong?

Frances

fmackay · Post by **fmackay** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:20 am

Hi Frances
thanks for your reply - so i'm not going mad that i couldn't find his birth on Ancestry? Where else could I look online?
Edwin's father worked for the HBCo and his wife was from Orkney - for some reason they were back in Orkney when his wife died. Their youngest child(that I have found)was born in 1891 in Ontario(according to census).
It was n't unusual for families to go between the two countries.

Post by **paddyscar** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:51 pm

Hi Fiona:

Couldn't find either birth listed on the Ontario Genealogical Society site.

Here is some later info:
http://data2.archives.ca/cef/gpc018/680542a.gif You'll notice bureaucracy was alive and well, with the word triplicate scrawled across the top

You could check at your nearest Latter Day Saints Family History Centre to see if they have, or could order the microfilm of births in Ontario for that period of time.

I'll check at my local library when I'm there within the next week and see if I can find them.

Frances

fmackay · Post by **fmackay** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:47 pm

Hi Frances
Many thanks for your reply and link to Edwin's attestation papers.
Would be great if you check out the records but please don't go to too much trouble!
I've posted a message on the rootsweb message board for Port Arthur so maybe something will turn up there.
Might try the Hud Bay Co archives again to see if he worked for them the same as his father and grandfather did.

Fiona