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Robert
Here is what I know from messages on Ancestry .com Message boards.
A message posted on1/1/2000 from Pennie Woodruff it reads,
Ellen Barclay from Woolwich England Siblings were William, Rose, and Florence.
Ellen had a daughterin 1919 by the same name.
Ellen (mother) was last seen in Vancover, BC. She had masrried a Larson
Daughter married Clarence Woodruff.
Another message posted 17/7/2000 from Marrianne987
My great grandmothercame from a place called Plumstead.Her namewas Rose Elizabeth Barclay and she was born in 1986. She wasthe eldest of 5 childrenwhen she married my great grandfather (a canadian soldier) and moved to Canada, her father cut of all ties with her.
all these details seem to be right
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For Robert's "She had masrried a Larson" read "She had married a Lawson".
In MB BMDs Charles's mum is given as Marg Crawford - it should be Mary - an easily made mistranscription. His mum died in 1899, and his dad remarried to Eva Cowan Brenton - Brenton is also mistranscribed on Florence Mildred's MB entry, but is OK on Howard Mason's SK entry. I don't find Gordon entry in SK, nor William C (=Crawford maybe) in MB. Nothing online for AB. I don't see anything checkable re Ellen Jr & Clarence in BC.
Using links on the census index URL I gave earlier, look up Albert Lawson in 1891. He's in Louise subdistrict, and there's no Charles present.
When you check MB BMDs, it's not surprising as he was actually born 12/5/1891, and lied on his attestation, which says 12/5/1889.
He signed at Val Cartier, Canada's main training camp, in Quebec.
(In 1881, look up Thos Lawson (exactly)). Thos ought to be on the 1851 aged 4m, but I didn't see him. I did find another 29 y old Rev Thomas Lawson, also a Methodist preacher in Peel Co, Ontario (=Canada W) - maybe some rellie.
You can look up Pilot Mound MB at:
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php
and see the addy as Sec. 20, Twp. 3, R. 11, W1M.
[On the prairies, the Dominion Land Survey divided the land into 6m x 6m townships, identified by the Twp # (a northing from the US border) and the Range # (a westing from the last Meridian). A township had 36 sections, and a homestead normally was a quarter section (160 acres).]
Louise subdistrict was roughly rectangular, covering T 1-3, and R 10-14. (Roughly, as the range boundaries don't run N-S, but must jog (every 24m) to accomodate a 6 mile square on a curved earth - longitudes are 24% closer at the N boundary of province than at S boundary.)
The 1901 image you get thru AG doesn't have house details - they're on Scedule 2, so:
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1901/z/z001/z000021809.pdf
[addy for h/h on page 3 line 11 is Mountain St, Deloraine, MB]
If you look up 1901 on AG, click on the "link" in last col to get 1906-11.
Matsqui is just S of the Fraser, opposite Mission which is the municipality next to Maple Ridge, now an outer eastern suburb of Vancouver.
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Thanks for all that to all of you we have been looking for that information for years you corrected several missaprehensions the family has held about the two sisters the most surprising was that Ellen had a daughter when she sailed to Canada.
Now all I have to do is find the children from the marriage and all their familys
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