Genealogy Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Boards

Quick Search

Single word search

Tools

Findmypast DNA Banner

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

Ancestors in Canada - Can you help?

Login to Add Reply Watch This
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

Lisa J in California

Lisa J in California Report 10 Jan 2008 06:33

Hi Nicola:

While I cannot help with the Evans' offspring, this might be a start:

Surname Given Name Cemetery County Township Reference
EVANS Francis H. Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, London Middlesex London MX-141
EVANS Elsie L. Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, London Middlesex London MX-141

http://www.islandnet.com/ocfa/

Could they be your Evans? There are over 30 Evans buried in the cemetery, so the above could just be coincidence.

When I first started my research I wrote to a couple of Ontario cemetery managers and they were extremely helpful (I had planned on visiting within the year, so perhaps that could be why they were so kind). Included in some of the information were informants and their relationships (sons of the deceased). There is also the possibility that if these are your Evans, that other Evans might be buried in the plot.

PS While London and Peterborough are not close in distance, a few of my ancestors settled in the Peterborough area (pre-1880), only to move to Toronto later. It wouldn't surprise me to hear that your Evans did not stay in the Peterborough area.

Click ADD REPLY button - not this link!

Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! Report 9 Jan 2008 22:02

Unfortunately, the Ontario births only go up until 1909 on Ancestry.

Rose

Researching:
I am not related to you and I'm not your husband's first wife!

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 9 Jan 2008 21:54

Was he in WW1 in the Canadian Army?
There's a Francis Henry Evans enlisted Aug. 1915, Peterborough.
He was born 4 Jan., 1893, Reading, Berkshire, England.
Next of kin was David Evans, 75 Anisty? Rd., Reading.
If this is him, he must have returned to England then came back to Canada.

Researching:
Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)

Nicola

Nicola Report 9 Jan 2008 21:38

I am trying to trace any possible ancestors in Canada. My Great grandfather's brother Francis Henry Evans was born in Reading, Berkshire, UK in 1893 and he and his fiancee, Elsie Lillian Chard also born in Reading, Berkshire married at the Salvation Army in North Monaghan, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada in 1919. They settled as far as I know in Ontario.

I would like to try and find out if they had any children and If I have any family connections in Canada.

Can anyone help?