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Not everybody wants to correct their 'mistakes'.

He came back to the UK with his mother when he was 4 and married in sussex

Thank you all so much for your help in tracing Jonas etc I shall keep AnnCardiff updated.

Best Wishes to you all
Cameron

so if he married in Sussex - best change Canada to Sussex now :-D

Ann!!

How very dare you call my Cameron simple!!! :-| :-|

:-D ;-) :-D

I shall not dignify that comment with a response :-D ;-)

posting this on behalf of Cameron

can anyone find the marriage of Jonas and Maude? I've tried but no luck

Thanks

Is this Jonas' arrival in canada? He says he's single:

Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935
about Jonas Whitaker Name: Jonas Whitaker
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1883
Date of Arrival: 13 Apr 1906
Vessel: Laurentian
Search Ship Database: View the 'Laurentian' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Roll: T-500

Could be birth about right, have searched for his wife Maud going over either as a Whitaker or Beecham but no joy. She comes back a widow with son Donald in 1908?
Thanks, Cameron

help
webspace.webring.com/people/mw/whittakergen_notts/help.htm Cached
Joseph Whittaker was born about ... trace relatives of Jonas Arthur Whitaker. It is believed that his son was Donald Brigg Whitaker who was born in Canada early 1900.

Canada Marriages - 4,000,000,000+ Names.
FamilyLink.com/Canada Marriages
Birth, Death, Marriage, Divorce. 3-Day Free Trial

Canadian Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~goudied... Cached
Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths. The civil registration of births, marriages and deaths did not become the general practice in Canada ...

this looks like a good site

Marriage Divorce Records | publicrecordschecks.com
publicrecordschecks.com/Marriage
Most people find marriage & divorce records right here. Takes 2 sec.

and this one

For Posterity's Sake Canadian Genealogy - Halifax County ...
forposterityssake.ca/Hfx-Mar_Reg.htm Cached
Marriages Halifax, 1900-1908 - FHL US/CAN Film [ 1298883 ] Marriages Halifax, 1909-1916 Marriages Hants, 1864-1884 - FHL US/CAN Film [ 1298988 ]

Grateful thanks yet again Ann, I will get on to it.

Cameron

Beware of commercial sites for vital records in Canada, I have found. They are not going to have much because of the strict privacy rules and because no one has indexed material that the provinces themselves have not published really.

This is the official Saskatchewan site but it has not been updated in a long time.

http://genealogy.ehealthsask.ca/vsgs_srch.aspx

it has Donald's birth

mother Maud Beacham father Jonas Arthur Whitaker, 1908 in Yorkton

but it does not show Jonas's death

marriages are not indexed.

In 1891 Maud "Beecham" aged 3 is a boarder with a family in Keighley.
In 1901 same spelling she is stepdaughter of the same Daffern family.

In 1907 Maud Daffern born c1887 travelled from Liverpool to St John New Brunswick.
She was not accompanied by any other Dafferns.
I do not have access to familysearch to check that record but maybe someone will.

This is great thank you so much for this, not sure about the Maud Daffern bit as I was not aware that she had changed her name to Daffern, though it seems logical? Maud's mother was a witness at Maud's second marriage to A Crichton,
Cameron

who were Maud's parents, Cameron?

we could look for them in those English censuses to see what the situation was, or maybe travelling to Canada.

this may have been mentioned but two people here have

Maud or Maude BEECHAM born 1888 in their trees ... check the surnames of the two tree owners and I think you will have the connection :-D

(I'm not putting them here because I don't think it's fair to other members to name them when they are not participating in the discussion.)

Her arrival in Canada:

Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935
about Maud Daffern Name: Maud Daffern
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1887
Date of Arrival: 23 Nov 1907
Vessel: Empress of Ireland
Search Ship Database: View the 'Empress of Ireland' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: Halifax, Nova Scotia and St John, New Brunswick
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Roll: T-508

Heading to Yorkton, Saskatchewan to be married.