Sunday, June 25, 2006
Ontario families
I have spent a while researching the Ontario Greathead families. I now know what happened to many I could not find in the UK census sheets. But like always the information provides problems. Joseph Greathead who married Elizabeth Baker, known as Betsie when in England, they emigrated with their first son John and later had children Marion, William, Millie, Frances and Joseph all born in 1860's in Ontario, Canada. There were many tragedies, many still born children or dying in infancy and a newly married lady having to give birth to her first child after her young husband died by drowning in an accident on Lake Heron. It is amazing just how much information is on the Canadian BMD certificates, I have now increased the numbers of copies of actual records dramatically.
