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CANADIANS I NEED YOUR HELP finding relatives that lived in St Catherines and possibly Edmonton and Winnipeg.
I am looking for the descendants of a great aunt of mine Caroline (known as Cassie) and her husband Tom Smith. Cassie married Tom Smith on 1.10.1921 at St Catharines Anglican Church, St Catharine, Ontario, Canada. He is recorded as a Butcher and born England.
We think that they have a son Donald (who may have been in the navy in WW2 and he was married to 'Madge' and they had three chilren Gary, Gail and Don).
I am sure that Cassie and her older sister Lily went together to Canada between the death of their father in July 1910 and Lily's marriage in Dec 1911 in Canada.
Lily knew her future husband Charlie Dodd who was from Gateshead, and that marriage would be the reason why Lily followed him to Canada. Lily probably took Cassie because she could look after her as a married woman. (My Great Grandfather John Robinson died three months after his marriage to his third wife Marion (this poor young women (23) inherited on his death on top of the new baby she had just borne 6 young children from his previous marriage - he had 11 in total. including my Grandfather Thomas Robinson. These sad circumstances may have been a reason why Cassie decided to go with her sister to Canada c1910.
Both Cassie and Tom are buried at Victoria Lawns in St Catherines (but we belive they lived in Edmonton for a while)
I have a birth year of Tom Smith of 1889 but his record at the cemetary says he is 92 at the time of his death in 1974 which if accurate would mean a birth year of 1882. A decendant of Lilly's (Peter Whittaker who is still alive at 95) said he remembers Tom and he said that the men ie Tom Smith and Charlie Dodd met whilst building the Welland Canal a huge project to connect lake Ontario to the USA for shipping and that were both English. That is how Cassie came to meet Tom and ultimately marry him.
One of my Aunts also showed me a newspaper clipping that she had been sent by one of the aunts in Canada of a relative that had been awared the VC his name was I belive Earnest Alvic Smith, who was Canadian. If anyone has any family connections to 'Alvia' please contact me so I can add or discount this fully.
My cousin has been searching for the lost part of the family since 1961 so any help would be wondeful.
Regards XX Allison Tina Robinson
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