unsubscribe ----------------------------------------------------- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/free_video/ -----Original Message----- From: Ellen Hooven <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, November 02, 2000 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [BURNS-L] Re: BURNS-D Digest V00 #190 >Mike, > Have you looked at Canadian genealogy site's. >Type in "Canadian genealogy" or "Cyndis list" >without parentheses. >Blessings, Ellen >----- Original Message ----- >From: <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 4:56 PM >Subject: [BURNS-L] Re: BURNS-D Digest V00 #190 > > >> Hi listers, >> Thought I'd give this a try again, what with all the recent activity >and >> all... Expecially since this most recent topic was a "Gilbert" Burns >(even >> if it wasn't the "right" one for me). I'm trying to find ANY information >on >> my grandfather, Gilbert Franklin Burns. My mother's parents divorced when >she >> was only two, so not much information is available on him. We suspect >that >> he may have had an alias (or maybe more than one), and we do know that he >was >> in trouble with the law more than once. My grandmother, Grace Ella >> Follansbee, met him while he was at Fort Devins (Massachusetts) in April >or >> May of 1919, when she visited there (for some unknown reason) with her >uncle. >> Inside the front cover of one of her diaries is written "Serg. Gilbert >> Burns, Moter Transport Company, Containment, H.Q." and next to that is >> written "no 747". Inside the back cover is written "956-W, Gilbert >Burns". >> We have four snapshots of him, including two pictures of him in some type >of >> military uniform, one with hat and one without. [Military Records in St. >> Louis, however, tells us that they have no record of anyone by that name >> being there at that time. Someone has suggested that perhaps he could >have >> been in the Canadian military, on detached service to the US...??] >> They were married on 10 October, 1919 in the Methodist Church in St. >Lambert >> Parish, Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada, and a copy of their marriage >> license gives his name as "Gilbert Franklin Burns" of the city of >Montreal, >> and his parents as "Thomas Arthur Burns" and Ella (Etta?) Bailey. We do >know >> that they ran off to be married there as my gmother and family lived in >> Keene, NH and she was under age to be married there. >> My mother was born in 1920, and her birth certificate lists his age as >> 24, which would mean he was born about 1896. My aunt was born in 1921 and >> her birth certificate lists his age as 25, which follows. On both the >> father's name is given as "Gilbert F. Burns" of Sherbrooke, Canada. >However, >> on my aunt's marriage record, 16 years later, her father's name is given >as >> "Albert Burns", age 48 -- in 16 years he aged 23 years or he was born >around >> 1889 -- or she was mistaken... >> We have, as yet, been unable to determine anything else about this man >or >> his family. I have a niece who has done some digging on him, and also a >> cousin. The only immediate relative who could have shed any light on this >> subject, my grandmother's brother, passed away a few years ago, adamantly >> refusing to say anything about Gilbert or the marriage to my grandmother, >> which ended in divorce 16 May, 1923. We do know that while married, they >> resided for a time in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, and Keene, New Hampshire. >> ANY information on this Burns family would be greatly appreciated! >TIA! >> Mike Haskins >> >> >> ==== BURNS Mailing List ==== >> Need list assistance? Please contact: [email protected] >> List Adm for BURNS-L and BURNS-D >> Now with over 400 subscribers! >> >> >> ============================== >> Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history >> learning and how-to articles on the Internet. >> http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library >> > > >==== BURNS Mailing List ==== >Did you know that only 7% of Rootsweb subscribers support Rootsweb? > If you're not already a Rootsweb member, please join with us! >RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > > >============================== >Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history >learning and how-to articles on the Internet. >http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library >