Hi Cindy and list, Here's something I found in the online indexes: Marriage: Groom Name: EVAN ESCOTT Bride Name: MYRTLE LEONTINE ECKSTEIN Event Date: 1911 4 29 (Yr/Mo/Day) Event Place: VANCOUVER Reg. Number: 1911-09-064165 B.C. Archives Microfilm Number: B11375 GSU Microfilm Number: 1983703 Death: Name: EVAN ESCOTT Event Date: 1960 1 25 (Yr/Mo/Day) Age: 74 Gender: Male Event Place: NORTH VANCOUVER Reg. Number: 1960-09-001597 B.C. Archives Microfilm Number: B13245 GSU Microfilm Number: 2033302 Both of these would give you some good clues, as the registrations have much more than the index shows. This birth looks interesting: Name: GRACE HOPE ECKSTEIN Event Date: 1898 3 1 (Yr/Mo/Day) Gender: Female Event Place: NEW WESTMINSTER Reg. Number: 1898-09-083728 B.C. Archives Microfilm Number: B13814 GSU Microfilm Number: 2134884 http://www2.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/cgi-bin/www2vsb If you'd like copies of these, I'd be glad to get them and send them to you. Just let me know. Pam Cindy Paradis wrote: > > Hi > > I would like to make contact with anyone researching the family of David & > Leontine Hope. David & Leontine had one son Claude V. Hope born about April > 1893 in Washington State. Probably Tacoma. According to an obituary for > Leontine Hope who died in Tacoma, Washington, she had one niece (Mrs Myrtle > Escot/ Escott) living in Vancouver at the time of her death in February > 1953. Leontine was said to have been born in Victoria, B.C. > > I believe that this David Hope belongs to my family of Hopes, but I need > confirmation. I am looking for information as the where David was born, and > who were his parents? > > All help much appreciated. > > Cindy Sutton Paradis > Saskatoon, Saskatchewan > > Researching : SUTTON, McNABB, BEIRNES, REITZEL, MOYER, MINARD, HAMILTON, > GRAHAM, GREEN, JOHNSTON, HOPE, CARMICHAEL, WILLOWBY, TOMPKINS > > ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > To New Subscribers : The online indexes to British Columbia Vital Records are at > http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm#indexes > These records are freely available and there are several possibilities for accessing them at a low cost. -- Pam Fairweather Thomson in BC, Canada Researching Fairweather & Todrick mailto:pamthom@intergate.ca