Good Morning Leoni , The Tuit name is not common. I searched the B.C. Govt Vital Indexes - found 0. Searched the Alberta Gen Web Site for Local Community History books - results 0 Searched the Online White Pages - Canada 411 - Found that there are 5 TRUIT - surnames listed - 2 here in British Columbia ( Vancouver and Victoria) The others in Ajax, Scarborough and Hamilton Ontario. http://www.teldir.com/real/frame.asp?page=http://canada411.sympatico.ca Searched the online white pages INFOSPACE - and found that there are 3 TRUITT - surnames listed - All in London England. Searched the Online Who/Where - found that there are 15 TRUIT surnames listed in the U.S.A. http://phone.whowhere.lycos.com/telephone.psrch?f-time=0&sysState=tmp5947101 0907732&ts=1010907731&f-name=&name=Truit Checked the National Archive site - with 0 results. **Please.Help with the Post 1901 Census Campaign.for Canada. We May Never See the 1906 census for the three Prairie Provinces or the 1911 > Census for Canada. An important issue to others Worldwide who may find they have Genealogy Interests in Canada. Letters and Petitions would be a great help. Letters and Petitions from people outside of Canada are most welcome,perhaps they may even have more impact on this Campaign than those from those from Canadians alone http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census/Petition.htm http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Download/Noncanpt.pdf http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census/index.htm Mail List: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/CANADA-CENSUS-CAMPAIGN.html Happy New Year 2002 Stella Stanger sstanger@sfu.ca Member, Canada Census Committee http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Download/Poster.pdf At 11:37 AM 1/13/02 +0800, tuminco wrote: >Please forgive me if this is not the correct list for this posting. > >I am searching for the descendants of Arie Jacobus Johannes Tuit and >Johannes Marinus Tuit who were born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1852 and 1856 >respectively. They had a brother Jacobus Marinus Tuit who emigrated to >South Australia c. 1868 - he was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1854 (he is my >husband's great grandfather). Parents Jacobus Tuit and Johanna Maria >Catharina Kruijt married Scheveningen, Zuid Holland, Netherlands, 1850. The >father was a teacher. This family moved to Antwerp and then the father died >at the age of 34 years leaving the mother and the 3 young boys. I do not >know as to whether she remarried or not. > >Arie Tuit ventured to Panama and worked for the Pacific Steamship Navigation >Company c. 1880 - 1886 and also for the Panama Railway Company c. 1886 >. He >married a woman by the name of Dolores and the had at least 3 children - >Henry Jacob, Johanna and another born in 1888. There may have been more >later on. Johanna was killed in a freak accident. The family, minus the >father, had gone to the island Naos in the Bay of Panama for a day out to >visit friends and she had walked through an open French door and fallen some >way to the ground. She was only a toddler This was in 1884. > >This is about all the information that I have on this family as the letters >end 1888. There was a mention of Johannes in the letters but no one knew >where he was or what his fate was. > >If anyone knows anything of this family I would dearly like to be in touch >with you or if you can pass this onto any Tuits that you may know I would be >very grateful. > >With thanks. > >Regards > >Leonie Tuit >Perth, Western Australia >Tel/Fax: (+61 8) 9291-6539 >Mobile: 0409 839 405 >Email: tuminco@iinet.net.au >______________________________ > > > >==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== >Every two months or so, please repost your interests, >telling us what you know and where you've looked >and what you still need to find out. >