Thank you, thank you! Heather. I'm so excited! It's taken me about thirty years to find my gt uncle in Canada (thanks to the internet) and then he upped and vanished again; and you've already shown me in this message that he lived a long and happy life in Orillia and Peterborough (which I'm immediately going to find on the net and look at :)). Wonderful news! It now also looks as though gt uncle Robert and Annie also had more children when they'd settled. And Muriel Bartlett is definitely his daughter: I found her husband's family on the Canadian censuses which was another reason why the Burgin name being so totally absent perplexed me. Thank you too for so kindly offering to look for further information in your library. I tried to access ancestry.ca but couldn't; being a member of ancestry.co.uk doesn't give me much Canadian information, though I can easily access American records; unless I am being totally incompetent, which is quite likely. :) In the end, I found Muriel by just putting her full name into google and up she came: 'Muriel Haskell Burgin' led me straight to Orillia when nothing else worked. Once I had the link with Orillia I found them all on two emigrant ships' passenger lists via ancestry.co.uk. With best wishes, Marion On 10 Sep 2009, at 01:01, Heather Bertram wrote: > Hi Marion, its always a thrill to help someone overseas. > > I think I may have hit the jack pot. > > These Burgins are buried at St. Andrew's St. James Cemetery in > Orillia. > > BURGIN A. A33-4-3 > BURGIN Aubrey E. J94-1-1 > BURGIN Georgina J86-9 > BURGIN Marguerite A. (Huffman) J94-1-1 > BURGIN Muriel H. J5-5-2 > BURGIN R. T. A33-4-3 > BURGIN Thomas A33-4-3 > BARTLETT Muriel H. (Burgin) J5-5-2 > > > A33-4-3 > Thomas/ Sonm Of/ R.T. & A. Burgin/ Died Jan. 22, 1909/ Aged 9 > Years/ 10 > Mos./ -/ Pure And Spotless/ In The Saviours Blood > > Unfortunately I don't have the transcriptions for the others. > Fortunately I am going to the library tomorrow night and will get > them. > > Also at Lakeview Cemetery in Midland (about 50 km from Orillia) > > R18P24 > At Rest > James LOWES > 1828 - 1912 > His Wife > Agnes TAYLOR > 1827 - 1909 > Robert J. BURGIN > 1875 - 1948 > Husband Of > Ann LOWES > > > On Agnes' death registration, she died in Midland, the informant is > Robert T. Burgin, living in Peterborough Ontario. > > On James' death registration, he died in Orillia, the informant is > Robert T. Burgin, living in Orillia. > > James & Agnes' death registrations are available on ancestry.ca > > It is possible that they have been mis-indexed. > > > Heather in Orillia. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of marion > Sent: September 9, 2009 4:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] census puzzle > > I would be glad of any suggestions, please: I've just traced my gt > uncle Robert Thomas BURGIN, his wife Annie, his children Thomas and > Muriel and in-laws Joseph and Agnes LOWES to Halifax, where they > landed in 1904. Then I found the marriage of Muriel in Orillia in > 1925 and the death of Thomas aged nine in 1909, also in Orillia, but > none of them appear in any Canadian censuses online. Did families > move back and forth over the US border? I don't understand where > they've gone between landing and Muriel's marriage. > > A sister of Robert Burgin's, Maud Pease, did emigrate to Seattle in > 1908 and she appears on the US censuses. > > Puzzled and in need of advice. > > Marion in England > ***************** > Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: http://tr.im/ > hBAy > > Simcoe Co. GenWeb at http://www.waynecook.com/simcoe.shtml > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >