I am interested in the PROUT families of Launceston and nearby. If anyone has an interest in them, please let me know with a view to exchanging information. Thanks, Isabel 1. PROUT, John, 1901 census, North Hill, Cornwall (icemaiden47@tiscali.co.uk) 2. Re: PROUT, John, 1901 census, North Hill, Cornwall (Jenny Meadows) Hello listers I am new to this list and looking for John PROUT, born c 1894 in North Hill area. In 1901 census he is with Samuel HAWKE and family in North Hill, aged 7 and a visitor. I?ve not been able to find him in 1911 census and so far haven?t found a birth in that area that seems to fit. On 1901 census there seem to have been another 2 children named PROUT who were ?visitors? to other families not far from North Hill, so could they be related, and maybe parents were deceased, or perhaps in a workhouse? I believe this to be the same John PROUT who married Ada COLWILL in Liskeard Register Office in August 1911. John is a farm labourer at Longridge, Linkinghorne at that time. The marriage certificate gave John?s father as William deceased, and their ages as 18 but Ada had only had her 17th birthday a month earlier, and John too was said to be only 17. John and Ada had a daughter the following year then John emigrated to Canada in May 1913 on board vessel ?Victorian? from Liverpool to Quebec. I understand many Cornishmen went to Canada at that time, answering a call from the Canadian government for more workers. I found a record for John on Cornwall OPC site in 1916 applying to go on the Canadian Expeditionary Force, residing in Paris, Ontario and already had experience in 26th dragoons. On that application he was listed as married, wife?s name Ada and his birth was at Coads Green and correct age for this John PROUT. Ada remained in England and had another daughter born! in Newton Abbot area in 1917 followed by twins born in Greenbank House, Plymouth in 1924. At the time of the twins? birth in 1924 Ada was employed and lived at Tremollet, Coads Green. Did John stay in Canada, perhaps remarrying there and having another family ? or did he come back to England? Ada went on to marry again in 1930. Does anyone on this list have John in their tree, or can throw any light on John?s birth family and on what happened to him after emigrating to Canada? Thanks Jean