On 04/01/2015 2:37 PM, brightside S9 via wrote: > I have mother and father Frank Victor Lenton and Minnie Ellen Drake, > married GRO 1911 DEC Portsmouth 2b 1279 . > > I have found two children - Norman F V Lenton b1912 > GRO 1912 SEP Portsmouth 2b 748 > and Douglas J Lenton b 1919 > GRO 1919 MAR Portsmouth 2b 715 > > FreeBMD finds them with search 1912 to 1919 surname Lenton, mother's > surname Drake. > > Looking for later information on these children reveals that the > family emigrated to Canada 11/5/1921 on the Corsican, Canadian > Pacific Line. > > The UK outward bound passenger list search, all exact: > Foreneme: Douglas > Surname: Lenton > Birth: 1919 +/- 0 > Place of birth: England > > 3 hits, the first is his birth, 2nd maybe his death, but I am not > concerned about that just yet, the 3rd is the outwars bound passenger > list. The family is next to the bottom on this page list. > > Here is listed the father Frank Lenton > The father's wife Nellie (she is his second wife. Minnie Ellen died > GRO 1919 MAR Portsmouth 2b 932 and Frank married again > GRO 1921 JUN Kensington 1a 271 to Nellie Beatrice Wright). > and *three* children - Norman, Violet and Douglas. > > I cannot find a (UK) birth registration for Violet. Anyone care to > help? Is she the daughter of the second wife... therefore born WRIGHT? Regards John Henley > > [ I can find them in 1921 Canadian census, living in Toronto North. > Here Violet's year of birth is given as about 1915, but I don't have > a worldwide sub to Ancestry and can see no further info. At the moment > I am interested in her UK birth details]. >