-------- Original Message -------- Subject:Re: THOMAS JOHN WILSON Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 06:37:49 -0700 From: "David Norrell" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Hello Sharon, I am very sorry for the long delay in responding to your message. Ballyedward or Kilwaughter is only a few miles from my home! But it might as well be a hundred whenever your not so well. However I am most interested in your case and will do all that I can to help. Unfortunately due to my current circumstances its going to be a bit longer than I'd wished. Hope this is alright? David Norrell. >From: "Sharon Walker" <[email protected]> >To: "David Norrell" <[email protected]> >Subject: THOMAS JOHN WILSON >Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 23:37:36 -0600 > >Hi David! Maybe you're my lucky charm! > >According to my family's history, my great grandfather was born in >Cork on June 1, 1868; however I received a message from another >listmember advising me that Thomas was born August 29, 1868 in >Ballyedward, County Antrim, the son of Thomas Wilson and >Sarah Allen. I believe the researcher was working in Larne. >I don't recall what record he was looking at specifically, and >I don't seem to have saved his message. Not really swift. > >I don't know why young Thomas was put into a home or >orphanage, what happened to his parents, if he had any siblings? > >I believe he arrived in Canada in 1876 at the age of 8. > >He was employed by the Canadian National Railway all of his working >years; married and had a family of 12 - 9 girls and 3 boys. >He died July 26, 1937 and is buried near Glencoe, Ontario, Canada > >If you find the record, I would most definitely like a copy. I should >have asked the other listmember for it, but now I don't remember who >that listmember was. > >Thanks for your help, >Sharon >London, Canada