So you going to pop in for a cuppa Alan? The kettle's always on in our home!! ;D Take care, Rob. IBSSG Stuttgart, Germany Honey's Home of Genealogy www.honeyshome.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Jackari2@aol.com To: KNIBB-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 9:27 PM Subject: Re: [K/NIBB/S] Charles Knibbs Joyce I thought it must be him but to find a wife and child to boot...whoa! I'll see if I have any unattached KNIBBS for the period but don't think so. We're off to Barcelona tomorrow, so probably won't get back to you for a while. bfn Alan > I hit the jackpot. I have now found my Charles Knibbs. I received an > email from Janet at the Public Services & Systems Co-ordinator in Owen > Sound Ontario with all the information. Remember I had found a buriel > transcription a couple of weeks ago but did not have a date of death > butr had his age. Because there was no date it was a shot in the dark to > see if it was my Charles. Janet is going to mail me a copy of the > newspaper account. Below is the newspaper transcript. > > Found in the Owen Sound Times 22 October 1891 p 5 > > Drowned > Word was received Saturday that Chas Knibbs, who worked in the freight > sheds until a week ago Tuesday, and who belonged to the Salvation Army > here was drowned near Little Current. From the Manitoulin Explorer we > learn that he was knocked into the water by the boom of the Schooner > Annie. He leaves a wife and a child two months old. He was 21 years of > age. The body has not been recovered. > > We have a picture of a couple marked Charles & his wife but thought this > was an error (we did not know who wrote the name on the pic). > > I guess now we have to find a wife and a child. Hi wife was probably > remarried. > > ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237