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    1. [NS-L] East Street, Sydney, NS
    2. Daphne Hurst
    3. Hi - I've been searching for my great-uncle's family on the 1911 census and have been unable to trace them. They were living in Louisbourg in 1905 when one of the children was born, and the death register for another child in 1924 indicates they had lived at 23 East Street since 1911. I've searched through the census for the East Street area of Sydney in 1911 and have only come up with one address on East Street, number 5. I also didn't find South Street, which crosses East Street, so I'm wondering if those two blocks hadn't been developed before the 1911 census. Basically, I need help determining when houses were built on East Street. (This is close to the Whitney Pier Memorial...) I've been unable to find the family in Automated Genealogy, which could mean they were missed completely in the 1911 census or the last name was mis-spelled. They may have lived somewhere else between Louisbourg and East Street, and if there were no houses in that part of East Street until after the census it would at least confirm that they were not at that address then. They are not under the Louisbourg census or under any other census in that area. The names are John Alvah Nicholson (head, born 1874), Mabel Nicholson (wife, born 1880), Alma Nicholson (born 1903), Wesley Alexander Nicholson (not the one in Dartmouth) (born about 1904), and Grace Mabel Nicholson (born about 1905). It would be helpful to locate the census entries to determine the ages of the children and if there were others born before the 1911 census. Thanks for any help you can provide! Daphne Hurst Summerside, PEI

    04/19/2007 02:45:11