Marriage Index - Vital Event Indexes - B.C. Archives British Columbia Vital Events Marriage Registration Index 1872 - 1924 Groom Name: WILLIAM SURGENOR Bride Name: BESSIE DUNCAN Event Date: 1912 12 21 (Yr/Mo/Day) Event Place: VANCOUVER Reg. Number: 1912-09-070269 B.C. Archives Microfilm Number: B11376 GSU Microfilm Number: 1983704 Groom Name: ROBERT JAMES SURGENOR Bride Name: LENORA ETHEL BRIDGE Event Date: 1913 4 30 (Yr/Mo/Day) Event Place: VANCOUVER Reg. Number: 1913-09-073361 B.C. Archives Microfilm Number: B11377 GSU Microfilm Number: 1983705

If anyone wishes to respond to these queries, please go to the message board to either reply or find the email address of the submitter. http://genforum.genealogy.com/surgener/messages/4.html Richard Surginer McDonald Cty Mo 1860s Posted by: Ellen Graber Date: November 11, 2000 at 18:11:30 Richard and Elizabeth Surginer were born in VA and came to Missouri by way of Tennessee and Arkansas according to 1850 census. They would have been born about 1805 or 1806. Would like to know if anyone else is researching this family. - ------------------------------------- http://genforum.genealogy.com/surgener/messages/5.html Surginer research (TX/OK) Posted by: Kay HOBBS Shock Date: November 12, 2000 at 20:34:10 My grandmother's maiden name was Surginer. I understand there aren't many of us. My line includes: ggrandfather WL Surginer d. 1922 m. Laura Barnes in Parker Co. Tx. (Vol. 10 #2, pg. 36) b. 30 June 1872 d. Sept 23, 1922. Children included: Frank Sadie (I think) Ara Mae (17Dec.18(my grandmother) who married S.M. Charleston (Choctaw Indian) -- they raised their family in Duncan, Ok. Also buried in Duncan cemetery are the following -- and I don't know their relation -- Lillie surginer 1891-1974; Cleo Surginer, 1904-1981; Geraldine Surginer, 1916-1996; George Surginer, 1895-1984; David Surginer 1891-1970; Isaac Surginer 1888-1969. I haven't done a lot of research in the Surginer line yet, so I still have to sort out all these folks. - -----------------------------------

In Memory of LAVINIA GIST SURGEONER who died on Wednesday, 23rd April 1941. Age 41. Additional Information: Daughter of Mrs. Luxton, of 4 Victoria Street; wife of Sgt William John Surgeoner, Royal Marines (killed in same incident) at Portland Square. Commemorative Information Cemetery: COUNTY BOROUGH OF PLYMOUTH, Section of the Civilian War Dead Register

In Memory of EILEEN SURGEONER who died on Wednesday, 23rd April 1941. Age 20. Additional Information: of 4 Victoria Street. Daughter of Sgt. William John Surgeoner, Royal Marines, and Lavinia Gist Surgeoner. at Portland Square. Commemorative Information Cemetery: COUNTY BOROUGH OF PLYMOUTH, Section of the Civilian War Dead Register

In Memory of WILLIAM JOHN SURGEONER Sergeant PLY/17304 Royal Marines who died on Wednesday, 23rd April 1941. Age 44. Additional Information: Son of William J. Surgeoner and Elizabeth Surgeoner, of Belfast, Northern Ireland; husband of Lavinia Grist Surgeoner and father of Eileen Surgeoner, who were killed in the same incident. Commemorative Information Cemetery: PLYMOUTH (EFFORD) CEMETERY, Devon, United Kingdom Grave Reference/ Panel Number: *Coll. Grave

In Memory of WILLIAM JOHN SURGEONER Air Mechanic 1st Class FX/110964 H.M.S. Malagas, Royal Navy who died on Sunday, 4th March 1945. Age 20. Additional Information: Son of John Surgeoner and Jeannie Surgeoner, of Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland Commemorative Information Cemetery: SIMON'S TOWN (DIDO VALLEY) CEMETERY, Western Cape, South Africa Grave Reference/ Panel Number: Naval Allotment Row E. Grave 41. Location: The cemetery lies in a valley 2 miles North of Simon's Town. Historical Information: The cemetery as a whole belongs to the Municipality, but after the withdrawal of the Royal Navy, the control and maintenance of the section formerly known as the Naval Reservation and of the adjoining Military Reservation, was taken over from the Municipality by the South African Navy, who together with the appropriate Government department, is now responsible for the military section of the cemetery.

In Memory of JAMES ALEXANDER SURGEONER Private 36416 1st/4th Bn., King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regt.) who died on Tuesday, 9th April 1918. Age 19. Additional Information: Son of John and Sarah Surgeoner, of Lee, Ballyclare, Co. Antrim. Commemorative Information Cemetery: GORRE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France Grave Reference/ Panel Number: VI. A. 1. Location: Gorre is a hamlet 2.5 kilometres east of Beuvry. Leave Beuvry on the D72, crossing the railway and then the Canal d'Aire on the way. The Cemetery is 150 metres from the church in Gorre, to the left of the D72. Historical Information: The Chateau was occupied early in the War by British and Indian troops; and the Cemeteries, in the South-East corner of the Chateau grounds, were begun in the autumn of 1914. The Indian Cemetery was closed in October, 1915, with the transfer of the Indian Corps to the East. The British Cemetery was used by units holding the sector until April, 1918, when, in the Battles of the Lys, Gorre became a support post close behind the front line. The ground was never taken by the enemy. The 55th (West Lancashire) Division, which held this front before and during the German attack, buried many of their dead in Plots V and VI. There are now over 900, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, in the British section, nearly 20 are unidentified and, four destroyed by shell fire, are represented by special memorials. Twenty-six were brought in after the Armistice, from isolated positions East and North-East of Gorre. In the Indian section, nearly 20 are unidentified. Ten were reburied in the cemetery, after the Armistice, from Mesplaux Farm, near Locon, and four from other places. The cemetery covers an area of 6,334 square metres and is partly enclosed by a low rubble wall.

In Memory of JACKSON SURGEONER Lance Corporal 4/2834 "D" Coy. 2nd Bn., Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers who died on Friday, 28th December 1917. Age 20. Additional Information: Son of Thomas and Maggie Surgeoner, of Foundry Lane, Ballyclare, Co. Antrim. Commemorative Information Cemetery: DUHALLOW A.D.S. CEMETERY, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Grave Reference/ Panel Number: II. E. 12. Location: The Cemetery is located on the Diksmuidseweg, N369 road, in the direction of Boezinge. From Ieper station turn left into M.Fochlaan and go to the roundabout, turn right and go to the next roundabout. Here turn left and drive to the next roundabout, where you should turn right into Oude Veurnestraat. Take the second turning on the left which is the Diksmuidseweg. The cemetery is on the right hand side of the road just past the first turning on the right. Historical Information: Duhallow Advanced Dressing Station was a medical post 1.6 kilometres North of the town of Ypres. Its name is believed to have been taken from that of a Southern Irish Hunt. The Cemetery was begun in July, 1917, on the day of the Battle of Pilckem Ridge, and Plots I and IV were completed by November, 1918. The graves of October and November, 1918, are due to deaths in the 11th, 36th and 44th Casualty Clearing Stations. After the Armistice, bodies were brought into this Cemetery from isolated graves and small Cemeteries on the battlefields North, East, and South of Ypres, including Malakoff Farm Cemetery, Brielen, and Fusilier Wood Cemetery, Hollebeke. There are now over 1,500, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casaulties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 200 from the 1914-18 War are unidentified and special memorials record the names of 10 soldiers buried in Malakoff Farm Cemetery, Brielen and 29 buried in Fusilier Wood Cemetery, Hollebeke, whose graves were destroyed by shelling during later fighting. A special memorial was also erected to a soldier of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment who is believed to be buried in one of the graves marked as unknown. The cemetery covers an area of 5,064 square metres and is enclosed on the North and South sides by a low curb wall.

In Memory of GEORGE STEEL SURGEONER who died on Tuesday, 6th May 1941. Age 31. Additional Information: Air Raid Warden; of 56 St. Lawrence Street. Husband of Catherine Adams Surgeoner. at 56 St. Lawrence Street. Commemorative Information Cemetery: BURGH OF GREENOCK, Section of the Civilian War Dead Register

Commonwealth War Graves Commission In Memory of ALEXANDER SURGEONER Private 65155 3rd Bn., Royal Scots who died on Friday, 28th March 1919. Commemorative Information Cemetery: GLASGOW (CRAIGTON) CEMETERY, Glasgow, United Kingdom Grave Reference/ Panel Number: HH. 641.

In Memory of WILLIAM SURGEONER Private S/13494 7th Bn., Cameron Highlanders who died on Saturday, 25th September 1915. Commemorative Information Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France Grave Reference/ Panel Number: Panel 119 to 124 Location: Loos-en-Gohelle is a village about 5 kilometres north-west of Lens. The Loos Memorial forms the side and back of Dud Corner Cemetery where over 1,700 officers and men are buried, the great majority of whom fell in the Battle of Loos. Dud Corner Cemetery, which stands almost on the site of a German strong point, the Lens Road Redoubt, captured by the 15th (Scottish) Division on the first day of the battle, is located about 1 kilometre west of the village, on the N43, the main Lens to Bethune road. The Loos Memorial commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay, and who have no known grave. It covers the period from the first day of the Battle of Loos to the date of the Armistice. On either side of the cemetery is a wall 15 feet high, to which are fixed tablets on which are carved the names of those commemorated. At the back are four small circular courts, open to the sky, in which the lines of tablets are continued, and between these courts are three semicircular walls or apses, two of which carry tablets, while on the centre apse is erected the Cross of Sacrifice.

In Memory of T SURGENOR Private S/10591 2nd Bn., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) who died on Saturday, 15th July 1916. Age 22. Additional Information: Husband of Eliza Surgenor, of 17, Rowallan Terrace, Irvine. Commemorative Information Cemetery: BASRA WAR CEMETERY, Iraq Grave Reference/ Panel Number: V. V. 12. Location:

In Memory of R SURGENOR Lance Corporal S/19784 8th/9th Bn. attd. 107th T.M. Bty., Royal Irish Rifles who died on Saturday, 3rd November 1917. Commemorative Information Cemetery: METZ-EN-COUTURE COMMUNAL CEMETERY BRITISH EXTENSION, Pas de Calais, France Grave Reference/ Panel Number: II. C. 4. Location: Metz-en-Couture is a village situated in the extreme south-eastern corner of the Department of the Pas-de-Calais. The British Extension is next to the Communal Cemetery and lies adjacent to the D29B, 2 kilometres east of the village travelling in the direction of Gouzeaucourt. Historical Information: The village was captured by the 10th and 11th King's Royal Rifle Corps on the 4th and 5th April, 1917, evacuated on the 23rd March, 1918, and retaken by the 1st Otago Regiment on the following 6th September. It was noted for its extensive system of underground cellars. It was later "adopted" by the County Borough of Halifax. The Communal Cemetery was used by the enemy for the burial of German soldiers and also of three R.F.C. Officers, whose graves have now been removed to the British Extension. On the East side of it a German Extension was made containing the graves of 252 German soldiers and one man of the Chinese Labour Corps; the German graves have now been removed to other cemeteries and the Chinese grave to the British Extension. The British Extension was begun in April, 1917, and used until March, 1918, and two graves were added in the following September. These original burials, made by Field Ambulances and fighting units, are in Plots I and II; Plots III and IV were added after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the immediate neighbourhood. There are now nearly 500, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, almost 50 are unidentified and special memorials are erected in the cemetery recording the names of four soldiers from the United Kingdom, buried in Metz-en-Couture British Cemetery No. 2, whose graves could not be found on concentration. The cemetery covers an area of 2,212 square metres and is enclosed on three sides by a rubble wall. METZ-EN-COUTURE BRITISH CEMETERY No. 2 was on the West side of the village, a little South of the road to Ruyaulcourt. It contained the graves of 35 soldiers from the United Kingdom, mainly of the 58th (London) and 47th (London) Divisions, who fell in 1917 and 1918.

In Memory of LESLIE SURGENOR Private 6276 2nd/6th Bn., Royal Warwickshire Regiment who died on Wednesday, 19th July 1916. Commemorative Information Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France Grave Reference/ Panel Number: Panel 22 to 25 Location: Loos-en-Gohelle is a village about 5 kilometres north-west of Lens. The Loos Memorial forms the side and back of Dud Corner Cemetery where over 1,700 officers and men are buried, the great majority of whom fell in the Battle of Loos. Dud Corner Cemetery, which stands almost on the site of a German strong point, the Lens Road Redoubt, captured by the 15th (Scottish) Division on the first day of the battle, is located about 1 kilometre west of the village, on the N43, the main Lens to Bethune road. The Loos Memorial commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay, and who have no known grave. It covers the period from the first day of the Battle of Loos to the date of the Armistice. On either side of the cemetery is a wall 15 feet high, to which are fixed tablets on which are carved the names of those commemorated. At the back are four small circular courts, open to the sky, in which the lines of tablets are continued, and between these courts are three semicircular walls or apses, two of which carry tablets, while on the centre apse is erected the Cross of Sacrifice.

In Memory of J SURGENOR Sapper 151255 255th Field Coy., Royal Engineers who died on Sunday, 2nd July 1916. Commemorative Information Cemetery: LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France Grave Reference/ Panel Number: XVIII. G. II. Location: Loos (Loos-en-Gohelle) is a village to the north of the road from Lens to Bethune. From Lens, take the N43 towards Bethune. Arriving at Loos, turn right at CWGC sign post. The cemetery is about 1 kilometre from Loos Church in the southern part of the village. Historical Information: The village has given its name to the battle of the 25th September - 8th October, 1915, in which it was captured from the Germans by the 15th (Scottish) and 47th (London) Divisions, and defended by French troops on the 8th October. The cemetery was begun by the Canadian Corps in July, 1917, and the graves then made are contained in Rows A and B of Plot I and Row A of Plot II. The remainder of the cemetery was formed after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields and smaller cemeteries over a wide area North and East of the village. The great majority of these soldiers fell in the Battle of Loos. There are nearly 3,000, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, two-thirds from the 1914-18 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to two soldiers from the United Kingdom and four from Canada who are known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of 44 soldiers from Canada and 12 from the United Kingdom, buried in other cemeteries, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. The cemetery covers an area of 11,364 square metres and is enclosed by a rubble wall. The following were among the burial grounds from which British graves were removed to Loos British Cemetery:- BARTS ALLEY CEMETERY, VERMELLES, about 1 kilometre North-East of the village, named from a communication trench in which a Dressing Station was established. It contained the graves of 38 soldiers from the United Kingdom, who fell, for the most part, in the Battle of Loos. CALDRON MILITARY CEMETERY (RED MILL), in the Southern part of the town of LIEVIN, in which were buried 85 soldiers from the United Kingdom (mainly of the 46th (North Midland) Division), 38 from Canada and one German. CITE CALONNE MILITARY CEMETERY, LIEVIN, in the middle of a mining village between Grenay and Lievin. The cemetery was begun by French troops and used by the British from March, 1916, onwards. It contained the graves of 207 soldiers from the United Kingdom, five from Canada, 130 French and six German. CORKSCREW CEMETERY, LOOS, which was close to the mine known as Fosse II. It contained the graves of 168 soldiers from the United Kingdom and 38 from Canada. COURCELLES-LES-LENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY, in which 19 soldiers and one airman from the United Kingdom, mainly of the 12th (Eastern) Division, were buried in October, 1918. LIEVIN STATION CEMETERY, on the North-West side of the railway station, used in 1917 and containing the graves of 48 soldiers from the United Kingdom (almost all of the 46th (North Midland) Division) and 12 from Canada. LOOS (FORT GLATZ) GERMAN CEMETERY, named from a German strong point at the North-West corner of the village, and containing the graves of three soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in the summer of 1915.

In Memory of J SURGENOR Company Serjeant Major 2539 11th Bn., Royal Irish Rifles who died on Sunday, 3rd September 1916. Commemorative Information Cemetery: BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Nord, France Grave Reference/ Panel Number: II. F. 202. Location: Bailleul is a large town in France, near the Belgian border, 14.5 kilometres south-west of Ieper and on the main road from St. Omer to Lille. From the Grand Place, take the Ieper road and 400 metres along this road is a sign indicating the direction of the cemetery. Turn right into a small road and follow for approximately 400 metres. The cemetery is on the right and the Communal Cemetery Extension is at the bottom end. Historical Information: Bailleul was occupied on the 14th October 1914 by the 19th Brigade and the 4th Division. It became an important railhead, air depot and hospital centre; the 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 11th, 53rd, 1st Canadian and 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Stations were quartered in it for considerable periods. It was a Corps Headquarters until July 1917, when it was severely bombed and shelled; the burials in Plot III, Row D of the Extension bear witness to the resulting casualties. The Battle of Bailleul, one of the Battles of the Lys, began on the 13th and ended on the 15th April 1918. The town was defended by the 29th, 31st, 34th and 59th (North Midland) Divisions and the 4th Guards and 147th Brigades, but it was entered by the Germans in the evening of the 15th. By the end of the month the enemy advance was held at St. Jans-Cappel and Meteren, North and West of Bailleul; and the Allied artillery had destroyed the town. It was found empty and re-occupied on the 30th August 1918. The earliest British burials were made at the East end of the Communal Cemetery; but by April 1915 the space available was filled, and the Extension was begun. The Extension was used until April 1918, and again in September; and after the Armistice graves were brought in from the neighbouring battlefields. There are now nearly 4,500, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, nearly 200 from the 1914-18 War are unidentified, and eleven special memorials record the names of soldiers from the United Kingdom, buried here in April 1918, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. The cemetery now covers an area of 9,467 square metres and is enclosed by a red brick wall, except where the terrace stands which carries the War Stone. In the centre of the town is the stone obelisk erected by the 25th Division as their Memorial on the Western front, recalling particularly the beginning of their war service at Bailleul and their part in the Battle of Messines. The town War Memorial, a copy of the ruined tower and belfry of the Church of St. Vaast, was unveiled in 1925 by the Lord Mayor of Bradford, the City which "adopted" Bailleul. The burial grounds from which graves were removed to Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension were the following:- PONT-DE-NIEPPE GERMAN CEMETERY, on the South side of the hamlet of Pont-de-Nieppe, made in the summer of 1918. It contained German graves (now removed) and those of a soldier and an airman from the United Kingdom. RENINGHELST CHINESE CEMETERY, in a field a little South of the Poperinghe-Brandhoek road, where 30 men of the Chinese Labour Corps were buried in November 1917-March 1918. >

In Memory of JAMES SURGENOR Private S/10912 6th Bn., Cameron Highlanders who died on Sunday, 26th September 1915. Commemorative Information Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France Grave Reference/ Panel Number: Panel 119 to 124 Location: Loos-en-Gohelle is a village about 5 kilometres north-west of Lens. The Loos Memorial forms the side and back of Dud Corner Cemetery where over 1,700 officers and men are buried, the great majority of whom fell in the Battle of Loos. Dud Corner Cemetery, which stands almost on the site of a German strong point, the Lens Road Redoubt, captured by the 15th (Scottish) Division on the first day of the battle, is located about 1 kilometre west of the village, on the N43, the main Lens to Bethune road. The Loos Memorial commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay, and who have no known grave. It covers the period from the first day of the Battle of Loos to the date of the Armistice. On either side of the cemetery is a wall 15 feet high, to which are fixed tablets on which are carved the names of those commemorated. At the back are four small circular courts, open to the sky, in which the lines of tablets are continued, and between these courts are three semicircular walls or apses, two of which carry tablets, while on the centre apse is erected the Cross of Sacrifice.

In Memory of ERNEST GLOVER SURGENOR Private 177850 81st Coy., Machine Gun Corps (Inf) who died on Monday, 4th November 1918. Age 32. Additional Information: Son of John and Catherine Surgenor, of 28, Abercorn St., Glasgow. Native of Ballymena, Co. Antrim. Commemorative Information Cemetery: KIRECHKOI-HORTAKOI MILITARY CEMETERY, Greece Grave Reference/ Panel Number: 433. Location: The cemetery is some 2 kilometres north of Thessalonika and about 2 kilometres from Exohi (formerly Kirechkoi), just off the road to Hortakoi. Historical Information: >From January, 1916, soon after the opening of the Salonika campaign, until the advance to the Struma in September, 1916, the XVI Corps Headquarters were at Kirechkoi. The Cemetery was formed in March, 1916, but it remained a very small one until September, 1917, when the 60th, 65th and 66th General Hospitals came to the neighbourhood. In June, July and September, 1918, other Hospitals were brought to the high and healthy country beside the Salonika-Hortakoi road; and in September, 1918, the influenza epidemic began which raged for three months and filled three-quarters of the cemetery. The last burial took place in January, 1919.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register Name-------Rank ----- Regiment----- Date of Death Surgeoner, A B B Private Royal Scots28th Mar 1919 Surgeoner, E-- Civilian 23rd Apr 1941 Surgeoner, G S-- Civilian 6th May 1941 Surgeoner, J.-- Lance Corporal Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 28th Dec 1917 Surgeoner, J A.-- Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regt.) 9th Apr 1918 Surgeoner, L G-- Civilian 23rd Apr 1941 Surgeoner, W --Private Cameron Highlanders 25th Sep 1915 Surgeoner, W J --Sergeant Royal Marines 23rd Apr 1941 Surgeoner, W J --Air Mechanic 1st ClassRoyal Navy 4th Mar 1945 Darryl.

Soldiers of the First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919 Name Regimental number(s) Archive Reference SURGEONER , JAMES ALEX 139223 75th Battalion RG 150, Acc. 1992-93/166, Box 9427 - 50 Formed in Toronto,Ontario SURGENOR , ROBERT 2751220 1st SS Corps RG 150, Acc. 1992-93/166, Box 9427 - 51 SURGENOR , WILLIAM JAMES 343877 73rd Battery (Artillery) Formed in Kingston,Ontario RG 150, Acc. 1992-93/166, Box 9427 - 52 Darryl.