Category: Manitoba
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Neals in Canada – photos
A selection of old photos from family albums. Most are of Robert (Bob) Neal and family at or near Oak River, Manitoba, Canada. Photo Gallery Click/tap on the images to see a larger version. 15 below zero -Mary Neal and frozen washing line Stan and calf King and I – Harry Neal and horse Harry Neal, enlisted May 1918 in Canadian army Robert, Mary and Betty Alice Reid and children First home in Manitoba Bob sleigh – Robert Neal, horse and sleigh Oak River wooden building » »
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A better view of the Canadian Neals
A few old photographs have thrown a whole lot of new light onto the great aunt and uncle who separately left Norwich for the relative wilds of Canada. Gayle, a second cousin once removed and living in that country, has been looking into her family history for longer than me and has got a collection of photos not just of her ancestors going back to Robert Neal and Mary Earl but also Robert’s sister Alice. Links to earlier articles giving more details on their history are » »
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Making the news makes family history
This post was going to be about bringing together disparate sources to build a picture, but has evolved into one on the increasing availability and usefulness of newspaper archives. The British Newspaper Archive website went live late 2011, but while I have yet to use this, cuttings are increasingly adding to the data available. And the new series of Who Do You Think You Are? has featured newspaper extracts in each of the three episodes so far, with a particularly strong impact on Patrick Stewart’s » »
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Alice arrives in Canada
A nice little update to a previous article about great aunt Alice Neal – Turning an absence into a presence – which traced her to Canada. I have now located her in the passenger lists arriving in Canada. It’s a bit of an odd record, as a form has been adapted slightly. But there’s little doubt this is her, accompanied by her uncle Henry, who had already settled in Canada. This is a sailing from Liverpool to Halifax, Nova Scotia on the ship Mongolian, arriving 24th » »
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Turning an absence into a presence
Tracing Alice Neal’s family No old photos on today’s item. In fact a photo absence is where it starts. Alice Neal was the only one of the 11 children of Robert Smith Neal and Ellen Elizabeth Watts not to appear in the 1902 family photograph featuring elsewhere on Cutlock and Co. But the very helpful caption, added later by gran (Emily Neal), says “No 3 Alice in Canada”. (Alice was the third child, Emily 9th.) Alice had so far proved elusive to pin down, so » »
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Neals in Canada – the photo gallery
An improved Neals in Canada photo web page has been created (December 2012) – better thumbnails and more photos to be added. » »