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From: nicole anderson <>
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Notification -- 60th anniversary of legislation & WOOLMAN
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 18:41:40 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20040821131136.007fc890@pop6.sympatico.ca>


have you tried looking at death records on her husband
my locate next of kin or try her peggy Ralton ---
Karin-Anne Duncan <>
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I don't know whether a 'can of worms' would be
> opened, but I do know that
> there were inconsistent applications involved. My
> husband was a war baby,
> son of Peggy WOOLMAN (late HARRIS), of Leicester and
> David DUNCAN of
> Toronto. She and he came to Canada in 1946 and due
> to various and sad
> reasons, was divorced around 1948-49 and (according
> to the then
> legislation), lost custody of her two children and
> her right to stay in
> Canada - although she evidently later married a
> Robert RALSTON and lived
> again in Toronto. We don't know any details and
> would love to find anyone
> knowing her at any stage - until we found the one
> and only surviving
> relative in England, my husband and his sister had
> never even seen a photo
> of their mother.
>
> My husband, born in England, joined the Canadian
> Army and while stationed
> in Europe in the 1970s, applied for a Canadian
> passport only to discover he
> wasn't a Canadian (as he had been reassured all of
> his life by his father).
> The local Judge Advocate General (JAG) found a way
> to backdate his
> passport application to allow him to squeeze in
> under the 'War Brides Act'
> (I don't know the exact wording of the legislation).
> His sister was born
> in Canada, so had no difficulty in obtaining a
> passport.
>
> Now that the list has expanded, if anyone has ANY
> knowledge about Peggy
> WOOLMAN, we'd love to be in contact. She tried for
> years to contact her
> children and was firmly refused by my husband's
> stepmother (who was
> extremely jealous and quite paranoid about Peggy,
> and did everything she
> could to keep the children from learning anything
> about her. It was only
> after her death that some of her untruths were
> exposed, and it was quite a
> shock to her children to learn that things weren't
> quite as they had been
> told all of those years. We learned that she died
> in Toronto in the 1980s,
> but have not yet been able to locate anyone who knew
> her as Peggy DUNCAN,
> Peggy WOOLMAN, Peggy HARRIS or Peggy RALSTON, and
> would appreciate learning
> at least where she is buried, if anyone has any
> knowledge.
>
> Thank you
>
> Karin Duncan
>
>
>
>
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