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From: steve s <>
Subject: RE: [WarBrides] war bride newspaper database
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 22:35:17 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <BAY103-F32B7FC005E3FED710E38FABA040@phx.gbl>


I am surprised to see this database on War brides from the War Museum [found it tonight 1JUNE 2005]:

http://collections.civilisations.ca/warclip/pages/warclip/ResultsList.php?QueryName=WarclipCustomQueryForm&WarclipCounter=WarclipCounter&RelevanceRanking=WarclipRelevanceRanking&lang=0&any=AdmWebMetadata&subject=WarSubjectMetaData&headline=WarHeadline&title=ObjTitle&SearchWord=war+brides&QueryWord=all&QueryOption=any&StartAt=81
and I am waiting to see the photo database coming from Imperial War Museum, announced earlier this year.

Steve

Melynda Jarratt <> wrote:
Hi Garth, I know of two war brides who were on this sailing of the
Aquitania, both have since passed away. In fact, just about two months ago
I was looking at their names on the passenger list for this trip. If I
recall, it arrived in Halifax on a Monday or Tuesday morning.

This particular sailing would have been well covered in the Ontario
newspapers. If you are so inclined, you may want to go to your local library
and look up the Ontario newspapers of the period, paying particular
attention to the week of May 20-27, 1946. Since your mother was destined to
Ontario, her name would have appeared in what they called the "Nominal
Rolls" of war brides and their children who were coming to Canada on the War
Bride ships. The newspapers would print the Nominal Rolls, which included
the woman's name, children's name(s), her husband's name, her destination in
Ontario, etc. There was no Privacy Act back then so everything was printed
in the newspapers: after all, it was the first good news after six long
years of war. The passenger lists can be obtained separately.

Melynda



Melynda Jarratt, BA, MA (History)
Diploma in Digital Media and Design
Webmaster: http://www.canadianwarbrides.com and http://www.project-roots.com
Voices of the Left Behind: Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of
World War Two is available in English at
http://www.project-roots.com/books.html and in Dutch at
http://www.uitgeverijpica.nl/index.html?page=achterbleven


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Garth Crawford"
Reply-To:
To:
Subject: [WarBrides] Lost Friends
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 11:52:31 -0400

Good Morning
I am writing on behalf of my mother the former Patricia Peggy Cook of
Tunbridge Wells , Kent , England . During the war years she was part of the
British Land Army. In 1945 she married my father Pte Robert Earl Crawford .
On 14 may 1946 she left Southhampton on board the Aquitania and arrived in
Halifax, Canada on the 20th of may , She proceeded by train to the Ottawa
area of Ontario.
If there is anyone on this list who may remember her I will gladly pass on
any messages .
Thank you for your time.
Garth




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