I’ve been attempting to identify several men who were identified by their nicknames in a World War I era photo that features my great-grandfather, including “Huff” Hobbs.
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75th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Forces, 11th Brigade
I found this fantastic postcard amongst my grandmother’s photo albums. My great grandfather, Arthur Bird Griffin is on the left behind the big guy in the front.
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Henry Matthew Ireson and Margaret Josephine Aldcroft
Henry Matthew Ireson emigrated from England and married Margaret Josephine Aldcroft on November 28, 1908, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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World War I: May, 1917, France
I found the photo above in one of my grandmother's photo albums. I hadn't removed it—but when I did, what a find. The back had a list of all of...
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Sister Mary Bernadette (Isabella Theresa McPhail)
Isabella Theresa McPhail was born on February 16, 1877, in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, when her father John James McPhail (1838-1879), was 38,...
Alfred James Webb Dyke, Ellen Atkins and Euphemia Stewart McCubbin
Updated January 16, 2020 to include potential info about a second bigamist marriage.
This is one of the more complicated branches of my family...
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George Edwin Dyke and Rosa Dale
When George Edwin Dyke was born on March 5, 1871, in Crewe, Cheshire, England, his father, Edwin Henry Dyke (1845-1923), was 26 and his mother, <a...
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Elijah Loxham Longworth and Mary Elizabeth Derbyshire
When Elijah Loxam Longworth was born on December 26, 1889, in Chorley, Lancashire, England, his father, Robert Longworth (1863-1936), was 26 and...
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Robert Longworth and Margaret Alice Morris
When Robert Longworth was born on April 8, 1863, in Adlington, Lancashire, England, his father, John Longworth (1832-1880), was 31 and his mother,...
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Thomas Longworth and Margaret Moir
When Thomas Longworth was born in 1861 in Adlington, Lancashire, England, his father, John Longworth (1832-1880), was 29 and his mother, Alice...
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