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Record #21905
Name :
: John MOORS (1876 - 1918)


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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 12 Jul 1876

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 19 May 1918   Notes : First World War
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Surrey, London

Lambeth
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialFrance
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 16 Aug 1889
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Parisian

Placement Family
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Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
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Agency
: MacPherson Homes
NotesMy grandfather, John Moors' journals about my great grand father...John Moors...begin this way. My father was born in England. He was a tall, big man with pale blue eyes and shiny red hair. It wasn't very often necessary for Father to physically discipline us. It seemed to me he just needed to look at you and his eyes looked right through you.

He was sent out from England when he was a boy of about nine years of age, the only boy in a family of five children. He went into the bush country of Ontario as a stable boy. He lived in Arthur, not far out of Guelph, Ontario. Now, when he went out there, there was a hardwood forest in that part of the country. He worked there, the only member of his family in North America - until his father came out to Canada eight years later. Father became a foreman in a lumber mill which was hard, rough work in those days. He met Mary Eleanor Haddow in Hamilton, Ontario and they married.

My grandfather, John Moors, operated a woolen mill out of Magrath, Alberta for most of his adult life, but that is another story...just to let you know how I got out to Alberta. 
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Last Updated : 2013-09-14 08:15:13 /

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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
19495 MOORS, A.1873ENG,     1889 : Nestorian CAN Unknown  
21905 MOORS, John1876ENG, SRY, London Aug 1889 : Parisian CAN MacPherson Homes