Person Page 632

Charlotte Edwards

Parents

Biography

• Birth: 2 October 1887; Ailsa Craig, Ontario

• Note: Ontario Birth Registration # 19433/87: Lottie Edwards, female, born 2 Oct 1887, parents Charles Edwards and Charlotte Bowser. Charles was a butcher and was the informant.

• Last Edited: 11 July 2010 01:00:00

Willliam Edwards

Parents

Biography

• Birth: About 1827; Lydbury, Shropshire, England

• Note: In 1861 William, Martha and children were living in the township of Whitcott, Shropshire, England. William was farming 138 acres and employed 4 labourers. His brother Daniel was also a member of the household.

• Last Edited: 22 December 2008 00:00:00

Martha Tomlins

Biography

• Birth: About 1827; More, Shropshire, England

• Note: Eldest son was also born in More, suggesting Martha returned to her parents' home to give birth to her first child, a common practice at the time.

• Last Edited: 22 December 2008 00:00:00

John Bowser

Biography

• Birth: About 1827; England

• Note: Lived in McGillivray tp in 1891; unable to find death record or to find him on the 1901 census.

• Last Edited: 23 May 2009 01:00:00

Mary Sanders

Biography

• Birth: About 1838; England

• Death: 18 December 1891; McGillivray tp, Middlesex county, Ontario

• Note: Ontario death registration #10073 gives birth place as Pickering tp, Ontario; cause of death stomach cancer, 2 months; informant was George Saunders of Mcgillivray, probably a brother?

• Last Edited: 23 May 2009 01:00:00

Eliza Bowser

Parents

Biography

• Birth: About 1864; England

• Marriage: 1 July 1885; James McCandless; Ailsa Craig, Ontario

• Note: James McCandless; Ontario marriage reg'n #7345: witnesses were George Bowser and Minnie Hodgins, both of McGillivray tp.

• Last Edited: 22 December 2008 00:00:00

George Bowser

Parents

Biography

• Birth: About 1867; England

• Last Edited: 22 December 2008 00:00:00

Rodger Bowser

Parents

Biography

• Birth: About 1870; England

• Last Edited: 22 December 2008 00:00:00

James McCandless

Biography

• Birth: About 1860; London tp, Middlesex county, Canada West (Ontario)

• Marriage: 1 July 1885; Eliza Bowser; Ailsa Craig, Ontario

• Note: Farming in Michigan, USA at time of marriage.
• Note: Eliza Bowser; Ontario marriage reg'n #7345: witnesses were George Bowser and Minnie Hodgins, both of McGillivray tp.

• Last Edited: 22 December 2008 00:00:00

Mary Bowser

Parents

Biography

• Birth: About 1859

• Marriage: 31 July 1878; William E. Mathews; Parkhill, Ontario

• Note: William E. Mathews; Ontario marriage reg'n #6503: witnesses Adam Paxman and Elizabeth Jackson of Parkhill.

• Last Edited: 22 December 2008 00:00:00

William E. Mathews

Biography

• Birth: About 1855; London tp, Middlesex county, Canada West (Ontario)

• Marriage: 31 July 1878; Mary Bowser; Parkhill, Ontario

• Note: Mary Bowser; Ontario marriage reg'n #6503: witnesses Adam Paxman and Elizabeth Jackson of Parkhill.

• Last Edited: 22 December 2008 00:00:00

Ann Elizabeth Edwards

Parents

Biography

• Birth: About 1852; Lydbury, Shropshire, England

• Last Edited: 22 December 2008 00:00:00

Mary Edwards

Parents

Biography

• Birth: About 1855; Lydbury, Shropshire, England

• Last Edited: 22 December 2008 00:00:00

Sarah Edwards

Parents

Biography

• Birth: About 1857; Norbury, Shropshire, England

• Last Edited: 22 December 2008 00:00:00

Betseyhannah Edwards

Parents

Biography

• Birth: About 1850; Norbury, Shropshire, England

• Last Edited: 22 December 2008 00:00:00

Martha Edwards

Parents

Biography

• Birth: About 1851; Norbury, Shropshire, England

• Note: 4 months old on 1861 census

• Last Edited: 22 December 2008 00:00:00

Edwards

• Last Edited: 22 December 2008 00:00:00

Daniel Edwards

Parents

Biography

• Birth: About 1834; Lydbury, Shropshire, England

• Note: In 1861 Daniel was unmarried and was a Carter.

• Last Edited: 22 December 2008 00:00:00

George Edwards

Parents

Biography

• Birth: About 1859; Shropshire, England

• Note: May not be the same family?

• Last Edited: 22 December 2008 00:00:00

Edward Sinclair Pretious

Parents

Biography

• Birth: 1 May 1904; Calcutta, India

• Marriage: 7 September 1935; Blanche Eliza Neville

• Death: 26 April 1989; Vancouver, BC

• Note: Family info says born in 1906, but he was aged 7 in 1911 census--possibly confusion between birth year and year of immigration?
  UBC Archives provides the following biographical sketch:
  Edward S. Pretious was born in Calcutta, India. He obtained his B.A.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia (1929) and M.Sc. in Hydraulics from Iowa State University (1939). He joined the Department of Civil Engineering at UBC in 1940, remaining there until his retirement in the early 1970s. Interested in hydraulic engineering and research projects relating to fish conservation in B.C., Pretious headed the Fraser River Model Project (1948-1961) and the Vancouver Harbour and Burrard Inlet Model Project (1953-1956). The Fraser River Model Project was designed to help improve navigation on the Fraser River Estuary. Located on a three-acre site on the western edge of the Point Grey campus, the project was a hydraulic, erodible-bed, tidal river model and one of the largest in the world. The Vancouver Harbour - Burrard Inlet Project had the primary objective of determining the effects on currents, tides, and navigation of proposed dredging in the First Narrows. A pilot model of the First Narrows was built by the National Research Council of Canada, in cooperation with UBC, on the site of the Fraser River Model, near the Arboretum.

• Last Edited: 4 January 2009 00:00:00

Ann (Annie) Sinclair

Parents

Biography

• Birth: 8 September 1868; Sanday, Orkney Islands

• Marriage: About 1899; Herbert Pretious Pretious; Calcutta, India

• Death: 28 November 1940; Vancouver, BC

• Burial: Capilano View Cemetery

• Note: In 1891 Annie and her sister Jane were both waitresses living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  Mrs. H. Pretious sailed from Calcutta to London, England on the Rewa, arriving 7 June 1901. When Annie and her son Edward came to Canada they sailed from Yokohama, Japan to Seattle Washington on the S.S. Minnesota, arriving in Seattle. The voyage lasted from 23 January to 5 February 1909. Their nearest relative was listed as Herbert Pretious of Calcutta, India. The final destination was Vancouver, BC.
  In the 1911 census Annie and Edward were living on Prior Street in Vancouver. They are listed as lodgers.
  BC Vital Events Index , Annie died at age 72: Reg. Number: 1940-09-580644; Microfilm #B13169 (GSU # 1953629).
• Note: Herbert Pretious Pretious; Unable to find precise date of marriage, but was probably in early 1899. Online record shows they married in Calcutta somewhere between 1898 and 1900. That source indicates the record is available on LDS film #498604, Prefix N/11, Vol. 9, Folio 527.
  Vancouver Sun Paper (Dec 5th, 1918)"HAPPENINGS 20 YEARS AGO. DEC 5TH, 1898. ""MISS ANN SINCLAIR, SISTER IN LAW OF ROBERT MACPHERSON, M. L A. LEFT ON THE EMPRESS OF CHINA THIS MORNING EN ROUTE TO CALCUTTA , INDIA , WHERE SHE WILL JOIN HER INTENDED HUSBAND, HERBERT P. PRETIOUS"

• Last Edited: 6 March 2009 00:00:00

Herbert Pretious Pretious

Parents

Biography

• Birth: 20 June 1868; Warpleston, Surrey, England

• Marriage: About 1899; Ann (Annie) Sinclair; Calcutta, India

• Death: 1937; Bedfordale, Western Australia

• Burial: Cemetery, Karrakatta, Western Australia

• Note: Birth date from Pretious Family Bible.
  Herbert sailed in steerage from Halifax, Canada to London, England on the S.S. Liverpool, arriving 14 April 1895. He was single and his occupation was listed as labourer.
  Herbert was a sailor, who finally settled in Western Australia, although his wife and son lived in Vancouver, Canada. He was reported living in Bedfordale, West Australia in 1925 and 1936. Buried in cemetery in Greater Perth--we saw his tombstone while visiting there in 1995.
• Note: Ann (Annie) Sinclair; Unable to find precise date of marriage, but was probably in early 1899. Online record shows they married in Calcutta somewhere between 1898 and 1900. That source indicates the record is available on LDS film #498604, Prefix N/11, Vol. 9, Folio 527.
  Vancouver Sun Paper (Dec 5th, 1918)"HAPPENINGS 20 YEARS AGO. DEC 5TH, 1898. ""MISS ANN SINCLAIR, SISTER IN LAW OF ROBERT MACPHERSON, M. L A. LEFT ON THE EMPRESS OF CHINA THIS MORNING EN ROUTE TO CALCUTTA , INDIA , WHERE SHE WILL JOIN HER INTENDED HUSBAND, HERBERT P. PRETIOUS"

• Last Edited: 20 January 2009 00:00:00

Beryl Hallam Augustine Tennyson

Parents

Biography

• Birth: 10 December 1920; England

• Death: 21 December 2005; England

• Note: Author, scriptwriter and radio producer Obituary from The Guardian, Friday 6 January 2006
  The writer and former radio producer Hallam Tennyson spent his 85th birthday dinner glowing with energy, colour and contentment, surrounded by family and friends. Some days later he was brutally murdered.
  Hallam's father, Charles, wrote a major biography of his grandfather, the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and spent his retirement writing and lecturing on him. Hallam's mother, Ivy Pretious, was the first general secretary of the Free Trade Union and much admired by Bertrand Russell.

• Last Edited: 28 December 2008 00:00:00

Charles Tennyson

Biography

• Marriage: 1909; Ivy Gladys Pretious; London, Middlesex county, England

• Note: Ivy Gladys Pretious; Marriage registered 3rd quarter, 1909.

• Last Edited: 28 December 2008 00:00:00

Ivy Gladys Pretious

Biography

• Birth: 1880; Greater London, London, Surrey

• Marriage: 1909; Charles Tennyson; London, Middlesex county, England

• Note: Birth registered 3rd quarter 1880, Camberwell District (BMD index from Ancestry.com)
• Note: Charles Tennyson; Marriage registered 3rd quarter, 1909.

• Last Edited: 28 December 2008 00:00:00