As you know, I am a sucker for an interesting name, so when looking at marriages of my mother-in-law's cousins on scotlandspeople, one jumped out at me.
Margaret McFedries McInnes married Earnest (sic) Raicos in Crosshill, Ayrshire in 1919.
I googled the name Raicos and results suggested he would be Greek. What on earth was he doing in rural Ayrshire in 1919?
I found his army enlistments dated 11 Nov 1917 (he wasn't to know the war was almost over) - he was with the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/
and it gives his birth on the 15th May 1890 in Constantinople, Turkey.
It also gives his occupation: cook and his address of the Central Hotel, New Westminster, British Columbia.
His next of kin was his brother Nick Raicos of the Paris Cafe, Edmonton, Alberta.
Is this the same Ernest Raicos? I shelled out for Scottish marriage certificate - not a lot of money, just over £1.
His address was Kilkerran Camp and he was a cook. His age tallied as well. Margaret was a housekeeper at Kilkerran Cottages. Both his parents were deceased. The names look like Tomos Raicos storekeeper and Marca (Maria?) Paepis. The date of the marriage was March 1919.
Canadians were based in Kilkerran as foresters http://www.maybole.org/
I looked on the ancestry site for any evidence of him. I found him on the Saturnia in September 1919 returning to Canada with the troops. Did he leave his wife behind? I looked for her separately and she was on the same ship, just under a separate list from the troops. She was heading to Edmonton, Alberta.
I can't find much evidence of them in Canada except their deaths in the 1940s in Edmonton. The brother Nick appears in the 1911 census in New Westminster and in the electoral rolls in Edmonton with a wife, variously described as a storekeeper, restaurateur, candy maker, confectioner. Their naturalisation records from 1925 are here (click will download). The brothers are from Turkey (Greece). Nick's wife is Marie.
There are still Raicos in Edmonton.
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Sunday, 13 January 2013
Lavinia Allen
Following on from the Chynoweths in Mexico this is the story of their cousin Lavinia Allen.
She was born in Helston in Cornwall in July1841. Her parents ran the New Inn in Church Street in Helston. Her father Henry died before the 1851 census leaving mother Mary (Harris) Allan as the licensee. Lavinia married George Lory a draper of St Keverne in 1861 and had 4 sons. In the 1871 census George Lory is the innkeeper and his mother in law is living with them. However by the 1881 census he is missing. In 1891 I pick up 2 of the Lory sons in London and with them their mother Lavinia Arthur.
I am indebted to a wonderful story which appeared in Australian newspapers in 1882 to fill in what happened.
George left and went to Tasmania after some "unpleasantness", around 1876, I think. Meanwhile Lavina found comfort with a neighbour in Church Street, James Colenso Arthur, whose family were shoe makers. It seems Lavinia fell pregnant and she and James married in Plymouth in the third quarter of 1881. Their son Allan was born on 1st January 1882. On the same day a letter arrived from her real husband in Tasmania! Oops! It seems that he was being sought so that the licence of the pub could be transferred to Lavinia. I can't find what happened re the bigamous marriage but they were living apart in 1891. Poor Lavinia. Allan was with his father in the shoemaker's and Lavinia was in London with 2 of her sons George and Ernest Lory. I expect the gossip was too much for her to stay in Helston. In 1901 Allan Arthur was in London with his mother and half brother Ernest Lory. James Colenso Arthur died in 1906 in Helston. George Lory senior died in New South Wales in 1907 and Lavinia died in London in 1911.
Sources:
censuses via ancestry.co.uk
online parish clerks for Helston
trove digitised newspapers Australia trove.nla.gov.au
Australia death index : via ancestry.co.uk
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She was born in Helston in Cornwall in July1841. Her parents ran the New Inn in Church Street in Helston. Her father Henry died before the 1851 census leaving mother Mary (Harris) Allan as the licensee. Lavinia married George Lory a draper of St Keverne in 1861 and had 4 sons. In the 1871 census George Lory is the innkeeper and his mother in law is living with them. However by the 1881 census he is missing. In 1891 I pick up 2 of the Lory sons in London and with them their mother Lavinia Arthur.
I am indebted to a wonderful story which appeared in Australian newspapers in 1882 to fill in what happened.
George left and went to Tasmania after some "unpleasantness", around 1876, I think. Meanwhile Lavina found comfort with a neighbour in Church Street, James Colenso Arthur, whose family were shoe makers. It seems Lavinia fell pregnant and she and James married in Plymouth in the third quarter of 1881. Their son Allan was born on 1st January 1882. On the same day a letter arrived from her real husband in Tasmania! Oops! It seems that he was being sought so that the licence of the pub could be transferred to Lavinia. I can't find what happened re the bigamous marriage but they were living apart in 1891. Poor Lavinia. Allan was with his father in the shoemaker's and Lavinia was in London with 2 of her sons George and Ernest Lory. I expect the gossip was too much for her to stay in Helston. In 1901 Allan Arthur was in London with his mother and half brother Ernest Lory. James Colenso Arthur died in 1906 in Helston. George Lory senior died in New South Wales in 1907 and Lavinia died in London in 1911.
Sources:
censuses via ancestry.co.uk
online parish clerks for Helston
trove digitised newspapers Australia trove.nla.gov.au
Australia death index : via ancestry.co.uk
| Name: | George Lory |
|---|---|
| Death Date: | 1907 |
| Death Place: | New South Wales |
| Father's Name: | Richard |
| Mother's Name: | Elizabeth |
| Registration Year: | 1907 |
| Registration Place: | Granville, New South Wales |
| Registration number: | 13811 |
freebmd.org
| Marriages Sep 1881 (>99%) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTHUR | James Colenso | Plymouth | 5b | 472 | ||
| LORY | Lavinia | Plymouth | 5b | 472 | ||
| Deaths Jun 1906 (>99%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur | James Colenso | 60 | Helston | 5c | 113 |
| Deaths Sep 1911 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur | Lavinia | 70 | Islington | 1b | 282 | |
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