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Note for: William Ellis, ABT 1555 - 1638
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Burial: Place: Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
Individual Note: 2nd son of Conncell of Yorke. Took up freedom 7 April 1569. Made Recorder of Lincoln 29 February 1612. Counsellor-at-Law;
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Note for: Ann (or Agnes) Thorold, 1575 - 1612
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Individual Note: 1st daughter of Sir Edmund THOROLD
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Note for: William Lister, -
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Individual Note: Of Down Hall in Rippingale and Coleby in Lincolnshire, Enlgand
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Note for: Richard Ellis, -
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Individual Note: Business, Financial and Personal Papers. - ref. 2 THOR HAR 3/8 FILE - Deed Poll. - ref. 2 THOR HAR 3/8/5 - date: 10 Mar 1649 [from Scope and Content] Sale to Charles Thorold of London, merchant, of 1/6th part of his ¾ share of a plantation in Barbados (195a., former owners named), with houses, mills, woods etc. (Richard Ellis, mariner, owns the other ¼ share).
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Note for: Edmond Thorold, -
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Individual Note: Lived at Hough, England
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Note for: Edward King, -
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Individual Note: Of Ashby, England.
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Note for: Alfred Mallet West, 1896 -
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Individual Note: 1901 census - 5 years old, living in Morley, Yorkshire, born in Morley, Yorkshire.
Served with the Lincolnshire Regiment of the Royal Flying Corps as Second Lieutenant and then Acting Captain, later flew with Sir Alan Cobham"s flying circus.
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Note for: Emily Malet-Veale, ABT 1918 - 20 Apr 1918
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Burial: Place: Landis, Saskatchewan, Canada
Individual Note: Died as baby.
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Note for: Charles Eric Wehlen, 19 Sep 1877 - Apr 1956
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Burial: Place: Whitewood, Saskatchewan, Canada
Individual Note: Emigrated from Sweden with father, mother, son Charles Waldemar Wehlen, and wife Maria. Apparently came to Canada first in 1905, to Ohlen Mission, near Stockholm, where he and his father took out a homestead(s) on 18-18-2 W2 on May 8, 1906. They wrote a letter on the stationery of Alex Stenberg, General Merchant in Stockholm, Saskatchewan on May 28, 1906 to cancel the homestead application. They had been out to the homestead near Round Lake only after applying for it, and found that most of it was on the banks of the Qu'Appelle River, and was either too steep, gravelly, and full of ravines to farm, or too gravelly. Charles began living on his homestead at 36-30-18-W2 in July of 1906. Charles was technically in the R.M. of Copeland, while his father and son homesteaded in the RM of Product. Some other homesteaders in the area were: Andie August Meyer, John Meyer, George Hegland (brother-in-law); Ernest H. Hicks; Wm. F. Naylor; Thomas J. Burns; Herbert J. Cornell: Cecil Arthur Cornell; Abram Burns; Charles Wm. Cornell; Albert Moss; Henry Birkett Brown; William Patterson; Petter A. Nystrom; Severt T. Vensland; Jabez Paget; Peter Albert Stenlund; John Edward Paget; Jonina Bonnar; Ester Olson; Christian Marhart; Norman F.C.Bonnar; Nels Johan Bergquist; Joseph Deeg; Rosa Deeg.
then at Product, Saskatchewan (Actually township of Copeland) (S. of Kandahar), where all nine of children were born. Built a 2-story log house on the highest hill on property. Farmed, kept cattle, ran traplines, was a blacksmith and inventor, learned English fairly rapidly and took a law degree by correspondence. Moved with family to Vernon, B.C. in the 40.s, but didn't like it. Sons Martin and John had meanwhile got farms five miles south of Whitewood, Saskatchewan, and the family moved out there in the 40's, Lloyd and Eva and Charles travelling in an old Model T. The rear end of the car gave out at some point, and they got another one and put it in and finished the trip.
Was postmaster briefly of Product, Saskatchewan, Canada.
1906 census of Canada: listed on Homestead at 36-30-18-W2 as "Karl Willin" with wife Mary, son Karl, daughter Wilma, and his parents "Karlson, ?" and Eva and sister Annie, at Humboldt, SK, #13, Sub-district 02, page 25, lines 18-24. It says they all immigrated in 1903.
1911 census: Enumeration District 83: Township 30 in ranges 18, Humboldt, Saskatchewan, page 1.
Name of office: Product
Federal Electoral District: Yorkton (Saskatchewan)
Dates:
Establishment
re-openings Closings
1910-09-01 1944-09-14
Former Office Information:
Former name Date of change
Salt Plains 1911-03-01
Postmaster Information:
Name of postmaster Military status Date of birth Date of appointment Date of vacancy Cause of vacancy
Peter Ferguson 1910-09-01 1918-07-17 Change of Site
William Patterson 1918-08-14 1919-06-26 Resignation
Charles Wehlan 1919-08-05 1919-10-07 Resignation
William Patterson 1919-12-15 1922-11-08 Resignation
Herbert James Cornell 1923-07-27 1937-11-08 Death
Peter Anselm Nystrom 1882-10-01 1937-11-19 Acting
John Bonnar * 1938-01-31 1938-07-02 Resignation
Mrs. Minnie Reike Deeg 1891-05-10 1938-10-31 1942-08-01 Resignation
Mrs. Esther Myrtle Heglan * 1943-04-01 1944-04-13 Resignation
* In compliance with the Privacy Act (1983), certain personal information has been deleted from this file.
Additional Information: Closed, Rural Mail Delivery via Kandahar Rural Route No.1
NE Sec.30, Twp.30, R.17, W2
NW Sec.32, Twp.30, R.17, W2
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Sec.12, Twp.31, R.18, W2 - 1910-09-01
SW Sec.31, Twp.30, R.17, W2
Source: PSFDS03-10804
Box 316, Whitewood, Sask, Canada
March 18, 1955
Young friend John Nyberg,
Your letter from the 13th of last February came to me on the 16th of March. It had been on the way so long, usually it takes about 18 to 24 days. So you are occupied there in the northern parts, I see. Umea Elven (River) is going to make a person humble in the end. It sounds like a fairy tale when I get news of how improvements have gone through in all areas in Sweden in the last 35 years, when I think of how things were when I was growing up and to the day when I left there to Canada. You could hardly believe that it was possible to keep people so isolated and backwards, like people in the small villages must have found themselves in one generation after another. No, one must see it themselves before you can believe it. Now it remains for those who are allowed to live a little longer to witness how long this new creation will last.
Inventions, at the same time, have become a reality, that is not going to prophesy anything good when their time has reached a limit. The way things are in the world these days, one who is awake and takes notice of it all, can well with a grounded conviction understand that this unrestrained rush in all areas will sooner than most are willing to give it a thought come to it’s end (Waterloo). But it is not going to be Utopia, or Shangri La, like it is supposed to. The already established areas of Atom and Hydrogen should be enough to change most of the world into the “inferno” that the science seems to prepare. And if something is still missing, the rest is going to be finished with the approval of the long waited Cobalt Bomb.
But now I must not continue with this matter, it could become unpleasant to you who have decided to join the military. So I’ll answer the questions, as well as possible. You are asking if we have snow in Saskatchewan? Of course we have, like around Fjallsjo, up to 2-3 meters deep most winters, cold is often as intolerable as in Norrland, plus raging snow storms sometimes, so intense that I have never witnessed anything like it in Sweden. And you can easily imagine that when you feel trapped by the endless stretches of land, where not a bush or a hill gives shelter from the elements. Winters are usually shorter than in Norrland, but it looks similar because there has been a change in the last few years. Spring has been at least one month later than usual. We are farmers, my second oldest son takes care of the hardest work. Yes, I have been in Canada quite a long time. I left friends and homeland the 19th of April 1903 and started my travel to unknown destiny in the strange land, so next year it has been 52 years since my eyes saw Sweden’s coast. I remember well that evening when I stood on the deck of the boat and wanted to see the last bit of my native land disappear. Meanwhile the waves of the North Sea had gotten so high that one of them came over the deck and almost took my hat so I had to crawl fast under deck, but completely drenched.
I’m a widower, my wife died in December 1950. We had nine kids, 4 sons and 5 daughters. The eldest son has been doing house building a few years, the next oldest is together with me at the homestead. The third oldest worked in a lumberyard. He died unexpectedly the 2nd of June 1954. We went to the funeral, we drove a car, the distance from here was 1650 English miles. The youngest son has learned all kinds of plumbing, and makes about 17 dollars a day. The wages have been good over the years since the last massacre (WWII). Now there are rumors that it is going to be fewer jobs. Maybe the third war is close; lack of work has been the means to drive victims to the army during previous bloodbaths. Of course I speak Swedish as often as I have opportunity. I’ll never forget it. Many Swedes that have been here only a few years say that they have forgotten their mother tongue and cannot use it at all. I have read about these societies, that they say work to preserve Swedish, but I don’t know any of them. There is so much fraud that happens, that it is understandable if you carefully check them out before you go to the most of those kinds of places. I have only been twice in the USA, so I don’t know much about it, but there are lots of US citizens that have come here to Canada and stayed here, so they must find it somewhat similar here as where they come from, or maybe better, otherwise they would go back. When it comes to Radio and different kinds of receivers, I must say that I don’t know anything. We have a radio at home, have had many years, in the beginning I was listening to it, but got fed up with the endless and groundless stuff that was served, so nowadays I hardly know that we have that gossiper in the house. The years have given me time and possibility to check a few things that are now looked as modern and utterly necessary. I hope you can forgive me if I have shown here huge ignorance.
I’ll finish with a real sincere greeting. I wish it had been possible for us to talk face to face. It might have been something useful. Thank you for the letter and receive a friendly greeting from my two eldest sons and myself.
Charles Wehlen