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Anyone got access to Canada (Ontario) marriage index?

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  • Anyone got access to Canada (Ontario) marriage index?

    It has occurred to me that Errant Grandfather (Leonard BENNETT) spent quite a while in Canada, and could well have had a marriage there, too...
    Born Mar 1887 (or 1893 when he was feeling younger ;))

    Original marriage in UK: Nov 1911 (got cert for this)

    Travelled to Canada (settled in Toronto): Spring 1916

    <<8-year gap - did he really have no partner? >>

    Immigrant into USA (as a "single" man!): Mar 1924

    Possible "1st" marriage in Detroit: Mar 1930 (per dates/ages on 1930 census)

    Alleged marriage in Tennessee: Nov 1937 (cert applied for)

    Possible marriage in Michigan / Florida: any time in 30 years up to June 1967.

    It just crossed my mind that he could have had a marriage in Canada before moving on into the USA. The trouble is I don't have any records to give me any clues (1921 census won't be published until ca 2013). I'd be interested to know if there are any plausible candidates.

    If not marriage indexes, perhaps there are electoral roles? But the women probably wouldn't show up at that time, would they?

    Christine
    Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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    Christine, there are loads of Ontario BMD indexes on ancestry.com and you can even download the certificates on there as well!
    KiteRunner

    Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh"
    (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")

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    • #3
      I can only see 2

      There is a Leonard Albert Bennett married in Ontario 1938 his father was William Bennett and mother perhaps Annie James ( ? )

      In Quebec there is a marriage for a Leonard Daniel Bennett in 1924.

      Jan

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      • #4
        Thank you to both. I had an idea there might be records on Ancestry's Canada database (hadn't checked) but I have only UK membership.

        Jan's results suggest that, maybe, he didn't marry whilst in Canada. In the USA, he acquired Keith as a middle name, so I wouldn't expect to see Albert or Daniel, and his father's name was George (dec'd).

        I appreciate your help. I shan't bother chasing that elusive "maybe", in the light of what you have/not found. That spares me some time for more promising traces.

        Christine
        Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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