James STEWART {M} = Agnes Beatrice CROSSLEY {F}
James Crossley Brig-Gen {M} = Florence Bemrose (Blossom) VALLEAU {F} > Family
Married 25 August 1915, Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada8
James Crossley Brig-Gen
Born 17 February 1891, Kingston, Ontario, Canada9
Died 11 June 1972, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada10
Buried Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston, Ontario, Canada11
http://canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetail.asp?ID=170715
Florence Bemrose (Blossom)
Alias Florence Bemrose STEWART (25 August 1915)
Born 29 July 1889, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada12
Died 3 July 1951, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada13
Buried 6 July 1951, Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada14
parents George Eric Valleau & Annie Valean Bemrose
Burial may be Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Grave 12 Lot 42 I
Information from Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Oct 2020
= Nancy Barbara ALLEYNE {F} > Family
Agnes FLORENCE {F} = Frederick Harvey ROBERTS {M} > Family
Married 28 April 1923, Toronto, Ontario, Canada16
Agnes FLORENCE
Alias Florence Agnes STEWART
Alias Agnes Florence ROBERTS (6 April 1923)
Born 29 September 1893, Kingston, Ontario, Canada17
Died 1973
Buried 1973, Mount Pleasant Cemetery,Toronto, Ontario, Canada18
Census of Canada 1901 and 1911
birth Certificate #009594 Record 2930
listed in her father's obit 1931
Frederick Harvey
Born 20 August 1895, Kingston Mills, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada22
Died 9 July 1917, France during World War II
Buried Vadencourt British Cemetery, Aisne, France23
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/mass-digitized-archives/commonwealth-war-graves-registers/Pages/item.aspx?PageId=151455
Veterans Affairs Canada. Canadian Virtual War Memorial. Website. http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2939647
Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/43215041/
Personnel Records of the First World War
http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B9302-S015
He served with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery.
1917 - Andrew died in France during the first world war on July 9, 1917. The Casualty Reports, state that he was killed in action on July 9th, 1917. He was initially buried at Vadencourt Chateau 5 1/4 miles north of St. Quintin.
He is buried in the Vadencourt British Cemetery in grave I.B.24. Maissemy is a village about 5 kilometres north-west of St.Quentin and about two kilometres north of the small town of Vermand. VADENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY lies to the north of Maissemy and is on the west side of the road from Vermand to Bellenglise.
He is commemorated on Page 332 of the First World War Book of Remembrance in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa, Canada. The page of the book is displayed on July 19th each year.
The following is from the Ottawa Citizen, page 3 on July 11, 1917. July 11 A private cable received this afternoon announced the death In action of Lieut. Andrew "Rodgie" Stewart, R.C.H.A.. son of Postmaster James Stewart, of Kingston. The cable was from Major J. C. Stewart, his brother, also of the Canadian artillery, who stated that he was hurrying off to the burial. The deceased was In his twenty-second year. He went overseas with the first Canadian contingent in the fall of 1914 having received a eommlaa'on while attending the Royal Military College at the age of I5 years. Wm. Stewart. Public Works Department, Ottawa, is a brother of Lt. A. R. Stewart
Ontario birth registration # 9027
buried: Vadencourt British Cemetery, Aisne, France grave I.B.24
Born 16 March 1900, Kingston, Ontario, Canada24
Died March 1970, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England
Census of Canada. 1901 and 1911
1931 - Appears in Gleaner Extracts for her father's death as Miss Bessie Stewart
married Daniel Thomson Jack (1901-1984)
1966 - referred to as Lady Elizabeth Jack living in England in her brothers obituary
1891 Census living in Kingston, Ontario
James age 35 born Quebec
Agnes B 22 England
Hillyard 7 Ontario
James C 2 months Ontario
1 :
"Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-Y39T-LCW?cc=1784216&wc=3N7Y-6TL%3A1584309303%2C1584318101%2C1584318102 : 28 May 2015), Marriages > 1890 > no 6119-10128 > image 1274 of 1548; Archives of Ontario, Toronto.
2 :
1901 Canada census b:27 Mar 1855 Quebec
https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1901&op=&img&id=z000074424
2a: "Southwestern Quebec Church records"; Primary evidence
Source: 10.2221 Event: Baptism
Given: James Surname: Stewart
Father: Andrew
Occupation: farmer
Mother: Gordon, Elizabeth
Residence: Williamstown, County of Beauharnois
Birth: 1855-03-27
Baptism: 1855-04-09
Witnesses: Stewart, Andrew; Stewart, Elizabeth; Stewart, John; Gordon, John;
Church: Presbyterian Church at Georgetown in Connection with the Church of Scotland
Minister: James Crichton Muir
3 : "Southwestern Quebec Genealogical Resources"
Source: 10.2221 Event: Baptism
Given: James Surname: Stewart
Father: Andrew Occupation: farmer
Mother: Gordon, Elizabeth
Residence: Williamstown, County of Beauharnois
Birth: 1855-03-27
Baptism: 1855-04-09
Witnesses: Stewart, Andrew; Stewart, Elizabeth; Stewart, John; Gordon, John;
Church: Presbyterian Church at Georgetown in Connection with the Church of Scotland
Minister: James Crichton Muir
3a: "Stewart, James baptism 1855"; Primary evidence
4 : "Gleaner Extracts 1863-1951"
Not dated) James Stewart, Postmaster of the city of Kingston Ont., died at his home, Annandale apartments, he was born at Howick PQ, on March 27, 1855, son of the late Andrew and Elizabeth Stewart. Surviving him are his wife, two sons, Colonial JC Stewart, DS 0, in Command of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, William Hilyard Stewart of New York. And two daughters, Miss. Bessie Stewart, and Mrs. Frederick H. Roberts, also one brother, George Stewart of Howick PQ, and two sisters, Mrs. John Patch of Montreal, and Mrs. Elizabeth Wood.
4a: "Stewart, James death cert 1931"; Primary evidence
5 :
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154148965/james-stewart
5a: "Stewart, James & family Cemetary Monument"
5b: "Stewart, James & family burial records"
6 :
1901 Canada census b:12 Nov 1868 England immigrated 1872
https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1901&op=&img&id=z000074424
7 : "Stewart, James & family Cemetary Monument"; Secondary evidence
8 : ; Primary evidence
"Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-T1SL-9N?cc=1784216&wc=3NWW-2NG%3A1584308903%2C1584343501%2C1584343502 : 28 May 2015), Marriage licenses and affidavits > 1915 > no 2791-3429 > image 568 of 1395; Archives of Ontario, Toronto.
9 :
Ontario birth registration #013943
9a:
1901 Canada census https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1901&op=&img&id=z000074424
10 : "British Columbia Archives Genealogy Search"
British Columbia death Reg # 1972-09-008479
death
"British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLYG-G2Q : 8 November 2017), James Crossley Stewart, 1972.
11 : "Stewart, James & family Cemetary Monument"
11a: "Stewart, James & family burial records"
12 : "British Columbia Archives Genealogy Search"
Registration Number:1951-09-006559
13 : "British Columbia Archives Genealogy Search"; Primary evidence
British Columbia death Registration Number:1951-09-006559
http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/148ae34b-ebf2-4168-a726-0a6423bb95fa
"British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLP4-GXQ : 8 November 2017), James Crossley Stewart in entry for Florence Bemrose Stewart, 1951.
14 : "Stewart, James & family Cemetary Monument"
14a: "Stewart, James & family burial records"
15 : "Stewart, James & family Cemetary Monument"
16 : "Stewart, Agnes Florence-Roberts, Frederick H marriage 1923"; Primary evidence
16a: ; Secondary evidence
"Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G1PC-PD9?cc=1784216&wc=3NWC-BZ3%3A1584308903%2C1584361701%2C1584363201 : 28 May 2015), Marriage licenses and affidavits > 1923 > no 11146-11890 > image 1409 of 1569; Archives of Ontario, Toronto.
17 :
""Ontario Births, 1869-1912," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939J-DZ9C-1B?cc=1784212&wc=QZ3B-L5S%3A1584203503%2C1584203616%2C1584222501 : 15 January 2016), Births > 1893 > no 6728-14590 > image 304 of 823; citing Archives of Ontario, Toronto.
17a:
1901 Canada census https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1901&op=&img&id=z000074424
18 :
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153080802
Section 50 lot 834
18a:
Mount Pleasent Burial Records
https://www.finditatmpg.com/Details.aspx?GID=Pi6q6kHy0vUaQJzeZa8bNA%3d%3d
19 : ; Primary evidence
Attestation papers Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=613496
20 : "Roberts, Frederick H. obit 1971"
21 :
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153080802/frederick-harvey-roberts
Section 50 lot 834
21a:
Burial records Mount Pleasent Cemtery
https://www.finditatmpg.com/Details.aspx?GID=uN67RrS5LuwdG6Nm%2b2YmlA%3d%3d
22 :
1901 Canada census https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1901&op=&img&id=z000074424
22a: ; Primary evidence
Ontario birth registration # 9027
23 :
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2939647
23a: "Stewart, James & family Cemetary Monument"
24 :
Ontario birth registration #13452
24a:
1901 Canada census https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1901&op=&img&id=z000074424
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