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I wonder whether anyone can help me find out what happened to my great-uncle please?

He was William Robert Guest, born 15 December 1903 at Liverpool, England and baptised into the RC Church there.

His father, also William Robert Guest, paid for the son's passage to Canada and eventually he seems to have settled in the Toronto area of Ontario. He married Flora Lavinia England on 10 November 1926 in the York District of Ontario where he gave the false age of 27 instead of his real age of 22 and he gave his occupation as confectioner.

I have found Flora's death - 30 July 1970; she is interred at Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery. There is a headstone which says 'wife of William ...' which leads me to believe that he was still alive at that time. As the headstone did not mention 'mother', I think they may not have had any children.

I have lost him at that point. He had two sisters one of whom went to Australia where she married twice, having been widowed at a young age. The mother also went to Aus after the father, Wm Robert senior died in London.

If anyone can help me in tracing what happened to him, I'd be most grateful.

His arrival in Canada:

William Robert Guest

in the Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935
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Name: William Robert Guest
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Birth Year: abt 1904
Date of Arrival: 12 Jun 1921
Vessel: Megantic
Search Ship Database: Search for the Megantic in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: Quebec, Canada
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England

What a shame! The 1921 Canadian census was taken June 1st and he arrived the 12th.

I'm assuming you have this?


William Robert Guest

in the Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928
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Name: William Robert Guest
Age: 27
Birth Date: abt 1899
Birth Place: England
Marriage Date: 10 Nov 1926
Marriage County or District: York
Father: Wm Robert Guest
Mother: Kathleen Buchanan
Spouse: Florence England
Spouse's Age: 29
Spouse Birth Date: abt 1897
Spouse Birth Place: Ontario
Spouse Father: George England
Spouse Mother: Mary Alison

That's the right one and his father paid for his passage, Margee. From memory (I have it written down somewhwere) he was heading for the Salvation Army or some such place of residence.

There's a lot of information online but nothing to indicate what happened to him after his wife's death or when he died.

For info


http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1350636

This seems familiar. Have we worked on it before? It's Florence's occupation as a bon bon dipper that reminded me.

Edit: Yes, I had worked on it before and made fun of the bon bon dipper:

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1350636

Yes, Margee, I do have that info. Interestingly, Florence was also known as Flora Lavinia.

I was beginning to wonder whether he had died and was eventually buried with Flora/Florence but there was no-one there to add to the inscription on the gravestone.

I ought to have simply added this thread onto the end of the one you've indicated above, Margee, but I forgot it was there.

I shall still try to find his whereabouts after his wife died but should I add this to the other thread?

Flora Levinia England

Canada Births and Baptisms

Name Flora Levinia England
Gender Female
Birth Date 07 Jan 1895
Birthplace Toronto, York, Ontario
Father's Name George England
Mother's Name Mary Ann Allison

Flora England

Canada Census, 1901

Name Flora England
Event Type Census
Event Date 31 Mar 1901
Event Place D, York (east/est), Ontario, Canada
Gender Female
Marital Status Single
Ethnicity English
Nationality Canadian
Religion Church Of England
Relationship to Head of Household Daugh
Birthplace Ontario
Birth Year (Estimated) 1895
Page 12

George England Head M 55 England
Alfred England Son M 1 Ontario
Mary England Wife F 46 England
Mary England Daugh F 23 Ontario
Laura England Daugh F 18 Ontario
Sarah England Daugh F 12 Ontario
Flora England Daugh F 6 Ontario

Flora Lavinia Guest

Canadian Headstones

Name Flora Lavinia Guest
Event Type Burial
Event Place York (incl. Toronto), Ontario, Canada
Cemetery Mount Pleasant+, Toronto
Note Guest, In Loving Memory of, Flora Lavinia England, Jan. 7, 1895 - July 30, 1970, Beloved Wife of, William Robert Guest, , At Rest
Source Reference 156230