Genealogy Chat

My ggrandfather David Hatelie was born in Montreal, Canada about 1864 and somehow ended up in Stoke Damarel, Devon where he married Rhoda Louisa Fowler. He was a Chief Engineer in the RN and the 1901 census has him in The Royal Naval Hospital in East Stonehouse, Devon. Rhoda was born in 1861in Stoke Damarel. I can't find a death for either of them and can only think they may have gone back to Canada though why they would leave their children behind I have no idea. If anyone has access to Canadian records could they please look up his birth and death. I'd love to find out anything about him. Thanks for reading this.
Liz

Do you have Ancestry, there is a tree on there for David Hatelie,

Pam

Thanks for looking Pam. That is my tree and I am completely stuck!

Liz

Sorrry i could'nt be of more help, i ran his name through Ancestry Canada and Australia, through Family Search and freebmd,could'nt find anything that matched him.It's late here so i'm off to bed now hope someone comes on that can be more helpful to you. Good luck.
Pam

Have you considered other spellings - perhaps with a Y rather than IE?

Maybe the person that registered hs death spelled it wrongly.

when you you last know for certain he was alive?

Probably no relation, and no help to your request, but I did see this:

Medal card of Hatelie, David
Corps Regiment No Rank
Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 3707 Private
Royal Engineers WR/151638 Pioneer
Machine Gun Corps 23872 Pioneer
Labour Corps 516502 Pioneer
Date 1914-1920
Catalogue reference WO 372/9
Dept Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
Series War Office: Service Medal and Award Rolls Index, First World War
Piece Hampton E - Holland D
Image contains 1 medal card of many for this collection
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=2766248

Your information on Ancestry:
Donald David P. F (Patrick Fowler?) Hatelie
Born: ABT 1903
Devonport,Devon
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Liz, is this also your information:
Name: Donald David HATELIE
Sex: M
Birth: JAN 1903 in Devenport, England
Death: 1976
Burial: Perth, Western Australia
Marriage 1 Rois Annie TILLER b: 30 MAY 1915 in Mullewa, Western Australia

Found on Rootsweb
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi
Sadly, it has not been updated lately (which means it's more difficult to contact the person).

Just looked again and at least three people have posted information about Donald David.

Is there a chance the family could have moved to Australia?

PS Several people have posted on Ancestry regarding Donald David.

Thank you all for looking. I have tried different spellings of Hatelie but no luck.
My David was definately in the Navy not the Army but I don't know which vessel he sailed on.
Last heard of was the 1901 census. His grandchildren (my mum and her siblings) know nothing about their grandparents. They were all born in Malaya where David and Rhoda's son, David William, went to work as a mining engineer and met and married my granny. She has links with Malaya, Mallacca and Portugal so I'm not even attempting that side!!!
Donald David was David Ws brother and did indeed emigrate to Australia as did their sister, Dorothy Adams, in different years and as adults. I have been in touch with a couple of people about him but they know very little and have different parents for him. I don't know where they got them from. Anyway thank you all once again.

Liz