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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 260185, member: 59"]A few more interesting tidbits. Sidney's middle name was Robert. He "may" have enlisted in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders at the age of 18 (which would have been 1892) but Ancestry is not cooperating for me to see that document right now.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I did find was the Passenger List record of his departure from England in August 1895. The vessel left from Liverpool, bound for Montreal, Canada. Since his 1916 Passport Application says he came from Canada to NY by rail, it appears that Montreal was just a temporary stop on the journey.</p><p><br /></p><p>In NY he was living mostly on Staten Island (the borough of Richmond.) I found him there in both 1900 and 1910, with wife Grace (they were married about 1898) and their kids (including son Sidney Alfred, born 1902) in the 1910 Census.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also found is Naturalization Application which confirms these details.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 260185, member: 59"]A few more interesting tidbits. Sidney's middle name was Robert. He "may" have enlisted in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders at the age of 18 (which would have been 1892) but Ancestry is not cooperating for me to see that document right now. What I did find was the Passenger List record of his departure from England in August 1895. The vessel left from Liverpool, bound for Montreal, Canada. Since his 1916 Passport Application says he came from Canada to NY by rail, it appears that Montreal was just a temporary stop on the journey. In NY he was living mostly on Staten Island (the borough of Richmond.) I found him there in both 1900 and 1910, with wife Grace (they were married about 1898) and their kids (including son Sidney Alfred, born 1902) in the 1910 Census. I also found is Naturalization Application which confirms these details.[/QUOTE]
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