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Permalink Reply by Lorraine Coulombe on September 12, 2010 at 3:41pm

In family search on the Internet, I found this information:

Alexander Mcmeekin

Death Date: 18 Aug 1985
Death Place: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Name: Alexander Mcmeekin
Gender: Male
Age: 76y
Birth Date: 21 Aug 1908
Birthplace: Lennoxtown, Scotland
Marital Status: Married
Spouse: Elizabeth Mclachlan
Father: Alexander Mcmeekin
Mother: Elizabeth Dewar
Indian Agency:
Indian Band/Tribe:
Film Number: 1358015
Digital Folder Number: 4437834
Image Number: 184
British Columbia Archives Film Number: B16575
Registration Number: 85 09 014179
Collection: British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986

Permalink Reply by Jo Mitchell on September 12, 2010 at 3:59pm

Oh wow! Such a quick response, thank you so much Lorraine.

Permalink Reply by Lorraine Coulombe on September 12, 2010 at 4:04pm

Your welcome, I just happen to open my e-mail and thought I would check theese names.
I will make a little search to see if I can find a obituary for Alexander in BC.

Permalink Reply by Lorraine Coulombe on September 12, 2010 at 4:15pm

I just send a e-mail to the Burnaby library, with all the information.

Lets wait and see !!!

Permalink Reply by Jo Mitchell on September 12, 2010 at 5:47pm

Thanks so much for your help Lorraine. I got to thinking that given his age before he left for Canada there was a good chance he married Elizabeth in Scotland. With your information I've been able to find their marriage and the name of Elizabeth's parents. They were married in 1930 in Kirkintilloch. Elizabeth's parents were James Mclachlan and Jeanie Anderson.

Fingers crossed the library may have something.

Permalink Reply by Lorraine Coulombe on September 12, 2010 at 9:03pm

Your welcome.

Happy to hear you found more information.
I had good results in the past to find obituaries at librairies. Lets hope this is one of them.

Permalink Reply by Lorraine Coulombe on September 13, 2010 at 11:36am

Would you know the family religion ?

Permalink Reply by Jo Mitchell on September 13, 2010 at 12:23pm

It's likely to be Church of Scotland...Presbyterian, that is my father and my grandmother's religion.

Permalink Reply by Lorraine Coulombe on September 13, 2010 at 12:31pm

Ok, Presbyterian will help.

Thank you.

Permalink Reply by Lorraine Coulombe on September 13, 2010 at 2:41pm

I received an answer:

Sorry, we have searched in both the Vancouver Sun and The Province newspapers from August 19th-30th, 1985 and are unable to find an obituary for Alexander McMeekin.

I wrote back and asked him if they had any idea where I could direct my next search.

Permalink Reply by Lorraine Coulombe on September 13, 2010 at 3:05pm

I made a search in regions close to Barnaby and I found in the phone direstory:

Alexander McMeekin
6245 Linton Ave
Port Alberni, BC V9Y 8S9
(250) 723-9341 (250) 723-9341

I know it's far fetch but this is the way I find people.
What I did for one of the persons I was looking for, I wrote a letter, saying that I was trying to locate a relatives.
I wouldn't be surprise that this person is a descendant.

Permalink Reply by Jo Mitchell on September 13, 2010 at 3:24pm

That's a shame there's no obituary to be found, hopefully he will come up with another suggestion. Your find from the directory is great - hopefully they are related somehow. So you think I should write them?

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