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Permalink Reply by Just M on November 26, 2009 at 11:28am

Have you found James Edward Lawton and his son James on the 1911 census? That would give you an immigration year.

Permalink Reply by Josh Lawton on November 26, 2009 at 2:06pm

No I only find the 1901 UK census then the 1920 US Census...

Josh

Permalink Reply by Just M on November 26, 2009 at 4:32pm

The daughter Dorothy was 6 years old in 1920 and Canadian born (abt 1914)- do you know where she was born? I didn't find her birth in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan or British Columbia

The son Joseph was born in England in abt 1906.

So the time frame for them James Sr and his son James entering Canada should be between 1905 and 1913

Permalink Reply by Carolyn on November 26, 2009 at 4:34pm

Josh, I've looked at the 1911 census for Canada and cannot find your Lawton's anywhere. What does it say in the 1920 census, anything about immigration?

Permalink Reply by Josh Lawton on November 26, 2009 at 8:26pm

No sorry

Carolyn Preston said:

Josh, I've looked at the 1911 census for Canada and cannot find your Lawton's anywhere. What does it say in the 1920 census, anything about immigration?

Permalink Reply by Just M on February 16, 2010 at 1:51pm

For anyone trying to help find this family here they are in 1920 census. This way you have an idea of births etc.

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: James Lawton
Home in 1920: Tacoma Ward 8, Pierce, Washington
Age: 46 years
Birthplace: England
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Birth Place: England
Mother's Birth Place: England
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Sex: Male
Year of Immigration: 1915

Household Members: Name Age
James Lawton 46
Rhoda A Lawton 45
James Lawton 24
Lillian Lawton 24
Margaret H Lawton 19
William Lawton 18
Mary Lawton 17
Joseph Lawton 14
Dorothy Lawton 6
James Lawton 1
Dave Gallagher 22
Elizabeth Gallagher 19
Source Citation: Year: 1920;Census Place: Tacoma Ward 8, Pierce, Washington; Roll: T625_1937; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 364; Image: 903.

Source Information:
Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

Lawton 1920

Permalink Reply by Just M on February 16, 2010 at 2:07pm

A search of the 1916 Western Provinces of Canada census on Ancestry.com is not bringing anything up. Nor am I finding them there in the 1911 census.

You may want to try looking at the 1911 census at the Automated Genealogy Census Transcription Project

Permalink Reply by Just M on February 27, 2011 at 6:54pm

Still cant find more for you re time in Canada

Can't find in 1930 either yet she was still alive

Washington Death Index, 1940-1996
Name: Rhoda A Lawton
Date of Death: 10 Feb 1942
Place of Death: Tacoma
Age: 65
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1877
Gender: Female
Certificate: 220

Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Washington Death Index, 1940-1996 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.
Original data: Washington State Department of Health. State Death Records Index, 1940-1996. Microfilm. Washington State Archives, Olympia, Washington.

You could order her obituary form the Tacoma Library

Permalink Reply by Jeanyalogy on January 9, 2012 at 12:46pm

Doesn't help query much but did find them in 1930, she is using perhaps her middle name of Alice? In household
United States Census, 1930 for Alice Lawton

James Lawton 55
Alice Lawton 55
L Mae Christkawtz 27
Dorothy L Christkawtz 3
Frances J Christkawtz 1
William Lawton 28
Joseph E Lawton 24

Obituary of Margaret Barlow, a sister to James Lawton, also in Tahoma..and mentions a living sister as well Mrs. Frank Edmunds
Washington Obituaries

Permalink Reply by Jeanyalogy on January 9, 2012 at 12:58pm

Regarding their time in Canada, it is possible they might have remained in Halifax for a time, but it is a port, and as with all harbours they could have gone anywhere, unless you have a destination written on their arrival in 1912. Unfortunately unless you find a marriage for the youngest born in Canada that shows her birth location, we won't have access to the birth for some time as it will take a while to transcribe...and depending on where the birth took place, perhaps we won't ever find it...But with any luck maybe a descendant might find you via this site!

A Jas. Lawton,  age 30 born England  arrived 17 May, 1905 Bavarian...you can look here for that entry, as age seems close...
Passenger Lists, 1865-1922

Permalink Reply by Jeanyalogy on January 9, 2012 at 1:30pm

Mae Christkautz  ( Perhaps Lillian May) divorced from husband Albert was enumerated twice in 1930 United States Census, 1930 for Mae Christkautz

Death of her son Francis J Washington Death Certificates, 1907-1960 for Francis J. Christkautz

Oddly there is an R.H. Lawton showing Tacoma 1900 census, but never again...
United States Census, 1900 for R H Lawton

Margaret Barlow says they immigrated to U.S. much later United States Census, 1930 for Margaret Barlow

Permalink Reply by BaileyJS on September 3, 2012 at 8:36pm

Howdy.

According to James Lawton's Declaration of Intention for naturalization in the United States, filed in Tacoma, Washington, on 25 Sept 1928, James "emigrated to the United States of America from Florence, N.S. on the vessel C. P. Ry; my last foreign residence was Florence, N.S...."

The document also states "I arrived at the port of Sumas in the state of Washington, on or about the 26th day of November, 1915."

So who am I? James Edward Lawton is the father-in-law of my great grand uncle. I am related to the Christkautz family. Cheers!

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