Shaw Anderson Family - Person Sheet
Shaw Anderson Family - Person Sheet
Death5 Jan 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada9
FatherWilliam Matthew Forbes (1862-1903)
MotherMargaret Isobel Sharpe (-1939)
Misc. Notes
Mary was born on a farm in Hartney. As a young adult, she taught school, first in Dauphin then St. Vital, where she met Xisra Beth Cruikshank, a fellow school teacher who often visited Mary and Jean at the lake after Mary married Bert. Marjorie Forbes was a teenager when Jean and Mary moved from Sorrento to Winnipeg and stayed for a time with her and her mother Dorothy. Mary became employed at the Family Bureau and worked there under Dorothy until retirement.
Spouses
Birth18 May 1891, Dundee, Scotland4
Death1 Nov 1951, Sorrento, British Columbia, Canada10
FatherDoctor Matthew Ferguson Anderson (1853-1926)
MotherJane Cruikshanks (1855-1938)
Misc. Notes
Bert was born in the home of his parents at 161 Princes Street, Dundee, with his father as the attending physician. As a young man in his early 20s, Bert emigrated first to New York then Canada. He carried with him a Letter of Introduction from the Union Bank of Scotland dated 6 Aug 1910 and worked as a banker before enlisting with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 6th Canadian Field Ambulance on January 7th, 1915 in Montreal. He spent the next five years driving ambulance in France, including post-armistice duty in Germany, before discharge with the rank of Private on May 19th, 1919 in Montreal, during the general demobilization. Bert met Sadie in Manitoba (before the War?) His commanding officer in France was for a time one Mr. Kinghorn. Mr. Kinghorn became a local squire in the Sorrento area and suggested Bert to settle there after the war, becoming his neighbor. Sometime in the 40s, Mr. Kinghorn moved to Victoria.
Misc. Notes
Double wedding with Winn and Bill Currall, who stood witness.