Hi Dave:
I would venture a guess that informant, "Mrs S H Bird" knew little or nothing about this child. Perhaps Daniel H Canning was working on a lumber boat and Mrs Bird concluded in 1909 that he was a master seaman.
The mother's name given "Nellie Lawson" could be "Nellie Wasson" sister to Lucy Alice Wasson or again, Mrs Bird may have gotten Lucy and Nellie mixed up. I guess the Bird family researchers will be on my case about hanging all these errors on their relative but...it's only a theory! Don't believe it when some says "a little bird told me so", it could be wrong!
The Elliots had just lost their own son, Harold Clifford Elliott (1907-1910) so may be they adopted Lawson Strong Elliott, dropped the Strong and named him Harold after the recently deceased son.
My records tell me that by 1909 Lucy was with Daniel Holmes, not Daniel H Canning but this could be a mistake as Daniel H Canning could very well be "Daniel Holmes Canning". There is a note in my file saying someone suggested that Daniel Holmes was father to Harold Lawson Wasson-Elliott. The Lawson Strong Canning birth registration would seem to refute that point.
I also can't believe that Lucy called her son, Lawson S Wasson???
Anyway...it would be nice to find an obit for Daniel H Canning! I have picture of him with 4 brothers/uncles but nothing else.
Sleepless in Sydney...
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Winter" <davidwinter@...>
To: "nscumber" <nscumber@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: [nscumber] Harold Lawson (Wasson) Elliott of Parrsboro/Advocate
Eric:
How did Daniel H. Canning go from a being a lumberman in 1903 when he
married Lucy Wasson to a Master Mariner when Lawson Strong Canning was born
29 Mar 1909?
Was he fostered out to the Elliotts and had his name changed to Harold
Lawson Elliott?
Is there such a person as Nellie Lawson as I can¹t locate a marriage but
Lawson sounds pretty close to Wasson.
Curious in Lower Sackville
Dave
On 7/14/10 9:32 PM, "keysie" <keysie@...> wrote:
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> From my earlier posting this man has the DoB as Harold Lawson Wasson Elliott?
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> NSARM Cumberland County birth registrations
> Year: 1909 Page: 57300556 Number: 57300557
> Name: CANNING, Lawson Strong
> DoB: 1909-03-29 Parrsboro, NS
> c/o: Daniel Canning, master mariner
> and: Nellie Lawson
> Res: Advocate Hbr, NS
> Informant: Mrs S H Bird, 1909-04-17
> [collected by EMKeys 2010-07-14]
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> From: "David Winter" <davidwinter@...
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> To: "nscumber" <nscumber@yahoogroups.com <mailto:nscumber%40yahoogroups.com> >
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 9:12 PM
> Subject: [nscumber] Harold Lawson (Wasson) Elliott of Parrsboro/Advocate
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>> > The new 1909 birth vitals also contain a few skeletons as well.
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>> > I haven't located a Herald L. Wasson OR Herald L. Elliott on the 1911
>> > Census. Must have had him hid somewhere?
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>> > Lucy was m/1 Daniel H. Canning on 14 Nov 1903, Baptist, New Yarmouth.
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>> > This is a new child in between Elizabeth May "Lizzie" Wasson, born 25 Apr
>> > 1904 and Archie Wasson, born 1914
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>> > Dave
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>> > NSARM Cumberland Births, 1909; Page #93602362
>> > Harold Lawson Wasson Elliott (Wasson crossed out)(Adopted)
>> > Born 29 Mar 1909 Parrsboro
>> > S/o Lucy Wasson (father unknown)
>> > Foster parents; Beamish M. Elliott and Theresa [Theresa Jane Knowlton]
>> > Elliott
>> > Date of application; 12 May 1926 - birth certificate issued with adopted
>> > name on 16 Oct 1933 as legally adopted by the Elliotts
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>> > Source: Dave Winter, 14 Jul 2010
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