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Subject: Re: Richard THOMAS of Dysart Township, Ontario
Author: lmfab1
Date: Monday, July 20, 2015
Classification: Query
Surnames: Thompson, McMillan

You're good. You found the right family and several of the main sources of information I have used in my research. Unfortunately, I have never been able to contact the orginated of the Thompson family tree, Matt Thompson, you sighted even by contacting other Thompson family members. Matt's tree is probably the best one I've run into.

I also had the Anglican Church Archives in Regina, SK look for a marriage record for Eliza Thompson and Hugh McMillan but nothing was found.

From online SK vital records (http://genealogy.ehealthsask.ca/vsgs_srch.aspx), the third child of Eliza and Hugh's children, Hugh "Wilfred" McMillan,, was born in Saskatchewan on 12 Oct 1895 (registration #1835). Eliza is shown as Eliza Nevina Thompson, which should be 'L'evina although I've seen the middle name spelled in various ways. I haven't yet requested the birth record.

The MicMillans moved ot Devil's Lake, North Dakota shortly after Wilfred was born. Eliza died in Devils Lake in 1906 from tonsillitis. Hugh remarried several more time and is shown in the 1921 census living in Saskatchewan with his third wife, Sarah. Hugh had a sister, Elizabeth "Betsy" McIntosh, living in Kindersly, SK at that time. After 1921 no one knows what happened to Hugh McMillan. Sarah moved to Everett, WA (nearby where I live) to be near Wilfred McMillan and his family but the only thing she ever said about Hugh was that he had died. No one really knows if this is the truth. Most say he was in the bootlegging trade. It's an on going mystery.

Dan
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