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KIRKSEY (Archdeacon) - Chase BC

KIRKSEY (Archdeacon) - Chase BC

Posted: 19 Jul 2015 8:45PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am looking for information on a Charles Walter Kirksey(1903-1958?) who is interred in the St Luke's Church Cemetery, Westwold, British Columbia. At the time of his death he was an Archdeacon. 1938 appointed as third vicar of the Parish of Chase. Also ministered at Mission BC(1935) and Pouce Coupe (1957). TIA.

Re: KIRKSEY (Archdeacon) - Chase BC

Posted: 20 Jul 2015 5:45PM GMT
Classification: Query
history of Pouce Coupe
Christ Church Anglican
In 1955 Bishop Watts appointed the Venerable Archdeacon Kirksey Archdeacon of the Alaska and Hart Highways and bought a residence for him opposite Christ Church in Pouce Coupe. In addition to his primary duties he took up those of the church and was working up a good congregation when he died in 1958 as the result of a car accident

found an article in "The Highway" "a Unique Voice" by Kathryn Lockhart

Charles Walter Poston Kirksey born Ramsgate Kent in 1903, immigrated to Canada as a child. confirmed at Armstrong/Enderby age 15, worked for the CPR, received his LTh for Anglican Theological College, ordained as a priest as St Michaels and All Angels, Kelowna in 1931

Fruitvale 1930-31, Chase 1938-1953


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Alaska Passengers and Crews


Name:Walter P Kirksey

Birth Date:abt 1904

Birth Place:England Ramsgate

Gender:Male

Race:English

Nationality:Canadian

Arrival Date:9 May 1927

Arrival Place:Ketchikan, Alaska, USA

Age at Arrival:23

Vessel:Princess Alice

missionary


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England and Wales Births


Name:Walter Poston Kirksey

Registration Year:1903

Registration Quarter:Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration district:Thanet

Inferred County:Kent

Volume:2a

Page:1109


1911 census

Name:Walter Boston Kirksey

Age in 1911:7

Estimated birth year:abt 1904

Gender:Male

Birth Place:Ramsgate, Kent

Civil Parish:Tenterden

County/Island:Kent

Country:England

Street address:Belcot Farm, Tenterden, Kent

Registration district:Tenterden

Registration District Number:54

Sub-registration district:Tenterden

ED, institution, or vessel:4

Household schedule number:38

Piece:4220

Household Members:

Horace Stanley Willson 34
Sidney George Nicholson Willson 28
Elizabeth Jane Kirksey 38 servant, married, 8 years, 1 child, 1 living, born Crewe Cheshire
Walter Boston Kirksey 7 b Ramsgate

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