Calling any Canadians with access to newspaper archives
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 10:43 pm
I am posting this as somewhat of a long shot, but the story sounds really interesting so please bear with me. Hopefully someone else with an itching detective streak like mine will have the information access to do this!
I have been pottering through various lines of my family, which as most peoples' is rather rambling. It has so far taken me from the comfort of my seat to Autralia, America, Jamaica, Ireland, India and Canada. It is the latter which has brought up a rather intriguing story.
Marjorie Violet Botterill was born in Hull, England in 1908 and moved as a teenager to Canada in with her family, where they settled in Ontario. She and a couple of her sisters married fairly soon after the move, and Marjorie's husband was one Aubrey Grey Clark. She died in 1934, and according to the death records was the victim of a manslaughter. She was a waitress in a cafe, and her brother registered the death, not her employer or her husband. Which I find a little odd. The link if you have access to ancestry is here http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/8946/ ... turnRecord
The exact cause of death is pretty illegible. I think it says "bullet wounds, about abdomen" but it looks like "bucket woman, about jabwoman"! Even the word "manslaughter" has had to be clarified underneath in pencil in better handwriting...
So. Are there any Canadians out there with access to the newspaper archives from Essex, Ontario, from March 1934 who could find out who was accused of her manslaughter, and what happened? I cannot seem to even get started with this search, but if someone can find a link or starting point I would be very grateful.
I have been pottering through various lines of my family, which as most peoples' is rather rambling. It has so far taken me from the comfort of my seat to Autralia, America, Jamaica, Ireland, India and Canada. It is the latter which has brought up a rather intriguing story.
Marjorie Violet Botterill was born in Hull, England in 1908 and moved as a teenager to Canada in with her family, where they settled in Ontario. She and a couple of her sisters married fairly soon after the move, and Marjorie's husband was one Aubrey Grey Clark. She died in 1934, and according to the death records was the victim of a manslaughter. She was a waitress in a cafe, and her brother registered the death, not her employer or her husband. Which I find a little odd. The link if you have access to ancestry is here http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/8946/ ... turnRecord
The exact cause of death is pretty illegible. I think it says "bullet wounds, about abdomen" but it looks like "bucket woman, about jabwoman"! Even the word "manslaughter" has had to be clarified underneath in pencil in better handwriting...
So. Are there any Canadians out there with access to the newspaper archives from Essex, Ontario, from March 1934 who could find out who was accused of her manslaughter, and what happened? I cannot seem to even get started with this search, but if someone can find a link or starting point I would be very grateful.
