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Susan Ellen (Joule) Tremayne (1889 - 1986)

Susan Ellen "Nan, Nell" Tremayne formerly Joule aka Sheldon-Williams
Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canadamap
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Daughter of and
Sister of [half], , , and
Wife of — married 2 Mar 1910 in Gateway, British Columbia, Canadamap
Wife of — married 1925 [location unknown]
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Died at age 96 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canadamap
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Biography

Susan was born in winter 1889, the first child of Alfred Joule and Ellen Wynne. Her parents were not legally married since they were uncle and niece, and Susan was born just five months after the event. Mother Ellen's son from her first marriage, half-brother Edwin, was part of the household when Susan was born.

Having recently arrived in Victoria, British Columbia, Susan's father Alfred had initially engaged in small-scale farming on Dallas Road.[1] Sister Agnes Elsie was born in early 1891.[2] The family moved to 25 Princess Street and Alfred joined Her Majesty's customs service in 1891.[3]

By 1893 the family moved to Toronto Street in James Bay,[4] and by 1895 they lived at 45 Montreal Street (later renumbered as 602 Montreal).[5] Brother John Trafford and sister Hilda Winnifred were born in this period. Final sibling Francis James was born in 1897, by which point the family lived at 175 Menzies (the west side corner at Dallas Road, later renumbered as 4 Menzies).[6][7] By 1903 they moved to 58 Dallas Road (later renumbered to 76 Dallas),[8] and by 1905 to 126 Belleville Street (later renumbered to 205 Belleville).[9]

Susan prepared for high school in 1901,[10] and her father disputed the strict application of entrance requirements in 1903.[11] It is unclear whether she ultimately matriculated from Victoria High School.

In summer 1907, Susan's family moved to the small outpost of Gateway, BC, while she became engaged to Ralf Sheldon-Williams.[12] Nearly three years later on her 21st birthday, the couple married at Gateway.[13][14] Ralf turned 35 two days later.

The couple initially lived at 1674 Robson Street, Vancouver,[15] where Ralf worked for property dealers Cawley & Carmichael.[16] The firm dealt in farm lands, a situation that presumably facilitated the family's move to a small farm in the developing Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island. During this period son Charles Wynne was born.

At Cowichan Susan bore three daughters and two sons: Dorothea Ellen, twins Harriet Rosemary and Trafford Godwin, and twins Josephine and Joseph. Both younger sons passed away as infants in 1915. In winter 1916 Ralf attested with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and listed his residence as Woodside, Cowichan Station, V.I., noting he was married with four children.[17] Some time thereafter second-youngest Rosemary was fostered/adopted by a local family at Somenos. After Ralf returned from service, the family added daughter Margery, and lived at 1039 Yates Street in Victoria.[18] Susan was cubmaster to young Wynne at St. John's Church.[19]

It appears Susan left her family during the mid-to-late 1920s.[20] By 1931 she was calling herself Nan and living with retired captain Cyril Tremayne in Vancouver.[21][22] It is unclear if Susan and Ralf divorced, or whether Susan and Cyril ever married, even after Ralf's demise in 1943.

Following a summer 1941 scouting trip,[23] Susan and Cyril moved to the Kamloops-Shuswap area, where Cyril captained the Chase chapter (Company 124) of the Pacific Coast Militia Rangers until autumn 1943.[24] Between the late-1940s and early-1960s, she and Cyril lived in Alberta, where he worked as a teacher at remote locations such as Bruce.[25] They returned to Vancouver in 1963.[26] Cyril passed away in 1966.

Susan Ellen Tremayne passed away in 1986.[27]

Research Notes

  • The last mention of Susan in local Victoria newspapers and directories is early 1924. The last mention of Cyril was the autumn 1925 hospital stay of his wife Dolly, and the 1926 Victoria directory indicating he was living in Oak Bay. The trail is picked up again in the 1931 Census and 1934 Vancouver directory, under Tremayne.
  • The 1931 Census return includes a hint and a fib as to Susan and Cyril's whereabouts, since they indicated their "immigration" to Canada as being in 1926.

Sources

  1. ↑ Henderson's BC Gazetteer and Directory. 1890, page 533, https://bccd.vpl.ca/1890/Henderson's_BC_Gazetteer_and_Directory/jpeg/0459_Victoria_-_Names_Page_078.jpeg
  2. ↑ Census of Canada, 1891, British Columbia, District No. 4 Victoria City, James Bay Ward, Division No. 8, page 30, lines 23-25; page 31, lines 1-2, https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1891&op=img&id=30953_148094-00015
  3. ↑ Henderson's BC Gazetteer and Directory, 1891, page 656, https://bccd.vpl.ca/1891/Henderson's_BC_Gazetteer_and_Directory/jpeg/0593_Victoria_-_Names_Page_089.jpeg
  4. ↑ Williams' Official BC Directory, 1894, page 317, https://bccd.vpl.ca/1894/Williams'_Official_BC_Directory/jpeg/0262_Victoria_-_Names_Page_060.jpeg
  5. ↑ Williams' Official BC Directory , 1895, page 411, https://bccd.vpl.ca/1895/Williams'_Official_BC_Directory/jpeg/0354_Victoria_-_Names_Page_058.jpeg
  6. ↑ Henderson's BC Gazetteer and Directory, 1897, page 774, https://bccd.vpl.ca/1897/Henderson's_BC_Gazetteer_and_Directory/jpeg/0713_Victoria_-_Names_Page_062.jpeg
  7. ↑ Fourth Census of Canada, 1901, British Columbia, Victoria, S. District No. D, Polling sub-division No. 2, Victoria City, page 11, lines 16-22, https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1901&op=img&id=z000012001
  8. ↑ Henderson's BC Gazetteer and Directory, 1904, page 1075, https://bccd.vpl.ca/1904/Henderson's_BC_Gazetteer_and_Directory/jpeg/0995_Names_A-Z_Page_081.jpeg
  9. ↑ City of Victoria and Suburban Directory, 1905, page 188, https://bccd.vpl.ca/1905/City_of_Victoria_and_Suburban_Directory/jpeg/0105_Names_A-Z_Page_084.jpeg
  10. ↑ "Preparatory Class", Victoria Daily Times, June 29, 1901, page 3
  11. ↑ "High School Entrance Exams", Victoria Daily Times, January 26, 1903, page 4
  12. ↑ Vancouver Daily World, July 12, 1907, page 10
  13. ↑ Province of British Columbia, Marriage Record, Reg. No. 1910-09-145435, http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/6164777f-4715-4402-9ddf-fce32a83fa5f
  14. ↑ Week (Victoria, BC), March 19, 1910, page 3, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0344370
  15. ↑ Fifth Census of Canada, 1911, British Columbia, District No. 12, Enumeration District No. 1, Vancouver, page 10, lines 37-38, https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1911&op=img&id=e001940044
  16. ↑ Henderson's Greater Vancouver Directory Part 2, 1911, page 1215, https://bccd.vpl.ca/1911/Henderson's_Greater_Vancouver_Directory_Part_2/jpeg/0968_Vancouver_Names_N-Z_Page_257.jpeg
  17. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Personnel Records of the First World War, Reg. No. 181115, https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=225278
  18. ↑ Sixth Census of Canada, 1921, British Columbia, District No. 24, Enumeration Sub-District No. 25, Victoria City, page 3, lines 22-27, https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1921&op=img&id=e002878082
  19. ↑ Victoria Daily Colonist, February 2, 1924
  20. ↑ "Alone, [husband Ralf] gamely maintained a genteel home in Oak Bay for his teenage children on a pitiful salary.", Andrews, G. S., British Columbia Historical Association. (1975, February 28). BC Historical News [P]., "A Traverse of East Kootenay Survey History", page 23, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0190686
  21. ↑ Seventh Census of Canada, 1931, British Columbia, Electoral District Vancouver-Burrard 235, Enumeration Sub-District No. 26, Vancouver City, page 2, lines 9-10, https://central2.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?id=e011768440&app=census1931&op=img
  22. ↑ Sun British Columbia Directory, 1934, page 1614, https://bccd.vpl.ca/1934/Sun_British_Columbia_Directory/jpeg/1378_Greater_Vancouver_Names_N-Z_Page_239.jpeg
  23. ↑ "Capt. C. B. Tremayne and Mrs. Tremayne of Burnaby reached town at the week-end with a view to taking up residence in this district.", Kamloops Sentinel, July 17, 1941, page 4
  24. ↑ Canada Gazette, vol. 77, no. 31, July 31, 1943, p. 3187 (image 61), http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=cangaz&id=7942&lang=eng
  25. ↑ "TEACHER and wife require completely furnished accommodation...", Calgary Herald, May 10, 1952, page 19
  26. ↑ "Drivers Courteous", Vancouver Sun, December 14, 1965, page 5
  27. ↑ Province of British Columbia, Death Record, Reg. No. 1986-09-002351, http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/0ef6b6d8-1efb-4f5e-8ea2-580c883a04c8




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