Samuel Monteith Loghrin (1905 - 1952)

Born 26 May 1905 in Stratford, Ontario, Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth Rook — married 1941 in Ilford, Essex, England, United Kingdom

Died 20 Jan 1952 at age 46 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Fritz/Sam was born in Stratford and he was nine years old when his mother died. He then lived with his aunt and uncle, the Radcliffes^[1], first in London and later in Toronto.

Sam was christened Frederick Scholz Loghrin. During 1915 and 1916, the boys received letters from their father overseas, addressed to them at 30 Marley Place, London, ON. These letters were addressed to the sons as Fritz and Rad. Sam's original name, "Frederick", was changed to Samuel, after his father's death in 1916.

Jane Hurst recalls her Dad, Harry Loghrin (Sam’s first cousin), talking about visiting cousins in London when he was young. When she drove him to London for his chemotherapy treatment, he took her on the route they followed and told the story of the old Model T climbing up the hill and needing to be pushed over the top and then coasting down the other side.^[2]

Sam served in England during World War II and married Elizabeth in 1941 in Ilford, Essex (Ilford is in N. E. London); Elizabeth was born and, as a child, lived in Nelson, Lancashire, England. They departed for Canada on April 4, 1947. Sam, Radcliffe and their wives lived with Isabel Radcliffe on Binscarth Rd., Toronto for a period of time after the war.^[3]

After Sam’s death, Elizabeth returned to England on May 25, 1952. In 1976 she lived in her parents home at 340 Leeds Rd., Nelson, Lancashire. She died in 1980 and was buried with her parents and grandparents in the Wheatley Lane Church graveyard, Burnley, Lancashire on Sept. 25th.^[4]

Footnotes

1. ↑ Buried in the Scholz family plot, Avondale Cemetery, Stratford.
2. ↑ Jane Hurst’s email message, “Rad Loghrin”, to Tom Loghrin, Aug. 4, 2004.
3. ↑ Douglas A. Hill’s email message, “Life of Radcliffe Loghrin”, to Tom Loghrin, July 31, 2004.
4. ↑ Hilary Bradshaw’s email message, May 17, 2013. J. Ernest Monteith in his book, Monteiths and Monteith Descendants, attributes Sam’s death to “war injuries”.

Sources

• Registration of Births and Stillbirths, 1869 - 1909, MS929 Reel 181, Archives of Ontario, Toronto. The entry is: “Loghrin Samuel (Frederick Scholz)” with “Monteith”written on the line above and “Loghrin Samuel Monteith” written below. There is a signature at the bottom of the entry, “E. Scholz” (probably Elizabeth - Aunt Tilly), dated “Oct. 23/22".
• Logham Samuel S. S., 1911 Census of Canada
• Loghrain, Tocunth, 1921 Census of Canada