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- Occupation: Farmer
George Ley and Gwendolyn Burt Ley homesteaded NW34-34-Range 9 West of the
4th Meridian. George Ley arrived in 1908 amd lived in a sod shack until about 1924 when the house was built. Today (2003), the house is the only buildings left, but still looks the same, and still livable with power, water and sewer.
Notes from Kevin Ley, England, another Ley researcher.
States George Henry Ley was born in a very small rural place called Gare Hill, Marston, Somerset. HIs parents being Edwin Ley and Maria Sleman. There children (George's siblings) are: Emily Jane, William Henry, Edwin, Maria Elizabeth, Robert (Wesleys grandfather), Samuel, Lewis John (my gt grandfather), Mary, Rhoda May - a half-sister, Mary Ann, died an infant, Walter, died at birth, John, died at birth, plus two step-sisters Mary Elizabeth & Sarah Kate Anderson.
Georges mother died in 1890 of cancer of the womb in Kilmington, Somerset at the young age of 48. She is buried at St Marys Church in Kilmington, (no headstone). George was born and raised in the area of Somerset just south of Frome, - the Witham, Marston, Kilmington area. These are small hamlets where woodman and clay workers lived. This area of Somerset on the boundary between Wiltshire and Somerset sits on a ridge and is heavily wooded and Georges Father Edwin was a woodman who used to cut trees there. After Georges Mother Maria died in 1890 the family splintered in three directions. The older grown-up children (George included) either went to Bournemouth in Hampshire on the south coast of England or in the case of Georges older brothers William Henry and Edwin they moved up North to Derbyshire working on the railways. In William Henrys case he had just got out of the army (He served in India) and was bought out of the army by the family.
George Henry Ley, Emily Jane, Robert and Maria Elizabeth settled in Bournemouth. Emily and Maria married two brothers James Baker and George Francis Baker and each had many children. As you know Robert married Lucy Davis and had four children in total although only two survived to adulthood - Lucy Amelia and William Kenneth. George and Gwennie in fact had four children, Sydney Edwin George, Charles Henry (died at birth), Jennie and Julianna (Dorothy). Regarding Jennie I have searched the birth indexes and can state that Jennies birth was not registered in England (Syds and Charles were). I am told by Wesley that Jennie was born in 1908 and that ties up with the 1911 Canadian Census I have which shows 1908 as Jennies birth year (her age is given as 3 in 1911 census).
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My Scottish "Wilkie" Family
1873 - 1928 (55 years)
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