02. Albert Jarvis| 1873-08-12 | b. Skinner's Cottages, Chatham Hill, Gillingham, Kent | birth certificate; bishop's transcript; censuses |
| 1875-06-24 | bapt. Upwell St Peter, Norfolk | bishop's transcript |
| 1881 | scholar, of 2 Middle Street, Gillingham, living with his family and sister-in-law | TNA: RG 11/896 f67 p28 |
| 1891 | assistant baker, employed, living with his family and aunt at 33 Old Kent Road, St George the Martyr, Southwark | RG 12/344 f183 p4 |
| 1892 | baker, of High Road, Leytonstone | Old Bailey online |
| 1899-08-07 | baker, of 14 Broad St, Teddington; m. Eleanor Crabb (1874–1959, of 49 Hollydale Rd, d. of William Crabb, tailor, and his wife Charlotte), at St Mary Magdelene's, Peckham, London, after banns; Eleanor, aged 7, had been his next-door neighbour in 1881 | GRO index; censuses; wife's death certificate; parish register; marriage certificate |
| Children: | Eleanor May (1900 – after 1927, b. Teddington, Middlesex) and Hugh F. (1907 – after 1959, b. Canada) | GRO index; daughter's birth certificate; RG 13/673 f25 p41; 1911 Census of Canada; wife's death certificate; daughter's marriage certificate |
| 1901 | baker (shopkeeper), employer, at home, living with his wife, daughter, and sister, at 14 Broad St, Teddington, Middlesex | RG 13/673 f25 p41 |
| 1904 | immigrated to Canada, with his family | 1911 Census of Canada |
| 1906 | living with his wife and daughter in Bartlett St, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada | 1906 Canada Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta |
| 1911 | living with his wife and two children at 375 Prud Homer, Jacques-Cartier, Quebec, Canada; employed 60 hours a week as "stuart" on the railroad, for which he had earned $1200 in 1910; held $1000 insurance, at a premium of £30 in 1911; Anglican | 1911 Census of Canada |
| 1928-08-21 | of #135 Rodney St, West St John, N.B. | US/Canadian border crossings |
| c. 1936 | of St John, New Brunswick, Canada | information from Andrew Jarvis, 2009 |
| 1939 | retired, after 38 years at his occupation | death certificate |
| 1945 | retired; living with his wife at 135 Rodney Street, West, St John-Albert, New Brunswick | voters list |
| c. 1947 | moved to Grand Bay, Kings County, New Brunswick | death certificate |
| 1952-12-02 | dining car agent, C.P.R, of Grand Bay; d. at St John General Hospital, of hypertensive heart disease | death certificate; Brenan's Funeral Home |
| 1952-12-05 | bur. Cedar Hill Cemetery |
02. Albert Jarvis| 1876-05-22 | b. Docking, Norfolk | censuses; Harold Jarvis (1980) 'From Whence We Came. The Life Story of Albert Jarvis (1877-1966)'—file on Jarvisdescendants Yahoo group; Ancestry; Ontario, Canada, Marriages; UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, gives date as 1877-05-21 | |
| 1876-06-11 | of Upwell St Peter, Norfolk; bapt. there | parish register | |
| 1881 | scholar, of 2 Middle Street, Gillingham, living with his family and sister-in-law | TNA: RG 11/896 f67 p28 | |
| 1888 | enrolled in the Rochester Cathedral Choir School,
Rochester, East Kent; enjoyed and profited immensely by his association
with the other school pupils, masters and singing master. Rochester
Cathedral was a source of many fond memories for Albert, and he was very
proud of his association with this venerable Cathedral. spent four years at Rochester and obtained an excellent grounding in music. All through his life music was to be one of, if not his favourite hobby. His training at Rochester proved invaluable in later years because of the sight reading and his choir work there. |
Jarvis (1980) | |
| 1891 | scholar, living with his family and aunt at 33 Old Kent Road, St George the Martyr, Southwark | RG 12//344 f183 p4 | |
| put to work in the bakery as soon as possible apprenticed as a baker |
Jarvis (1980) | ||
| 1897 | applied for a position with the P. & O. Steamship Lines | ||
| 1897-06-04 | appointed baker's mate and told to report the next day to the Royal Albert Dock, London East, where he would find the steward-in-charge. At the age of 19, Albert was off on a great adventure which was to last 10 years of round the world travel with the P. & O. boats, and he loved to talk about his travels to Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India and the Far East. His work with P. & O. must have been excellent, because he received a number of promotions. | ||
| 1901 | baker bread and confect[ioner]y, worker, living with his family and a servant at 1 St James Bldgs, High Rd, Leyton, Essex | RG 13/1617 f44 p26 | |
| 1904-07-16 | arrived Quebec aboard the Parisian | Border Crossings | |
| 1904-11-19 | crossed from Canada to US at Niagara Falls, via. Allan Line SS. Co.; baker; last residence Twickenham / Orangeville Ont.; destination New York; in possession of $40; never visited US before | Border Crossings and Border Crossings | |
| 1907 | arrived in Canada to start a new phase | Jarvis (1980) | |
| tried to find work in Toronto, but the "Chirpers"
(English) were not too popular as there had been a big influx of them
into Toronto and the locals felt they were competition for jobs, of
which there weren't too many. Albert then answered an ad for a farm hand. Although he did not have any experience, he landed a job with Oliver Sproule and his family, in the Orangeville district. He was welcomed into the family, and they became life long friends. |
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| after three years, got itchy feet to go out for himself. Before he took the big plunge, he went to work for Albert Jones Bakery in Caledonia for about a year. He then went to Stoney Creek where he started a small bakery. He worked very hard and built it up to a point where he could sell it and then moved to Hunter Street, Hamilton. | |||
| 1915-02-13 | baker, of Hamilton, Ontario; m. Annie Runciman (1889–1951, of Manchester, d. of William Runciman), at St Peter's church, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Anglican | GRO index; Jarvis (1980); Lynda Rooke gedcoms, 2008 & 2009; marriage certificate on Jarvisdescendants Yahoo group; Ontario, Canada, Marriages | |
| Annie worked at Meakins Ltd, a Hamilton manufacturer of brushes | Jarvis (1980) | ||
| Children: | Albert (1916–1975), (William Hugh) Harold (1918–2007), Irene (1919–2013), Norma (1921–1997), Lloyd (1923 – after 2019), Gloria (1930–2015) | US cemetery and funeral home collection; Lynda Rooke gedcoms, 2008 & 2009 | |
| 1915/1917 | while the couple lived at 241 Hunter Street business was slowly but surely building up | Jarvis (1980) | |
| bought a very large McLaughlin Buick from Rocco Perri, bootlegger and rum-runner | |||
| 1917 | built the Hunter Street business up and sold to Canada Bread, then opened up a bakery on Wilson Street. For the next four years Albert and Annie worked their heads off in the bakery. | ||
| 1921-01 | sold his business to a Jewish family headed up by Max Ellenzwieg, who became very successful as bakers of hearth baked bread | ||
| 1921 | living with his wife and four children at 367 Wilson St, Hamilton East, Ontario; baker, own account (bread) | 1921 Census of Canada | |
| 1921-11 | Albert, on the sale of Wilson Street, had so much
money that he even thought he might retire, and he bought a home on
Maple Avenue with about three-quarters of an acre of strawberries. After
eleven months of puttering around, the urge to get back into the baking
business became so strong that in November 1921, after checking out many
small town bakeries, he made the big plunge and bought the bakery in
Grimsby. The bakery was located at 11 Depot Street (later Ontario Street) in a run-down dilapidated two-storey brick building. It had very rough wood floors, one brick oven (with the fire right in the oven), an old three bag bread mixer, and old divider and an old panner. On the property was a large two-storey frame barn and a four-bedroom storey-and-a-half house, in front of which was a stockroom where certain baking supplies such as chocolate, nuts, raisins, etc. were kept. The house needed a lot of work done on it to make it half liveable, and must have been rather difficult after the nice home on Maple Avenue. |
Jarvis (1980) | |
| When Albert took over the Grimsby business there were four bread routes and some retail selling from the shop. Albert opened a store on the Main Street and expanded this into an ice cream parlour and then a candy department as well. | |||
| The first few years were years of 80-plus hour weeks, but the business prospered for a number of reasons, namely much effort and personal sacrifice, quality products, modern methods of production, good sales training in the store and delivery vans, good public relations in the community, and being innovative. The effort was provided by both Albert and Annie. Albert insisted on quality ingredients and workmanship. Having an inquiring mind, he insisted on knowing not just baking, but the chemistry of baking, and was always attending test kitchens along with some of his staff to study new methods and products. He insisted that his staff be courteous, reasonably knowledgeable and neat. The Jarvis family supported the community both financially and with their presence. Albert was definitely innovative, producing and patenting a gluten loaf for diabetics, making whole wheat bread from grain ground in his own bakery (a super hit), having the first soft ice cream machine in the Peninsula, bringing it in from Chicago at a cost of $10,000, putting in high speed machinery for bread making, using tons of fresh produce such as potatoes, peaches, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, apples, as baking ingredients, instead of the usual canned produce. |
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Jarvis (1980); image from Andrew Jarvis | |
| Another area Albert showed his aptitude for
business in was sales. Decorum of staff was important, but he also kept
his delivery equipment up-to-date and clean, and for the first few years
in Grimsby, as he expanded his delivery service, he had up to 20 horses
available. This included a number of teams used in country delivery, and
they were used every other day in order to rest them. Albert liked and
knew good horses and they were a pretty sight in front of the familiar
yellow and black delivery wagons. The horses were eventually replaced by
Model T trucks and one McLaughlin Buick, and a full time mechanic was
eventually hired to keep these delivery vans on the road. Deliveries for the first 15 years were confined to a radius of ten miles of the bakery, but eventually two trucks delivered in Hamilton. Two more stores were opened, one on Ottawa Street in Hamilton, and one in the village of Vineland. |
Jarvis (1980) | ||
| Somehow Albert found time to feed his love of music by rejoining his two favourite choirs—the Elgar and Centenary United, both conducted by his good friend Dr Howlett, and he remained associated with these choirs as chorister and tenor soloist for a number of years. Eventually he became a member of the newly formed Trinity United Church choir and was a valued member of the choir for many years. Although Albert and Annie were Anglicans when they arrived in Grimsby, they lived next door to the Methodist parsonage and church and, because of the convenience, they sent their children to the Methodist Sunday School and felt duty bound to support that church in return. Eventually when the Methodist Church joined with the Presbyterian and Congregationalists to form the United Church of Canada, the family joined Trinity United, although Albert left eventually to become a valued lay reader in St Andrew's Anglican Church in Grimsby. | |||
| Albert was also a staunch Freemason, being a member and past member of No. 7 Union Grimsby, continuing his affiliation with Strict Observance Lodge in Hamilton, and being a member of the Scottish Rite Consistory, as 32 degree mason. He was honoured by being appointed district-deputy grand master of the area and his speeches were very well received. He was much interested in the music of the lodge and his influence in this respect showed. | |||
| After church union, their home was the former Methodist Church Parsonage, a handsome five-bedroom two-storey gabled centre hall plan house on a large lot. Beside the house were some fruit trees and two tennis courts, which Albert eventually converted into a very large vegetable garden. | |||
| After the collapse of his sister and brother-in-law's fuel business, their creditors prevailed on Albert to take it over. He did so, appointing a manager and running the business for three years, changing the name to the Jarvis Coal Company. All the creditors, except Albert himself, were paid off during this time. Eventually, with fuel oil taking over, Albert decided to put all his energies into the bakery. | |||
| was a frustrated inventor, always thinking up something he was going to patent or introduce to the world | |||
| c. 1936 | of Grimsby, Ontario, Canada | information from Andrew Jarvis, 2009 | |
| In the post-war period Albert increased his activities in Masonic work, visited England a couple of times, including a reunion for the Rochester Cathedral Old Boys, worked as a volunteer for the Bible Society, did a lot of gardening, went through an operation to correct circulation in his legs after two or three doctors said they would have to amputate, grew terrific raspberries which his grandchildren ate by the basket, and generally seemed to enjoy good health and life. | Jarvis (1980) | ||
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"5'3 of vitality, humour, ego, concern for others, strong religious feelings" . . . |
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| 1944-04-21 | crossed into US at Niagara Falls | Border Crossings | |
| 1949 | living with his wife and two of their children at 13 Depot, Lincoln, Ontario | voters list | |
| of Grimsby, Ontario; District Grand Superintendent for Niagara District, No. 7—gave a report on the condition of Royal Arch Masonry in the district | Proceedings of Grand Chapter Royal Arch Masons of Canada, Ninety-First Annual Convocation | ||
| 1955-08-11 | arrived Liverpool from Montreal, aboard Cunard RMS Ivernia; address in UK 65 Bibby Rd, Southport; retired; intending to stay 4 months in UK | UK, Incoming Passenger Lists | |
| 1956-08-24 | arrived Liverpool from Montreal, aboard Cunard RMS Carinthia; address in UK 14 Wellington St, Chatham, Kent; retired; intending to say 11 weeks in UK | UK, Incoming Passenger Lists | |
| 1957 | retired, living with his son Lloyd and daughter Gloria at 11 Depot St, Lincoln | voters list | |
| 1957-08-30 | arrived Liverpool from Montreal, aboard Cunard RMS Carinthia; address in UK 14 Wellington St, Chatham, Kent; retired; intending to say 5 months in UK | UK, Incoming Passenger Lists | |
| 1958 | retired, living with his son Lloyd at 13 Depot St, Lincoln | voters list | |
| 1966-03-03 | when driving to Hamilton for a lodge meeting, was killed instantly when his car crashed into a pole, near the Innsville Hotel, Winona, Ontario, Canada; died the same day as his brother Will | Jarvis (1980) | |
| 1966-03-07 | very large funeral held at old St Andrew's Church; bur. beside his wife at Queen's Lawn Cemetery, Grimsby, Ontario, Canada | The Ottawa Journal, 1966-03-07; Jarvis (1980) | |
| 1880-12-01 | b. 2 Middle Street, Chatham, Kent | birth certificate; WWI CEF personnel files; censuses |
| 1881 | of 2 Middle Street, Gillingham, living with family and sister-in-law | TNA: RG 11/896 f67 p28 |
| 1891 | scholar, living his with family and aunt at 33 Old Kent Road, St George the Martyr, Southwark | RG 12//344 f183 p4 |
| 1901 | not found in census | |
| 1904 Q3 | m. Amy Mary E. Newland (1879–1950), Camberwell RD | GRO index; RG14PN2524 RG78PN85 RD27 SD4 ED5 SN163; 1921 Census of Canada; Find a Grave |
| Children: | Gwendoline Emily (1905–1946), Ruby (1909 – after 1986), Clifford Henry (1913 – after 1921) | RG14PN2524 RG78PN85 RD27 SD4 ED5 SN163; GRO index; 1921 Census of Canada |
| 1911 | tripe dresser, shop assistant, worker, of 46 Peckham Grove, Peckham, Camberwell, London; 4 rooms | RG14PN2524 RG78PN85 RD27 SD4 ED5 SN163 |
| 1913-06-23 | with his family, arrived in Quebec from Liverpool, aboard the Tunisian, bound for Hamilton, Ontario; shop assistant, nonconformist; travelled inland on C.P.R. | Canadian Passenger Lists |
| 1913 | emigrated to Canada | 1921 Census of Canada |
| 1913-11-14 | baker, of 81 Frances St, Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario | Canada births |
| 1916-02-05 | baker, of 81 Francis St, Hamilton, Ontario; had served 4 months in the 13th Royal Regt, Hamilton, Ontario; enlisted at Niagara Camp Unit as Private 757788 in Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force; 5 ft 3 in, chest girth 36¾ in with 3¾ in expansion, dark complexion, blue eyes, brown hair; Church of England; 3 vaccination marks on left; small varicose vein behind left knee | WWI CEF attestation papers; WWI CEF personnel files |
| 1916-04/1917-12 | wife paid $20 per month separation allowance | WWI CEF personnel files |
| 1916-07-11 | admitted to hospital, and operated on for varicose veins the next day; good result | |
| 1916-08-09 | discharged from hospital | |
| 1916-09-06 | is insured with Prudential | |
| 1916-10-17 | paid from 1916-02-05 to October 1916; had had 2 days leave; [apparently July 1916] transferred to Casualties for two days in August; unit sailed on 1916-10-17, first part per SS Matagama, second part per SS Corsican | |
| 1916-10-28 | disembarked England | |
| 1916-12-31 | transferred to 116 Bn, Bramshott, and taken on strength at Witley | |
| 1917-02-11 | of 131 Birge St, Hamilton; with 116th Bn CAN [illegible word], proceeded on service overseas, with 116th Overseas Battalion C.E.F.; arrived Boulogne | |
| 1917-12-09/-23 | on 1st army cookery course | |
| 1917-12-30/1918-01-13 | on leave | |
| 1918-03-16 | awarded 1 Good Conduct badge | |
| 1918-11-23/-12-14 | on leave to UK | |
| 1919-01-17 | dental certificate issued | |
| 1919-02-12 | proceeded to England | |
| 1919-02-27 | weight 135 lb; medical examination found defective vision: congenital compound myopic astigmatism, from childhood; "Has always had poor eyesight. Has worn glasses since about a year before enlistment"; "Seen by specialist at Witley who rec'd operation on tear duct but went to France soon and has had no further treatment" | |
| 1919-03-17 | proceeded to Canada | |
| 1919-03-28 | discharged at Hamilton; "four scars of operation for varicose veins left leg"; proposed residence after discharge 131 Birge St, Hamilton | |
| 1921 | driver (baker), living with two daughters and a son at 131 Birge St, Hamilton East, Ontario, Canada; Church of England | 1921 Census of Canada |
| c. 1936 | of Montreal, Quebec, Canada | information from Andrew Jarvis, 2009 |
| 1966-03-03 | d. Queen Mary Veterans Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, of a stroke—the same day as his brother Albert | WWI CEF personnel files; Harold Jarvis (1980) 'From Whence We Came. The Life Story of Albert Jarvis (1877-1966)'—file on Jarvisdescendants Yahoo group |
| 1883-03-28T05:00 | b. 12 Middle Street, Brompton, Kent | birth certificate; censuses |
| 1891 | scholar, living with her family and aunt at 33 Old Kent Road, St George the Martyr, Southwark | TNA: RG 12//344 f183 p4 |
| 1901 | shop assistant (baker), worker, living with her brother's family at 14 Broad St, Teddington, Middlesex | RG 13/673 f25 p41 |
| 1905-12-25 | as Elizabeth Emma Jarvis, m. William Clark (cal 1885 – ?), at Brentford | GRO index; Ontario births; 1921 Census of Canada |
| 1907 | emigrated to Canada | 1921 Census of Canada |
| Children: | Hugh (1910–1996), Charles Henry (cal 1916 – ?) | Lynda Rooke gedcoms, 2008 & 2009; 1921 Census of Canada; Canada, GenWeb Cemetery Index |
| 1921 | living with her husband, two sons, and mother, at 41 Francis St, Hamilton East, Ontario | 1921 Census of Canada |
| c. 1936 | of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | information from Andrew Jarvis, 2009 |
| 1887-10-07 | b. 12 Middle Street, Brompton, Kent | birth certificate; censuses |
| 1891 | scholar, living with her family and aunt at 33 Old Kent Road, St George the Martyr, Southwark | TNA: RG 12//344 f183 p4 |
| 1901 | living with her family and a servant at 1 St James Bldgs, High Rd, Leyton, Essex | RG 13/1617 f44 p26 |
| 1906 | emigrated to Canada | 1921 Census of Canada |
| 1910-05-28 | m. Frank Henry Richardson (1884 – ?, in trucking), at Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada | Harold Jarvis (1980) 'From Whence We Came. The Life Story of Albert Jarvis (1877–1966)'—file on Jarvisdescendants Yahoo group; information from Andrew Jarvis, 2009; 1911 Census of Canada; 1921 Census of Canada; Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895–1956, entry for Philip; British Columbia marriage index |
| 1911 | living with her carpenter husband in Block 'C' Fruitlands, Kamloops, British Columbia | 1911 Census of Canada |
| Children: | Ethel Muriel (cal 1911 – after 1952) and Philip Harold (1914 – c. 1992) | 1921 Census of Canada |
| 1921 | living with her husband and two children at 972 Wentworth N., Hamilton East, Ontario, Canada; Church of England | 1921 Census of Canada |
| Frank and Maud Richardson had a very active fuel business in Hamilton, and borrowed some $50,000 from Maud's brother Albert to expand the business. However they absconded, disappeared and surfaced some months later in Toronto operating an exterminating business. Though Albert felt this as a severe blow, and "couldn't believe that his sister would turn out to be a thief and scoundrel", they were eventually reconciled. | Jarvis (1980) | |
| 1931 | of 215 Caroline St S., Hamilton, Ontario | Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895–1956, entry for Philip |
| c. 1936 | of Toronto, Ontario, Canada | information from Andrew Jarvis, 2009 |
| b. | Harold Jarvis (1980) 'From Whence We Came. The Life Story of Albert Jarvis (1877–1966)'—file on Jarvisdescendants Yahoo group | |
| d. in infancy |
| b. | Harold Jarvis (1980) 'From Whence We Came. The Life Story of Albert Jarvis (1877-1966)'—file on Jarvisdescendants Yahoo group | |
| d. in infancy |
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