Ancestral Trails 2016 » Cyril David PARRISH (1893-1977)

Données personnelles Cyril David PARRISH 

• Il est né le 12 décembre 1893 dans Upper Gravenhurst, Ampthill. Bedfordshire.Les sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7
• Profession: en l'an 1939 Farmer dans The Bungalow, Campton Road, Gravenhurst.
• Résidant:
• le 1 juin 1921: Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada.Source 4
• en l'an 1939: The Bungalow, Campton Road, Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire.Source 3
• en l'an 1925: Carts Farm, Gravenhurst, Ampthill, Bedfordshire.Source 8
• Canada.Source 2
• (Arrival) en l'an 1910 dans Quebec, Canada.Source 4
• (Departure) en l'an 1923 dans London, England on board "Montcalm".Source 6
• (Arrival) avril 1923 dans Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.Source 6
• Il est décédé décembre 1977 dans Ampthill, Bedfordshire, il avait 83 ans.Source 7
• Un enfant de Reuben PARRISH et Adeline Elizabeth STANBRIDGE

Famille de Cyril David PARRISH

Il est marié avec Grace M WARD.

Ils se sont mariés juin 1930 à Ampthill, Bedfordshire, il avait 36 ans.

• Le couple a des ancêtres communs.



Notes par Cyril David PARRISH

1901 aged 7, living near the Church, Post Office, Upper Gravenhurst with parents, Reuben and Adeline Parrish, and siblings.

Cyril was born in Gravenhurst on 12 December 1893. Like his elder brothers he went to Canada to seek a better life, sailing aged 18 in the summer of 1911 from Liverpool to
Quebec on RMS Tunisian arriving there on 9 July. From there he made his way across
Quebec province and Ontario to Gladstone in Manitoba, where his brothers Percy and Hugh were living. He was also granted some land under the Land Grants of Western Canada scheme.

With the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 Cyril enlisted in the Canadian Over-Seas
Expeditionary Force. His Attestation Paper was signed at Winnipeg on t5 December that year. In France he was wounded in the face in November 1915. His brother Percy wrote to their mother: "l went down and saw (Cyril's) Captain and he told me all about it. He was hit about 3 o'clock in the morning while on guard in the trenches, and Captain said he was the best bit of stuff he had seen. We can well be proud of him, and he gave over his orders as if nothing had happened, and told the boys he was just going for a holiday, and he would be back in a month or two and have another go." (Reported in a monthly magazine for Gravenhurst and surrounding villages, December 1915). The Luton Times of 3 December 1915 reported that Cyril had a lucky escape by finding the hospital ship Anglia had no room for him -the ship struck a mine on its way back to England (see report in next page or two). When Cyril eventually did get back to England he was taken to the Canadian Hospital in Ramsgate. On 20 March 1915 there was a terrible German air raid on the town which he described in vivid terms (see extract from the Luton Times 23 March 1916)

Three months later Cyril was recovered from his injury, although it visual evidence would remain all his life. He was given a lifetime war pension by the Canadian Government. ln late June 1916 he returned to Canada sailing in RMS Grampian from Liverpool to Quebec arriving there on 1July. He resumed farming in Kinosota, Manitoba. Six years later he returned to England for a holiday and to see his family. He sailed in March 1922 (further details not found). He remained in England for a year returning from Liverpool to St John, New Brunswick, on 24 March 1923 on the SS Montcalm.

Some time in the next few years Cyril returned to England for good, perhaps disillusioned by the hard work involved in settlement in Canada. ln 1930 he married Grace Ward, the blind daughter of Walter and Ada Ward of Eaton Bray. They settled in Gravenhurst where Cyril had a bungalow built on the Campton Road. There were no children, and the remainder of their lives was uneventful. Grace died in 1961, Cyril in 1977.


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