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mariare
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Norway
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 Posted - 30/03/2013 : 21:24:17
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I’m searching for living descendants of the Fossum family in Toronto, Canada.
The 4th of October 1911 Marie Konstance Fossum, (born 14. May 1874) left Norway with her 10 children.
http://digitalarkivet.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=EMIOSLO
Her husband Peder Laurentz Fossum was waiting in Canada.
In the 1960’s my grandmother’s cousin Karla Miranda Fossum visited us in Norway, and she was then married to a man named Alex or Alec. They lived in Toronto.
Does anyone know them and their family?
(I have a lot more information about the family when they lived in Norway, but I know almost nothing about their life in Canada)
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 01/04/2013 : 15:53:22
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Apparently the name was Alexander Reith. Here is a death record of a child whose mother was Carla Fossum at the Ontario death records at www.familysearch.org:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JKH5-2F9
If you google Fossum + Ontario you will find quite a few Fossum listings. This is not to say that they are all your relatives or not but you may get an email address or other contact information with which to make contact. Here is a Kim Fossum who is a massage therapist with an email address....
http://rmtfind.com/details.asp?referral_id=31149 |
Edited by - jkmarler on 01/04/2013 22:41:00 |
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mariare
Starting member
Norway
22 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2013 : 19:44:10
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I'm so grateful for your help. Thank you :-)
Now I have more to work with :-D
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 02/04/2013 : 21:53:14
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Records from ancestry.com:
Dorothy Jean Reith, born to Alexander Reith and Carla Fossum.
Dorothy Jean Reith married Murray McGregor Dobie and had 2 children; Kevin Murray Dobie and Kimberly Jean Dobie
Murray McGregor Dobie, born to David Stanley Dobie and Isabella Henrietta Macpherson.
Kevin Murray Dobie married Famina Heide and had one child; Nicole Danielle Dobie
Kimberly Jean Dobie married John M Kelly and had two children: Aidan Kelley and Alexander Joseph Kelly
Carla M Fossum (21) and Alexander Reith (22)
Married on Saturday, September 18, 1926 in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Her father: Peter Fossum
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Edited by - jwiborg on 02/04/2013 22:23:27 |
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mariare
Starting member
Norway
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Posted - 03/04/2013 : 10:01:54
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Thank you :-D
That was a lot more than I expected.
I'v been searching for so long myself, and when I'm asking here in the forum - you found her immediately.
I'm overwhelmed.
Big smile :-D
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
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Posted - 03/04/2013 : 21:03:56
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Given 25 years between each generation, their age would be something like this:
Gen 1: 1905 Carla M Fossum
Gen 2: 1930 Dorothy Jean (Reith) Dobie
Gen 3: 1955 Kevin Murray Dobie and Kimberly Jean (Dobie) Kelly
Gen 4: 1980 Nicole Danielle Dobie, Aidan Kelley and Alexander Joseph Kelly
Dorothy's husband Murray McGregor Dobie died in year 2000 at age 76, in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
This could be Carla's grandson Kevin Murray Dobie and Kevins daughter Nicole in Kitchener, ON today:
K Dobie
Nicole Dobie
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mariare
Starting member
Norway
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Posted - 03/04/2013 : 22:00:21
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Thank you again, Jan Peter :-)
There would be so fun if I found some relatives alive here, and now I have come a lot closer... thank you - big smile again - :-D
By the way - The letter M in her name stands for Miranda. Given to her at birth, but never used later.
The same for her mother: Marie Konstanse Frederikke Hansen, only used Marie Hansen, married Fossum |
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jwiborg
Norway Heritage Veteran
Norway
4961 Posts |
Posted - 03/04/2013 : 22:19:47
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A girl named Nicole Dobie played in the Canadian TV-series "The Girly Ghosthunters" in 2005.
They were also known as the Kitchener-Waterloo Paranormal Research Society...
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mariare
Starting member
Norway
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Posted - 21/04/2013 : 15:53:09
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I would once again like to thank you for helping me find some living descendants of the Fossum family.
I found them !!
** huge smile ** |
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The Fossum family in Toronto, Canada - 1911
