Last updated on: 25th March 2011

Sidney Arthur KELLAWAY (1881-1949)

	Sidney Arthur KELLAWAY, R.M.S. Metagama

Name:	Sidney Arthur KELLAWAY
Sex:	Male
Father:	William KELLAWAY (1850?-1886)
Mother:	Jane Miller BILLES (1850-1922)

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth	8 Aug 1881	Mappower, Dorset
Baptism	15 Nov 1881 (age 0)	Mappowder, Dorset (Entry No. 565)
Census (1)	5 Apr 1891 (age 9)	Mappowder 1
Census (2)	31 Mar 1901 (age 19)	Mappowder 2
Occupation	31 Mar 1901 (age 19)	Agricultural Labourer; Mappowder 2
Death	1949 (age 67-68)	Canada

Additional Information

Census (1)	Mappowder (Village) Schedule No.31
Census (2)	Mappowder - Schedule No.22

Marriage

	Spouse: Clara Evelyn SECORD, ClaraSecord&Joan

Spouse	Clara Evelyn SECORD (1908-1976)
Marriage	6 Nov 1925 (age 44)	Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada

Additional Information

Marriage

Housekeeper at time of her marriage.

Individual Note 1

BIRTH CERTIFICATE (BXBZ 785182)

 

No. 345

WHEN AND WHERE BORN: Eighth August 1881 - Mappowder R.S.D.

NAME: Sydney Arthur

SEX: Boy

NAME AND SURNAME OF FATHER: William Kellaway

NAME, SURNAME AND MAIDEN SURNAME OF MOTHER: Jane Kellaway formerly Miller

OCCUPATION OF FATHER: Labourer

SIGNATURE, DESCRIPTION AND RESIDENCE OF INFORMANT: Jane Kellaway mother Mappowder

WHEN REGISTRED: Thirtieth September 1881

SIGNATURE OF REGISTRAR: Jn Biles Deputy Registrar

Individual Note 2

Information from Russell in Canada, 15th July 2008. Russell is the son of David Bayne Secord who was one of Clara's older brothers.

 

Arthur and Clara lived on a farm south of Dauphin. They eloped to marry and did so without her parents' consent, hence the reason for Clara's age showing as 20 on the Marriage Certificate, she could not have married younger without parental consent.

 

They had one daughter, Joan, Arthur and Clara were divorced, Clara went to work in Richley, Saskatchewan. Arthur died in the early 1940s.

 

Joan married (1) ??? and had three children, she then divorced and married a George Mercer, as far as is known they live in Victoria.

Individual Note 3

Arthur made a visit to England arriving on 14th December 1919 at Liverpool. He had departed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on board the Metagama of the Canadian Pacific Line, his official number was 136791. The shipping list shows his occupation as a farmer and his full European address as Mappowder, Dorset. His age is shown as 33, at some time Arthur obviously decided to "amend" his age as his birth certificate shows he was born on 8th August 1881. Information from U.K. incoming passenger lists.

Individual Note 4

Arthur departed from London on 11th February 1920 on the Melita of the Canadian Pacific Railway Atlantic bound for St.Johns, N.F., Canada, his occupation shown as farmer. Information from passenger lists leaving the U.K.

Individual Note 5

At some time, and it is not known when, "Arthur" decided to transpose his first names, and appears to be always referred to as "Arthur S".

Sources

1	"Census 1891 Mappowder RG 12 1656 Folio 123 Page 5 (John Miller (Head))". Assessment: Secondary evidence.

2	"Census 1901 Mappowder RG 13 2005 Folio 111 Page 3 (John Miller (Head))". Assessment: Secondary evidence.