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Vera Alice Heyes
b. 24 March 1917, d. 22 February 2002
Vera Alice Heyes, daughter of Joseph Heyes and Alice Maud Domville, was born on 24 March 1917 at Great Sankey, Lancashire, England, and baptized on 6 May 1917 at St. Mary church, Great Sankey.1
When Vera was 6 years old she and her parents and siblings moved to Canada and settled in St. Catharines, Ontario. Her uncle Peter Heyes had already moved there a few years earlier. The family sailed on the S.S. Montcalm, leaving from Liverpool on 2 November 1923, and arriving in Quebec a few days later. They likely took a train from Quebec to St. Catharines.2,3
Vera married Lorne J. Nichol circa 1952.
Vera died on 22 February 2002 at Orillia, Ontario, at age 84.
When Vera was 6 years old she and her parents and siblings moved to Canada and settled in St. Catharines, Ontario. Her uncle Peter Heyes had already moved there a few years earlier. The family sailed on the S.S. Montcalm, leaving from Liverpool on 2 November 1923, and arriving in Quebec a few days later. They likely took a train from Quebec to St. Catharines.2,3
Vera married Lorne J. Nichol circa 1952.
Vera died on 22 February 2002 at Orillia, Ontario, at age 84.
Child of Vera Alice Heyes and Lorne J. Nichol
- Brian Jeffrey Nichol b. c 1954
Citations
- Vera Alice Heyes baptism (6 May 1917), St Mary, Great Sankey (Lancashire, England), baptisms 1914 - 1937, p. 11, entry 99; database, Lancashire Online Parish Clerks (http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/ : accessed 1 March 2015); citing FHL microfilm 2,147,231.
- Joseph Heyes and family, S.S. Montcalm, 2 November 1923, p. 3, outgoing passenger lists for Liverpool, England; digital image, Find My Past (http://www.findmypast.co.uk/ : accessed 31 December 2007); citing PRO BT 27,.
- Vera Alice Heyes, 2 November 1923, image 563, Ocean Arrivals, Form 30A, 1919-1924; digital image, Library and Archives Canada (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ : accessed 21 May 2010); citing LAC microfilm T-15061,.