3 2 NAME Personal Ancestral File
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5 2 CORP The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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6 3 ADDR 50 East North Temple Street
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7 4 CONT Salt Lake City, UT 84150
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14 2 FORM LINEAGE-LINKED
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18 1 NOTE (Peter Verthez) This is a reduced version of the original file found at:
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19 2 CONT http://www.rm.quik.com.au/macca27/gen/gedcom.html
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21 1 NAME Andrew McPhee
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22 1 ADDR c/o 820 Frauenfelder Street
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23 2 CONT Albury. NSW. Australia. 2641.
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25 1 PHON (0260) 409039
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26 1 _EMAIL macca27@rm.quik.com.au
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28 1 NAME George Albert /Bock/
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29 2 GIVN George Albert
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34 2 PLAC New Dundee,Ontario,Canada
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37 2 PLAC Big River,Sask,Canada
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38 1 NOTE George was 2 years old when his family moved west from New Dundee to Bruce County in 1867, Em
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39 2 CONC anuel was 16 and still recovering from his hip illness, Rachel was 10 and Allan 5 years. Th
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40 2 CONC e family moved again when George was 9 years to the farm in Bruce County and the 3 boys Allan
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41 2 CONC , George and John went to School Section No. 1 at Saugeen, then in November 1880 when he wa
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42 2 CONC s 15 he had to leave school to go to work for another North Bruce farmer after their barn an
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43 2 CONC d stock were destroyed by fire.
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45 2 CONT George was hired out to the farmer for 2 years until he went back to Waterloo County where h
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46 2 CONC e had a lot of cousins who helped him to get work - the Rosenbergers and Levi & Aaron Bock i
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47 2 CONC n Wilmot Township. In 1885 when he was 20 years old he returned in the spring and brought wit
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48 2 CONC h him his girl-friend Alberta Godbold whose parents lived in Berlin (Kitchener), Alberta want
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49 2 CONC ed to hire out as a house-keeper and secured such a job for a local banker's wife who was ill
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50 2 CONC , she stayed at this for a year and got on very well with the lady and her 4 year old boy.
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52 2 CONT George had spent this year working at Cargill's Mill then in May 1886 they were married and l
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53 2 CONC ived in Port Elgin, their first child Era Alberta was born there on 25 April 1887, George wor
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54 2 CONC ked at the Port Elgin Button Factory until the spring of 1888 the family moved to Cargill whe
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55 2 CONC re George got a job at the mill. In August 1888 another little girl, Ena Margaret was born an
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56 2 CONC d the following spring in 1889 George's father-in-law Ben Godbold offered George a job on hi
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57 2 CONC s home-farm near Berlin (Kitchener), George's cousin John Spreeman also worked on this farm w
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60 2 CONT John's wife Geraldine was also Alberta's sister and they had both been born on that farm an
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61 2 CONC d now they each had 2 little girls to play together. In less than 2 years they all moved fro
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62 2 CONC m the farm (father-in-law hired someone else) and George moved his family to Preston in 1890
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63 2 CONC . It was in 1889 that George's sister Rachel died in Sears, Michigan, Grandma Bock was lookin
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64 2 CONC g after her 2 girls Rosanna and Maud when Lemuel returned and took the girls to Preston, hi
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65 2 CONC s relatives were the Rosenbergers who lived there also.
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67 2 CONT George and Alberta offered to take care of the girls for Lemuel but he declined them althoug
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68 2 CONC h it was thought that Maud's health would have been better if she'd stayed there. George, Alb
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69 2 CONC erta and the 2 girls moved once again in 1896 west to Russell, Manitoba where George secure
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70 2 CONC d employment with the Beaver Lumber Company, during this time another daughter Edna Aileen wa
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71 2 CONC s born in 1898 at St. Jean Baptiste, Manitoba and then in 1900 a boy George Allan was born bu
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72 2 CONC t he died in infancy.
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74 2 CONT In 1902 another boy Albert Allan was born at Rosenfeld, Manitoba, soon after this George wa
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75 2 CONC s transferred to Lemberg, Saskatchewan. In 1925 George got a job as a store-keeper at the wor
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76 2 CONC kshops of the Canadian National Railroad (C.N.R.) at Watrous, Saskatchewan, it was about thi
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77 2 CONC s time that their grand-daughter Beryl came to live with them.
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79 2 CONT Then in 1930 George retired from the railway aged 65 and took up a homestead at Ladder Valley
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80 2 CONC , Sask, their son Albert and his family (wife Anne and daughter Myrl) and also their eldest d
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81 2 CONC aughter's family (Era and husband Wilber Eddy and children Wilber L., George and Marjorie) al
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82 2 CONC l had adjoining quarter sections.
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84 2 CONT In Oct 1941 George's son Albert joined up in the R.C.A.F. and his family left the homestead t
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85 2 CONC o live in Prince Albert for a time, George and Alberta stayed on at the homestead till Georg
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86 2 CONC e passed away there on 1 Jul 1943 then Alberta moved to Regina where she passed away on 3 De
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93 2 FILE G:\_Rootsweb\bock\bock_g\bock_ga_100.jpg
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94 2 TITL George A. Bock c1870 5yo
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95 2 NOTE Original ferrotype photograph 45x74mm.~~This image is cropped and retouched.
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101 2 FILE G:\_Rootsweb\bock\bock_j\bock_js_102.jpg
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102 2 TITL George A. Bock (second from R) c1873 8yo
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103 2 NOTE Original albumen carte de visite card 62x101mm.~~Taken same day as bock_j_103.~~Photographer: W. St. John, Walkerton, Ontario.~~This image is cropped and retouched.
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109 2 FILE G:\_Rootsweb\bock\bock_g\bock_ga_am_108.jpg
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110 2 TITL George (R) with brother Allan M. Bock c1890
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111 2 NOTE Original ferrotype photograph 65x94mm.~~This image is cropped and retouched.
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117 2 FILE G:\_Rootsweb\bock\bock_g\bock_ga_112.jpg
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118 2 TITL George A. Bock c1895 30yo
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119 2 NOTE Original ferrotype photograph 53x73mm.~~This image is cropped and retouched.
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125 2 FILE G:\_Rootsweb\bock\bock_g\bock_ga_116.jpg
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126 2 TITL George A. Bock in his bearskin coat c1900 35yo
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127 2 NOTE Original gelatin-chloride cabinet card 100x138mm.~~This image is cropped and retouched.
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133 2 FILE G:\_Rootsweb\ph_misc\lembergbt_097.jpg
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134 2 TITL 1911 Lemberg Baseball Team
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135 2 NOTE Back: Gardiner, s.s. Roche, p. Pohlman, 3rd b. Steinback, r.f.~~Middle: Bock, 2nd b. McArthur, 1st b. Jolly, mgr. Rist, captain. Saunders, c.f.~~Front: O'Connell, spare. Pohlman, mascot. Bradley, l.f.~~Original gelatin-silver mounted photo 235x190mm.
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141 2 FILE G:\_Rootsweb\bock\bock_g\bock_ga_140.jpg
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142 2 TITL George A. Bock, July 1923, Melville. Sask.
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143 2 NOTE George is holding Beryl Bock (L) and Norma Thomas (R).~~Original gelatin-silver photograph 63x70mm.~~This image is cropped and retouched.
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149 2 FILE G:\_Rootsweb\bock\bock_g\bock_ga_160.jpg
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150 2 TITL George A. Bock with his car - 18 Jul 1930
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151 2 NOTE Original gelatin-silver photograph 70x47mm.~~Date is written on reverse.~~This image is cropped and retouched.
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157 2 FILE G:\_Rootsweb\bock\bock_g\bock_ga_180.jpg
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158 2 TITL George A. Bock c1938
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159 2 NOTE Original gelatin-silver photograph 39x49mm.~~This image is cropped and retouched.
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165 2 FILE G:\_Rootsweb\bock\bock_g\bock_ga_168.jpg
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166 2 TITL George A. Bock astride his power saw c1940
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167 2 NOTE Contact print from original gelatin-silver negative 69x205mm.~~This image is cropped and retouched.
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