Ernest Herbert ALSTON [3946]

  General Notes:

Ernest moved to Canada where he has a grandaughter Anne Hewett who is interested in the family.
Picture from Susan Perrett 2004
Anne Hewitt tells that Ernest, but known as Herbert, left home at an early age and went to America where he roamed around the country. He was to go to the Yukon Gold but was not well enoughh when the party left, so they went without him. He got some work on a Fruit Farm in south-western Ontario with a family called Walton, where he fell in love with one of the daughters, Maude. She was 12 years younger than him and thought to be to young for him. He went back to England, but must have kept in touch with Maude and/or the family as when he heard that Maude was to visit her two sisters, in New York, where they were nursing sisters he returned to New York and propsoed to Maude and was accepted. Maude subsequently travelled to England and she and Ernest were married in Manningtree, Essex.

After Daisy was born the family went back to Grimsby, Ontario and had a fruit farm, where the other two children were born.

In the Burlington Gazette Newspaper dated Wednesday August 4th 1948,
DEATHS and FUNERALS.
Ernest Herbert Alston, 66 Locust Street, passed away in Hamilton on Monday, in his 81st year. The deceased was born in Essex, England. He secured his education at the Albert Memorial College in London, and came to Canada, as a young man. He settled at Zorra, Oxford county, where he was engaged in farming. Later he moved to Grimsby, where he was a prominent fruitgrower for many years. He retired ten years ago, and in 1940 came to Burlington where he built a new home on Locust Street. His wife predeceased him Feb. 1 and he is survived by one daughter, Mrs A.F. Binnington, Toronto; one son, Garwood Alston, Sudbury; also a sister Miss Violet Alston, England; and two brothers, Arthur in England and Edward in Australia. The remains are resting at Smith's Funeral Home for service on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will take place in Caledonia cemetery.

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 2 Apr 871, High St West Manningtree ESS. Ernest is described as a son aged 3 born Manningtree

Ernest married Maude Jeannette WALTON [7264] [MRIN: 2414]. (Maude Jeannette WALTON [7264] was born in 1879 in Ontario, Canada, died on 1 Feb 1949 in Burlington, Ontario, Canada and was buried in Caledonia Cemetery, Burlington, Ontario, Canada..)