Who Do You Think You Are - Shirley Ballas 30th Jul

[Olde Crone]

That's interesting Kate. I think it's unlikely he survived 30 years longer than Clara if he too had syphilis, which is another interesting thing.

OC

[NickiP]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

The British Columbia, Canada, Death Index has an Arthur John Spidel death 9 Feb 1969 in Vancouver, age 82. The 1920 US census had Clara's husband Arthur down as born in Nova Scotia about 1888, and the 1891 Canadian census has an Arthur J Spidle age 4 born Nova Scotia, so it looks pretty likely to be him. Also Arthur J Spidell on the 1930 US census which I think is him, a farmer in Vermont. But of course the death index doesn't give his cause of death. He lived to a pretty ripe old age though.

Strangely the British Columbia Death Registrations on the Royal British Columbia Museum website (free to view) or Familysearch do not show that entry even though both go up past 1969. There isn't even an index entry for it even without an image of the death cert.

[kiterunner]

Oops, sorry, Nicki - his surname is spelt Spidle on the index.
https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bi...ff=9&ml_rpos=6

The record comes up on the Royal BC Museum site if you copy and paste the registration number over from ancestry (1969-09-003241):
http://search-collections.royalbcmus...7-9ada26dbd6be

Marital status given as married (separated), name of wife not known, and he died of bronchopneumonia and carcinoma of tongue. He also had an old healed myocardial infarction and cirrhosis of the liver.

[Olde Crone]

But he didn't have syphilis. That is really odd.

OC