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From: "Tom and Beth Randall" <>
Subject: Re: [CAN-Manitoba] Randall - Carberry Plains
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 15:11:42 -0500
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Thanks for the info, Carol...every little bit helps....Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Lylyk" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [CAN-Manitoba] Randall - Carberry Plains


> Hello Tom,
> Twp 10 , Range 14 does include Carberry (the town) but unfortunately it
covers an area 6 miles
> square. Carberry is pretty well on the western edge of the Range so it
stretches east from there.
> Carberry is 2 miles south of the TransCanada Highway and the township line
is a mile south of the
> Highway. I checked in the National archives sites putting in the
coordinates you gave plus W1 for
> the meridian and it comes up with about 140 quarter sections none that I
could see were homesteaded
> by Randalls. Actually if you put in Richard Randall it gives you 3
possibilities but they are
> either in Saskatchewan and 1 in Alberta. Without a Section number it is
hard to narrow it down any
> more than this.
>
> Carol Lylyk
> Calgary.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom and Beth Randall" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:33 AM
> Subject: [CAN-Manitoba] Randall - Carberry Plains
>
>
> > My grandfather, Frederick Arthur RANDALL was born 31 January 1895 and
his birth certificate
> indicated his place of birth as Twp. 10, Range14 in Manitoba....no other
information (regrettably)
> as to location. However; an article about his father (my
great-grandfather) in the Wiinipeg Free
> Press reads "Richard RANDALL, CARBERRY PLAINS FARMER, IS DEAD" so we know
that he farmed somewhere
> in the Carberry/North Cypress area and from the article that he settled
there in about 1889 after
> emigrating from Nottinghamshire, England. He married one Ellen DAVIES, the
daughter of another
> settler, and had two sons and two daughters. Richard RANDALL retired from
farming to Winnipeg
> during the first world war. Can anyone help identify just where Richard
RANDALL farmed and any info
> on Ellen Davies' family? Thank you! Tom Randall Chatham-Kent, Ontario
> >
>
>
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