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Family of Arthur Maurice Saville and Annie Richards

Husband: Arthur Maurice Saville (1895-1985)
Wife: Annie Richards (1896- )
Marriage 1925 Birmingham South

Husband: Arthur Maurice Saville

Name: Arthur Maurice Saville
Sex: Male
Father: Maurice Saville (1872-1918)
Mother: Frances Laurel Ward (1865- )
Birth 30 Oct 1895 Poplar, Middlesex
Baptism 15 Nov 1895 (age 0) St Barnabas, Bethnal Green, Middlesex
Parents: Maurice & Frances Laurell Saville
Birth fact 1895 (age 0) GRO Reference: 1895 D Quarter in POPLAR Volume 01C Page 544
Census 1911 (age 15-16) Junior clerk, living with father & stepmother
Residence 1924 (age 28-29) 70 Eastwood Road, Balsall, Warwickshire (Elect. Reg.)
Immigration 19 Apr 1924 (age 28) to Canada oceans arrivals, SS Montroyal
Residence 1935 (age 39-40) 292 Alcester Road, Moseley, Birmingham (Elect. Reg.)
Death fact 1985 (age 89-90) GRO Reference: DOR Q2/1985 in ST ALBANS (5351B) Volume 10 Page 662
Death 15 May 1985 (age 89) St Albans, Hertfordshire

Wife: Annie Richards

Name: Annie Richards
Sex: Female
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 23 Sep 1896 Birmingham, Warwickshire
Occupation 1939 (age 42-43) Household duties, 70 Eastwood Road, Birmingham, Warwickshire (married, husband absent)

Note on Husband: Arthur Maurice Saville (1)

SAVILLE, Arthur Maurice of 5 Chalfont Pl Upper Lattimore Rd St Albans died 15 May 1985. Probate Ipswich 9 August, £131068.

Note on Husband: Arthur Maurice Saville (2)

Entry on Canada Oceans Arrivals Form: Arthur Maurice Saville, aged 28, single; Birthplace London, residing in Birmingham. Object of going to Canada: To guaranteed employment; Intended occupation: Employment in saw mills. Employer: Austin & Nicholson, Chapleau, Ontario.

Nearest relative: Mrs. E Saville, stepmother, 3 Albion Road, Twickenham, Middlesex.

 

Note about Austin & Nicholson:

In the 1890’s James McNeice Austin (1866-1922), a Chapleau general merchant, took tie cutting and delivery contracts from the CPR. Hand hewn axe-ties were cut by permit at specified areas along the CPR, like Ridout, Nemegos, Como and Pardee.

Locomotive engineer, George B. Nicholson who had worked part time for Austin, left the CPR in 1901, to enter into partnership with J.M. Austin and become full time manager of the tie cutting operations. Austin and Nicholson began negotiating with Canadian Pacific Railway for a long term tie contract. In the autumn of 1902 the railway agreed to a three year contract by which the Austin, Nicholson Company guaranteed to deliver two hundred thousand ties per year for three years. The firm had exclusive rights to provide ties to the CPR, throughout the area, as far west as Port Arthur, however, it was up to the partners to arrange with the Ontario government to obtain the permits necessary to cut the timber in the specified locations.

In the spring of 1903 Austin and Nicholson began construction of their first mill, on a point of land between Windermere Lake and the CPR, 22 miles west of Chapleau. The town of Nicholson developed at this site including boarding houses, cottages, warehouses and other structures necessary to support the logging operations of the company.

Lumber from the Nicholson mill was stored on the outer edge of the peninsula. A horse was used to draw the fresh cut lumber out to the piling grounds, where it was required to season for several months to a year. The rails to the lumber storage area were inclined so cars placed for loading, with release of the brakes, were allowed to coast back towards Nicholson Siding for pickup. Ties from the mill were loaded directly onto waiting cars for immediate delivery.

Source: http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/logging/austin.htm

(Also includes a photo of the mill)