Records of Goldwin Elgie on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Goldwin Elgie in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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DNA

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Goldwin Elgie and the Elgie Family History

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Elgie Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Elgie family tree.

Look at Parish Records for Goldwin Elgie at Find My Past.

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Elgie Family History Databases

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Elgie Forums

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Miscellaneous Elgie Databases

Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Goldwin Elgie. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Goldwin Elgie

Goldwin Corlett Elgie

Goldwin Corlett Elgie (July 21, 1896 – April 4, 1975) was a lawyer and political figure in Ontario. He represented Woodbine in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1934 to 1943 and from 1945 to 1948 as a Conservative and then Progressive Conservative member.

He was born in Dresden, the son of George Albert Elgie and Margaret Elizabeth Corlett, and was educated in Dresden, at Albert College, University of Western Ontario and Osgoode Hall. In 1921, he married Vivian Granger McHenry.

In 1937, Elgie proposed legislation that would have allowed passengers to sue a driver for negligence in the event of an accident. The proposed bill was rejected by the Liberal government of the time.

His son Robert also served in the Ontario assembly. He died in Toronto in 1975.

Source: Goldwin Corlett Elgie, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Elgie

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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