Talk:John Dunscombe

Date of move to Montreal

@Big iron:: I see that it has been several years since you worked on this article, but I'm hoping that you might help with a question. The article states that Dunscombe moved to Montreal in 1845. But in researching a different article, I came across evidence that puts him in Montreal in 1842. My source is here. See pages 149 and 151 (where he is identified as the manager of two insurance agencies and a director of a bank), page 154 (member of the Board of Trade), pages 196 and 197 (where he is identified as both a general merchant and a grocer), and page 253 (a warden of Montreal's Trinity House). Note that in all of these mentions, the surname is spelled without the final "e".

Conceivably, "my" John W. Dunscomb might be a different person than "your" John Dunscombe. But this seems to be too much of a coincidence. Is there a chance that the 1845 date is a typographical error, either in this article or in the original source?

I will greatly appreciate any help that you can provide. NewYorkActuary (talk) 21:32, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

@NewYorkActuary:: My source for this information was "Dictionary of Newfoundland and Labrador Biography (1990)". I have not seen him indentified as "John W. Dunscombe" in any of the sources listed for the article. I did find a note in a genealogical page Dunscombe & Allied Families which implies that John W Dunscomb[e] was his son. --Big_iron (talk) 03:48, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

@Big iron: Thanks, that was a great help. Some further looking corroborates your findings, in that "my" John Dunscomb is known to have remained in Montreal well into the 1850s, whereas "yours" returned to England in 1847. One such source is here, which lists "my" Dunscomb as a Justice of the Peace. Sources from later in the 1850s have him in the position of the city's customs collector. In all, I think you are probably correct in suggesting that "my" Dunscomb is the son of "yours". Thanks again. NewYorkActuary (talk) 18:01, 3 October 2016 (UTC)