F8 - DONNE

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Married 16 Apr 1901, St. Budeaux Parish Church, Devonport

James Frederick

Born 23 Dec 1870, 16 Paradise Place, Stoke Damerel, Devonport
Died 2 Jul 1951, 'Riverside', Saltash Passage, St Budeaux, Plymouth
Recorded on marriage certificate as 'The Firs'. House on the corner of Wolseley Road approaching Saltash Passage
In about 1900 J.F Donne combined forces with Tozer and Allen to build Lynher Terrace; in 1902,2 Lynher Terrace was occupied by the Baptist Pastor, the Rev. Henry Smart. The old methods of working required more men than today which gave a source of income for many local tradesman workin gin the locality (see picture, reference Marshall Ware - The Ancient Parish of St. Budeaux)
A photograph datng from about 1900 shows J.F. Donne's building yard off Vicarage Road (now Normandy Way). His father, James Donne, built a number of houses in this area from 1890 onwards and the Donne family owned over thirty at one time.

A famly anecdote records that James, as a young man 'ran away' to Canada and was rounded up and returned to England by the Mounties (RCMP). The truth of this is uncertain, but note that James Frederick Donne does not feature in the 1891 census for Devon.

The UK outbound passenger lists show a James Donne, aged 19, voyaging from Liverpool to Quebec in 1890 (see http://www.findmypast.com/). The complete transcription is as follows:

Name: James DONNE
Date of departure: 17 April 1890
Port of departure: Liverpool
Destination port: Quebec Destination country: Canada
Age: 19
Marital Status: Single
Sex: Male
Occupation: Lab

Ship: SARDINIAN
Official Number: 0
Master's name: William Richardson
Steamship Line: Allan Line
Where bound: Quebec Port, Canada
Square feet: 12926
Registered tonnage: 2577
Passengers on voyage: 790

Building Work in Progress

JFDonne's Builders Yard

Mary Sarah

Alias Mary Sarah DONNE (1901)
Born 16 Aug 1871, Butshead Mill, St Budeaux
Died 31 May 1955, 'Riverside', Saltash Passage, St Budeaux, Plymouth, Devon
Buried 3 Jun 1955, Higher St.Budeaux Parish Church
Recorded on marriage certificate as 'Waverley Villas'. House in Normandy Way, on the old road to Saltash Passage, now blocked off at the Tamar Bridge works
Reminiscences of Mary Sarah Donne nee King are recorded as follows, quoted in a book on shipping in the River Tamar:

"Of the building of the Flora May (the name of a barge) Miss Florence
Daymond relates a conversation with an elderly relative, the late Mrs Donne
of St Budeaux, who told her that Miss Daymond's father had 'borrowed 400
sovereigns from us, and paid it all back, plus interest, within three
years'."

The full reference for the book is: Merry, Ian D. (1980) The Shipping and
Trade of the River Tamar, parts 1 and 2. National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich.

Children

Emmeline Alice King

Born Sep 1902
Died Sep 1976, "Riverside", Saltash Passage, St Budeaux
Buried 1976, Higher St Budeaux Parish Church

Frederick William King

Born 22 Jan 1905, St. Budeaux, Plymouth
Died 26 Jan 1905, St. Budeaux, Plymouth

Frederick King = Constance Ena SNELL > Family

Married 10 Oct 1940, Landulph, Cornwall

Frederick King

Born 11 Dec 1906, St. Budeaux, Plymouth
Died 22 Feb 1958, St.Budeaux, Plymouth
Buried Higher St.Budeaux Parish Church

Constance Ena

Alias Constance Ena DONNE (10 Oct 1940)
Born 1 Jan 1907, Landulph, Cornwall
Christened Landulph Parish Church
Died 2 Jul 2001, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
Buried 11 Jul 2001, Higher St Budeaux Parish Church

Connie Snell & Flo

Family

James Frederick took his family to Canada where he obtained a land grant. The names of the family, consisting of James Donne, Mary Donne and children Emmie (11) and Frederick (7) crossing from Bristol to Saint John NB in 1914 can be found on the passenger list of the ROYAL GEORGE, Royal Line, departing on 25 March 1914. The family lived in Canada until 1930 approx, when they returned to England defeated by a series of dry seasons and other family problems.

Details of the land grant are held inthe National Canadian Archives. The database is available online and the following details can be downloaded.

Western Land Grants (1870-1930)

In 1871, an order in council initiated a uniform land survey of the 3 prairie provinces as well as the railway belt of British Columbia. The comprehensive indexing of the legal land descriptions resulting from the survey form the basis of the Dominion Land Grants database. When available, individual names have also been indexed.

This speciality database relates exclusively to Letters Patent issued by the Lands Patent Branch of the Department of the Interior. The records refer to grants issued in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the railway belt of British Columbia, c. 1870-1930

Sections are divided into four quarters or into sixteen legal sub-divisions. They are numbered from 1 to 37.

Townships are numbered from south to north starting at the U.S. border. They are numbered from 1 to 129 and 141.

Ranges are numbered from east to west starting from each meridian, except for the west-to-east numbering used for the Principal and East of the Coast Meridians. They are numbered 1 to 34.

The Meridians are as follows:

* ECM (East of the Coast Meridian)
* EPM (East of the Principal Meridian)
* W1 (West of the Prinicipal Meridian)
* W2 (West of the 2nd Meridian)
* W3 (West of the 3rd Meridian)
* W4 (West of the 4th Meridian)
* W5 (West of the 5th Meridian)
* W6 (West of the 6th Meridian)
* W7 (West of the 7th Meridian)
* WCM (West of the Coast Meridian)

NE 26 15 6 W3
Part Section Township Range Meridian

Reference:
Liber: 697
Folio: 367
File reel number: C-6493
Names: James Frederick Donne

This designation describes a parcel of land at LAT 50deg 17min 29sec LON 106deg 44min 00sec, in the Province of Sakatchewan, the nearest town being Chaplin

The land grant is dated 6 March 1916 and the actual wording of the grant applies to land in the "Fifteenth Township in the Sixth Range, West of the Third Meridian in the Province of Saskatchewan and being composed of the North East quarter of Section Twenty-four of the said Township" containing "by admeasurement One hundered and sixty acres"

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Western Land Grants

Roger Donne’s Miscellany: Descendants of Benjamin Snell

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