Seventh Generation (Continued)
On 22 Jun 1903 Minnie Beatrice married Arthur Angus Oickle, son of Enos Eichel & Caroline Elizabeth Veinot, in Mahone Bay, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia. Born on 3 Aug 1884 in Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia. Arthur Angus died in 1975; he was 90. Occupation: Fisherman.
They had the following children:
On 9 Sep 1912 John Albert married
Elsie Elfreda Barry, daughter of James Henry Barry & Amelia Charlotte Oickle, in Bridgewater, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia.
10 Born abt 1893 in Maitland, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia. Elsie Elfreda died in 1977; she was 84. Buried in 1977 in Mahone Bay, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia.
dau. of James and Charlotte Barry
They had the following children:
On 5 Jun 1912 Charles Matthew married
Nellie Blanche Wilson, daughter of Simon Benjamin Wilson & Louisa Josephine Eisenhaur, in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia.
10 Born on 11 Nov 1895 in Indian Point, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia.7,10 Nellie Blanche was baptized in Mahone Bay, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, on 30 Nov 1895.7,10 Occupation: Seamstress.
They had the following children:
William H. Rhuland (Jacob Matthew6, Lydia Ann Lantz5, Johann Jacob4, Johann Heinrich3, Johann Heinrich2, Michael1).
Born on 23 Mar 1890 in Mahone Bay, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia. William H. died in Passchendaele, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, on 30 Oct 1917; he was 27.73,41
William Rhuland joined the Canadian Army and served in the Canadian Expedionary Forces. He was a a lance corporal (service no. 222586). He was a member of the 85th Battalion of the Canadian Infantry (the Nova Scotia Highlanders). The memorial at Ypres (Ieper), West Flanders, Belgium commemorates the Commonwealth soldiers who were missing and whose boidies were not recovered. The Menin Gate Memorial lists 54,407 casualties.73
William Rhuland fought in the Second Battle of Passchendaele (26 October - 10 November 1917) which was part of the larger Third Battle of Ypres (July - November 1917) in Belgium. His battalion fought in the second stage of the Second Battle of Passchedaele during which William Rhuland was killed in action on 30 October 1917. The object of the battle was to capture the village of Passchendale which was achieved at great cost: 884 men killed, 1429 wounded. (Gerald W.L. Nicholson, Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War: Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919, Ottawa: Queen’s Printer and Controller of Stationary, 1962)
On 18 Oct 1916 Emma A. married
George Kenneth Whynot (1450) , son of
Samuel Freeman Wynacht (485) & Ellen Alberta Andrews, in Mahone Bay, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia.
10 Born on 14 Jun 1889 in Indian Point, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia.17 George Kenneth died in 1959; he was 69. Buried in 1959 in Mahone Bay, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia. Occupation: Fisherman.