Carrol Ashton FREEMAN

  General Notes:

Marriages Mar 1916 Elham 2a 2401
Cowd Winifred H to Freeman
Freeman Carrol A to Cowd
Metcalfe Mary J to Nol_n
Nolan Edward to Metcalfe

Mariage certificate details
Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage Pursuant to the births, deaths and
marriages Registration acts 1836 to 1856.
District of Elham Marriage Solemnized at The Register Office, District of
Elham, County of Kent.
No. 56 on First February 1916
Carrol Ashton Freeman, 2x years, Bachelor, Corporal Royal Canadian Dragoons (Farrier), Thorncliffe Camp. Father Spencer Gifford Freeman, Carpenter
Winnifred H. Cowd, 2x years, Spinster, , 102 Harborough Road ?trea?ham. Father Gilbert Morris Cowd, Stationmaster (deceased)
Witnesses R. H? Coleman, F. E (or) G Willson
Column 3 - The original certificate is damaged where the column for age is. All that can be read for him is 2
something years and for her what appears to be the top of a 2 and maybe a 1 years. Ages should be 24 and 25.

Carrol was born in Sable River, Nova Scotia 13 April 1891 (family records
and in his hand in his Bible)
Died 23 April, 1975 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (from his death cert and
family records)

Carrol left home at 16 to travel to Shelburne, Nova Scotia where he
apprenticed as a Black Smith, (which in those days included blacksmithing
and Farrier duties, the basic difference being a blacksmith worked on
machinery, boats, hinges, doors etc. where a Farrier only shoed horses, oxen
and the like.

At the completion of his agreement he left to go out west working in
Saskatchewan in various towns such as Tuxford, Mortlach and Earnfold until
he set up a shop and homestead in Waldeck. It was from here that he
answered the call to serve in the Canadian army for WWI, during which he met
and married Winifred Helen Cowd.

Their first child, Gilbert Ashton Freeman was conceived and born in England, (36 Church Road Cheriton
(Folkstone, Kent England) 6 December 1917 before Carrol moved his new family
back to Canada where they lived in Waldeck until the dirty thirties cost
them and so many others everything, at which point he applied for and
received permission to purchase land around Alder Flats / Buck Lake,
Alberta, Canada. Carrol built a starter cabin there, then moved the family
there, built a better family home and barn and raised the kids in the bush.

Carrol grew up with a dad who owned part of a sawmill and was a carpenter in
Nova Scotia so he walked 10 miles every week to work at a sawmill, (as their
blacksmith) in the Buck Lake area and they did not leave the homestead until
war again raised its ugly head. He signed up again, lied about his age, was
caught out and served WWII as a blacksmith in Calgary. He bought another
shop in Olds, Alberta where Winny also ran a boarding house until her death

Both Carrol and Winny are buried at Union Cemetery in Calgary

Carrol married Winifred Helen COWD, daughter of Gilbert Morris COWD and Helen Hyde HULME, on 1 Feb 1916 in Elham, Kent, England. (Winifred Helen COWD was born on 28 Dec 1889 in Withycombe Raleigh, Exmouth, Devon, England,¹ died on 5 Sep 1948 in Olds, Alberta, Canada and was buried on 8 Sep 1948 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.)