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Seeking info and any family of a Richard Nightingale BANKS born 1885 in Chorlton, Manchester, England. He is listed in Canadian immigration archives Form 30A as a farmer / harvester on board the ship MONTCALM to Quebec in 1923, but headed for Winnipeg, intending to settle permanently.

He apparently left a wife in England but it is not known if she travelled to Canada at a later date. However she and her son are listed in an obituary for my grandfather in Stockport England in 1937. Unfortunately i do not know their full names, only the sons initial as N Banks.
There is no trace of Richard's marriage or death in the UK, or of his sons birth.

His sister was Mary BANKS, (my grandmother) who married Llewelyn GRIFFITH, and she lived till 1967. Richard served with the 9th Cyclist Battalion, Hampshire TA Regiment in WW1. He had already visited Canada in 1910 till 1913, sailing to / from St John's New Brunswick. He was the informant of his fathers death in 1922 in Stockport, UK.
His brother Roland was KIA on the Somme, 1916.

As he could have lived till the 1960s or later, and with a distinctive middle name I am hoping someone may be able to help in some way! We never knew he existed when my sister & I were growing up in Cheshire in 1960s, and only found out about him a few years ago - our mother died in 1963 age only 46 so was only 5 or 6 when her uncle left for Canada.

We need to know Where & how to look next....
(I have written to some Manitoba newspapers)

Richard