Best, Seebert

Birth Name Best, Seebert
Gender male

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth 1892     1a
Marriage 1914-10-07 St John, Newfoundland, Canada   1a
Event Note

Witnesses: Charles Horwood, Belle Adams; Seebert is a Clerk.

Marriage about 1914   from scanned Ken Gurney Family Tree 9/2013  
Residence 1935 St John, Newfoundland, Canada Power or Powis St, St John's West 2a
Event Note

1935 Census Newfoundland and Labrador:
Best: Eliza. Residing at 63 Power/Powis St is Eliza Best, 73 Widow*, and her son George 29, who is a Labourer. They use 3 rooms of the home Eliza owns, and have lodgers at $10/month - Lloyd and Mary Bursey (27 and 22) and they use 2 rooms. Lloyd is a Grocer at ?Bowrings? and he has earned $600 in the last year. George and he has earned $50 in the last year. Eliza's house is worth $2000.

Residing at 63a Power/Powis St is Eliza's son Seebert (transcribed Seaward) 43, and his wife Minnie 44, and their six children: Evelyn 20, Edith 18, Myrtle 17, Irene 16, Phyllis 13, Wallace 9, and Violet 6. Seebert is a Clerk ant the Express Office and he has earned $1080 in the last year. They also pay rent of $10/month for 7 rooms - possibly to their mother.

No-one owns a radio.

* implies date of death for George before 1935

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Best, George Taylorbefore 1935
Mother Mahoney, Eliza1862
    Brother     Best, Samuel before 1903
    Brother     Best, Gilbert 1889
         Best, Seebert 1892
    Sister     Best, Mary Ann 1894-04-15
    Brother     Best, John Lambert 1896-09-08
    Sister     Best, Maud Reid Thelma 1903-01-12

Source References

  1. Provincial Archives, St. John's: Newfoundland, Vital Records, 1840-1949
      • Page: Marriages 1913-1916, Volume 07, pg 49; Seebert Best Minnie Adams marriage record-image_TH-267-12322-63724-52.jpg
  2. Department of Tourism, Culture, and Recreation, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.: Newfoundland Census 1935
      • Page: St John's West District, p. 198, household ID , reference ID , Department of Tourism, Culture, and Recreation, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador; FHL microfilm 2,166,828; The Bests - Newfoundland Census 1935 record-image_TH-1951-40935-34054-85.jpg