Family of Lewis Gilbert CONIBEAR and Ada Mary GRIBBLE

Husband:	Lewis Gilbert CONIBEAR (1869-1940)
Wife:	Ada Mary GRIBBLE (1870-1955)
Children:	Frank Ralph CONIBEAR (1896-1988)
	Doris CONIBEAR (1898-1915)
	Gilbert Jack CONIBEAR (1901-1985)
	Mable Ruth CONIBEAR (1904-1980)
	Kenneth Wilfred CONIBEAR (1907-2002)
Marriage	Q4 1895	Crediton , Devon, England
	Married in the Bible Christian Chapel, Crediton?

Husband: Lewis Gilbert CONIBEAR

Name:	Lewis Gilbert CONIBEAR1
Sex:	Male
Father:	George F CONEYBEER (1823-1896)
Mother:	Mary APSEY (1823-1889)
Birth	8 Jun 1869	Crediton , Devon, England
Occupation		Engineer
Death	1940 (age 70-71)	Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada
	Cause: Heart Attack

Wife: Ada Mary GRIBBLE

Name:	Ada Mary GRIBBLE1
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	1870	Exeter, Devon, England
Emigration	26 Nov 1898 (age 28)	from Liverpool, Lancashire, England to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
	Ada nad the two children Frank and Doris sailed on the Labrador. Lewis had presumably sailed earlier.
Death	1955 (age 84-85)	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Child 1: Frank Ralph CONIBEAR

Name:	Frank Ralph CONIBEAR1
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Cecilia POWELL (1891-1955)
Birth	23 Aug 1896	Stoke Damerel - Devonport, Devon, England
Occupation		Trapper and writer
Physical Description		Childhood Scarlet Fever left Frank almost totally deaf
Death	Mar 1988 (age 91)	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
To Do		Web: Write a new article about the life of Frank Conibear and his humane trap.

Child 2: Doris CONIBEAR

Name:	Doris CONIBEAR1
Sex:	Female
Birth	23 Apr 1898	Stoke Damerel - Devonport, Devon, England
Death	15 Jun 1915 (age 17)	North West Territories, Canada
	Cause: It is believed that Doris drowned in the Great Slave Lake. She had gone to the wharf to get some books coming in on one of the boats. It is thought that she fell through the ice. It is believed that Doris drowned in the Great Slave Lake. She had gone to the wharf to get some books coming in on one of the boats. It is thought that she fell through the ice.

Child 3: Gilbert Jack CONIBEAR

Name:	Gilbert Jack CONIBEAR1
Sex:	Male
Birth	1901	Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Death	1985 (age 83-84)	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Child 4: Mable Ruth CONIBEAR

Name:	Mable Ruth CONIBEAR1
Sex:	Female
Birth	1904
Occupation		Teacher
Death	1980 (age 75-76)	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Child 5: Kenneth Wilfred CONIBEAR

Name:	Kenneth Wilfred CONIBEAR1
Sex:	Male
Birth	1907	Orrville, Ontario, Canada
Death	2002 (age 94-95)	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Note on Husband: Lewis Gilbert CONIBEAR (1)

In 1881 Lewis was with his sister Georgina and brother-in-law George Carpenter at 5 Knights Hill, Norwood, Surrey.

 

Lewis was the Chief Engineer on the Great Slave Lake

Note on Husband: Lewis Gilbert CONIBEAR (2)

Lewis Conibear, accepted an engineer position at a shipyard in Fort Resolution, N.W.T.

 

His wife, Ada Conibear travelled alone ahead of her husband with their five children from Ontario to Fort Resolution. The trip consisted of a four-day train ride, a stagecoach to travel north from Edmonton and eventually a boat to bring them to the shores of the Great Slave Lake.

Sources

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