The Lewall Family
Bernard Cecil Lewall
30 November 1894, in Concordia,
Argentina
Charles Laird James Albert
Lewall
Beatrice
Katharine
Maxwell (Lyte) Lewall
Ellen Mackenzie, in Argentina
Ellen was born on 18 January 1903, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the daughter
of Rodrick Mackenzie and Ellen Burslem. She died on 23 May 1986, in Fort St
John, British Columbia.
Land Surveyor
Bernard emigrated to Canada in 1907
with his widowed mother and brother, and settled on a farm "Butte Ranch"
near Ashcroft, British Columbia. His World
War I attestation papers describe him as 6' 2½" tall, of fair
complexion with grey eyes and brown hair. Bernard joined the Lord
Strathcona's Horse of the Canadian Army in September 1914 and later
transferred to the London
Regiment in the British army, where he was promoted from cadet to 2nd
lieutenant (on probation) on 5 September 1916 (London Gazette 14 September 1916 p8996),
confirmed in his rank on 1 December 1916 (London Gazette 1 December 1916 p11742).
Bernard was promoted to lieutenant in the 16th battalion on 5 March 1918 (London Gazette 20 March 1918 p3554). On 19
December 1918 he relinquished his commission on account of ill-health caused
by wounds, retaining the rank of lieutenant (London Gazette 18 December 1918 p14886).
Bernard is found on the passenger list of the Canada sailing to
Halifax, Nova Scotia, arriving in February 1919, on which manifest he is
listed as aged 24, born in Argentina, single, and he declares that he lived
in Kamloops, British Columbia for 7 years from 1907 until 1914. He lists his
previous occupation to be a demobilised army officer and his intended
occupation to be a surveyor. On 4 September 1929, Bernard is on the outgoing
passenger
list of the Asturias, departing Southampton bound for Buenos
Aires, and we see him again on the manifest
of the Arlanza, departing Southampton on 13 July 1935, again
bound for Buenos Aires. In this later manifest, his occupation is listed as
an engineer. In Argentina he met and married Ellen Mackenzie. They emigrated
to Canada in 1947, settling in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. Bernard was a
land surveyor and there is a small inlet on Stirling Island in British
Columbia, Lewall
Inlet, named after him.
BC Geographical
Names - Lewall Inlet
"Lewall Inlet was named for and by Bernard Cecil
Lewall, land surveyor, who worked on the coast of northern British
Columbia. Bernard "Bunny" Lewall came to Canada in 1908 with his family to
settle at Wallachine but one night was enough for his mother to decide
against the town. They moved west to Ashcroft and purchased some land
(www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/cgi-bin/www2i/.visual/img_med/dir_84/na_39447.gif).
In 1914, he joined the Lord Strathcona Horse as a trooper and was sent to
France. As his unit was in reserve most of the time, he transferred to the
Queen's Own (London) Regiment of the British Army as a junior officer. He
was seriously wounded in the 2nd Battle of the Somme. Expected to be an
invalid for the rest of his life, he returned to BC and worked for
Underhill and Underhill, land surveyors, on the coast north of Vancouver
Island. It is during this period that Lewall Inlet, Edward Channel,
Turnbull Inlet, and Underhill Island were given the names of members of
the survey party. (Turnbull subsequently became a doctor and professor at
the University of British Columbia.) He travelled across the USA, working
on General Electric Building in New Jersey, travelled to the UK and then
went to the Argentine as a railway surveyor. He returned to BC in 1947 and
worked for the Pacific Great Eastern Railway. His responsibilities
included survey work on the line from Horseshoe Bay to Squamish and Chief
Construction Engineer on the line from Prince George to Ft. St. John. He
subsequently held similar jobs with the CNR on the line from Hinton,
Alberta to the North West Territories. Bunny died on April 10, 1994, just
short of his 100th birthday. Predeceased by his wife, Ellen McKenzie;
survived by 2 sons in Victoria and 1 son in Oliver." (information provided
October 2006 by great-nephew Jim Lewall, Christina Lake, BC)
10 April 1994, in Fort St John,
British Columbia, Canada, aged 99
1901:
Victoria Road, St Margaret & St John, London
1911:
Butte Ranch, East of Ashcroft, Yale-Caribou district, British Columbia
Charles Laird James Albert Lewall
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Charles Laird James Albert Lewall
photo from Laura Martinez
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June 1840, in Schloss Oberwerth, near
Coblentz, Rhenish Prussia
John Charles Lewall, Doctor of
Philosophy at the University of Jena, 1838
Sarah Mary Bolton. Sarah was the
daughter of Thomas Bolton of Westhumble Manor, Surrey.
- Angela Maria Juana Lewall (1867 - 1859)
Angela was born out of wedlock.
Her mother was also an Angela, Angela Esquiano, who died when their
daughter, was young. The mother Angela was born in Texas and died on 2
March 1867, in Distrito Federal, Mexico. Charles left his daughter in the
care of the Catholic Church, and she attended a boarding school run by
nuns. He visited her in Mexico several times and sent her money. One of
Angela's grandsons, who was raised by her, remembers that she loved her
father very much, and that they always stayed in touch. Angela grew up a
gifted musician and died on 10 May 1959 in Los Angeles, California, aged
92.
Beatrice
Katharine
Maxwell Lyte on 20 March 1890, in St Mary's Priory, Chelsea,
London
Civil engineer. Charles was in
Mexico in connection with the building a a railroad there, and later was the
general manager of a railroad project in Argentina.
Living in Buenos Aires, Argentina in
1897
1906, in Epsom
district, Surrey, England, aged 66
Sutton Common cemetery, London,
England
1901:
Victoria Road, St Margaret & St John, London
James Farnham Lewall
17 January 1891, in Monte Caseros,
Corrientes, Argentina
Charles Laird James Albert Lewall
Beatrice
Katharine
Maxwell (Lyte) Lewall
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Katherine Margaret Dempster (1907)
pencil sketch by Thomas Fripp
scan courtesy of Jim Lewall
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Katharine
Margaret (Dempster) Crombie on 19 September 1914, in St
Andrews Church, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Katharine was born 27
March 1893, in Vancouver, British Columbia, and baptised in St. Thomas
Church, Chilliwack, BC, the daughter of William
Arnold Dempster and Mary
Chipman Rounsefell. This was Katharine's second marriage -
she married Claude Crombie on 10 May 1911, and had a son, Patrick Crombie.
Katherine died on 13 May 1969 at Clovelly Private Hospital, Saanich, BC.
Farmer (1911); broker; agent
(1921)
James emigrated to Canada in 1907
with his widowed mother and brother, and settled on a farm "Butte Ranch"
near Ashcroft, British Columbia. He served for 15 months in the 31st BC
Horse before enlisting in the British
Columbia regiment of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in WWI,
appointed as temporary lieutenant on 2 September 1916 (London Gazette 18 October 1916 p10034). He
was taken off the line with severe trench fever. James was seconded for duty
with the Royal Flying Corps on 13 November 1917 (London Gazette 24 April 1918 p4962) but was
rejected as a pilot, and was appointed a balloon officer on 1 March 1918 (London Gazette 20 March 1918 p3554). He
ceased to be seconded on 9 January 1919 (London Gazette 30 January 1919 p1467).
1901:
Victoria Road, St Margaret & St John, London
1911:
Butte Ranch, East of Ashcroft, Yale-Caribou district, British Columbia
1921:
Surrey municipality, New Westminster district, British Columbia
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