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Researching my husband's family tree, I'd long been looking for the death of Henry Canner Harvey (b. 1875). Henry married my hubby's 1c1r Maud Victoria Slatter (1887-1963) in 1911 in Ontario, Canada. They had two children together, one born in Canada and one born in New York State.Maud born in England, Henry born in EnglandMaud interested me because she is the only ancestor in my husband's family to be born in Cairo, Egypt (when her father Albert William Slatter was posted there during his service in the Shropshire Light Infantry). Henry had been born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England and made his way to Buffalo, New York before 1911. He married Maud in that year, obtaining a marriage license in Fort Erie, in Canada just across from Buffalo, but marrying in London, Ontario, where her family lived. They settled in Buffalo, New York.In 1916, Henry and several partners took over a Buffalo automobile body manufacturing business that he had managed, incorporating it as Harvey Top and…

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