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Found their marriage at last

Lillian Harriet Bance
Birth Place: England
Age: 20
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1894
Father Name: Charles Bance
Mother Name: Ruth Elizabeth Jones Bance ??
Spouse Name: Ernest Thomas Fountain
Spouse's Age: 19
Spouse Birth Place: England
Spouse Father Name: Abel Thomas Fountain
Spouse Mother Name: Jane Mayor Fountain
Marriage Date: 21 Jul 1914
Marriage Location: York
Marriage County: York
Archives of Ontario Microfilm: MS932_296


Discrepancy with the mother's name but she was definitely Rose Elizabeth

Marriages Dec 1892 (>99%)
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>>Bance Charles Croydon 2a 421
Booker Alfred Croydon 2a 421
Holyoake Harriet Elizabeth Croydon 2a 421
>>JONES Rose Elizabeth Croydon 2a 421

Reginald died in 1980

Reginald E Fountaine
Birth Date: 5 Oct 1919
Death Date: 10 Dec 1980
Gender: Male
Residence: Avon, Oakland, Michigan
Place of Death: Avon, Oakland, Michigan

Lilian Harriet Bance
Record Type: Baptism
Estimated Birth Date: abt 1893
Baptism Date: 1 Oct 1893
Father's Name: Charles Bance
Mother's Name: Rose Elizabeth Bance
Parish or Poor Law Union: Streatham St Leonard
Borough: Lambeth

In 1924 Reginald and Lillian are crossing the border again from Canada to the US and she gives her brother's name as Charles E Bance in Surrey England.
So this looks like the Lillian he married

Lilian H Bance
Age: 7
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1894
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Charles Bance
Mother's Name: Rose E Bance
Gender: Female
Where born: Croydon, Surrey, England
Civil parish: Croydon
Ecclesiastical parish: Christchurch
Town: Croydon
County/Island: Surrey
Household schedule number: 227
Household Members: Name Age
Charles Bance 33
Rose E Bance 27
>>Lilian H Bance 7
Charles E B Bance 4

And here he is in 1930. Has a son called Reginald

Ernest T Fountaine
Home in 1930: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
Age: 34
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1896
Birthplace: England
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Lillian Fountaine
Household Members: Name Age
Ernest T Fountaine 34
Lillian Fountaine 36
Reginald Fountaine 10
William Docherty 35

This is clever because he died before he was born! I think they must mean 1895.

Michigan Deaths 1971-1996

Name: Ernest T Fountaine
Birth Date: 4 Jun 1995
Death Date: 4 Sep 1972
Gender: Male
Residence: Dearborn Heights, Wayne, Michigan
Place of Death: Dearborn, Wayne, Michigan

Ernest T Fountaine
Arrival Date: 20 Nov 1923
Age: 29
Birth Date: abt 1894
Birthplace: Leighton Buzzard Bdf
Birth Country: England
Gender: Male
Race/Nationality: English

Port of Arrival: Detroit, Michigan
Departure Contact: Wife Lillian
Arrival Contact: Brother-in-law Chas Mucto

Microfilm Roll Number: M1478_22

Ernest Thomas Fountaine
Birth Date: abt 1895
Age: 21
Port of Departure: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Arrival Date: 7 Dec 1916
Port of Arrival: Plymouth, England
Ports of Voyage: Quebec
[London]
Ship Name: Ausonia
Search Ship Database: View the 'Ausonia' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping line: Cunard Line
Official Number: 129735


Coming back into England with wife Lillian going to 11 Cromwell Road Croydon

Possible marriage of parents..

Marriages Jun 1883

Fountain Abel ...Leighton Buzzard 3b 680
MAJOR Jane ...Leighton Buzzard 3b 680

Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1956
about Ernest T Fountaine
Name: Ernest T Fountaine
Arrival Date: 24 Jun 1924
Port of Arrival: St Albans, Vermont, United States
Age: 29
Birth Date: abt 1895
Birth Country: England
Gender: Male
Race/Nationality: English
Record Type: Manifests

Wife Lillian Fountaine

It might help Joan if you edit your heading to include "Canada" to attract the attention of our Canadian members. PH.

born in leighton buzzard in 1894 left for canada aged 19 in1913 fathers name able had a sister called ethel she was my mother sorry about the confusion about his birth place

1911

FOUNTAINE, Abel Head Married
27 years M 49 1862 General Labourer Wing Bucks VIEW
FOUNTAINE, Jane Wife Married
27 years F 48 1863 Leighton Beds VIEW
FOUNTAINE, Clara Daughter Single F 27 1884 Packer Leighton Beds VIEW
FOUNTAINE, Minnie Daughter Single F 20 1891 Sweet Making Leighton Beds VIEW
FOUNTAINE, Mabel Daughter Single F 18 1893 Counter Leighton Beds VIEW
FOUNTAINE, Earnest Son Single M 16 1895 Office-Boy Leighton Beds VIEW
FOUNTAINE, Horace Son Single M 13 1898 School Leighton Beds VIEW
FOUNTAINE, Ethel Daughter Single F 11 1900 School Leighton Beds VIEW
FOUNTAINE, Lydia Daughter Single F 9 1902 School Leighton Beds VIEW
FOUNTAINE, Elsie Daughter F 3 1908 Watford Herts VIEW
RG number:
RG14 Piece:
7700 Reference:
RG14PN7700 RG78PN380 RD140 SD2 ED2 SN122

Registration District:
Watford Sub District:
Watford Enumeration District:
2 Parish:
Watford Urban

Address:
24 Yarmouth Road Watford County:
Hertfordshire

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earnest born in 1894 in watford england left for qubec age 19 from liverpool fathers name abel thomas fountaine

Ernest Who?? and born where?

Just noticed the heading...........
Assuming you mean Ernest........there is not an Ernest Fountain(e) born in 1894, could it be this one?

Births Sep 1895 (>99%)
Fountaine Ernest Thomas Leighton B. 3b 382

trying to find realives of earnest born in 1894 left for quebec in canada in 1913 he is my uncle