Jules Alexandre Frederic Carre

Jules Alexandre Frederic Carre was the father of Edward (my great grandfather), Georges, Juliette and Gabrielle. Jules was born in 1834 in a small village in the Picardy region of France called Erlon. The Carre family can trace its ancestry in this village to at least 1772.

Somehow, Jules left Erlon and married Ellen Larkins in Canterbury, Kent in 1865. Their first child, Juliette, was born in London in 1869, near where Ellen’s brother, Edward, was living at the time.

Jules was a commission agent in the wine trade and so travelled with his growing family throughout Europe. He may have fought in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. He eventually settled back in London where he lived and raised his family. Family lore suggests he would go to the West End where he would meet some of his French associates at the Societe Francaise.

This photo was likely taken in London in the early 1900s.
As mentioned below, Jules died at the French Convalescent Home in Brighton, England in 1916.

Annie Carre (Evans ne: Jones)

My great grandfather, Edward Carre, seen in the Remembrance Day photo, came to Canada in the early 1900s and married Annie Evans (ne: Jones) in 1906.

They lived in the settlement of Cedar Cottage, then its own village which did not officially become part of Vancouver, BC until 1929. The heart of Cedar Cottage was built around the inter-urban tram station, located at 18th and Commercial.

This photo of Annie was taken, probably in the 1910s with my grandfather, Stephen, and his sister Helen, likely in their backyard. Stephen’s birth certificate indicates Cedar Cottage as his place of birth.

Annie was born in Wales in 1869 and married Joseph Evans, her first husband at the Tabernacle Chapel in Llandovery in 1895. Their marriage certificate indicates Annie was a dressmaker and Joseph a lead miner.

They had two children in Wales, Samuel and Elizabeth, and around 1898 left for Canada, settling in Rossland, BC.

The 1901 census shows Annie Evans, 31 living in Kamloops with her family: Joseph, 28, Samuel, 5, Arnold E., 11/12.

Annie and Joseph had three other children together- Arnold Egdar, born in 1900 in Rossland, Llewellyn in 1902 and Sadie in 1905 both in Kamloops.

Sadly, Joseph died in Kamloops in 1905 of consumption.

In the 1911 census, Annie, 42 is shown living with her family in South Vancouver Municipality:  Edward Carre, 39, Helen M. Carre, 4, Stephen Carre, 5/12, Samuel Evans, 16, Arnold Evans, 11, Llewellyn Evan, 9 and Sadyie, 6.

The 1921 census shows the family living in the Municipality South Vancouver at 3317 Fleming St: Edward A Carre, 49, Annie Carre, 51, Sadie, 16, Helen Carre, 13, Stephen Carre, 10.