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Arthur Ernest Blenkarn

Birth
Birkenhead, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England
Death
24 May 1902 (aged 36)
Whitewood, Melville Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Whitewood, Melville Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada Add to Map
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Arthur went to Buenos Aires for a time where his brother Fred lived for over twenty years. Evidently no success there, and later he came out to Saskatchewan where his brother Harry lived. He was no more successful there. Arthur never married suppose he had too much wanderlust in him. He died in Whitewood, Saskatchewan of strangulated rupture following an operation. Harry was told all about it. There was no hospital anywhere near, so Arthur was in a room in a hotel. A man was engaged to look after him and told not to leave him alone for a minute. A nurse and doctor called at different times, naturally. But one day the man left Arthur alone for perhaps half an hour. When he or someone else went into the room, Arthur was sprawled on the floor, dead. A friend, member of the Sons of England Lodge there, who knew both the brothers, got in touch with Harry at Broadview a few miles away. He came and looked after things, funeral etc. Then the man who was suppose to have watched Arthur, and did mostly of course, sent Harry a bill for doing this. Harry refused, telling him "You were told not to leave my brother alone for a minutes, and you did, and he died. You are lucky I don't have you put in jail for negligence." It was surmised that Arthur had reached to a table nearby for a drink of water and fell over. The above was accounted to me (author of source) by his sister-in-law Florence Blenkarn, wife of Edgar Russell Blenkarn. He did not marry and had no children.

Source: "Blenkarn Tapestry" by Dorothy L. Taylor pgs 281-282
Arthur went to Buenos Aires for a time where his brother Fred lived for over twenty years. Evidently no success there, and later he came out to Saskatchewan where his brother Harry lived. He was no more successful there. Arthur never married suppose he had too much wanderlust in him. He died in Whitewood, Saskatchewan of strangulated rupture following an operation. Harry was told all about it. There was no hospital anywhere near, so Arthur was in a room in a hotel. A man was engaged to look after him and told not to leave him alone for a minute. A nurse and doctor called at different times, naturally. But one day the man left Arthur alone for perhaps half an hour. When he or someone else went into the room, Arthur was sprawled on the floor, dead. A friend, member of the Sons of England Lodge there, who knew both the brothers, got in touch with Harry at Broadview a few miles away. He came and looked after things, funeral etc. Then the man who was suppose to have watched Arthur, and did mostly of course, sent Harry a bill for doing this. Harry refused, telling him "You were told not to leave my brother alone for a minutes, and you did, and he died. You are lucky I don't have you put in jail for negligence." It was surmised that Arthur had reached to a table nearby for a drink of water and fell over. The above was accounted to me (author of source) by his sister-in-law Florence Blenkarn, wife of Edgar Russell Blenkarn. He did not marry and had no children.

Source: "Blenkarn Tapestry" by Dorothy L. Taylor pgs 281-282

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