He came to Saskatchewan some time after 1901 from Ontario. His sister, Ida Kramp Hale, wife of James Hale, very close in age to him also came around the same time period. Sadly, she died at age 27 in 1909.
There is something of a mystery concerning Alexander. He was my grandmother's brother, and yet, in spite of considerable data on the Kramp family, there is no family reference to him. I never heard his name mentioned and his father, Frederick Kramp, seems to have distanced himself from this son as there is no mention of Alexander in his obit. All the other children are named except him. He shows up in the census for the family in 1891 and he was born probably about February or March, 1883. His mother died very shortly after his birth. Another mystery is when he was being registered for WWI to join the Cameron Highlanders, he gives his date of birth as July 12, 1883. This is impossible as his mother, Elizabeth Kramp, died March 16, 1883. I have seen her death certificate and this is correct. When asked for next-of-kin on his WWI Army papers, he gives Mrs. Fred Kramp, whom he refers to as "mother."This would be his step-mother, Caroline Merklinger Kramp, who married Frederick Kramp in the first part of 1884 or late 1883. Caroline gives the only mention of him in the family as he is included in her obit as a stepson who "went West" from Ontario. It seems to appear she was kind to him as a child.
I can find no reference to Alexander being married. He was the last of my grandmother, Anna Kramp Farrington's siblings to die, and our Farrington family from the Auburn, Cayuga County, New York area would have liked to have known him. Anyone with more information on him, please contact me if you can. I would so like to know more about him.
Alexander served in WWl with the 179th Batallion, Co.D,
Camereron Highlanders of Canada who went overseas as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
There is something of a mystery concerning Alexander. He was my grandmother's brother, and yet, in spite of considerable data on the Kramp family, there is no family reference to him. I never heard his name mentioned and his father, Frederick Kramp, seems to have distanced himself from this son as there is no mention of Alexander in his obit. All the other children are named except him. He shows up in the census for the family in 1891 and he was born probably about February or March, 1883. His mother died very shortly after his birth. Another mystery is when he was being registered for WWI to join the Cameron Highlanders, he gives his date of birth as July 12, 1883. This is impossible as his mother, Elizabeth Kramp, died March 16, 1883. I have seen her death certificate and this is correct. When asked for next-of-kin on his WWI Army papers, he gives Mrs. Fred Kramp, whom he refers to as "mother."This would be his step-mother, Caroline Merklinger Kramp, who married Frederick Kramp in the first part of 1884 or late 1883. Caroline gives the only mention of him in the family as he is included in her obit as a stepson who "went West" from Ontario. It seems to appear she was kind to him as a child.
I can find no reference to Alexander being married. He was the last of my grandmother, Anna Kramp Farrington's siblings to die, and our Farrington family from the Auburn, Cayuga County, New York area would have liked to have known him. Anyone with more information on him, please contact me if you can. I would so like to know more about him.
Alexander served in WWl with the 179th Batallion, Co.D,
Camereron Highlanders of Canada who went overseas as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
He came to Saskatchewan some time after 1901 from Ontario. His sister, Ida Kramp Hale, wife of James Hale, very close in age to him also came around the same time period. Sadly, she died at age 27 in 1909.
There is something of a mystery concerning Alexander. He was my grandmother's brother, and yet, in spite of considerable data on the Kramp family, there is no family reference to him. I never heard his name mentioned and his father, Frederick Kramp, seems to have distanced himself from this son as there is no mention of Alexander in his obit. All the other children are named except him. He shows up in the census for the family in 1891 and he was born probably about February or March, 1883. His mother died very shortly after his birth. Another mystery is when he was being registered for WWI to join the Cameron Highlanders, he gives his date of birth as July 12, 1883. This is impossible as his mother, Elizabeth Kramp, died March 16, 1883. I have seen her death certificate and this is correct. When asked for next-of-kin on his WWI Army papers, he gives Mrs. Fred Kramp, whom he refers to as "mother."This would be his step-mother, Caroline Merklinger Kramp, who married Frederick Kramp in the first part of 1884 or late 1883. Caroline gives the only mention of him in the family as he is included in her obit as a stepson who "went West" from Ontario. It seems to appear she was kind to him as a child.
I can find no reference to Alexander being married. He was the last of my grandmother, Anna Kramp Farrington's siblings to die, and our Farrington family from the Auburn, Cayuga County, New York area would have liked to have known him. Anyone with more information on him, please contact me if you can. I would so like to know more about him.
Alexander served in WWl with the 179th Batallion, Co.D,
Camereron Highlanders of Canada who went overseas as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
There is something of a mystery concerning Alexander. He was my grandmother's brother, and yet, in spite of considerable data on the Kramp family, there is no family reference to him. I never heard his name mentioned and his father, Frederick Kramp, seems to have distanced himself from this son as there is no mention of Alexander in his obit. All the other children are named except him. He shows up in the census for the family in 1891 and he was born probably about February or March, 1883. His mother died very shortly after his birth. Another mystery is when he was being registered for WWI to join the Cameron Highlanders, he gives his date of birth as July 12, 1883. This is impossible as his mother, Elizabeth Kramp, died March 16, 1883. I have seen her death certificate and this is correct. When asked for next-of-kin on his WWI Army papers, he gives Mrs. Fred Kramp, whom he refers to as "mother."This would be his step-mother, Caroline Merklinger Kramp, who married Frederick Kramp in the first part of 1884 or late 1883. Caroline gives the only mention of him in the family as he is included in her obit as a stepson who "went West" from Ontario. It seems to appear she was kind to him as a child.
I can find no reference to Alexander being married. He was the last of my grandmother, Anna Kramp Farrington's siblings to die, and our Farrington family from the Auburn, Cayuga County, New York area would have liked to have known him. Anyone with more information on him, please contact me if you can. I would so like to know more about him.
Alexander served in WWl with the 179th Batallion, Co.D,
Camereron Highlanders of Canada who went overseas as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
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