Earl Minto Peter Chugg

Earl Minto Chugg, son of John Chugg and Anna Ada Milks Chugg, was called Peter by his family. I would dispute this as Hector E Chugg states that he never heard his Uncle called Peter, rather he was Uncle Earl.He served in WW I along with two of his brothers. Earl returned home at the end of the war to find that his mother had died the year before. Peter had married a Lily E. Hilton in Eastbourne, England in March of 1918 and they had one child, Grace Chugg. Grace entered Halifax, Canada in 1920. Lily apparently entered too but  went back to England and never returned to her husband or daughter (according to Nellie Chugg Lang). John Chugg who was now a widower and his spinster daughter Ada Beatrice Chugg raised Earl's daughter Grace Chugg.

In the Marriage register of the first quarter of 1918, we see that Earl M. Chugg married a Miss Hilton in teh district of Eastbourne. This marriage document is recorded in Volume 2b and page 219.  We can see a matching entry for Lily E Hilton in the image below.

The second to last line indicates that Lily E. Hilton married a Chugg in Eastbourne district in the first quarter of 1918 as recorded in volume 2b page 219. By looking at both registry pages we can definitively link Earl M. Chugg and Lily E.Hilton as having been married in the district of Eastbourne in the first quarter of 1918.  In the next picture below we have a record of the birth of their daughter, Grace B. Chugg born in the first quarter of 1919.

Grace was born a Chugg to the mother whose maiden last name was Hilton, in the district of Brighton as recorded in volume 2b page 286. So we can conclude that Earl M. Chugg married Lily E Hilton in 1918 and that they had a child named Grace B Chugg in 1919. This bit of research therefore confirms Nellie Lang's report that Earl had a daughter named Grace. Earl also had a sister named Grace. His sister became Grace Peake and his dauughter became Grace Craik. Grace's daughter Sharon Craik became Sharon Mitchell and lived in Carson or Carsonby as listed in Earl's obituary. His daughter Grace B. Chugg Craik was listed as living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is now more plausible to believe that Grace B Chugg was brought to Canada after World War I. John Chugg's wife had died and he had his daughter, Earl's sister, Beatrice living with him. It is reasonable to assume that John and Beatrice raised Grace B. Chugg and that her mother Lily E. Hilton Chugg did return to England. There is a photo of Beatrice, Grace and Sharon at the Blue Sea Lake cottage. This photo would speak strongly to the close relationship between Beatrice and Grace B. Chugg. The photo below show Earl moving to Cleveland Ohio by 1923. This also would add credence top the report that his sister raised his daughter.

Earl accompanied by his uncle, Ebenezer Rogers Chugg, crossed the border into the United States on April 22, 1923 as shown in the doument above. Peter's occupation was listed as a machinist. He was headed for Cleveland, Ohio. His residence in Ottawa was 444 Lewis Street. He was inspected on July 1, 1923. He is listed as remaining permanently in the United States.  The document is signed by Ebenezer Chugg. There is a person and address listed in Cleveland to which Earl was attached.

The listing in the center of this document lists Earl Minto Chugg as a draftsman entering the United States at Ogdensburg, New York.  HE was headed for Syracuse, New York.

Earl (Peter) was 21.

The records above indicate Earl Minto Chugg's entry into the Canadian Expeditionary Force July 11, 1914 aged 21 years and 2 months.

Earl Minto Chugg is listed as born March 3, 1896. He is also listed as having served in the Governor General's Foot Guards.

Certainly, there is another interesting story about this young man who fought and survived in a World War, serving for his country and then emigrating to the United States.