Vanda Gertrud Prestlien

  Research Notes:

Summary: There is very little information that can be confirmed on daughter Vanda. She was married in 1913, but then likely divorced around 1916. Apparently she married again and had one son. However, I have found any direct evidence of this, other than the comment from Julia Prestlien [see, point 4]. Vanda died at a nursing home on 21 June 1984 at Coquitlam. The obituary and the death registation certificate records very little information.

More research is required.

written, 30 May 2023
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1. Marriage - BC Archives 8 Sep 1913 - mostly likely the correct person, but not certain
1913-09-071802
- Vanda Gertrude Prestlien, age 19 <1894> but birth in Chicago ??? [ no record of any Prestlien born or living in Chicago ; 7 Aug 2014 ]
- parents Andrew M Prestlien, mother Anna (maiden name not recorded)
spouse: Harold Leslie Cole, age 21 <1892> in New Westminster, BC
BUT this may NOT be right, but most likely is accurate


2. Ancestry.com Public Member Trees
- record death in 1910 in Everett, WA

3. BUT there is a note in Seattle Times, 1 Nov 1916; divorce filed at courts
- Wanda Cole against Harold L Cole, desertion

4. Vanda - 1900 Census, Everett ward 2; ED0278; sheet 15A; line 14;
1910 in Everett as a servant with a private family; Vanda Prestlien, age 19 born in MN; Single
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7884/images/4454961_00846?pId=30011004

- according the email from Julia Prestlien - , As for Anders' daughter Wanda, we don't know a ton about her; but when she was a teenager she lived in a different household and worked as a servant. Later on, she moved up to British Columbia and had a son, Ken Stewart, who was a police officer.
Later married to become Wanda Stewart, had one son Ken Stewart; she was Raymond Prestlien's cousin.


Ancestry Family Tree;
Julia Prestlien FT
link, https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/160121606/person/102110252907/facts
accessed, 24 Jun 2022

5. The Vanvouver Sun, 27 Jun 1984, page 16 [from newspapers.com]
OBIT: Wanda Gertrude Stewart
- died 21 June 1984 at Coquitlam at age 93 [1891]
- missed by loving family, daughter in law, Charlotte of Vancouver, and brother Joesph Prestlien of California; and many friends

BC death registration: 1984-09-011287
- died 21 Jun 1984 in a care home Coquitlam Intermediate Care Center in Coquitlam
- usual residence, 1399 Foster, Coquitlam
- widow - unknown spouse or parents, but she was born 24 Jun 1890 in the US
- informant ? Officer of the Public Trustee
- creamation; First Memorial Services, North Van


6. Findagrave - linked to her father, records death in 1930 in California - but this is not likely correct

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Disproven Death - 1910, 1910, Everett, Snohomish Co, Washington, United States. Disproven Death - Ancestry.com Public Member Trees (for example, TMA2014)

Vanda married Stewart.

Vanda next married Harold Leslie Cole on 8 Sep 1913 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.⁵¹⁶⁹ (Harold Leslie Cole was born in 1892 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada ⁵¹⁷⁰.)