Individual Details
Erick Clifford Finch
(20 March 1917 - 11 August 1987)
Events
| Birth | 20 March 1917 | Birtle, Manitoba, Canada |  | ||
| Census-shared | 1921 | (Jonathan Wesley "Nicolas" Finch) Glanford Township, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada | | ||
| Census-shared | 1931 | (Jonathan Wesley "Nicolas" Finch) Glanford Township, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada |  | | |
| Marriage | 3 April 1937 | Hamilton, Wentworth County, Ontario, Canada - Hazel Aileen Vansickle | | ||
| Death | 11 August 1987 | Brantford General Hospital, Brantford, Ontario, Canada | | ||
| Burial | Van Sickle Cemetery, Jerseyville, Ontario, Canada | | |||
| Occupation | assembly line worker at Brantford Coach & Body and later an electrician and plumber | |
Families
| Spouse | Hazel Aileen Vansickle (1915 - 1993) |
| Child | Jonathan Allen Finch (1937 - 2006) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Jonathan Wesley "Nicolas" Finch (1866 - 1947) |
| Mother | Nancy Ellen Reed (1881 - 1917) |
| Sibling | Margaret May "Maggie" Finch (1906 - 2002) |
| Sibling | George Robert Finch (1906 - 1975) |
| Sibling | Nile Nathaniel Finch (1908 - 1990) |
| Sibling | Charity Mary Catherine "Cassie" Finch (1914 - 1999) |
Notes
Census-shared
His racial origin is listed as German in this census. There is no consistency with regards to racial origin throughout the censuses.Endnotes
1. Manitoba, Government of Manitoba Vital Statistics Branch, birth registration 1917-014197, Erick Clifford Finch, born at Birtle, 20 March 1917; database with images, Province of Manitoba, Government of Manitoba (https://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/ : accessed 3 April 2022).
2. 1921 Canada Census, Wentworth County, Ontario, population schedule, district 141, subdistrict 30, page 15-16, dwelling 192, family 200, Jonathan Finch household ; digital images, Government of Canada, Library and Archives Canada (https://library-archives.canada.ca/ : accessed 28 December 2025).
3. 1931 Canada Census, Wentworth County, Ontario, population schedule, district 169, subdistrict 33, page 1, dwelling 6, family 7, Jonathan Finch household ; digital images, Government of Canada, Library and Archives Canada (https://library-archives.canada.ca/ : accessed 28 December 2025).
4. "Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1943," database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.ca/search/collections/7921/: accessed 26 January 2025), marriage registration 19646, Allan Vansickle and Ella May Young, married at Wentworth County, 15 October 1913; citing Archives of Ontario, Toronto.
5. "Finch, Erick Clifford," obituary, The Brantford Expositor, 1 August 1987, page 15; Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 28 December 2025), The Expositor Archive.
6. Find A Grave, database and images (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 11 April 2022), memorial page for Erick Clifford Finch, Find A Grave Memorial # 160366769, citing Vansickle Cemetery (Jerseyville, Ontario).
7. Van Sickle Cemetery (Jerseyville, Ontario), E. Clifford Finch and Hazel A Van Sickle grave marker; photographed by Amanda Finch, 11 April 2021.
8. Anna Mae Hunter, "Chat," e-mail message from (), to Robert Finch, 16 March 2022.