The Heritage Gazette of the Trent Valley Volume 6, Number 2, August 2001
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ISSN 1206-4394 The Heritage Gazette of the Trent Valley Volume 6, number 2, August 2001 Table of Contents The Heritage Gazette of the Trent Valley 2 Trent Valley Archives 2 Membership 3 Manager’s Report Keith Dinsdale 3 Books : featuring Sherrell Branton Leetooze on Durham County Fairview Heritage Centre 3 The Diaries of John A. Geddes, General Storekeeper R.B. Fleming 4 The Parochial Registers of Scotland Bob Dunford 6 Queries Bill Amell and Marguerite Young 6 Carey / Carew; Cooney; Hamel; Reilly; Manly P. Hall Don Cournoyea Collection Peterborough Examiner I. Worked on Pioneer Farm Like a Man Woman [Mrs Ellen Conroy] Relates on 91st Birthday 7 II. Blacksmithed for 50 years George Worboy retires 8 III. Bank Block $150,000 Building Sale [Hunter & Water, Peterborough] 8 The Old Peterborough Protestant Home Elwood H. Jones 9 The Gypsies that visited Peterborough in 1909 Elwood H. Jones 10 Howard Pammett’s Peterborough Irish : serialization, part 6 Howard Pammett 13 Chapter 5 (part 2) Early Settlement North of Rice Lake 13 Chapter 6 Moving the Emigrants to Scott’s Plains 17 Irish Research: Hickey Family 22 Ellis Island Database 22 Peterborough Photographers 1847-1900 Fraser Dunford 23 R. D. Ewing Photographic and Fine Art Gallery 24 Green & Son, Photographers 25 Photographers, 1901 Farmers and Business Directory 1901 25 PCMA Acquires War-time Military Records 25 New Elgin County Archives Established Brian Masschaele 25 AAO Meets in Black Creek Pioneer Village 26 Archival Continuing Education 26 Trent Valley Archives: A. B. Tolmie Fonds 27 Anson House History launching 30 Peterborough Pathway of Fame 30 In Memoriam: Olga Dyer 31 Recently Noted Publications 31 Ken Brown, Invention of the Board Canoe; Marjorie Shephard, Moments in Time; newspapers Fairview Heritage Centre 32 Cover photo: When Lord Dufferin visited Blairton in summer of 1874 32 Trent Valley Archives / Trent Valley Ancestral Research / Heritage Gazette 32 Cover photo: Trent Valley Archives, Fonds 18, Dyer fonds, #85 [see page 32 for comments] Fairview Heritage Centre 567 Carnegie Avenue Peterborough Ontario K9L 1N1 (705) 745-4404 [email protected] www.trentvalleyarchives.com The Heritage Gazette of the Trent Valley Volume 6, number 2, August 2001 2 Other significant collections include Lakefield newspapers since 1949, the Trent Valley Archives radio archives of Frank Schoales, and The Heritage Gazette the personal archives of Howard Trent Valley Ancestral of the Trent Valley Pammett, J. Alex Edmison, Archie Research Tolmie, Albert Hope, and others. ISSN 1206-4394 Recently, we have been adding the following archival records: Delledone Fairview Heritage Centre Your five counties archives centre collection on Lakefield’s history; the 567 Carnegie Avenue Archives * Heritage * Genealogy Anson House archives, 1862 to the Peterborough ON K9L 1N1 present; the Dyer family papers related to the history of Peterborough, (705) 745-4404 Fairview Heritage Centre [email protected] recreational activities (including a 567 Carnegie Avenue magnificent archive related to pigeon Peterborough ON K9L 1N1 racing in the 1960s and 1970s). There www.trentvalleyarchives.com (705) 745-4404 are now 35 collections of archival [email protected] records relating to various aspects of Editor: Victoria and Peterborough counties. Elwood Jones, [email protected] www.trentvalleyarchives.com In addition to the Research Room Editorial Board: Library, the Trent Valley Archives has books, journals and newsletters Keith Dinsdale Trent Valley Archives was founded in relating to archival organizations, the Andre Dorfman 1988, and incorporated in 1989. It is history and function of archives, and Fraser Dunford a public advocacy group promoting issues surrounding freedom of Rae Fleming the preservation, identification and information, legislation relating to care of archives. It has also Don Willcock municipal government, Hansard for advocated more liberal access to the 1980s, Journals of the House of archival collections, and a recognition Commons and Senate, for the 1980s, Advertising accepted that freedom of information laws and other books relating to farming, should be exactly that. In particular it public history, architectural and other The Heritage Gazette of the Trent Valley favours the development of public issues. is published by the Trent Valley regional and county archives, or Archives, for its members. barring that strong municipal archives. The Trent Valley Archives Ancestral It realizes that reorganizations of Research Committee oversees our We welcome articles relating to local governments lead to inadvertent many ventures in family history, and and family history, and to archives, or to destruction of records and offers help researching the many queries that we the methods by which one may pursue in meeting such difficulties. receive. Our Reading Room houses a these. Reviews of books or institutions significant library of local books, are encouraged. We also include It encourages businesses and cemetery records, family histories, information about the activities of our organizations to include archiving as and some of our microfilm collections. various committees and projects. a part of their records management Our growing Genealogy Program programs. It assists individuals in computer database contains over The information and opinions expressed keeping archives or find-ing suitable 132,000 names, mainly connected to are those of the contributors and not homes. It has accepted archival original families of the Trent Valley. necessarily those of the Trent Valley documents and fonds when Archives or its directors. necessary and the move to the The Irish Heritage Research Centre Fairview Heritage Centre was partly has a fine and growing collection of prompted by the need to make its ©2001 Trent Valley Archives pamphlets, magazines and other holdings accessible. materials relating to research on Irish migration and family history on both Any copying, downloading or uploading Our holdings include microfilm sides of the Atlantic. The Trent Valley without the explicit consent of the editor records of the Roman Catholic Archives now has holdings that relate is prohibited. Classroom use is Diocese of Peterborough, St John’s to child migration, as well. encouraged, but please inform the editor Anglican Church Archives, and the of such use. censuses of the five counties for 1871 New materials are being added all the and for all census years in time. Membership in the Trent Valley Peterborough county, 1851 to 1901. Archives continues to grow. The Heritage Gazette of the Trent Valley Volume 6, number 2, August 2001 3 program is well over 130,000 names and being rearranged to accommodate it. An the 4-drawer cabinet is becoming quite architect has been engaged to draft Membership full of material from this region. specifications to protect and preserve this historic building and its collections. The reading room is open to We now have an 866 pentium 3 computer Hopefully our applications for grants will members from Monday to Friday, 10 for members to access the holdings cover most of the costs but donations are to 4:30, and other times by (compared to the old 286 we had seven always welcomed and tax receipts issues. appointment. Annual memberships, years ago) ; it is lightening for the internet $40. Special rates for university also. TVA is also on inter-loan with the The grounds are looking quite nice, students can be arranged.. The major National and Ontario Archives, so it will thanks to Don’s green thumb. And benefits of membership are not be as necessary to make those terribly parking lot renovations should be done unlimited use of the reading room at expensive trips to Ottawa and Toronto. soon. the Fairview Heritage Centre, All members please notify us of any The Never Give Up Department subscription to Heritage Gazette of change to your e-mail and postal the Trent Valley, invitations to addresses. Last October a member in Seattle sent a special events, and opportunities to request to find all we could on the Walsh help in the diverse work of the Trent Many Thanks Dept / Doran family of Hastings county. Our Valley Archives, of the Trent Valley research here came up with very little and Archives Ancestral Research 1. To Jean Amm for her work on the the Tweed Heritage Centre likewise could committee, of the Irish Heritage Cournoyea newspaper collection., and offer little assistance. The file was put in committee and various other the donation of the book on Northern the out basket and subsequently forgotten heritage activities. Ontario. until the member renewed the inquiry in 2. To Cy Monkman for the Yorkshire May. The staff member, somewhat Board of Directors material [the largest and prettiest disheartened, sent what there was. That county in the UK] night he and his wife went to an Irish William Amell 3. To Martha Kidd, Rena Darling, J. Club pub nite. While having a pint, Keith Dinsdale Coursey, Kay O’Brien, Rosemary listening to the good music and chatting, Andre Dorfman McConkey and others who have one of the McGuiness sisters mentioned Ronald Doughty donated valuable reference material. receiving a letter from Seattle, requesting Fraser Dunford 4. To Bill Amell and the volunteers who family history information. “Oh no,” our Robert Dunford went through over 3000 boxes to find staff member said, “I just got off the Rae Fleming and finally return all the OGS material phone with her this afternoon and she was Elwood Jones, President that had been in our care. [We are really upset that we couldn’t find anything Martha Ann Kidd. lending the Kawartha branch OGS two on her Walsh / Doran family.” The Dr John Martyn microfiche readers for their new McGuiness sister said that was their Jim Moloney location at the De la Fosse library] family. The next morning the lady from Don Willcock 5. To the media: Katchawanooka Herald, Seattle was informed of the miracle, and Marguerite Young Peterborough Examiner, Peterborough was very excited about finding these This Week and Prime Time for their family connections.