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Coming to America 1497-1997-ALTHEA CDOUGLAsMA CG(C) The National Library of Canada: Opening Doors for Genealogists- Jim Shearon Weather Can Add Colour to Your Family History-JOHN D REID The Search for Tamar Tweats- Wayne W Walker Local Collections, BIFHSGO News. ..and much more!

.r,..-~ ~-~ British IsfesFami§'His~ SocietyojG~ C?ttawa Founded and Incorporated in 1994 .Telephone 1613) 224-9868 (Recording Device) Mailing Address: BIFHSGO, PO BOX 38026, orT AWA ON K2C 1 NO [CANADA} Charitable Registration No. 1033463-50 WEB Homepage: http://wwNcyberusca/-bifhsgo ~~---

BIFHSGO Officers-1997 ~1998

President: Gordon D. Taylor (613) 521-5077 Past President Brian O'Regan (613) 230-2852 Vice-Presidents: Membership Ralph E. Davis (613) 825-2528 Programs and Conferences James A" Hea! (613) 828-9569

Publishing John F, Townesend (613), , 731-9814 Education a.f'Jd Queries Bernice Severson (613) 596-0550 Treasurer (Finance and Funding) Linda Gloss \(613\ I 820-9333 EXEcutive Secretary (Rec.ords and Reports) Alan Rayburn (613) 828-8510

Director, Research & Projects Jim Shearon ,_.(613)(F.1.1\ -, .l:;Q2-4453738-7475 Director; Communications _Anne Marie Johnson

Associate Directors-1997 -1998 First Name Surname Function Associateto:

Louise Anderson Publications Distribution John Townesend Louise Anderson Librarian A!an Rayburn Percy Bateson Editor, A-C Roots John Townesend Robert Grainger Editor, .Anglo-Celtic .Annals John Townesend

Auditor (O,..-'n~n '/)

Volunteer Coordinators First Name Surname Area

Margaret Burwell Internet Users' Group Thomas Rimmer Recording Device Monitor

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Published four times a year in January, April, July and October by the British Isies Famiiy History Society of Greater Ottawa, ar-,d sent free to Members. Indexed in the Periodical Source Index (PERSI) Percy Bateson, Editor Vacant, Associate Editor Helen Garson, Editorial Assistant Canadian Publication Mail Sales Product .A.greement No 0000245 BIFHSGO Sales Item QC97V4N1 Permission to reprint for non-profit use is granted to organizations and individuals, unless otherwise stated, provided the original source is credited. Articles accompanied by the copyTig'rltsymbol (@) may rloi be repI"iit::d 01 (,"()pit::dwitiiOut tlie wlittefl fJellliiS$iofl of tiie dUUlor. Opinions expressed by contributors are not necessarily those of BIFHSGO or its Officers Commercial interests if] this publication are not necessarily endorsed by BIFHSGO or its Officers (See page ii for further publication details) ~ ~ ~ -~-~ ~-- -

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COL~S:* TheSociety 11 * Anglo-CelticRoots * ThePresident's Comer * A Note from the Editor

F AMD...Y BIsro RY REsEARCH TECHNIQUESAND RESOUR CFS FEATURE:ARnCLE: TheComing National To AmericaLibrary of 1497-1997Canada: Opening-Althea DoorsC Douglas. for Genealogists -Jim Shearon 4 COLUMNS:* News from 395 Well in ton Street -Mary M Nash * Local Collections -Lana Shaw 7-10

* The BIFHSGO Library -Louise Anderson * The Printed Page -Helen Garson

* Sharing your Family History Interests -Jim Shearon * Family History Events -Helen Garson

Family History Centre Ottawa Ontario COLUMN: News from the Ottawa Family History Centre (The Church of JesusChrist of Latter-day Saints)

SATURDAYMEETINGS ARncLE: Hong Kong Soldiers Remembered-Percy Bateson and Derrill Henderson 12 COLUMN:TableTalk-JimHeal 12

BIFHSGO NEWS COLUMNS:* The Helping Hand -A Bernice Severson 13-15 * OurPublishing -John Townesend * Meet Your Board -A Bernice Severson * OurVolunteers-Jim Heal * Can You Help -Ralph Davis

FAMILY HISroRY QUFSfIONS &ANSWERS COLUMN:From Near and Far -Helen Garson 16

BIFBSGO MEMBER KESEAROI '!'OPICS

ARncLE: Weather Can Add Colour to YourFamilyHistory-JohnDReid ""... 17

ARncLE: TheAGreat DevonianFamilySearch Progress forHistoryDied onTamar Homein and Canada Tweats Account Children -James-Wayne BooksProject A Heal.Wof -JimWalker.Philemon Shearon. Wright -Diane Proc 19 20 22 22

COLUMN: British Isles Place Names in Canada -Alan Rayburn. 25

BIFHSGO NEWS:LISTING: Members Interests-Ralph Davis 26

LmRARY ACQUISmONS LISTING -Louise Anderson 27

OTTAWA }'AMiLY HISTORY CENTRE-HOURS OF OPERATION Back Cover

BD'HSGU CALENDAR OF }.;VENTS Hack L:over

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-- The Society The President'sCorner... The British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa I (BIFHSGO) is an independent, federally-incorporated I hope that all of you had a pleasantholiday seasonand society, and a Registered Charity (Reg. No. 1033463- that you are looking folWard to a good 1998 in your SO)The purpose of BIFHSGO is to encourage, carry on and facilitate research into and publication of family histories by family history pursuits. BIFHSGO looks at the New people who have ancestors in the British Isles. Year with a good deal of confidence and optimism. More The objectives of the Society are: to preserve, research and more sources of information, especially on the and disseminate Canadian and British Isles family and social Internet, keep opening up for family historians. Your history for the benefit of current and future generations; and society wants to help you identify and utilize these new to promote genealogical research through a program of sources. My questionto you is how can we best provide public education that teaches people how to do research and this help. The ideas, thoughts and suggestionsof all how to preserve their findings in a readily accessible form. The activities of the Society are to: publish and members are important. The Planning and Priorities disseminate genealogical research findings, as well as Committee that has beenestablished with Jim Shearonas information on research resources and techniques; holding i Chair providesa vehicle for communication.Your ideas on public meetings on family history; maintain readily accessible! how BIFHSGO can better serve you, particularly in the reference facilities; encourage volunteer participation in 1 identity and use of new information sources should be family history and genealogical research activities; and givento this committee.In addition to providing help in the participate in the activities of related organizations. identification of new activities, think also of how you can Membership in the Society shall be available to persons interested in furthering the objects of the Society and shall help in making them effective. The servicesprovided to consist of anyone whose application for admission as a members of a Society such as BIFHSGO by the society member has received the approval of the Board of Directors reflects the involvement of members.If the servicesdo not of the Society. The calendar year fees for Membership are: meet your needs,the voluntary involvement of membersis $20 Individual; $25 Family; $15 Institutional. probably low. Let us all resolve in 1998 to make a major Membership benefits include: the year's four editions of effort to help BIFHSGO provide the best servicespossible. Anglo-Celtic Roots; ten monthly family history programs, We can do it. each of two hours' duration; a discounted Fall Conference registration fee; up to six free queries a year; discounts from publishers of family history references by citing their GordonD. Taylor i] BIFHSGO membership and member number; friendly advice from other members; participation in a special section, the Internet Users' Group; and discounted registration for the 1A Notefrom theEditor. .. Society's course Tracing Your Family Roots.

The Societyworks in close co-operation with the Ottawa r- ~" ..-"";~- ~f' '-~' .--, '.;~ ,..~~,.~;" -., '"_4- --":~".. -~ Ontario Family History Centre, a Branch Library of The L"lli" ,;;illllVll vI At'oiD LeI"" J{uu;., 1" lilY ttI:;l CWl1vll C1:. editor. Looking over previouseditions, I am conscio~ Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1017, Prince of 4 Wales Drive, Ottawa ON, K2C 3K1, tel 613 225-2231. of the very high standardI have to achieve,if I am to succeedin continuing to provide you with a magazineas Anglo-Celtic Roots infonnative and enjoyable as the one you have become W e invite readers to share family history articles, used to. I could not have compiled this cWTentedition illustrations, letters, queries and similar items of without the unstinting assistanceof the previous editor, interest by submitting them to Anglo-Celtic Roots. John Townesend,his patienceand tutoring could not have Manuscripts should be wlitten in the style of story-telling or I letter-writing, leaving it to the editor to adjust. Articles should beenequaled and I owe him a great debt of gratitude. John i preferably be submitted on both paper and IBM-compatible has rightfully become Vice-PresidentPublishing and it is diskette, and addressed to: The Editor, BIFHSGO, PO Box reassmingto know that he will always be there to sharehis 38026, OTTAWA ON K2C 1NO. extensiveknowledge and skill. Contributors of articles are asked to include a brief Without the contributions of both the regular colmnn biographical sketch of up to 10 lines, and a passport type v.lritersand other membersthere would be no magazine.In and size photograph. They will be invited to certify that this respect I must thank Helen Garson for collecting and penTlissionto reproduce any previously copyrighted material has been acquired Authors are encouraged to provide suggestingsources for cWTentand future copy. To you, the penTlission for non-profit reproduction of their articles. reader, I would ask you to consider contributing some of Opinions expressed by contributors are not necessarily the results of your genealogicalresearches. To you they those of BIFHSGO or its Officers. The Editor reserves the may seemmundane, but to other readersthey induce an air rightto select material to meet the interest of readers, and to of palpability and interest. There is also a degree of edit for length and content. Please enclose a self-addressed satisfactionin seeingyour v.lriting in print and, considering Canadian-stamped envelope (SASE) if you wish a reply or the wide distribution of ACR, who knows! you may strike return of material. Out-of-country addressees may provide a chord in some distant reader leading to a source of loose national stamps of equivalent value to the mailing cost, or International Reply Coupons. otherwise unknown infonnation. I f'ercy b'ateson rtJ TECHNIQ\lES AND RESOURCES FEAllJRE ARTICLES

ALllIEA L'.lJOUGLASMA.CG(C) [Althea Douglas was born in Moncton NB and graduatedfrom McGill University BSc and MA. After ten years' teaching, she entered the archival field; first with the Burney Family Correspondenceand then the Wilder Penfield Collection She has contributed articles to: The GenealogicalMagazine and Family Tree in England and CanadianGenealogist. In 1989 she was accorded the status of Certified Genealogistand has since cooperatedin writing The CanadianRailway Records: A Guide for Genealogists;Here Be Dragons! Navigating the hazards found in Canadian Family Research;A Guide for Genealogists;and Help! I've Inherited an Attic Full of History.] W e are all immigrants or descendantsof immigrants Quebec in a new COulltIy;the Dominion of Canada.In all who left their homeland and 'came to America'. casesthey remained British Subjectswith all the rights and When they came will hold a clue as to why they privileges1hat gave. Only Americans and other aliens had to carneand where fuey went, but the next puzzle is, where did be naturalized. We only ceasedto be British Subjectson 1 the children and grandchildrengo? Geographyand Family January 1947. History go together, you can'thave one without the other. Culture and traditions can be canied in the head, or in A few of our ancestorsmay have walked over Bering books, and books pack small. But unless they were very, Strait when there was still a land bridge, but most came to very rich, do not expect the original immigrants, whether these shoresby ship. Sailing ships coul4, and di4, dock in they came in 1636 or 1963, to have brought all their goods almost every coastal bay or inlet, with no and chattels with them. However, once record of passengers taken aboard or -~~~ settled ~d ~ore ~r 1e~sestabIish~d in their disembarked. Even so, Quebec City, C-J; new SItuatIOn, tmmlgrants lll1ght well Halifax, and to a lesser extent Saint John purchasenew finniture and import china and were the main ports of arrival in the art treasuresfrom 'back home', and so hand 'British North American' colonies. Quebec these down as 'heirlooms from home'. City was closed in the winter, Halifax and .' Musewns are doing some interesting theSaint ports John on were the Atlantic open.year coast roun4,of the as Umted ~ere 1C1i'iJ, research on early settlers' artifacts, and in my family, the Chapman clock that 'was States.Many passengerlists for the Amer- brought from Yorkshire in 1774' turned out ican ports are extant and are well indexe4, , ,to have works made in New York by Jos. but only a few lists of arrivals at Canadian jJ Phillips. Family traditions can often be ports have survived. Not until the late 19th 'I .'mythinfonnation'. century did our governmentsstart keeping ':"w They anived in 'America', but once in passengermanifests; Quebec City began in port, most of our immigrants had to travel 1865, Halifax in 1881 and a few others ~" further, perhaps working a year or two in a date from around the turn of the century. ;. Althea Douglas city to replenishtheir funds. For most,how- They have been microfilmed to 1919, and ever, owning their own land was the final after being filme4, the originals were destroyed.Only in the goal pastdecade or two have we begunto reconstructearlier lists Even the first railroadsdid not changethe fact that travel from other documents. by water was the nonD. Rivers and lakeswere the highways. ill the past hundred years, the sixty-day sail acrossthe Canals were built to link navigable waterways.The Cham- Atlantic has changedto six-somedays by steamship,then a bly Canal, which was to join Montreal to Lake Champlain six-hour flight. Vikings discovered Vinelan4, Basque fish- and so to the Erie Canal and Hudson River, was begun in ermen came to Terra de Baccalos(land of the cod), and in 1831,but before it was finished in 1858, travel had changed 1497John Cabotcarne to New Found Lan4, Europeanssett- radically. The land barrier betweenthe SaintLawrence and led l'Acadie, New Amsterdam,New France, New Englan4, the Richelieu -Lake Champlain -Hudson River water Nova Scotia, Lower Canada, the Canadas and Ontario. routeswas bridgedby Canada'sfirst railway. The Champlain Knowing the name of the place your ancestorscame to will and St. Lawrence Railroad served the same purpose as a help you detenninewhen fuey came,as well as how they got canal. So did many other early rail lines. fuere. The first train ran betweenLaprairie oppositeMontreal Most of my ancestorscame to Nova Scotia, but the and SaintJohn's (St. Jean)on the Richelieu on 21 July 1836, placewhere they settledbecame New Brunswick after 1784, and Charles Dickens made the journey from Montreal to so my four grandparentswere all New Brunswickers, born New York in two and a half days. He travelled by feny, the in that more or less self-governingBritish colony. Had my new railroad, steamboat,canal boat or stagecoach. train and husband'sDouglas family 'corne to America' before Dec- again steamboatdown the Hudson. Even in pre-railroad ember, 1841,their new home in East Farnhamwould have years, sailing to or from New York avoidedthe dangerous been in fue colony called Lower Canada.Had fuey arrived iceberginfested northern waters, and from New York a boat after 1 July, 1867,they would have corneto the Province of up the Hudson, and a barge through the Erie or Oswego PAGE2 BIFHSGO ANGLo-CELnc ROOTS WINTER 1997/98

Canals brought settlers directly to Lake Erie or Lake opening up, though somejoined family. How can you find Ontario. where yom family settled?Start by asking when? Fix a date, With steampower, travel speededup remarkably, but or bracket certain years. Then get a good book on historic with thecoming of the railways, people startedto changethe geography. The absolute best is the three-volumeHistoric way they looked at geography.Once we took to steamdriv- Atlas of Canada, which is now available in most libraries. en wheels, rivers and lakes had to be bridged or travelled Vol. II, is filled with answersto; "Who went where? and around.Today, we seewater as a barrier. when?and why?" More affordable might be CanadaBefore This changeoccUlTed about mid-nineteenth century, and Confederation, by R Cole Harris and John Warkentin, afterthe 1850syou must think railroads. Where the railways Oxford University Press, first published in 1974, and still ran, people could get to, settle, and ship their produce to listed in Boob in Print. market. For close to a century, 1850-1950,taking the train, Both have maps that show how eachgeneration moved not the family car, much less an aeroplane,was how the settlementfurther from the lakes and greatrivers to the edge majority of people travelled any distance overland. As the of the CanadianShield. Once cleared,the Shield, with poor railroadsstretched west, so did settlement.But North Amer- shallow soil androcky outcroppings,proved largely unfann- ican railways also ran north and south, crossing back and able and most settlersmoved west, or south west into the forth over the border, almost as if it were not there. Do not United States. overlook the American ports of entry. Ships that sailed to A set of reprintsof antiquemaps issuedby the Canadian Halifax or Saint John, normally continued on to Portland, Map Libraries is helpful for early times. You can actually New York or Boston. One of the early railroads ran from see miniatures on the Internet and order them from Portland,Maine straightto Montreal, and there was also dir- (http://www.sscl.uwo.ca/assoclacml/faclist.html),or write to: ect train service from New York to Montreal and so inland. Cheryl Woods, Compiler, ACMLA Facsimile Map Series, Until almost the end of the 19th century, most immi- Serge A Sauer Map Library, Department of Geography, grantswent to where land was still available and settlements University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5C2:

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telephone (519) 661-3424; fax (519) 661-3750; E-mail, In Nova Scotia's original agricultural Townships land [email protected] was not surveyed in the Ontario manner. The expelled The reprints of the COWltyAtlases first issued in the Acadians had brought a knowledge of dyking and draining 1870sto 90s are being reissuedyet again to meet demand. river deltas and marshes.Thus land was classedas either In Ottawa, the World of Maps, on Holland St, carries both, Upland or Marshland, and marshlandmight be dyked or Wl- as well asthe detailed 1:50,000maps the governmentissues. dyked. Proprietors, which is what the membersof the orig- The older (post World War II) editions of these government inal settlementgroup were called, drew lots for their various survey maps can help you locate the chmch, one-room shares; which included a town lot. Hence more towns than schoolhouse, or grave yard that modern progressand high- in Ontario. ways have now obliterated from the landscape. Individual holdings might be widely scattered"0 in the Land papers are among the best kept of any early earlyyears there was much trading or selling as peopletried records.We are familiar with the way Ontario was surveyed to consolidatetheir holdings, closerto their home. Very use- into a grid of Townships, with parallel concessionssliced ful becausewives had to sign off their dower rights in land, into 100 or 200 acre lots. In many places there were so few and so you get her name. towns or villages that a settler's addresswas the Township, When Prince Edward Island was surveyed,the three Concessionand Lot numbers. A bit of a trap becauseso counties were subdivided into numberedtownships, 67 in many townships sharetheir name with towns, coWltiesand all, of about 20,000 acres each. In 1767, these townships nvers. were distributed by a lottery to people' deservingRoyal In all the British colonies, land originally belonged to patronage'and so are now termed 'Lots'. Settlershad to rent the Crown and could be given away for servicesrendered their farms. The numbering of the lots is somewhathap- (Loyalists)or other political purposes(military settlements). hazard, but there is a map in the Genealogist'sHandbook Each Colony's Surveyor General's office kept the earliest for Atlantic Canada Research, edited by Terrence M. records; what was given, to whom, and for what consider- Punch, and an explanationof the complexland records. ations.Most are still in the various Provincial Archives. The When New Brunswick was still part of Nova Scotia, a one exceptionis the Upper and Lower CanadaLand Petit- number of large township-sized grants were also given to ions that came to rest in the National Archives. Original those 'deserving Royal patronage' or to governmentoffic- granteesin Ontario are indexed by name and township by ials, who dreamed of makjng these into income-producing the Archives of Ontario. Except for the first Crown Grants, estates,as at home! Easier said than done, where land was land transfer is Wlder provincial control and so varies con- plentiful and labourscarce. Thus, when the Loyalists arrived siderablyacross the COWltry.Here I want to remind you of and had to be given land, most of these blocks were esch- how land is divided in other provinces. fated, the Crown said "You did not bring in settlersand im- In New Francethe land alongthe Saint Lawrence River prove the land so we are giving it to some other deserving and its tributaries was grantedby the FrenchKing (through persons." the Governor) to Seigneurs.The rules governing the re- In New Bnmswick, the countiesare split into civil par- sponsibilitiesand duties betweenthe Seigneursand tenants ishes, township-sized divisions that show up most aredetailed in many books. The seigneuriesextended inland commonly as censusdistricts. from the various waterways making an irregular pattern, but In Newfoundland and Labrador,the Crown land grants asswingevery seignewysome water front land, perhapshay are divided by bays or coasts.There the harbours,islands, marshesor tillable uplands with wood lots at the back. After covesand outports, some with curiously memorablenames, dIe conquest,when English-speakingsettlers began arriving are the points of reference. in Quebec,the hilly, and rockier land beyond the seigneuries West of Ontario the land division systemis blessedly was surveyed into block-shaped Townships. Three rows uniform and simple. Having acquiredhalf a continent from march parallel with the border, but closer to the rivers the the Hudson's Bay Company, the new Dominion of Canada surveyorshad to adjustthe townshipsto fit aroWldthe irreg- acted quickly. From the Ontario border to the edge of the ular Seigneuriallands.This is also true of the townships laid Rockies, meridian lines were establishedand the western out north of the Seigneuriesand up the Ottawa River.The lands were surveyedinto ranges,but a westernrange is not grid patternis less dominant than in Ontario, but the town- the same as a Quebec range, the land was divided into ships usually have parallel Rangesdivided into lots. In the six-mile squaretownships, each containing 36 sections(1 Townshipsland tenme was freehold in the English manner, mile square)of 640 acres,all numbered.The usual holding so English-speaking settlers usually moved through the was a quarter-section. French seigneuriesinto the townships which also attracted Until the 1860sland was the attraction,then jobs, build- American settlersfrom acrossthe border. Rememberthat at ing the railroads startedto be a factor. Passengermanifests ConfederationThe EasternTownships were almost entirely for 1906 showthousands of single menpouring into Halifax English-speaking. and Quebec City, destination Winnipeg, occupation Rail- In Nova Scotia the New Englanderswho came in the road Labourer. Some pursers had a rubber stamp for this 1760s and 1770s also called their scattered settlements entry. Townships,and regulated community affairs through Town In the 1930s,immigrants found depression,drought and Meetings.After the American Revolution, the British quick- dust and the inflow becamea trickle. After World War ll, ly put an end to Town Meetings as potential hotbeds of another great influx started, but more and more they came revolutionand in both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick the by plane (no passengermanifests) and settled in our cities COWltybecame the basic unit of administration. (few if any land records).Moreover, you cannotlearn much

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about them, becauseso many of this century's records are ization Records.These are records for' Aliens', but not for still closed by our privacy laws. British Subjects before 1947. Accessing them is hedged Printed directories and telephone books are your best about with many rules and requirements,explained in the sources.City Directories for the large cities start in the mid- sheet.The currentfee is $5.00. 19th century, but for smaller communities you are often SomethingI have not checkedout are the Voters' Lists. limited to 'business' directories that do not include workers Records of the Chief Electoral Officer (RG 113) includes or fanners.Originally telephoneswere only for the rich, and lists of voters prepared during the federal election years even in the depressionwere a luxury, or businessnecessity. since 1935.Name and addressonly, and it helps to know the After the War, many people moved to suburbs, got a tele- electoraldistrict but thesedo confinn a person'spresence at phone, and today Telephone Directories cover most small a given time and place. towns, rural areas,and include much of the population. The As privacy laws close records, it becomesmore and National LibraIY has an excellent collection of both. more important to tap into your family's memories,papers Never overlook cemeteryburial records and transcripts andtraditions. My parent's generationwere magpies.Aunts of inscriptions, many now searchableon the Internet. These saved every birthday card and valentine, not to mention can lead to newspaperobituaries and family data that is those letters from Scotland.Attics, and even deskdrawers otherwise closed. Letters asking about 'lost' relatives, sent can hold treasures. to either the big daily papers or small local weeklies can Perhaps you can find a Birthday Book in which aunt sometimesbe productive.You will do better if you know the Martha noted birthdays and anniversaries of friends and city. OfuelWise,you musthave very detailedmaps for about family. An Address Book will show where a family located the time you are searching; local libraries can often help and relocated overtime. Autograph Albums are often treas- here.It alsohelps to know somethingabout the social scene. ured; one kept by my grandmothergave me the first clue to What streets divide the population, immigrant from the her mother's maiden name. An embroideredsampler con- establishment? English from French from Jewish from finned this as did an inscription in a book. Don't overlook small but importantclues, like ' Your loving Aunt Mary Jane Italian? Another point to remember; the coming of street carsand suburbanrailroads changed where people could live Cochran'. and still get to work. Can you get an old route map? Prob- Coming to America changedyour ancestorslives and ably. Public transportationephemera are popular collect- yours and it is well worth learninga little aboutwhen, and ibles, and most city libraries will have some. how, and why they came,as well as what they did when they The NationalArchives have issuedan information sheet got here. concerning Post /9/8 Immigration Record\' and Natura/- Good Hunting! (!;;).

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W hen I want infonnation on any subject,I head for the library has much infonnation for genealogistsand it's easy nearestlibrary. Librarians opendoors. Next to doc- to find. In somecases, you can find what you need without tors and teachers,librarians provide more help to leaving home. The National Library of Canadais an active morepeople than anyone else. Living in or near Ottawa pro- user of the Internet and computer owners can accessthe videsaccess to outstandingmunicipaIlibraries on both sides library's catalogueand even a few of its records from home: of the river, excellentuniversity collections of books, micro- (http://www.nlc-bnc.ca), the National Library home page, forms and maps, and many specialized governmentlibrar- offers links to more than two dozen other Canadian ies; but the National Library of Canadaremains the biggest genealogy sites, including provincial archives of Ontario, and the best. Quebec, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Alberta, British Col- The flat, concretebuilding at 395 Wellington Street in umbia and the Northwest Tenitories.lfyou usethe Internet Ottawa. always seemedto me like somethingout of a Mos- to consult the catalogue,you can find out before you leave cow post card; but the grey image has been softened in the home whether the infonnation you are looking for is avail- past few years with subtle changesto the entrancearea. in- able at the National Library. In the National Library's home cluding sometrees and the delightful sculpture, The Secret page,click on Catalogueand the menu offers a choice of Bench of Knowledge,by Lea Vivot. searchingby title, author, or subject. Inside,the National Library has always been an inviting A searchunder the subjectof Scotland; Genealogypro- place for people, with many exhibitions, conferences,read- duced49 titles, including two manualsproduced in Canada. ings, lectures, concertsand film programs. And of course, One is, Divcovering your ,~ottish Roots: a step-by-step the Library's collections of books, newspapers,magazines guidefor family researchersby JamesAlwyn, published in and official documentsare filled with memories and mem- 1982,by Clarke, Irwin of Toronto. A more recentexample entoesof Canada'shistory. is, Your ,S'cottishAncestry: a guidefor North Americansby To find out what's new at the National Library, I visited Sherry lIVine of Victoria, published in 1997. This is a 253 reference librarians Mary Bond and Claire Bourassa.The page guide with maps. Brian O'Regan praised Sheny

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lmne's; uomg to lreland: A uenealogical 1<.esearcher's Ontarioand the Atlantic provinces. Shewarns that the infor- Guide,in the Fall 1997issue of Anglo-Celtic Roots, and we mation in the Drouin collection did not always come from expectthe same quality from this guide. official documentsand should be verified. It's a good start- Anyone interestedin Scottishsources would find many ing point but it's not an official source. items of interest in The Scottish Genealogist,the periodical Was one of your ancestorsmarried in Kemptville? You of the ScottishGenealogy Society, published in Edinburgh. might fmd a lot of interestinginformation if you have a rel- The National Library collection begins with 1974. ative who was married between 1897and 1912 in the Bap- Referencesfor Canadiangenealogy in the National Lib- tist Church at Kemptville. The OsgoodeTownship Histor- rary collection include, Access to Ancestry: a genealogical ical Societypublished a transcription of the marriageregis- resourcemanual for Canadians tracing their heritage, 166 ter in 1988. A typical entry records the marriage on March pages,by Elizabeth Briggs, published in Winnipeg in 1995, 10, 1897 of George Howell, 32, resident of Vernon, born and Researchingyour Family Tree: a beginner's guide Hazledean,bachelor, veterinary surgeon,Presbyterian, son from the Toronto branch of the Ontario Genealogical of Peter and Jean Howell, to SarahMcPhail, 32, residentof Society,25 pages,published in 1993. Mountain, born Mountain, spinster, Baptist, daughter of Among the valuable regional references is, Early Daniel and Christyann McPhail. That's a lot of detail and Ontario Settlers: a source book, 239 pages, by BIFHSGO many leadsto other searches. member and course leader, Norman Crowder, and the A separatevolume of Church of England marriagesin Genealogist's Handbook for Atlantic Canada Research, Kemptville betweenJanuary 1858 and May 1880was com- 142 pages, edited by Terrence M. Punch for the New piled by Edwin A. Livingston of Prescottand published in Engllmd Historic GenealogicalSociety. 1987. Is therea chanceyou are descendedfrom Scottishroyal- Both of these books are amongthousands of volumes ty? Perhapsthose storiesAuntie Edna usedto tell were true. now available for consultation in the second floor reading It couldn't hurt to checka 1908book, Royal Descents:Scot- room of the National Library of Canada.Over the past few tish Record5,part one dealswith how to trace a descentfrom months, the East wall of the reading room has beengiven royalty, by the ReverendW.G.D. Fletcher. over to the maroon-coveredvolumes that make up what was Even if Bonnie Prince Charlie isn't a direct ancestor,if originally called, The Parish RegisterProject. you are of Scots descent,you should find somethingof in- Mary Bond is quick to point out that the books on dis- terestin, The Tartans of the Clans and Families ofScotland , play go far beyond parishregisters. There are family histor- by Sir Thomas hInes, published in Edinburgh in 1938. I ies, specializedguides or indexes to regional sources,and have given examples of Scottish references; but similar published registers of many different kinds from all parts of sources are available for English, Irish and Welsh gene- Canada.There are no original registersat the National Lib- alogists. rary, the collection containspublished transcriptionsand in- The NationalLibrary collection can help you get started dexes that have been produced by local or regional gene- in genealogybut it may also help you when you have come alogical or historical societies. to a dead end in your research.Perhaps you have the name There are hundreds of family histories in the National of an ancestorbut you can't find an official documentto Library collection. Among the recenttitles is The Dalglish confmn a date of birth or a marriage. You might find some Family, 1794 to 1994, by Brenda Mary DalgIish of Victor- clues in a parish register, cemetery list or other published ia, BC. The same authorhas written a history of The Wattie source. Family, 1650-1996. Just published in 1997, the Diction- A mmriagerecord can give you information aboutother naire genealoque des DORVAL de I 'ameriquefraniaise family members.One of the most used sourcesin the Nat- incl-udes the names of Dorval families dating from 1740. ional Library's reference section is the Drouin collection. An unusual item to me was the funeral register of an This register of French-Canadianmaniages covers a period undertaker in Alliston, Ontario. The register records the of 175 years from 1760 to 1935. It was produced by the name of the deceasedperson, the date and place of death, InstituteGeneaIogique Drouin of Montreal, which no longer the exact age of the deceased,for example,43 years, five exists. The official title is Repertoire aIphabetique des monthsand sevendays, and the cost of the funeral. With that mariages des Canadiensfrancais 1760-1935. More than a infonnation,it's easyto calculatea date of birth as a starting hundred volumes list marriagesin alphabetical order. One point for a new search.Turning the pagesof the funeral reg- set of books lists the maniages according to the bride's ister, we are reminded of the high rate of infant mortality in name (Ordre feminin) and the other set is sorted according 19th centuryrural Ontario. Entries of children's funeralsare to the name of the husband(Ordre masculin). Each listing almostas commonas those for adults. One pagerecords the gives the full name of the bride and groom, the names of death of an infant 13 days old. Another was four months their parents,and the date and place of the maniage. It could old. The normal cost of an adult funeral was $40. One fam- be a usefulreference if you have an ancestorwho married a ily specified 'oak' for the coffin at a cost of $80. Children's French-Canadian.The first volume covers Abbott to As- funerals cost between five and eight dollars, presumably picot,so it is obvious that there are British Isles namesin the based on the size of the pine box that was needed. Drouin Directory of Marriages.Even if you don't know of There are numerousrecords of the movementsof sett- a French-Canadianancestor, it would be worth a look under lers from the British Isles to Canada.In 1988,The Compton the family name you are searching.Claire Bourassa says CountyHistorical Museum Societypublished, A Registerl?f most of the marriages listed in the Drouin directory took Emigrant Familiesfrom the Western1slesof Scotland to the place in Quebec but there are listings from Manitoba, Eastern Townships of Quebec,by Bill Lawson.

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All the publications mentionedcan be consultedfree of rank, regiment,date and place of death,age and namesand charge on the second floor of the National Library at 395 addressesof nearestrelatives. Street in Ottawa. Sometitles are stackedelse-where in the City directories from many cities, some going back to building and have to be requestedduring the hours that staff the 19th centwy, and old newspapersare other valuable are on duty. Many other books are on the open shelves of sources of information. The Library has microfilm collec- the reading room's East wall and you are free to help tions of more than 2,300 newspapersfrom every province yourself. and territory. If you know the date and place of deathof an Claire Bourassais organizinga display in the National ancestor,you can look in the local newspaperto see if there Library for next April to show the links between official was a report of the death,and perhapsinformation aboutthe publications and genealogy. Betty Deavy, who was in person'slife and family. Willis Burwell describedin the Fall charge of official publications until her retirement from the 1997 issue of Anglo-Celtic Roots how an obituary from the Library, has agreed to give a seminar in the Savoir-Faire Pembroke Observer of January 19]3 helped him to track seriesto complementthe display. down some missing ancestors. Among the official-publications sourcesfor genealogy If you are planning to consult newspapermicrofilms, arelists of natm"alizedpersons published in the CanadaGaz- bring a notebook and pencils, and probably a magni~g ette,with the date of arrival and countly of origin. There are glass.Some newspapers are hard to read. If you find a story records of divorces in the bills of the Senate,as recently as of interest,you can order a photocopy but it may take a day 1.%8for Quebecand the Northwest Territories. or two before you can pick it up. To mark the 1.5Othanniversary of the worst year of the Thereis no chargeto obtain a user card for the National Great Famine that devastatedIreland, Parks Canada pub- Library of Canadawhich will permit you to usethe reading lished A Register of Deceilled Persom at Sea and on room and the adjoining microfilm room sevendays a week Grosse Ile in 1847. More than 1.00,000immigrants came between 7 am and 11 pm. Ask for a user card at the recep- into Can-adafrom Ireland during a period of severalyears. tion desk in the front lobby and be preparedto show some Most of them were quarantinedfor a time on GrosseHe in identification. It's a good idea to ask for a researchpass for the Saint Lawrence and thousands of Irish settled around the National Archives at the sametime. During the day it's QuebecCity. not a problem to visit the Archives on the third floor, but The National Library has many British official pub- after hours you need a separatepass. lications which contain information that could be helpful to When you sign in at the securitydesk on the main floor genealogicalresearch. There are biographies of membersof you receive a key for a locker where you can leave your Parliament dating back to 1.509,and citations of awards, coat. There is a coin-operatedphotocopying machine on the honoursand medals in the London Gazettefrom 1665. secondfloor, besidethe readingroom. You can make photo- British records of military information include The copies yourself from books but you have to fill out a form Navy List, published annually from 1.807to 1989, listing and wait for photocopies from microfilm. There are pay active and retired officers of the Royal Navy. Until 1939 phones and washrooms on each floor and during the day, Canadiannaval officers are included. The issuesup to 1924 you can buy food and drinks in the fifth floor cafeteria. contain information about ships, medals, decorations, and Parking spaceis limited but there is frequentbus service on dressregulations. There are similar annual lists of officers Slaterand Albert s1reets.Bay streetis the neareststop for the for the British army from 1758 to 1989 and for the Royal National Library. Air Force from 1939to 1989. Take some time to explore this departmentstore of The Commonwealth War Graves Commission pub- knowledge. When you're looking for clues about missing lished more than I.00 volumes in the series War graves of ancestors,the National Library of Canada and its helpful the British Empire. Cemeteries in about 60 countries are staff are ready to open doors that you may not even know listed in the registers,with the namesand grave locations for existed. ~ the dead of both World Wars. Each ently provides name, IAn historic new fi1m will hav~ itS: world pr~er~ on PBS on.~ee consecutive nights: 26-28 J~~ 1998. 'The Irish in Long Journey Home' IS billed as an epIC sIX-hour teleVIsIon event by Academy Award wmmng fi1m maker Thomas !iAmerica: I Lennon in association With WGBH Television Boston. It chronicles the role the millions of Irish immigrants have played in I shaping America; from the potato famine of 1845-47, when 25% of the population of Ireland fled their COUD1Iy, mostly to!the l USA, to the present day. i i The film includes powetful Irish music folk rhythms by some of todays biggest Irish talents as well as rare black and white I

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Newsfrom 395 We//ington-MatyM. Nash Caseyno. 2-3930. Canada'sCanal problem and its solution; a pamphletproduced by the Toronto Board of Trade, 1912. Gleanings from the National Archives of Canada Ca5eyno. 2-3929. Canada'sCanal problem and its solution. [The fifth in a series of selectedbrochures from the Cata- A reply to the Toronto Board of Trade. Pointing out in logue of ns Publicatioin the Public Archives of Canada, detail the inaccuraciescontained in Caseyno. 2-2930 published in 1931 (the Caseycatalogue), dealing with the politics of canals in Canada and elsewhere.The numbersat Library Acquisitions the beginning of each entry refer to their numbers in the A generousdonation from the Ontario GenealogicalSociety catalogue, which can be consulted in the Special Coll- has enabledthe Library to order a selectionof books of in. ections Reading Room,fourth floor, the National Library, terestto genealogists.As of 3 December 1997the following 395 WellingtonStreet in Ottawa] titles have beenreceived: Available at the Referenceroom, GenealogyDesk: ~ey no. 1-1485. A speechon the wprovement of the Repertoire des officiers de milice du Bas-Canada, L- Shannon, being a continuation of the debate in the 1830-1848 House of Commons on 12 May 1835, giving a com- The CEF Roll of Honour (First World War soldiers parative view of the navigation of the RideauCanal and the who died on active service, or as a result of their River Shannonin Ireland, and the value of a connectionby service.)Available steampackets, with British North America. It includes maps and tables comparing government expenditures on water in the ReadingRoom: communications between the Shannonand British North Alberta Index to Registration of Births, Marriages and America and the other colonies of; Prince Edward Island, Deaths 1870 to 1905 (Volume 1) Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, as well as the effects on District Marriage Registers of Ontario (early 1800s) trans-Atlantic traffic. London: J. Rain, 1 Haymarket; w: rt) Curly, Dublin; T Kaye, Liverpool, 1835.

Local CoOections -Lana Shaw.., ;;" S".".;~c" Monumentand PlaqueHonour Dr. Robert Legget

An Monday, October 20, 1997a monumentand plaque V was dedicated to historian, author and engineer Dr. Robert Legget, in front of the Bytown Museum at the Ottawa Locks. The idea of this concrete monument to honour the life and work of Robert Legget, arose from the wishesof a few membersof the Ottawa GeotechnicalGroup and as part of the activities of the 50th Canadian Geo- technical Conference held in Ottawa. Gordon McRostie, who chaired the committee, organizeda ceremony in front of the monument with speechesby Mr. James Graham. Presidentof the Ottawa GeotechnicalGroup, Mr. Peter Mil- liken. MP for Kingston and the Islands, and Mr. David Legget, son of RobertLegget.. This monument project gave friends of Dr. Legget a chance to symbolically participate, by either sending in a small piece of rock from their own area or by cracking a pieceprovided by Mr .McRostie. Piecesof rock were contri- buted from about 200 friends from all over Canada, the USA, Scotland,England, Switzerland, Italy and Australia. It was a proud moment as this monument to an outstanding Canadianwas unveiled for friends to rememberand visitors to learn of and appreciate. r" fLana Shawis Director/Curator ofthe By town Museum] [tJ The LeggetMonwnent PAGE8 BIFHSGO ANGLo-CELnc ROOTS WINTER 1996/1997

The BIFHSGOLibi 'aI)' LouiseAnderson Coroners' Records in England and Wales (by Jeremy Gibson and Colin Rogers, 200Edition, 1997). The two authors undertookthe monumentaljob to initiate a first Library Service list for the coroners' records available in England and I nterestin our library has certainly increased,it now takes Wales. A good history of the coroners' duties since three tables to display our inventory, and a growing 1194 is provided in the introduction. The information number of membersare spendingtime before and after has beengathered by eachrespective county, then sub- the meeting to check their contents.No loans are pennitted divided by time periods, and listed by the different at this time, but the growing interest has intensified the offices in the areas. searchfor a practicable way to improve members' aCGess. A Genealogical Bibliography: Volume 3, Kent Family Donations Histories and Pedigrees (by Stuart A. Raymond, We continue to receive magazinesand other documentsto 1997). This volmne provides its readers with tons of add to our library holdings and make available at our referencesto specific families. It also lists genealogical monthly meetings, where anyone can review them. Many directories, biographical dictionaries, visitation and thanks to the donors. If you would like to make a donation other pedigree collections, heraldry, diaries, letters, of publicationsto our society, pleasemake it during any of accounts, and family histories. Useful indexes are our monthly meetings or write to us. provided for author, family name, and place.

Library Acquisitions Bishops' Transcripts and Marriage Licences, Bonds We have just received a package from the Federation of and Allegations (by Jeremy Gibson. 4th edition. Family History Societies (FFHS) containing, once again, 1997).As statedin the introduction by the author: 'This those preciousbooklets from their publishers.Here are four is a guide to the location of Bishops' Transcriptsand of new titles addedto our Library Holdings: the records connected with the issue of Marriage Licences. It also describesany abstracts,calendars and An Introduction to Reading Old 'I'itle Deeds (by JulIan indexes to the latter, published or unpublished, and Cornwall, 2m Edition, 1997). Besides the civil regis- when these are lacking, gives an indication of the tration, censusreturns and church records familiar to arrangementof the surviving original documents. For researchers,we often overlook the long bulky survey of Bishops' Transcripts, reference is given to lists of the title deeds to real properties. This booklet will parishes giving covering dates or more precise facilitate the abstractionof infonnal facts but first, the indication of exactly what years exist." . readerhas to understandthe structure of those lengthy and repetitive docwnents. An interesting glossary of words used in deedsis provided.

The Printed Page -Helen Garson ,: IbIS bookhas some lllSlghtsmto l1le m New tlnmsWlck 'c in the 18111century as seenthrough the eyes of the 'first ladies' andwould setthe backgrolU1dfor thoseresearch- t:'rom the ~ottish GenealOgist ing their ancestorsfrom arolU1dthat time and place. Scottish Epitaphs and Images from Scottish Graveyards Over the MOlU1tamand Down to the Bay, written and by Betty Willsher.vi+ 122pp, illustrations,ISBN 0- published by the Margaretsville Women'sInstitute, Marg- 86241-591-8. Canongate Books Ltd, Edinburgh, aretsville, NS. BOS 1NO.ISBN 0-9696181-0-7.Price $20 £10.99. plus shipping and handling. 354pages. The complete review of this book is in the June 1997 In the words of the reviewer, this is a definite must for edition of the Scottish Genealogist. This author has anyone with an interest in this area and it makes for published three previous works on gravestones and wonderful reading. graveyards.All four books are highly recommendedby Books You Need to Do Genealogy in Ontario, an the reviewer. annotated bibliography, by Ryan Taylor. Round Tower Books, Box 12407,Fort Wayne,Ind US.A. Price $9. ISBN Keviews from the l'amily History News, Ihira CJuarter 0-9643925-1-8. Can be purchasedfrom Global Genealogy (August) Issue, 1997. Supply. 158 Laurier Avenue,Milton, ON; L9T 4S2. Genealogical Research in Nova Scotia, by Terrance M If you arelooking for an excellentreference for research Punch Nimbus Publishing Limitea: PO Box 9301, Station in Ontario, check out this book. A, Halifax, NS. B3K 5N5. ISBN 0-919380-29-8. Price Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement,Patterns, Links currently$10.95 plus HST (now in reprint). and Letters, by Cecil J. Houston and William J. Smyth This is an excellent researchreference book for the University of Toronto Press, Toronto, ON Price $9. ISBN Province of Nova Scotia. 0-8020-6910-X Pioneer Profiles of New Bnmswick Settlers, by Charlotte This book is highly recommendedby the reviewer for Gourlay Robinson. Mika Publishing Company, Belleville, its candid approach and documentationof Irish emi- ON. Price $19.99 ISBN 0-9/9303-44-7. Can be purchased from Global Genealogy Supply, /58 Laurier Avenue, gration. Milton, O~ L9T 4S2. WINTER] 996/1997 BIFHSGO ANGLo-CELnc ROOTS t'AGE 9

In this edition, there ISan article on how to begIn your From the Family History News and Digest, ~eptember researchin Ontario. This is the sixth article in a series 1997,Voltt, No 2. dealing with research in Canada. Immigration and Biographical Resources at the Hudson's Bay Company Ship's PassengerLists by Gabrielle Blaschuk gives Archives, Volwne One, by Elizabeth Briggs and Anne sources of the various records. Check page 39 for an Morton Published by Westgarth, 46 Bumhill Bay, extensive list of Internet sites. Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 5N3, 1996, A4, paperback. CIP, Forthcoming Books, National LibfalY of Canada, comb-bound;197pp. No price. ISBN 0-9697453-2-X October 1997. The section on Genealogy lists five This is the first of three planned volwnes: one and two books on the listing and indexing of various cemeteries for biographical sources;three for indexes and finding by D. M. Allan. A book on the Lechtziers falluly and aids. The records date from 1671. They are complex another on JeanSitnard are also mentioned. and nwnerous including service contracts, registers, correspondence,wills and photographsetc. This book News from the United Kingdom seeksto explain the record categorieswith examplesof The Scottish Genealogist,JlUle 1997, Vol. XLIV No.2. each. Have you ever referenced the Death Index at Ne1i' Register House and been referred to the Marine Death Federation Publications. The federatIon pubhsnes a senes Register?Check out the article on page 59. Not all those of books and booklets. 'Bayic Facts About ' Some of the registeredas drowned suffered sucha fate. On page 75 subjectsare Using the Family Records Centre, Using Arch- there is a table listing changesin statutoryfees charged ives, Using Death and Burial Recordsfor Family Histor- by the Registrars of Birth, Deatm and Marriages as of ians, Using Merchant cS'hipRecords for Family Historians, 1 ApriL 1997.On page 77, RussellCockburn has listed Family History Researchin Lancayhire etc.. Check out the nine of about forty web sites on genealogy. He has newsletter for more details and for other book reviews too listed his e-mail address for those who may wish to numerousto mention. contacthim. The Federationof Family History Societies,Meeting of the From the Genealogists' Magazine, ~ptember, jYY/. ColUlciL6 September,1997. The annual reportsgive an Will indexesand other probatematerial in the Library of the update on the status of the National Burial Indexing Society of Genealogists, by Nicholas Newington-lrving. Project, the recording of Monumental Inscriptions in Library ,S'ource.\'No.8, Society of Genealogists, 1996. England, Wales and N. Ireland and new publications. xii + 164pp,£9.25 plus £1.85 p&p, UK and overseassurface There is also a discussion paper on Family History mail. Societies,The Federation and the Internet which delves """--,-lIllS IS,- an mVal~Olt:.'___1..1- gUloe-_':.i- W--':+1- lUl (1-'TT now to~ U;)I;;.."~, ;)1;;~UUll"~~..:_- into Web pages, copyright and the advantagesof the Readthe reviewfor a detailedreport. Internet.

¥rom J!orum, J!'alll~~1 News from the LJnitea~tates Your ScottishAnceStIy: A Guide for North Americans, by International Society for British Genealogy and Family Sheny Irvine. Published by Ancestry 1nc, P.O. Box 476, History, Newsletter Vol. 19, issue 3, July-Sept,1997. Salt Lake City, m 84110-0476. 253pp, illustrations, index, On the front page of this publication, there is an inform- maps,tables. Soft-cover. $17.95 plus $4 p&h ative article entitled' Illegitimacy and its Records' by The reviewer recommendsthis book as the book for Jean A. Cole. On page 40, there are notes on the Gen- Scottishresearch. eral Register Office in Scotland,websites and British TelecommunicationsArchives. Robert Starratt, who From the Nationalbenealogica. ~clety 'loaner recentlywas a guest speakerat the Fall Conference,has Genealogy in Ontario: Searchingthe Records(3rd edition) written an article, on page 41, entitled' A Neutral New by Brenda Dougall Merriman. Published by the Ontario York Loyalist in Nova Scotia'. On page 45, there are Genealogical Society; 40 Orchard View Boulevard; Suite details of the ReaderServices News Service now avail- 102; Toronto, ON; M4R 1B9. xiv+278p,. appendices, able at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland illustratiom, index, maps,photographY. Softback $25 plus (PRONI). A colwnn, 'Did you know', on page48, pro- $3. videsthe latestupdates on the National Library of Scot- ThIs concise, comprehensIveana well-aocwnemea land RemodeL the 1881 Census Index Scotland Nat- bookis mosthighly recommended above all others. ional Surname Index, PAF version 3.0, Miscellaneous Birth Marriage and Death Indexes from the Registrar t.:xtracts and Uigests trom olDer l~eWSIt:ttt:rs ano GeneralEngland and Wales, Family History and Gene- Publications alogy Training available on the Internetand abstractsof (publicationsand articles referred to in this column may be Some Early British Newspapersand Magazines. consultedat the BIFHSGO library table during the monthly Forum, Vol 9 No 2, Swnmer 1997.Page3, 'Where in .Saturdaymorning meetings.) Cyberspaceare We?' looks at the vast searchenviron- ment provided by Internet but notes the lack of a News trom Lanadlan ~Cletles research environment. 'Internet for Greenhorns' on Family History News, Third Quarter(August)Issue 1997 page 4, gives us an overview of the many facets of the Vol 3 No 3. Internetand the benefits accruingto genealogists. .

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~'haring Your l' amily History 1nterests lcatesotthe ch11drenm the pIcture. Hessle(Elizabeth), born -Jim Shearon in 1892, was in the picture. The twins, one on eachparents knee, were born in 1896. My father, born in 1898,was not in the photo. So I guessedthat the picture was taken in 18% Story of the Two Marys or 1897. The next birth certificate I received was for Maty, born S ?me~~s you read something and it doesn't really s~ April 27, 1901. But how could that be? Maty was in the m until It becomes personal. I was that way about child photo that apparentlyhad beentaken before she was born. mortality in the 19th centmy until I found out about the I looked again at the birth certificate. Yes, those were her two Marys. parents, Michael Shearonand Elizabeth (Murray) and the When I was growing up, my mother would take us to addresswas the sameas my father's birth certificate, 8 Glad- visit Aunt Bessie or Aunt Mary, my father's sisters who stonePlace, Bell Street,Airdrie. lived in Montreal. Bessiewas the elder of the two aunts, a I wrote again and received another birth certificate for big womanwidI a distinctiveScots accent. She often told me Mary Shearon,born in 1883 to the sameparents. More in- stories about my fadIer. quiries led to deathcertificates revealing that in addition to Many yearslater, when Bessiedied, her daughterHelen the eight children in the photo, three others h~d died as gaveme a family photo taken in the late 1890swhen Bessie infants and the names of two of them, Janeand Annie, had was a child of1hree or four. Father and mother are seenwidI beenpassed on to later children. eightchildren, including twin babies.The namesare written Maty, who was in the photo, died in 1898. Her namewas on the back of the photo. Bessieis seatednext to her fadIer given to the girl born in 1901 who becamemy aunt. Why and behind her is Mary, who appearsto be 12 or 13 years was that name so important that the parentswanted to keep old. it alive by passing it to another child? How many other 1bat photographWIth the namesof ten of my ancestors families did the samething? Perhapsyour father or mother started me tracing my father's family. Over a period of had the same name as a previous child? Now, if I hear manymon1hs, I Wl"oteback and forth to the GeneralRegister someonetalking about child mortality in the 19th century, I Office in Edinburgh. think of the two Marys. . I obtained the marriage certificate for the parents and myfadler's birth certificate and, one by one, the birth certif-

l'amuy History ~vents Helen UafSon Hngland. Lontact Jeanne Hunting at : [email protected] May 6-May 9, 1998, USA: Annual Convention of the US i'elJrnary l')-LL, lYY?5,~altLake Llty. liroup VISit to ~alt National Genealogical Society, Denver, Colorado. Lake City Family History Library. For details, write Contact the NGS at: [email protected] Bill Linder, 4615 9th Street South, Arlington. write NGS 98 ConferenceRegistration Brochure, 4527 VA22204- 5922 or [email protected] l7h Street North, Arlington, VA 22207 -2399. Tel: Febrnary 7, 1998, Florida: Golden Rules: Rethinking the (703) 525-0050. FAX (703) 525-0052. Basics of Genealogy and two other topics, presentedin August 19-22, 1998, USA: Annual Conference of a five hour seminar by the Imperial Polk Genealogical Federation of Genealogical Societies, Cincinnati, Society of Lakeland, Florida. Info: Tel: (941) Ohio. ContactFGS BusinessOffice, P.O. Box 820220, 858-0996, FAX (941) 853-3442 or write IPGS, Box Richardson, TX 75083-0220. Tel/Fax: (972) 10, Kathleen. FL 33849. 907-9727. E-mail: [email protected] or see FGS April 16-18, 1998, Columbus, Ohio. 37th Annual homepage:http://wwwfgs.org Conference of the Ohio Genealogical Society. For October 1998, USA: Fifth New England Regional inforlnation contact: OGS, P.O. Box 2625, Mansfield, Genealogical Conference, in Portland Maine. OH44906-0625. Tel: (419) 522-9077. http://users. rootsweb.coml~maplymou/conjlconfmain April 28, 1998, Scotland: People, Places and .hlm Peregrinations, ScottishAssociation of Family History Mar 28-2 April 2000, England: From Domesday to Societies,Dwnfrles, Scotland.Info: Tel. 01644 440279, Database at Marlborough College. Contact,Wiltshire e-mail: [email protected] Family History Society Workroom, 10 Castle Lane, May 2 and 3, 1998, England: Society of Genealogists' Devizes, England UK, SNIO lHU. . Annual Fair, the Royal Horticultural Hall, London

LoyallS1MonawK vauey ITlp Two of our members, are organizing a four day loyalist bus trip to the Mohawk Valley on 2- 5 October 1998. The tour will visit historic sites in Amsterdam, Johnstown. Schoharie, Herkimer, Oriskany and Rome and will include the Butler home, JohnsonHall, Fort Johnson, the Old Stone Fort Museum. the Stone Arabia Churches, the Old Palatine Church.the Oriskany Battlefield, and Fort Stanwix. The trip will cost $C300 per person. for further information call Edward Kipp (613) 824-1942 or George Anderson (613) 226-6348 or e-mail [email protected].

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FAMILY HISTORY CENTRE COLUMNS

Newsfrom The Ottawa Family History those interestedin identifying their ancestors. Centre (The Church of JesusChrist of AncestralFile Latter-day Saintv) -Roy Litchfield One way in which the Centremeasures its effectiveness is when Chmchmembers and commmrity patronscontribute their family-linked research to Ancestral File. As many New Executive Committee patrons know, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day S ister Patricia Trudel, Director, Ottawa Family History Saintsmaintains a centrally manageddatabase (Anl.estral Centre, recently advised BIFHSGO of tIle appointments File) which consists of pedigree and family group records of four new people to executivepositions at tIle Centre. electronically sublnitted to the Church. This forms an They include Roy Litchfield as Patron Services Co- important source of research of previously compiled ordinator;Eleanor King as Technical ServicesCo-ordinator; records. The Centre would like to encouragepatrons to Lois Scott as Training Co-ordinator; and Brenda Bowman submittheir recordsto AncestralFile. This will allow others as Assistant to tIle Director. These new additions nicely to have accessto the researchwhich has alreadybeen done round out tIle executive committee which also includes on a given family line. Information about how to contribute NOImanGee as FinanceOfficer and JuanitaKarsh in charge or how to correct information in AncestralFile is available of Supplies.The executivecommittee of tIle Ottawa Family at the Centre. 11 History Centrehave made it tIleir aim to improve tIle overall operations of tIle Centre which is establishedto help all

Yes,that's what your personalizedRenewal Fonn inserted in this Winter edition in Ang/o-Ce/tic Rootsis all about: it's time to take out your 1998membership in BIFHSGO. Pleaseaction your renewal now! The Fonn containsall the details. r BIFHSGO Membershipis on a calendaryear basis,and a year passesfast. Your 1998Membership will include

.1998 editions of the Society's quarterlyjournal, 5iJngfo-cefb"c~oots II .Ten two-hour monthly family history programs .Discounted conferencefee and coursefee .Free query and advisory services .Access to BIFHSGO's InternetUsers' Group .DiscouiIt on the Society's annual5iJngfo-cefb"c~: CO1ifemlaP1~ I 1998I. Discounts from family history publishers by citing BIFHSGO number .Meeting sociablepeople who shareyour interests!

Membership is a real bargain for an affordable $20 (Individual), $25 (family) or $15 (institutional). The ~OCletyhas held lastyear's rates,although it is becoming increasingly difficult to do so. Membershiprenewal is the most important factor in avoiding an increasein membershiprates.

This edition of Anglo-Celtic Roots is being sentto all 1997members as a final courtesy

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r LJid You Know The Library of Congresswill send you a print out of all family Histories they have of a given surname.Send a SASE to: Library of Congress,Family History Division, Washington, DC 20541. Please limit your requestto one surname. You can searchtheir catalogue directly at http://lcweb.loc.gov ~--

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Hong Kong Soldiers Remembered PERCYBATESON WlTHDERRILL HENDERSON

An 8 November, three days before RemembranceDay, food or medical supplies. Later dIey were put to work and V we had an appropriate and very moving talk from only dIosewho worked were given food; one ball of rice per Derrill Henderson entitled 'Hong Kong Soldiers day. The plight of dIe prisoners in Hong Kong was dreadful Remembered',the story of one of the most tortured and enough but it was nothing comparedto dIat suffered by dIe least rememberedgroup of heroesCanada has ever known. lDllucky ones shippedto Japanto work for dIe Japanesewar Derrill whose father, was a member of the Royal Rifles of effort. The only word to describe their existence was Canadaand a Hong Kong survivor came,as did the majority slavery. They worked in coal mines, ship yards and of his Regiment, from the Eastern Townships of Quebec. foundries; assigned impossible tasks, like carrying two Together with the Winnipeg Grenadiers, mainly from the hundred pound loads, and subjectedto continual beatings Prairies, and some supporttroops (Brigade Headquarters), and systematic starvation. Lacking blankets dIey huddled including two nursing sisters,they made up the baleful "C" togetherat night when dIe temperatureoften fell well below Force. Half trained and lacking equipment, this hastily freezing. Deprived of food dIey ate grasshoppers,snakes formed force was shipped to Hong Kong to reinforce the andrats. The miracle was that any survived until 1945 when totally inadequategarrison. On 16 November 1941, they Japanwas bombed into submission.The Japanesekept no arrived at Hong Kong and on 7 December,one day before recordsbut it is generallyagreed that of dIe 1,846Canadians the bombing of Pearl Harbour, the Japaneselaunched their who were taken prisoner only 1,459survived. Less than 400 attack. arealive today, many died prematurelydue to the starvation Owing to the obtuse and incompetent attitude of the and maltreatmentof their years in captivity. Garrison Commander, General Maltby, even the most [ Derrill Henderson's father, uncle, god-father, and elementary precautions to protect civilians had not been brother-in-law,were all Hong Kong veteramfrom the small taken.The defendershad little weaponry or ammunition and town of Richmond;PQ (population 6,000), which, with the were forced to comply with a substandarddefence plan. immediate surrounding area, sent 34 soldiers to Hong Despite the heroic efforts of the Canadian, British, Indian Kong. This youthful, personal experienceembedded in his and Chinese soldiers, they were forced to surrender on mind the tragedy of Hong Kong and its role in history and Christmas Day 1941. It was then that the atrocities began; as a result he has dedicatedhimself to emuring it is never upon entering Stanley Hospital the Japanesebayoneted forgotten. He is currently President of the Hong Kong anyone who could not get out of bed, shot many for no Veterans Commemorative Association, a national apparentreason and raped and murdered many of the nurses. association of som, daughters, widows and extended Approximately 10,000 prisoners were herded into an families of Hong Kong Veterans and other interested abandonedfactory and left to fend for thetnselveswithout individuals.) .

Table Talk -Jim Heal Louise Anderson, fonnerly JUTRAS, is a native of Baie-du-Febvrenear Trois Rivieres, Quebec,where shewas raisedand receivedher early education.She attended Sher- "[)lrt of the features of our Saturday morning meetings are brooke CEGEPfor four years and then earneda Bachelor of r the Discovery and Sales Tables including the England Building Engineeringdegree at ConcordiaUniversity, Mont- and Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Periodical tables real. Following graduation in 1987 shejoined the Depart- normally manned by: Laurie COX and JOHN SAYERS ment of Public Works in Ottawa where she was employed (England-Wales); Jean BROADFOOT, Pat SLOAN and for almost nine years. She retired from the public service in Jim LYNN (Ireland); John HAY and Hugh REEKIE 1995 and has since been self employed. She has been up- (Scotland); and Alan RAYBURN (periodicals). The grading her computer skills by taking Computer Program- MembershipTable is usually manned by our Vice-President ming and Graphic Design courses at Algonquin College. Membership; Ralph DA VIS. The Sales table is the Louiseand her husband,David, a native of Hamilton. live in responsibilityof the AssociateDirector, PublicationsDistri- Kanata. bution; Louise ANDERSON. In this issue of Anglo-Celtic Louisehas beeninterested in family history since child- Rootswe would like to introducethe latter, Louise ANDER- hood, and has collected numerous family mementos and SON. photographsas well as genealogicaldata. Her surnamesof Louise is one of the most cheerful, enthusiastic,willing interest include: YERGEAU, from Massachusettsto Que- and hard working volunteersin our Society. Not only does bec in the 1890s;JUTRAS and CA YA, Trois-Rivieres area she look after the distribution and sale of our publications, since the 1600s;ANDERSON, London. England from the but she is the custodian of our growing library, stores the 1750s; and WAITE, South Shields near Newcastle-Upon- periodicals for Alan Rayburn, takesphotographs at the Fall Conferencesand other events,delivers mail, looks after our Tyne, England. Thank you for all your help, Louise. [j] stationerysupplies, etc. etc. WINTER 1997/98 BIFHSGO ANGLo-CELnc ROOTS PAGE 13

BIFHSGO NEWS COLUMNS bwy, Bucks, England, HP219UU are seekinginfonnation The Helping Hand -A. BerniceSeverson about HERBERT ASHLEY WILMOT, who died in 1935 and is bwied at Utica,Ontario. They want infonnation about his life in Canada.Infonnation regardinghow to researchin T he British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ontario has been sent but if you have any knowledge about Ottawa (BIFHSGO) seeksto assist its members and this individual pleasewrite to the aboveaddress. others in two separateways. The first is our courses. A.J. Simmons,53 Drayton Rd. Toowoomba, Queensland, We have had a number of very successfulsix week courses Australia, 4350 is looking for infonnation about ALEX- in the last three years. Interest has been high and judging ANDER TOSH. Again we have sent information and sug- from the responsereceived, those who have participated gestions, if you have any infonnation aboutthis individual have been enthusiastic about the quality of the courses pleasewrite to the aboveaddress. offered and have found them helpful. Corinne Vi/lemere,112-124 Alice St., Bracebridge,Ontario We areplanning a courseto begin on January24, 1998. sawour addressin 'NAME SEARCHER MONTHLY'. She It will be of six weeks duration, running for the last two Sat- is hunting for personswho might be researchingthe name urdays in Ja\luary,and for four Saturdaysin February. The WOODHAMS. Specifically she is interested in LEnTIA cost is $30 for members of sponsoringorganizations and ANN WOODHAMS and would like to communicatewith $35 for others.The limit is 30 participants.If you would like anyone who may have published a family history or is take the courseplease phone me at (613) 596-0550.Or call currently researchingthe Woodhamsname. our BIFHSGO number 224-9868. The recordingdevice will The following requestswere culled from other publi- take your request and someone will get back to you. Or cations and are included in the hope that someonemay be write to me at BIFHSGO; PO BOX 38026; Ottawa ON able to help. K2C INO. RaSHER, specifically WINIFRED ROSHER who left St The second way we seekto assistis with our Enquiry JohnsOtphanage in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, for 'service' program. With your membershipyou have free query and in Ontario about 1910-1914. Shemarried and had a family, advisory services.You can have your requestspublished in possiblyfour sonswho servedin the CanadianAnny during Anglo-CelticRoots. The Societyhas a board memberwhose the Second World War. Any help would be app-reciated. responsibilityit is to reply to queriesand other enquiries.We Please write to DENIS ROSHER, Oakview, Bay r answerenquiries and requestsreceived by mail or phone hI the last two months there have been severalenquiries Gillingham. Dorset,UK, SP84EP. SARAH TRa~ known as SALLY, born Shropshire, 6 from Britain and Australia. It's encouragingto find that October 1877 died 1938,emigrated to Canada22 July 1909 knowledge of our societyis reachingso far away. The foll- after working on trans-Atlantic liners as a maid. Married owing requestsfor infonnation have beenreceived: PETER, surnameunknown, who worked in lumber and had Mrs G.B. Tripp, 14Pilgrims View, Allkerden Lane, Green- a wooden leg. Pleasewrite to John P. Darling, 137 Bicester hithe, Kent, England is looking for a death certificate for EDITH VICTORIA BARBER nee MARSH who died and Road, Aylesbwy, Bucks, HP193BA, England. I should like to end this article with our policy about is buried in Ontario. While we do not usually do actual queries. We do not as a rule do actualresearch. Rather we research,in this casewe senther a copy of the infonnation send suggestionsto the person making the enquiry and requested, together with instructions on finding similar provide a helping hand by disseminatingtheir requestsvia infonnation using the Vital Statistics Records available at this publication. We hope this policy together with our any local Family History Centre. excellentcourses will indeed assistyou. IJ David Price andMichael Wilmot, 4 PurbeckClose, Ayles-

Our Pub/ifhing-John Townesend quality Societypublications; that is, to bestassure that they offer a significant membershipbenefit. Should this sound intimidating for the prospective contributor, may I assure I n this colwnn we have been reviewing contents of the you that it really isn't. Numerous memberscan attest to BIFHSGO Publishing Standardsthat could assistyou in having liaised with Editorial Team membersto polish their 1hepublication of your family history. In the Swnmer and submissionstoward to the achievementof mutually-shared Fall editions,we reviewedsome typesettingconventions that might offer some 'polish' to your work. objectives. I would like now to turn toward content of the SubjectMatter Relevance Publishing Standards that may be particularly helpful to The content of Rootsand Annals is relevantif it contributes Members as they contemplate submitting materials for to our Society's Purpose,Objectives and Activities; that is, inclusion in Anglo-Celtic Roots or Anglo-Celtic Annals. if it encomagesor facilitates researchinto and publication of Thesestandards address Subject-matter relevance, Subject- family histories by people who have ancestorsin the British matter Professionalism,and submitting manuscripts for Isles; if it furthers Canadian and British Isles family and publication. social history; and if it contains genealogical research At the outset, perhaps I should emphasize that the findings, as well as infonnation on researchand techniques. purpose of the Standards is to build and maintain high r PAGE14 BIFHSGO ANGLo-CEL llC ROOTS WINTER 1997/98

Subject-Matter Professionalism Submitting Manuscripts for Publication Here are some of the measuresof professionalism in a While the Standardscall for a maximmn article length of manuscriptsubmitted for publication: Does the manuscript's 1,500 words, this is at best a guideline. Some vel)' worth- subject-mattermeet the aboverelevance standards? Does it while articles are less; while others-say a featurearticle or contributesignificantly and substantivelyto the literature on a Saturdaytalk-need to be longer in order to convey their relevantCanadian/British Isles family and social history? Or messageeffectively. Length is somethingto be discussed does it contribute to the understandingor improvement of with the Editor; overall spaceallocation within a particular associatedresearch practice? And finally-does it convey its edition being one factor among others. Accompanying messageclearly and concisely?And does it conveytechnical pictures and other graphics are always welcome. But they information understandably? . take colmnn spaceas well, and so have to be factored into The Editorial Team acts as the Reader's agent in the article length equation. A brief biographical sketch is applyingthese Standard\'. If you feel that particular Roots or helpful to let the Reader know somethingabout the author. Annals content either significantly achieves or falls below A handout Anglo-Celtic Roots Contributor's Infor- the Standard\'please let us know. Otherwise we can only mation is availablewhich containsfurther infonnation- for guess. The Standard\' also contain a mechanism for the example, on Copyright and Circulation- as doespage (ii) independentwritten evaluation of a manuscriptshould this of Roots. be helpful,understanding that the Editor's decisionis always And a final word-if you have a topic that you believe ultimatelyfinal. The final measureon publication quality is might interestothers, then let's hear from you! That way we thatcamera-ready copies of all editions of all BIFHSGO title can feed eachother. . publications are subject to review by the Vice-President (Publishing)and the Society President,or their delegates.

his wife's family, particularly the GOFFS from Norfolk and M eel Your Board -A BerniceSeverson LUTlTS from the Orkney Islands. Bob is a memberof both the Irish and Scottishgroups of the Ottawa Branch of OGS T his issue will profile two more of the fo1Ulding mem- and of the Internetgroup ofBIFHSGO. bers ofBIFHSGO. Om secondfounding memberis Kenneth Collins. Ken Robert Archibald Campbell, known as Bob. He was published his Ahnentafel chart in the Spring 1996issue of the fust membership chainnan, and as such had a lot to do Anglo-Celtic Roots. A look at this will convince you that with organizing the membership fonns, the membership here we have a very dedicated and thorough genealogist. cards and the books which contain all the information given Ken refers to himself as a true Yankee, and a glance at his to the Society by you, the members, when you joined. Bob chart will show that his roots go deepinto the early days of served as Director in charge of member-ship for the first two the New England States.In more recenttimes those ofus in years. During that time he was usually the first person to the Ottawa Valley have causeto be grateful to Ken Collins greet you at the regular Saturday morning meetings. Since for work with the Cemetery Project. Initially, very few then he has been a vol1Ulteer. For the first few issues of cemeterieshad everbeen recorded. Questionnaires had to be Anglo-Celtic Roots, Bob had a column entit-led, Members designedand sent out to all known Genealogicaland Hist- and Interest. These columns are very useful, so check your orical Societies. By 1974 the provincial cemetery list back issues of Anglo-Celtic Roots showedalJout 1800cemeteries. As OGS grew so did the list A valley native, Bob was born in Renfrew CO1Ulty, until in 1982 it was nearly 5000. This was due in greatpart where he received his elementary and secondary education. to the efforts of Ken Collins. His time at Queen's University was inteITllpted by service in He has served as Chainnan/Presidentof the Ottawa the Royal Canadian Artillery. He returned to Queen's and Branch of OGS, where, as he says, at that time, he did the graduated with a degree in Engineering Chemistry in 1949, printing in his basement,as well as all the typing. Here is a and a MSc in Physical Chemistry in 1951. short smmnaryof his appointments:Editor of BranchNews, Bob joined the Mines Branch of the Department of 1972-77; Publisher and Printer, 1972-82; Chairman, Energy, Mines and Resources where he had a distinguished 1973-75; Secretary,1975-77. In the OGS he has servedas career. Jointly, with two others, he holds a patent on a pro- Vice-President,President, Cemetery Coordinator, Director cess for reducing iron ore. Retiring from the public service Region VIII and Provincial Director. He has been a life in 1980, Bob now spends most of his time at genealogy. member of OGS for someyears. Bob and his wife Vivian live in Ottawa. They have two Ken was amongthe founding membersofBIFHSGO. sons and two grandchildren. Bob's interest in genealogy He becamea Director at large and was unstinting in giving began in the late 1970 when he began searching for BLAIRS of his vast experiencein helping to steerthe newly fonned (his mother's family) initially to help a Blair relative from society through its first two years. Know that we all Oregon. Other families of interest to Bob are Scottish, appreciateyour efforts Ken! . (CAMPBELL, McGREGOR, CAMERON, DOUGALL). He has English ancestors, the Gibbons and a couple from Ireland; CONNERY and POTTER. Bob is also searching WINTER 1997/98 BIFHSGO ANGLo"CELnc ROOTS PAGE

Our Vohlnteers -Jim Heal served one year as its Program Coordinator. He has since been active with the Ottawa Branch's Computer, Irish and ScottishSpecial InterestGroups, as well as with BIFHSGO. B ob Lamomeux"an early BIFHSGO member,is another He is also a member of the Quebec Family History Society volunteer who has provided valuable help at our first and the SocieteFranco Ontarienned'histoirie a genealogie. three Fall Conferences as well as at the monthly His surnames of interest include: LAMOUREux, which generalmeetings. He servedas AssistantCoordinator for the can be traced back to Louis Lamoureux who came to 1997Fall Conference. Quebec in the 1600s; PARE, whose lineage goes back to Robert C. Lamoureux was born at Noranda, Quebec, Robert Pare, who also settled in Quebec in the 1600s; where his father was a miner, and was raised and educated FORTIN, of La Beauce in Quebec's Eastern Townships; at variousmining towns in north westernQuebec. He joined CAMPBELL, who settled along the Montreal SouthShore the CanadianArmy in 1% 1 and spent32 years in the Postal over 200 years ago; and FLANAGAN of County Galway, Corps before retiring with the rank of Major in 1994. He is Ireland. marriedto the former Patricia REm of Scotland.They have Thank you Bob for your cooperationand initiative in four children: Chris, Marc, Jamesand Jeremy. perfonning nwnerous behind the scene tasks that have Bob becameinterested in family history in 1992 while helped make our Fall Conferencesand Saturdaymorning stationedat CanadianForces Base Trenton and joined the meetingssuccessful. . QuinteBranch, Ontario GenealogicalSociety. Following his transfer to Ottawa he joined the Ottawa Branch, OGS, and

distributed to all members. For complete details of this exciting position please contact Percy Batesonat 526-0136 or [email protected] can make a difference! The British Isles Family History Society of Greater HOME CHILDREN PROJECT VOLUNTEERS-Several .l Ottawa has the finest collection of volunteers in the energeticpeople are required to assistin BIFHSGO' s mega area. Intelligent, generouspeople working together for project.John Sayersand his assistantshave taken on the task the benefit of all the membership. In spite of this, we lack of recordingthe namesof all the Home Children that entered one thing. You! That's right! You. You this country from Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries.If are the missinglink for a better society. you can spend a few hours at the National Librmy We are in need of severalpeople to ttanscribingnames from microfilm, pleasegive John Sayers fill key positions in many different and a call at 747-5547and he will be glad to put you to work. challengingareas. Special talentsare not This is a very important project undertakenby a dedicated required, but welcomed if applicable. group and we need your assistanceto make it complete. The ability to jwnp in and take an active VOLUNTEERSIN WAITING -We are glad to keep your part is the only real requirement. name on file for any volunteer duties. If you have any If you feel you can spare a few hours per month we suggestionhow you can assist the Society, please let us would appreciatehearing from you. The following positions know. Help for a few hours, days or years is always of great are waiting for your abilities and ideas. value. We can use you! This is your Society and you can ASSOCIATE EDITOR -An energetic person to assist our make it better. Information on duties of any of the volunteer Anglo-Celtic Roots editor in the preparation of this positions can be obtained from the Director's listed publication. Previous experience in writing and editing elsewherein this publication. 11 would be welcomed but is not necessary.This opportunity has the added benefit of seeing your work in print and

A Success Story People often wonder if written queries about their ancestors are worth the trouble and expense. Irish Roots, 1997, number 3, reports at least one reader who was successful. Raymond Leahy of Chatham NB placed an advertisement in recentissue of Irish Root,\,for information on JamesLeahy, born around 1810 in Cork or Tipperary, emigrated to Canada in 1825-35, married Ellen Fitzgerald of County Tipperary in NB in 1840. Brian O'Regan Ottawa ON responded with the information sought could be found in Peter Robin\'on's Settlers' by Carol Bennett with details of the price and where to obtain it. The book he said contains 21 pages in which Leahy is mentioned including James who emigrated to Canada aged 15 in 1825. Fitzgerald is also mentioned and the author maintains a databaseof unpublishedinformation on the families and descendantsmentioned in her books. Wouldn't we all like to have Brian helping us make such quantum leaps in our

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NewsFrom The Public RecordOffice. (From the Family History News and Digest, September .Why should I want to publish a family 1997,Vol II, No 2, courtesy of the editors.) newsletter? .How can I besure they are going to readit? Archives Direct 2001 .Getting started:Pick up your penand make a list. O ver the next few yearsthe Pblic Record Office will be .Check out your DesktopPublishing equipment. giving high priority to the Archives Direct Programme, .Drawing board:The masthead and your frontpage. whose aim is, by 2001, to allow the public Internet .Page design:Remember, white space rules OK? access to their catalogues, and publications, enabling .What typefaces?Use your fancyfonts sparingly. researchersto identify PRO referencesbefore coming to .The contents:Keep it punchy,make it sing. Kew. In addition you will be able to order documents in .illustrations: Makegood use of thoseold photos advance bye-mail and look at digitized images of some .Final stages:Ask your friendlyprinter's advice. records. .Distribution: Gettingit outto readers The first stepis to make the finding-aids to the records .Miscellany." of the cen1ral policy-making departments from 1916 If you plan to print a family newsletter,you need this availableon-line. booklet! It is availabledirectly from the author.For more Several databasesto certain of the records are being information e-mail Roy Stockdill at: compiledand these too will be made available on-line. They [email protected] include an index to civil proceedings of the Chancery, Exchequer, Star Chamber,and Court of Requestsfrom the Guild of One-name Studies on the Web. sixteenthto the nineteenthcentmy, an index to some of the The Guild of One-name Studies continues to add to its Office's millions of maps and other visual images, and a Internet products. A World Wide Web edition of their databaseof tax records between 1188 and 1689. If you Register of One-Name Studieswas published a year ago. would like further infonnation about the AD200 1 project This supplementsthe printed and microfiche editions that please contact Public Record Office Web site: continue as annual publications. However, the Web edition http://www.open.gov.uk/pro/prohome.htm. is updated frequently and provides fast searchingof 6,000 surnamesand variants registeredwith the Guild. From Eastman'sOnline GenealogyNewsletter The Guild's web-site has recentlybeen redesigned and (The following three articlesare from Eastman'sOnline expanded.The new address:http://www.one-name.org GenealogyNewsletter copyright 1997 by Richard W. The Guild also offers its membersa free, pennanent, Eastmanand Ancestry,Inc. And they publishedhere by e-mail forwarding address. Mail addressed to pem1issionof the authors.) [email protected] forwarded automaticallyto the real e-mail addressof the member who has registeredthe Ancestry's Maps Online 'regname' one-name study. AncestIy Incorporatedis adding 3 maps every working day Guild memberscan also take part in a discussiongroup, to their Web site. Thesemaps will be available free for 30 the Guild Forum, through an Internetmailing list. For more days, after which they will be moved to the subscription information, look at : http://www.one-name.org or e-mail area. To view the most recent maps, go to: [email protected] reachMike Spathaky. http://www.ancestIy.comand follow the menusto the maps. Eastman'sOn-line GenealogyNewsletter Family History Newsletters-From the Desktop This weekly newsletter containsarticles and infonnation of This is a twelve page booklet, subtitled Creating & interest to the genealogist, including a monthly list of PublishingFamily & One-nameJournals. There is a review upcoming events and conferences. To obtain this free of this publication in the November 14, 1997, edition of the . newsletter, send an e-mail as follows 'subscribe Eastman Newsletter and the following is quoted from that rootscomputing' followed by your first and last namesto: Newsletter. [email protected]. You will receive a "The entire booklet is devoted to the topic of how to confinnation messageand instructions. write, publish and distribute family newsletters.The Author, Roy Stockdill, has been a professionaljournalist for more GeneralRegister Office for Scotland than40 years.From the Desktopis a classy-looking booklet The Records Entetprise Section will soon be providing that serves as an excellent example of the technique Internet accessto indexes of Scotland's births, deatlls and discussed.He discusseshow to make a publication visually marriages. The provisional date to go live witll this is late appealing, how to generateideas, how to write good prose January, 1998. Only records over 100 years old will be and how to distribute the publication in many countries at available. Watch their Web site at the leastcost. Here is a table of the contents: http//www.open.gov.uk/gros/groshome.htm I]

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(A BIFHSc;o member,he came to Uttawafrom 1!.nglanaIn tagt Anglla: 1966 and has servedas a weatherforecaster, air pollution Qittp:/ /www .cru. uea.ac.uk! -mikeh/ datasets/uk!cet.hLm) researcher and research manager with Environment The record shows a string of cold years at the end of the Canada His family roots are in Cumberland; Staffordshire, 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, the depths of the Warwickshire,Norfolk, Suffolk, London, andHolland He Little Ice Age. Winters were typically four of five degree is currently President of the Canadian Meteorological and Celsius colder during that period than today, and it was not Oceanographic Society.) unusual for London's River Thames to freeze over. The smnmers then were also colder, but three swnmers in the last i magine a world without weather. No Joy of the sun atter century were amongst the coldest, 1816 (known as the year days of dullness and

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original climatological Before records, comprised of daily conditions like this the areaoften receiveslake effect snow temperature and precipitation observations, for off Lake Huron and the nearest weather station. at approximately2000 other climate sites are also available. A Woodstock,reported two inches of snowto have fallen that singlepage contains a month of daily recordsand is charged day. Havingdropped to 18°F overnightthe temperaturerose at the photocopyrate which is $10 for the first page and $5 to 38Opthat day. per page for subsequentpages. The local contact for Canadian infonnation is the Maps showingthe weatheracross the country, or region. Regional Weather Centre. If you go to their office, on the wereproduced by the Meteorological Service until Februaty second floor of the LaSalle Academy, across from the 1994. The early maps are for limited areasand have fairly National Gallery, you can make your inquity for free. You limited information. Later maps show the weather at key can also telephonethem in Ottawa at 1900-451-4470,but at stations,the high and low pressuresystems, areas of rain or an expensive$1.95 per minute, or contactthe national office snow, and many other details. These are now stored on at the addressbelow: microfIlm, and printed copies may be obtained from the Atmospheric, Climate & Water SystemsBranch sourcebelow. Climate & Water ProductsDivision William Lyon Mackenzie King, Churchill's contemp- EnvironmentCanada 4905 DufIerin Street orary and Canada's Prime Minister during the Second- Downsview ON M3H 5T4 World War, was born in Kitchener, then called Berlin, on 17 Tel: (416) 739-4328 December1874. The weather map shows SouthernOntario Fax: (416) 739-4446 under the influence of a northerly flow of air behind a low E-mail: [email protected] ~ pressure system centred in Northern Maine. Under A Devonian Died in Canada JAMESA HEAL

T he following obituary.of John Carroll He1e(1835-1887) is an example of the infoImationthat a newspaperreport can reveal. From the Stratford Recorder,June 2, 1887,Page 2, Column 2, dateline Burgessville,Ontario

ANomER PIONEER

I 'The death ofMr.J.C.HELE, which occurred at Mr.S.J. WOODROW'S residence in North Norwich on Friday last was a deplorable event, surrounded by peculiarly sad circumstances. Deceased was a son-in-law of Mrs. KINGSFORD, and at the time of his death had attained the fifty-second year of his age. He was born in Shaldon, Devonshire, in 1835, and sailed for Canada in 1856 in the ship, John. The vessel was wrecked on the Monical rocks, off the Cornish coast, very few of the crew being saved. Being an excellent swimmer, he reached the shore, a distance of two miles, with the aid of a life-preserver, and was the only one of the ill-fated passengers of the John whose life was saved in this manner. As soon as he recovered from 1hebruises received by being dashed against 1he rocks he embarked again, on 1he 2nd May, two mon1hs later, and this time landed safely in Canada, with his attention turned to Canadian fanning. Old time residents will remember that in 1857 he purchased a small farm in South Norwich, and on 1he 261h of February of that year he mamed Annie, fifth daughter of1he late Wm Kingsford, esq, and they lived on the farm in question until 1863, when they paid a visit to England, retwning there through the summer, afterwards returning to Canada for eighteen months, residing for 1hatperiod wi1h his father-in-law. At the expiration of 1hattime he came into the possession of the parental homestead in Lincolnshire, England, known as 1heHarkstow estate, which passed into his hands by the death of his older bro1her. He again returned to England, and after a short time purchased the Know/e, a fine residence in Newton Abbot, Devonshire. i DIning 1he past year or two his health gradually gave way, until at last his physicians infonned him 1hathe had no o1herI irecourse than to try 1he air of some other climate. Selecting this portion of Canada as his abiding place for a while he, accompanied by his wife, sailed from Liverpool on the 23rd of April in the steamer A urania, and amved here about four weeks ago, in a very depressedcondition. For a while he remained at Mrs.Kingsford's home here, but of late had been staying at 1he residence of his sister.-in-Iaw, Mrs.S.J. Wo°?r°w, w~ere, on F?day l~t, notwi.ilistanding the u1rnOS!care and attention at 1hehands of a devoted WIfe and deeply sorrowmg relatIves and friends, his sufIenngs came to an end. !II I

Comments: John Carroll Hele (1834-1887) was the second wile (tile lonner Anne Kmgslord, born cIS3I at Upchurch, son of John Carroll Hele Sr. (1799-1864) and Sarah Kent), were living at The Knowle Highweek, Devon, at the Osborne. His father, son of Thomas Hele (1757-1839) of time of the 1881 census.His Uncle Hemy Woodley Hele Shobrookeand West Tynemouth.Devon, was a Ship owner (1802-1872) had been a fanner in Wellington County, at St Nicholas, Devon in 1847. John Carroll Hele and his Ontario. His death,27 May 1887 in North Norwich Town-

nc PAGE20 BIFHSGO ANGLo-CELnc ROOTS WINTER 1997/98 ship, Oxford County, Ontario, obtained from the Ontario or why it was inherited by John Carrol Hele, Jr. It is not Death Index, was among the few things the author knew mentioned in the wills of: his grandfather Thomas Hele about John Carroll Hele Jr., until acquiring a copy of his (1757-1839); his father John Carroll Hele Sr. (1799-1864); mostinformative obituary. nor his brothers Thomas Shirley Hele (1832-1862) nor John Carroll Hele Sr died 13 March 1864 at Shirley Nicholas Fenwick Hele (1835-1892). House, Cheltenham, Gloucester. This indicates that his The wreck of the John, on which John Carroll Hele was father's failing health may have been the reason for John a passenger,is another fascinatingstory. Mark Sandford of Carroll Jr. returning to England for a visit in 1863. The Plymouth, Devon, whose great great grandfather was a obituarymentions an older brother who died leaving him the memberof the crew, is researchingthe history of the wreck. Harkstow estate in Lincolnshire. This was Thomas Shirley He reports that the John was a 464 ton barque in use as an Hele,a youngbachelor lawyer who died in 1862 at Chelten- emigrant ship. It departedPlymouth on 3 May 1855,bound ham. This may have been another reason for John Carroll for Quebec, with a crew of 19 and 250 passengers,mostly and his wife returningto England in 1863. from the West Country. Within hours of leaving Plymouth John Carroll Hele had at least three brothers and six the vessel struck the Manacles Rocks, near Falmouth, sisters all born at Shaldon, St.Nicholas, Devon, namely: Cornwall. By morning, 194passengers had died. All of the Sarah Ann (Mrs. John PuseyWINT), Julianna Maria Mary crew survived. John Carroll Hele, who was travelling cabin (Mrs. Charles Egerton FITZGERALD), Isabella, Thomas class and had a life preserver,managed to swim ashoreand Shirley, Nicholas Fenwick, Emma Louise, Jessie, Fanny thus survived. An article titled Sailing on The John, written Maria and Warwick. by Malk Sandford,which lists some Devon passengers,was ThomasShirley Hele (1832-1862),as mentioned above, published in the August 1997 issue of The Devon Family was a lawyer at Cheltenham. Historian. A similar article, listing some Cornwall NicholasFenwick Hele (1835-1892)was a surgeonand passengers,was published in the June 1997 issue of the author at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. He had four daughtersand Cornwall Family History SocietyJournal. oneson. His only son, Stanley Fenwick Carroll Hele born in The above obituary of John Carroll Hele, together with 1865died infancy. anotherfor his widow, the former Annie KINGSFORD who Warwick Hele (1842-1927) was a dental surgeon at died 20 Dec 1912 at Woodstock, was kindly sent to the Carlisle,Cumberland. He and his wife, the former Catherine authorby the Oxford Branch, Ontario GenealogicalSociety, Mary Mummery, had two sons and four daughters. The in responseto a query concerningHEAUHELE gravestone elder son, John Warwick Hele born 1877 also became a inscriptions in Oxford County. The obituary illustrates the dental surgeon. The younger son, Thomas Shirley Hele information that can be obtained from such a source and (1881-1953), was a noted Physician and Educator, who how it can be usedto add flesh to the bones of genealogical served as Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge from data. . 1943-45. The author has been unable to detennine how the Harkstow estatein Lincolnshire came into the Hele family,

WAYNEW.WALKER

'T'here is a rather unusual name in the Staffordshire, infonnation provided was very complete yielding that .l Englandsection of the InternationalGenealogical Index Tamar had been born 26 Dec 1856 in North Staffordshire, (IGI), the name of my Great Grandmother 'Tamar England and even included her parent's names, Daniel Tweats'. Tamar, her husband, Arthur Hollinshead and Tweats and E. Stannier. family came to Collingwood, Ontario from the Potteries In the early 1970's, before temple work could be areaof Staffordshirein early 1912. performed and names were added to the IGI, thorough After joining The Church of JesusChrist of Latter-day researchusing primary sourceswas required to verify the Saints I developed an overwhelming desire to do family names being submitted,thus, in this casea birth certificate history research.The searchfor my ancestorsstarted with was essential. Anned with a date of birth, as well as the my mother's family in Collingwood where coincidentally I place and parents' names,this was going to be easytask, or was bom, but that is a other story. My GrandmotherBertha so I thought. (Hollinshead) Thomaswas still living and was able to give When I started on this searchin 1974it was before the me her parents' namesand the fact they were buried in the Ottawa Ontario Family History Centre and the collection of old cemeteryoutside Collingwood. On a beautiful summer's the British Vital Records Indexes. At that time, it was day, my mother, who had come to Ottawa for a visit from necessaryto write to SomersetHouse (now St. Catherine's) Nova Scotia, my grandmother and I proceeded to the if you needed an index searchand a certificate. In time, I Collingwood cemetery and found the memorial stone for received a reply, a negative reply, they could not find an Tamar which statedshe died on 21 April 1925. index listing for Tamar Tweats for 1856. It would appear With this vital info11llationI obtained a death record that my Great Grandmothermay have told stories abouther from the Ontario Registrar General. Fortunately, the age, so, not to be deterred, I wrote again asking for a five WINTER, 1997/98 BIFHSGO ANGLO-CELnc ROOTS PAGE21

year index searchon the assumptionshe was older that she a deadend and the next day would be the last noon hour for professed.Again, a negativereply, and again another search searchmg. As Latter-day Saints would do, I prayerfully requestassuming she may have actually been younger than asked for assistanceas I felt I had done all that I could do, I her statedage. By this time I had covereda ten year period had paid for a governmentsearch, I had hired a researcher around 1856 with no results. Somewhatdiscouraged, I let and looked myself but was unable to find the necessary the searchlie for a few years and worked on other lines. certificate for Tamar. Picking up the searchagain in 1980, I took the more The next morning dawned grey and dreary. As I was expensiveroute and hired a researcherto find Tamar's birth waiting for the time when our group was to meet in the record at SomersetHouse. After severalletters and bank lobby to head over to MOD, I sat pondering what I should drafts (when the Pound was worth $2.73) the researcher do during the last noon hour search. Unless )'Ou have carneup with a TamarTweats but it was for Dec 1864,a full experienced it, it is difficult to explain 'a still small voice' eightyears after the date I was expecting. But alas, although which speaksto your mind but not through your ears. As I the same unusual name, the certificate showed a different sat pondering the situation,the still small voice simply told place as well as different parents.Again, the searchwas set me to "TRY SWEATS". I had tried all combinationsI could aside. find with TWEA TS starting with aT, why checkSWEATS, The family name Tweats is both unusual and rare in an'S' and a 'T', although next to eachother in the alphabet, England so one would expect that this searchshould not are very different in shape. have been all that difficult, unless she was not properly My last day in Londonwas the only day it rained during registered.In June of 1983 I had the opportunity to attend a my visit. As noon approachedthe rain and the wind made it conferenceat the Ministly of Defence in London which also a very miserable,typical London day, did I want to spend presented an opportunity to accomplish what paid forty minutes going to and from SomersetHouse for one governmentworkers and a professionalresearcher had failed last twenty-minute attempt?Making the commitmentto go, to do, obtain a birth certificate for Tamar Tweats. as I left MOD the rain stopped and off I went down the Unfortunately, on all the days during my visit when the Embankment to the General Register Office. I pulled the recordsoffice was open I was required to attend conference first quarter, 1857 's' volume off the shelf, finally found a sessions.But, there were still the noon hours, so while the spot to open the book and it virtually fell open at the 'Sw' otherattendees would dispersefor their pub lunches, I would listings, the next page held one 'Sweet' entry, 'Tamar hustle up the Embankment from the MiniStly, go up the Sweets' registered in Wolstanton, the correct given name stairsat the Waterloo Bridge and walk up to The Strandand andthe correctplace based on her sibling's certificates.That the records office. The hour was evenly divided between noon hour was the fastestI have ever turned money over to twenty minutes walking time, twenty minutes searchtime, a govermnentworker. As it was my last day I had to ask the twenty minutes back (buy an apple on the way for lunch) clerk to mail this certificate to Canada. and fortunately the weatherwas excellent. For those of you Within days of my arriving home, the certificate was who have experiencedSomerset House during a noon hour delivered in the morning mail. Unlike all the other birth you can understandthe chaos. Little old ladies take on a certificates which were photoprinted copies of entries,this whole new un-grandmotherlylike demeanour.The first day certificatewas newly handwritten and although I had quoted did not yield a certificate for Tamar but I quickly paid for a 'SWEETS' on the application fonn, the surname on the few certificates for entriesfor the Tweats name around the certificate appeared as 'TWEETS'. The birth had been correct time period. indexed incorrectly, the clerk back in 1857 had As mentioned,there were very few Tweatsentries so on misinterpreted the handwritten entry received from subsequentnoon hours I tried other variations of the name: Wolstanton, and had misread the 'T' for an'S'. When I TWEm, TWEETS, TWHAITES and TWHEA TS. Several looked at other certificates I had obtained for Tamar's more noon hour forays passed but no Tamar. The siblings,one could not be hard on the clerk as anyonecould certificates I was able to obtain came up with some of easilyhave mistakenthe entry for 'SWEETS', a much more Tamar'ssiblings bracketing her birth year, thus I knew I was likely surnamethan 'TWEATS'. on the right track. Shortly thereafter, Tamar's name was submitted for One of the versesin the Book of Mormon containsthe temple work and was then added to the IGI. Of perhaps assurance that "... I know that the Lord giveth no greaterimpoItmce wasthe lessonlearned about seekinghelp commandmentsunto the children of men, save he shall and heedingthe prompting of' still small voice'. 11 prepare a way for them that they may accomplishthe thing which he commandedthem." (1 Nephi 3, vs.7). I had reach

~ Did you know that,just to stay in the same place, archivists must recopy data every ten years because of physical deteriorationand the junking of old machinesthat can read outdated formats. This subject, of interest to geneaologists is the theme of a program entitled; 'Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age' to be aird on PHS in January. Consult local listings for date. PAGE22 BIFHSGO ANGLO-CEL l1C ROOTS WINTER 1997/98

SHEARON Nonna Momson (1890), Geny Neville (1902), Tom "'"I T e can see more light at the end of the tunnel for Rjrnmer(1892, 1895), Margaret Robert(1883), JohnSayers VV persons seekinginformation about Britain's 'Home (1869, 1870, 1897, 1905),and RaymondWilley (1904). children'. John Sayerstold the BIFHSGO December Charlie Bones, Joyce Dunn and Malvary Cole input meetingthat records for 15 years have been submittedto the handwritten notes into a computerand Denny Lowe doesa National Archives and three more years are ready. to be lot of work formatting the computer files to National submitted In addition to the 18 years completed, ships Archives specifications so that the infonnation can be records for another16 years are being worked on. printed or released on the Internet. And now comes Between 1869 and 1930, about 100,000children were important news that should prompt more volunteersto join taken from workhousesand homes for waifs in the British in this jrnportantwork. John Sayersreports that the National Islesand sentby ship to starta new life in Canada.Many of Archives has been negotiating with the Department of these children lost all connection with their families and HumanResources for the releaseof shipspassenger lists for birth records,becoming orphans in a new world. the yearsbetween 1920 and 1935. Previously they were only For more than a year, sometwo dozenvolunteers from available up to 1919. The new microfilms will be available BIFHSGO and the Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical within a few months. Society have been reading microfilm copies of ship's If you are 1Iying to find information about parents or passengerlists at the National Archives in Ottawa and otherancestors who cameto Canadaby ship during the past extractinginfonnation abouthome children. 100 years, you could help to advancethis project. When In alphabeticalorder, the extractorsand the years they you arelooking for your own infonnation, you could also be are doing or have done are Willis Burwell (1887), Roy looking for 'home children' names. This is indeed a case Conibear (1898, 1899, 1900, 1908), Nancy Creelman where many hands make the work lighter. Will you lend (1885), Valerie Fell (1889), Ann Fleming (1911),Len your hands? Grummett (1884, 1894, 1903, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1910), If you are willing to go to the National Archives to copy Ron Gardner(I901), Jim Heal (1888), John Heale (1877), information from the microfilm, please contactJohn Sayers Keith Johnson (1896), Kay Latulippe (1912), Frank at (613)747-5547. You can help write a happy ending to the McAllum (1913), Gordon Morley (1886, 1891, 1893), sad story of Britain's 'home children.' 11

DIANE PROC

I n searching for information about our ancestors,mere Reading these accounts,we become aware of several birth and death dates are not very satisfying. It is the things. First of alL we become more conscious of the details of our ancestors'lives which make them real to us primitive conditions of the times. A person did not buy and which makes our research meaningful. With this readymade clothing but rather yards of cloth and knots of motivation, I have been delving into Philemon Wright's thread which would then be sewn into a garment. Writing acCOWltbooks in the hopes of finding details of my Dunlop paper was sold by the sheet. Salt. a commonpurchase, was ancestorswho cameto the Hull areaaroWld 1819. sold by the pound. Tobacco was a very popular item and Philemon WRIGHT arrived at the site of the future was bought by the hand or by the yard. 'Spirits', were also Wright's Town (Hull) in Lower Canadaon March 7, 1800 a very popular purchase, in fact. some men bought only with 25 men whom he had recruited in his home town of spirits and tobacco. Others seemedto care more abouttheir Wobum Massachusetts.In addition he persuaded five horses than themselvesas the majority of their purchases complete families to accompanyhis party. Having made were a 'bushel ofwheet' severalprevious trips to the area,he had detennined that this One young man. Elisha SHEFFIELD who married region was rich in natural resourcesand a settlementhere Polly WRIGHT, a great-nieceof Philemon.2 had a sizeable would soon become self sufficientI. After a year of hard account. In January of 1807, his accountwas debited with work, clearing land, planting crops, building houses etc., articles deemednecessary to set up a home and the bill was Philemonled his recruits back to Woburn and paid them for not paid until April 1813. Looking at this list gives us some their work. Many decidedto return to Wright's Town with idea of what items were consideredbasics in a home at that him and some brought families with them. Thus, in July of time: 1 iron pot. 1 tea kettle, 2 large bowls, 4 small bowls, 1801,Philemon began surveyingthe Township of Hull with 6 cups of sugar, 4 plates, 1 milk pot. 1 peppercast (1), 1 tea the assistanceof these hardworking menI. Perhapsbecause pot, 3 knivesand forks, 6 yards of Enga(1)Cotton. 8 'skeens of the complexities of paying so many personsand because of thread', 1/2 a paper of pins, 9 yards of 'tammey for a paymentwas often in kind rather than currency. Philemon's lady's suit', 6 earthenplates, 3 knives and fork(e)s. accountbooks likewise begin on July 1, 1801. Another type of entry in these ledgers are credits for

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work completed. Asa TOWNSEND, for example, is found in the first account book and recorded the credited with several days pay for: threshing hemp seed, correspondingpage numbers. fanning hemp seed, fanning wheat, 'reping', setting up a coalpit, wmkjng at the mill. Thesetypes of entries,too, give 1 laberge,Edward P, Ph,lenXJnWngnt; a YankeeWho lIeiped BuIld [anad.1.The us an insight into living conditions of the settlers and HistoricalSociety of Ottawa,Bytown Pamphlet Series, No. 30. 2 Evans,Pat: TheWrights (a genealogicalstudy of the first settlersin Canada's perhapsthe characterof an individual. In the hopes that others in BIFHSGO will find an NationalCapital Region) available at theNAC. 3 NationalArchives of Canada;MG24, D8, Vol. 82 ancestorin Wright's accountbooks and discover details of this person's life. I have listed, chronologically, the names

P e No Date Name 2-3 July 11801 Mr. DANIELNOTT (MOTT?) 4-5 JosephFESENTON ..," 6-7 July4,ISOI Henri KENDRICK "...J 8-9 July5 Mr. LuncklnOXFORD ~. 10-11 July5 ,r{' Nathaniel CHAMBERLIN 12-13to July6 SamuelBANDERAFT (BANCRAFT) 12-13 Mr.WAY 14-15 July61SOI I HarveyPARKER 16-17 July7 ,'.~ Sulley(Salley) PUMROY

13-19 July 10 AnrylTHOMAS 1J'~.¥tii 2G-21 July13 DanielWYMAN - ~"f-1l;\ 22-23 July 15 TheoOOrDAVIS, Eoor WALLOR 24-25 July 16 IsaacTHOMPSON r 26-27 July24 HereyKENDRICK -.';~ 23-29(top) July13 William EATON 23-29(OOttom) Aug31 JohnAllen UPHAM 30-31 Aug IsaacREMIE 32.33 Seji-Oct SamuelBENEDIE r~ May AbijaDUNNING . June ",,"'"1 ! Mr. MORE Ser.w ",,;;J,," Nath.CHAMBERLIN 40-41no pages

44-45(top) i Nov 10 I Mr.WAY 44-45(OOttom) Ik WilliamGRIMES (begun woric today) 46-47 Nov ;'Jt, AnsiTHOMAS

48-49(top) June Mr.JOHNSON (of NewIongail) 48-49(OOttomL Sept1805 RogerW~ber:un worktocDr) 50-51 ~ 1801-Lonoon OXFORD 52.53(top) jan 1601 Ro.p;erMORE 53-54(OOttom) Jan 1806 MORES(MOSES?) EDEY 54-55 ~80I__- AnselTHOMAS 56-57 Feb EdmundCHAHBERlIN~T 58-59 Feb13 HeneryKENDRICK 60-61 Feb13 JamesMcCONNEL 62-63 Febl3 DudleyMORE 64-65,66-67 DudleyMORE - r 68-69 Mar1802 ljobAMSTED (Munster) 70-71(topO Apr JOWphFYSENTON 70-71(OOttom) Jan 1803 MrMCCRAIG

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P e No Date Name 131-132 Februa 1804 TrumanWALLER 210-211 MosesEDEY, Lon.!.. 133-134 ElishaSHEFFIEL 211-213 '. ", ~...,," ;:;~f'..¥r ,t w n OXFORD 135-136 SamuelMARSH" 214-215 AmasaPOLLEY 137-138 AsaTOWNSEND 216-217(top) June22 1807 John WRIGHT 1381-139 josephFUPSENOON (FESFENOOR) 216-217 Nov61807 Hu~rWRIGHT 140-141 Aug24 AndrewWARNER (_m) 7 JosephBUSHAW 142-143 (kt john LOVE 218-219 DudleyMORE 144-145 Moshrs.john LOVE&. Elisha 220-221 ~,...~ SHEFFIELD 222-223 ,., SamuelMARSH ~~,.~ 146-147 DudleyMORE 224-225 ; ThomasWRIGHT 148-149 Moshrs.john LOVE&. Elisha 226-227 Nov2 1807 Ja~s GREEN #1j~'. SHEFFIELD 228-229 Ya~ (Ga~?)OLMSTEAD ;;. 'I 1~151(top) ,~~; johnPHILLIPS li8 (lxIttom) ,~)¥:',t\ Mr.SAYER LianlWALLOR ! 150-151 I 27Apr 1808 230-231 :-: MartinEBERT (1xIttom) - - 232-233 j: john WRIGHT 152-153 ElishaSHEFFIELD :~,,;"::"-':; I 234-235 HarveyPARKER DanielWYMAN 154-155 236-237 Mar1808 Ro~rt CHAMBERS I JonathOn~II'IONDS 158-159 Marl80~ 238-238 Y' EdmunCHAMBERLAIN LonoonOXFORD 156-157 239-240 BalXist RISINE AmasaCOLLEY 160-161 ~rI82~ 241-241 DanielWYMAN Gi~n OLMSTEAD 162-163 242-243 iic; F~rick WHITMAN 244-245 ' 164-165 I lW;garWt~IUYtK Apr 10 1808 LutherCOnON 166-167(top) 246-247 ~ 166-167 Mar1806 I OliveSEELYE I ~~uel ~~~~I.~~~OFFERIN) 248-249 ~ BenjaminWKlliH I (IXIttom) Nov27 ElisherSHEFFIELD' , 250-251 ...~'" ... ;~;;~",.~, -v.",.iY; FrancisBURBANE t~ 168-169 " 252-253 -15 LonoonOXFORD 170-171 ~ IRc 11 LonoonOXFORD, D. WYMAN,M. M. EBURT,john TORNOR(TURNER 2S4-255 May171808 ElishaSHEFFIELD 256-257 July Ro~rt CHAMBERS 1n-173 ..jonathon McCONNEL 258-259 June1808 Ro~rt NORTON 174-175 Thomas& john TURNER 260-261 EphramCHAMBERLIN 176-ln john TURNER Ma . EBERT ,t,..,.,;;v 262-(263) Novem~ CharlesCHAMBERS 173-179 rtln ,"";Co," c~ c."'~;' ElishaSHEFFIELD ;- ~", 264-(265) SimonHEATH 180-181 Mar28 ,- " ;., , !JanielWYMAN -Co 266-267(top) MartinEBERT 182-183 ,;" ~' 266-267 Mar1809 Gi~n OLMSTEAD 184-185 Mosest'tT.. (IxIttom) A"' 186-187 Gi~n OLMSTEAD..,,",,::, '. ,"", I johnWRIGHT 268-269 188-189 Mathew LOWER v, , Dudley MOORE Martaim MORE ' 268-269 '" I 100;;5WRIGHT 190-191 . ~ '",C J 270-271 192-193 Jan 80 KobertNUKIUN ~embertne 201806 270-271 Mr.TERRY arrivedin thetownship m-m MosesEDEY 194-195 ElishaSHEFFIELD c- ElishaSHEFFIELD 274Practice pa ,practicedwriting,e~ially 'Philemon" 196-196 197-198 ""ii:.:i TrumanWALLER 199-200 r RichardBULLIS 201-202 EphraimCHAMBERLAIN ;~ "'" 203-204 DanielWYMAN ,I!i PhilenXInWRIGHT Ounior) 1~, "\ 205-207 ~ DudleyMORE :cco.\'co.:;,co. [IQ7-208 AprI )~ --co.";"

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British Isles Place Names in Canada. Loyalists with a Scottishheritage. Leith is a port on the FjJthof Forth and on the north side -Alan ~~--~-- of Edinburgh. In 1853 a natural harbour just northeastof Owen Sound was named after the Scottish port. The Lanark, Edinburghand SoutheasternScotland expectation that it would become an important shipping centre was dashed when the harbour's shallow water E arlier columns on the transfer of southern Scotland's prevented the construction of port facilities. Craigieith, a namesto Canadahave examinedthose from Glasgow, community west of Collingwood was named in 1857, Renfrew, Ayrshire, Dwnfries, Kircudbright, and possibly after the island of Craigleith in the FjJth of Forth. Wigtown. This column reviews the transfer of names from There is also a neighbourhood in Edinburgh called Lanark, Lothian, Edinburgh, Berwick, Peebles,Selkirk, and Craigleith. Roxburgh. Merlin, south of Chatham,was first known as Smith's LanaIksbjrehas contributed a relatively large number of Comers. Because of duplication, the post office was place names to Canada, especially to Ontario. In 1820 changed to Merlin after a small place near Edinburgh. Scottishsettlers travelled 30 kIn northwest of Perth, crossed Dalkeith, north of Alexandria, was named in 1867 after the the MississippiRiver, and settled on the Clyde River, where title of the eldest son of the Duke ofBuccleuch. The duke's they founded the future village (1862) of Lanark, calling it palaceis located in Dalkeith, southeastof Edinburgh. New Lanark. Also in 1820 the township of Lanark was Dalmeny,a town (1983)north of Saskatoon,was named named.Four yearslater Lanark post office was opened(with in 1905 by the Canadian Northern Railway after a place 'New' being dropped), and the following year Lanark west of Edinburgh. There is also a Dalmeny in Osgoode County was founded. On January 1, 1998 the municipal Township, Ottawa-CarletonRegion, near where BIFHSGO townshipofLanmk, the village ofLanark, and the municipal member Elizabeth Stuartlives. townshipsofLavant, Dalhousie& North Sherbrooke,and of The post office in the village (1929) of Abercom, in Darling, became the municipal township of Lanark Quebec's EasternTownships, was named in 1848,possibly Highlands. afterthe Marquess of Abercom (1811-85),whose title came No otherplace names were tnmsferred from Lanarkshire from a small place west of Edinburgh. to Lanark County, but there were two that turned up in Tantallon Castle, a massive ruin of the 14th centwy neighbouring Renfrew County. Douglas was founded in stronghold of the Douglas family, rises atop a magnificent 1853 by Perth judge John Glass MALLOCH, and called cliff overlooking the North Sea, northeast of Edinburgh. after Douglas in Lanarkshire,where his wife, Isabella, the Places in Nova Scotia and Saskatchewanwere named after daughter of the Rev. William BELL of Perth, was born. the castle. The post office of Tantallon on the shore of St. Hyndford, just eastof Douglas,was named in 1891 by MP Margaret's Bay, west of Halifax, was named in 1896. And John FERGUSON after a Lanmkshire estate. Upper Tantallon post office was open from 1914to 1947. Bothwell in southwesternOntario was named in 1854 The village ( 1904) of Tantallon, in southeastern by the Toronto Globe proprietor George BROWN after Saskatchewan,was founded in 1893 by the Rev. James Bothwell in Lanarkshire.Incorporated as a town in 1866, it DOUGLAS. Earlier he had namedhis ranch after the castle. becamepart of the new city of Kent-Chathamon 1 January Melrose, not far from Bonavista,Newfoundland, was 1998. Bluevale, in Huron County near Wingham, was first known as RaggedHarbour, but was renamedin 1904, namedin 1859 by Alexander and Margaret DUNCAN after likely after the birthplace in Roxburgh of the then governor a suburbof Glasgow of the Dominion, William MacGREGOR(1846-1919). The There are two places in Alberta with Lanarkshire shire is recalled in Roxborough Township, in the united connections.The city (1985) of Airdrie, north of Calgary, counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengany, which was wasnamed in 1889by CPR engineerWilliam MacKENZIE named in 1798 after the 3rd Duke of Roxburgh after the burgh east of Glasgow. The town (1966) of (1740-1804), a close friend of George ill. Kelso, a Carstairs,also north of Calgary, was named in 1893 after a community in the town of Milton, Ontario, was named in place in southeasternLanarkshire. 1885 by D.D. CHRISTIE and Andrew ELLIOT after the PickeringTownship (now divided betweenthe towns of birthplace in Roxburgh of their mothers. Ajax and Pickering), east of Toronto had been first named The community of Neidpath, east of Swift Current, Edinburgh Township, but in 1792 Lieutenant-Governor Saskatchewan,was named in the early 1920s on the John GravesSimcoe imposed an English patina over many suggestion of a lady who had emigrated from the area of placesand rivers in that part of Upper Canada,including this NeidpathCastle, in Peebles,south of Edinburgh.The castle, township. New Edinburgh, now a desirable residential on the north bank of the River Tweed, dates from the 14th neighbourhoodin the city of Ottawa and at the mouth of the century. Rideau River, was named in 1834 by industrialist Thomas Berwick, in the United Counties of Stormont,Dundas McKAY after the capital of Scotland.There is anotherNew and Glengany, was named in 1858after the boyhood home Edinburghat the mouth of Weymouth River in Nova Scotia. in Berwickshire of brothers Adam and PeterCOCKBURN. Although first settled in the 1760sby Acadians returningto However,Berwick, Nova Scotia,was namedafter a place in the region of their ancestralroots, it was named in 1783 by Maine, and Berwick, New Brunswick, was called after the PAGE26 BIFHSGO ANGLO-C] R(X)TS WINTER 1997/98

Nova Scotia town. Ayton in Berwickshire provided the Marchmont, near Orillia, was called after a place in nameof Ayton, near Hanover,Ontario. Coldstream,west of Berwickshire, north of Coldstream. ri London, was given its name in 1861, possibly after the burgh of Coldstream on the River Tweed in Berwickshire.

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This is a list of interesting articles printed in magazines received from other genealogical societies during our Society's 1996 fiscal year. These publications will be made available, for viewing only, at our regular monthly meetings.

ENGLAND Genealogists' Magazine [London, West Sussex] This magazine is prepared by The Society of Genealogists. It is published quarterly: March, June, Sept and Dec

Volume 25, Number 5 (March 1996): Volume 25, Number 7 (September 1996): a) Tele,l;'hones, Ratepayers and Buff Books a) Over-registration of Births and Deaths in the 18405; 9 and 20tt1century sources at Guildhall Library; b) The National Burial Index; b) The Growth of Population in 18tt1Century England c) Medieval and Royal Genealogy Update The Romanovs; A Critical Reappraisal; d) Correspondence: Eldest Illegitimate Child of King William IV c) The Origins of Some 17tt1Century Migrants to London; . d) Medieval and Royal Genealogy Update Spain Volume 25, Number 8 (December 1996). a) All Embarked in One Bottom Volume 25, Number 6 (June 1996): An Introduction to Sources for Soldiers, Administrators and a) Ye Have the Poor Always With You; Civilians in Civil War Britain and Ireland.; b) Migration in the Past -Some Key Results from the Residential Histories b) Early East India Company bonds and Covenants; Project; c) Age at First Marriage: a Statistical Discussion; c) Correspondence: Demography and One-name Studies; d) A Mayflower Descendant in Essex: d) Correspondence: Perils of the Internet Overstated. Nathaniel Martin of Great Burstead and Chelmsford; e) Correspondence: Royal Descents Through the Earls of Cumberland

USA NGS Newsletter [Arlington, Virginia] This newsletter is published by the National Genealogical Society. Only four of the six issues will be listed here. Check the detailed review of genealogical softwares and the well discussed 'Tools and Techniques' sections.

Volume 22, Number 2 (March/ApriI1996): a) Halbert's Under Cease and Desist Order; Volume 22, Number 4 (July/August 1996): b) Use Your Family Tree to Live a lonl;Jer, Healthier life a) Creating a Multimedia Family History; (or) This Tree Could Save Your life b) From Certified Psychologist to Certified Genealogist; (or) Tracing Your Family Health History; c) One Hundred Years at the DAR Library c) CD'-ROMS of Historic Patents from the Bureau of land (Daughters of the American Revolution) Management (BlM); d) Caveat Emptor: Obits to Order; e) The Resources of the Histo.rica) Genealogy Department Volume 22 Number 6 ( Nov/Dec 1996 ). of the Allen County Public Library; , .. f) GEDCOM is dead! long live GEDCOM' a) Try t~IS ~eclpe at Valley Forge; .. b) Family History at Bngham Young UnIVersity; V I 22 N b 3 (M IJ 19 ~ ) .c) Welcome to the World of Genetic Genealogy; 0 ume , um er ay une ~. d) Expanded Genealogy Department Opens in Independence, Missouri; a) George Ernest Bowman Elected to National Genealogy Hall of e pa ct on Geneal ogy . Fame. ) The Internet and its Irn , . b) A l ' M ' w t R h f) Internet Database for your research Documents, azy an s ay 0 esearc, g) GEDCOM Do's and Don'ts c) Gonna Buy a Computer; d) Publishing on the World Wide Web -Part I; e) The Genealogist's Guide to Internet Posting to a Mail List or, Ness Group Using E-mail County of DEVON (ENGLAND) The Devon Family Historian [plymouth, Devon, UK] Distributed four times a year, the Devon Family Historian Society's magazine is published in February, April, August, and November.

(Numbers 79 and 80 will be listed in the next issue)

Frayn Number 77 (February 1996) Number 78 (April 1996): a) Hugh e, Devonian Adventurer; a) Waratah -Pioneer of the West; b) How They Lived in Devon c1800; b) Mounce Farnily Bible; c) Was your Ancestor a Craftsman in the Exeter Wool Trade; c) Picture Postcards; d) The Life of William Doust, A Devonshire Man; d) letter from 1854: You Have Almost Forgotten Me.., e) John Nile, Jack Nigh or John Niles?; e) Dartmoor Graveyards f) The Devon Protestation Returns of 1642; An ArchIVe Source for Family History Researchers; g) Your Devon Sheepstor; f) The South Australian i.) Sumame Index to 1861 Census for North Devon; Boat Passengers from 1837; i) Suddenly in Devon; g) Murder of James Knight of This City (1837); j) Wiltshire Militia Orders 1759 to 1770; h) Trial of Robert Alford for the Murder of James Knight July 251110r 26111 k) The Devons in Mansel Copse; 1837; I) A Photographic Manhunt; II) The Blind Spot; m) HMS Charybdis j) The Devon Protestation Returns of 1642 -Caveat; k) Captain Joseph Fraine RN; r I) letter from 1862 The World Through the Eyes of Sally Browse 1862; m) The Naming of Children.

r 9:30 a.m. -3:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. -9:30 p.m. Saturday 9:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. 81FHSGO Calendar of Events --~ ~- British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa Meetings at: The Ottawa Family History Centre (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) 1017 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa Contact: Jim Heal, (613) 828-9569 Members are encouraged to alTive at 9:30 a.m. when the Discovery Tables open

10 January, 1998, 10:00-11:30 a.m. In Search of Jane Elliott -Willis Burwell

14 February, 1998, 10:00-11:30 a.m. Researching in London, England -Hannan K Crowder

14 March, 1998, 10:00-11:30a.m. Selected Records at the Family History Centre -Wayne Walker

15-22 February 1998 Group Visit to Salt Lake City Family Salt lake City UT History Library ~~~ - 7 February 1998 Seminar: Golden Rules: Rethinking the Lakeland Florida Basics of Genealogy

6-9 May 1998 Annual Convention of the US National Denver CO Genealogical Society 2-3 May 1998 Society of Genealogists' Annual Fair London UK

October 1998 5th New England Regional Portland MN Genealogical Conference

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