Down the family rabbit hole
Curious about your ancestry? I can relate, and there’s no time like the present to explore your family history By Alex NewmanSpecial to the Star Wed., March 17, 2021 Since the […]
Curious about your ancestry? I can relate, and there’s no time like the present to explore your family history By Alex NewmanSpecial to the Star Wed., March 17, 2021 Since the […]
My father had wanted to be a missionary almost since entering divinity school at Wycliffe college, University of Toronto. Originally he was thinking of going to the Arctic — in […]
It must be fall because it’s cold enough to wear a coat, and it must be a Sunday because the Red River Coat is only for wearing to church. And […]
When I was a child, my family had already inhabited the farm for some 30 years or so. It had already been carved up long before my grandfather bought it […]
October 1842, letter to his grandson * I am 81 years old now and do not think I will live very much longer. You are now 20 years old, and […]
The Beebes arrived in Canada with Adin Beebe, eldest son of Joshua Beebe (d carrying dispatch to Saratoga NY during American Rev), and Mary SICARD Beebe. (see Mary’s family story […]
John and Annie had five children: Muriel born 1885, Francis John (Jack) b 1886, Maurice Addison b 1889, Margaret Ridley b 1891, Mildred Stevenson b 1894 Muriel finished school at […]
The Folinsbees — John and Annie — married in Canboro in 1883 and sometime not long after moved to Strathroy. Possibly because they had family in Strathroy or because work […]
Mary Plummer Stevenson was Francis Sabine Stevenson’s sister. Her Plummer middle name came from her mother’s family. Her mother was Mary Addison, whose grandmother was Rebecca Plummer, the mother of […]
John Secord Beebe of New Carlisle, Bonaventure Co., Quebec wrote this letter to William Thomas Bebee on 1 April 1871. I believe the Peach Island he refers to is actually […]