First a special thanks and credit to Des & Barbara for allowing me to use their photograph of the Church at Milton Abbott, Devonshire, U.K. "Cheers to you both." !!
Hello, my name is Linda. I have an addiction, "genealogy", but I can blame a Great Great Grandmother, Mary Anne Cole, nee Shepherd, for this. For it was Mary Anne who, back in 1874, began pasting newspaper articles and cutting into a old leather bond book. Perhaps, she did it to remember her family and old friends. Those left back in the small village of Tavistock, Devonshire, England. Mary Anne would have just arrived at the small town of Bangor, Michigan, U.S.A. She'd probably, just joined two surviving son's William and George Cole who had come to Bangor to find work. She had traveled across the ocean by the steamer, "Lapland", accompanied by three young daughters, Emily, Laura and Jane, (Jennie)
We can only guess at her reason for starting this scrapbook, that has now survived well over one hundred and twenty three years. We can imagine her lovingly working through the years. Keeping letters and those precious cuttings, sent by family and friends from the old country. Gradually, her thoughts turned more often to new family and friends, in and around Bangor and South Haven, Michigan.
When her daughter Emily, married Charles Whitfield Tucker and moved to Canada, her thoughts again changed their directions. Bits and pieces of news and happenings from Deseronto, Ontario were added, later a very small town in northeastern Ontario, took up her thoughts. That town.came to be known as New Liskeard, Ontario. The name Liskeard was not an unfamiliar name to her, as Tavistock, Devonshire, and Liskeard, Cornwall, were only a short distance apart in her former homeland.
After Mary Anne Cole's death, this precious book was parcel up and brought north to Canada. It sat in an old metal trunk only precariously safe from forest fires and other hazards of pioneer life. Found recently, it starting my addiction for genealogy.
I invite you to come in and take a peek at only some items Gran, tucked away.
If you recognize any of the surnames or the fact that your ancestors hailed from the same hollows and hills as mine, I invite you to email me. The scrapbook contains well over 500 surnames far to many for me to list at this time. I will give the book ,a look over, for you. Please bear in mind that she did not always put a date on her pages nor did she always indicate what surname was family. This we will have to figure out. Also, please remember I am working alone and will require time to answer your emails. Also I ask that you remember any racial comments are not mine, but of, the writers of the day, back in the 18th &19th. Century, these ARE, copies of newspaper articles. Please enjoy my Gran's Scrapbook.
Devon Surname List
http://www.gendex.com/users/branscombe/genuki/devon.htm
Genuki Contents Pages
http://sentinel.mcc.ac.uk/genuki/mindex.html
The Olive Tree Genealogy
Homepage
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/links.htm
Ontario Genealogical
Society Homepage
http://www.ogs.on.ca/
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