Crossroads
Peter Teeple's son Pellum tells an anecdote in The Aylmer Express article of December 7, 1933 about the Mabee and Teeple families (see Part 1). In 1825 he went with…
Mabee and Teeple Families
Below is a story about the Mabee and Teeple UEL families of southwestern Ontario. Peter Teeple was the son-in-law of Frederick Mabee and Lavinia Pelham. The author, W. B. Waterbury,…
Mabee Family Tree 2
Additional Generations and Notes on Tree Below are notes giving additional details and/or the children of specific individuals in my Mabee family tree. As I explained on the main tree,…
Lymburner Reunion 1936
A reader sent a photo of a Lymburner Family Reunion in 1936. Thanks so very much, Linda. In the detail above, you see the oldest person present. She is #104,…
Kennel Club Show
The 143rd Westminster Dog Show is on television today through Tuesday. So from Jan. 13, 2011 here is my St. Thomas Dog Blog post about that year's Elgin County Kennel…
Ford Ontario
The Ontario Progressive Conservative party yesterday chose Doug Ford as its leader. That's Doug, brother and advisor to the late Rob Ford who has to have been the weirdest mayor…
Newspaper Clippings
My mother kept a lot of newspaper clippings, and pasted them in scrapbooks. These ones date from the 1940s on. They are about family and our towns as well as…
Pittie Myths
I don’t often agree with Peter Worthington, but I did with what he wrote (March 14, 2012) about Pit Bulls and Ontario’s Breed Specific Legislation. He calls BSL a “Ku Klux…
I’ll Have Another
This was first posted on my St. Thomas Dog Blog, May 10, 2012. This Saturday, May 7th 2016, it's Derby Day again. It feels different this year - it's the…
Burwells in US & Canada
There is a Burwell family in southwestern Ontario and one in Virginia. No one is sure if they're related. I wonder if the link might be through Burwells in Connecticut.…
Mabee Photos
Mabee Family Tree McConkey Family Tree Four daughters of Leonard Alexander McConkey and Eliza Harrison. The relatives it came from are not quite sure who is…
G. Frederick Anger UEL
In colonial times Georg Frederick Anger, a native of Germany, lived on the Susquehannah River in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolution he joined Butler’s Rangers at Fort Niagara.…
McConkey Family Tree
I was told by my aunts that this photo is Emma Jane McConkey's father's mother in the 1830s. That would be Andrew's wife Lorana. She would have been in her…
Recorded Campaigning
This election I don’t know who I’m going to vote for. When the electioneering machine started cranking up, so did the recorded messages. You know, the taped messages that lazy…
Mabee Family Tree
William Pinckney and Mary (Sinclair) Mabee, seated in middle, with their nine children. It commemorates the wedding of a daughter, seated at right beside her new husband. He holds their…
Mabee’s Corners
My cousin Lynda Sykes wrote this about her visit to Mabee's Corners many years ago, after reading about my ‘sighting’ of the road sign for it. She graciously gave me…
Anger Family Tree
Austin and Murel (Mabee) Anger, my grandparents, outside their home near Union, Elgin County, Ontario June 1943. Grandma wrote on the back, "Dad and I ready to go to city".…
Lymburner Family Tree
The family of Matthias Lymburner at Midland, Ontario July 1, 1929. Seated, parents Matthias Lymburner (age 64), Mary Emily (Vaughan) Lymburner (age 65). Standing, Otto Lymburner (age 32), Countess Lymburner…
Ada Norton Burwell and family 1910
Burwell Family Tree
Burwell family, Dec. 26th 1910. Back row, from left, brothers Silas, Wilson, Peter and Fred. Middle row, from left, Silas' wife Alice (Kennedy), brother Charles and wife Minnie May (Lymburner),…