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e 3 ' ® FAMILY TREES A / ; L oaT#arie Eat h 410 TOPAy _ fFef . .I// : } Ancestors‘ stories tell a lot about their communities as well CECILIA NASMITH not get its final colour or consisâ€" j En Northumberland Today ... y :Iinmcy until it is pulled repeatedly . | x illcn o COBOURG â€" The mementoes , through the hook to introduce air . | 3 7 k . o ind membries our ancestors leave | . into the mixture. For candy canes, . | M |. alee>, behind can offer wonderful # part of what has become a white .. | n arge® C glimpses into our local communiâ€" f mixture is set aside for artificial . | * â€"£ 8 ties as they once were. //nces ors cu!oum'lg of red or green, and it is . | t f At the Lakeshore Genealogical ““»fi? msemr;;rvrglm fli?dwhite. | | E: 7 Society‘s annual Mystery Ancestor g ; . 7 en our family sold its store ‘ | h | t shared a glimpse of what life was â€" keeping. Thereafter, he owned one of the things I rescued. It had M f lus.. once like in Edville, Wicklow, Port _ and aperated the Wi'clr.low Gen: been madeâ€"by a blacksmith onl .ts ( U ol §# * O .. Hopeand Campbellford. Pral store annf 1oaa) Durine his around 1910;‘ Long said. § it l % o / Nancy Gibson wonders what .. years in that comrnulnity hegwas "My uncle probably used it for E. id M | § her paternal grandfather Frederâ€" treagurer for SS #3 an’d #4 in 60 years, and probably it was used | ~| t Â¥ y ‘ick William Pearson must have _ Haldimand Township, as well as 30 years before that by my grandâ€" & ‘ E | oo ie thought â€" growing up in urban _ treasurer for the faldbuanansa, 4e C "‘~%ae +# j London, .t.hen moving to Cramahe _ Cross Society and the local Uncle Frank is 90 years old now, is hn â€" | & _ " Township and having to walk _ Masonslodge. Long said, and he lives at the som.. ; eeemnl wherever he wanted to go. Winney moved to Chapel Street Cobourg Retirement Residence. s > Still, Edville seems to have been . jn Cobourg in 1946 and became "My uncle was at the Presbyteâ€" S ( a good fit for him and hlS“f'i.fEUi‘la bookkeeper for Fowler and rian Church in Campbellford o i after they came to Canada in 1905. _ Thomas Motors in Cobourg and about three years ago, and they M " > > There they would raise a family of _ in 1951, became secretary-nea_' said they wanted Francis Long to e _ > seven sons and two daughters, surer of Cobourg Public School. _ come and make some fair taffy, | P ar * > He began working at the vilâ€" _ He died in 1974, his wifefollowâ€" H€ took the hook and we have . ; | e lage‘s first cheese factory in 1908, a _ ing three days later. pictures of him making fair taffy," > C | " ]s]il]:illflgmg Wh“f;g:“;‘ia"?lns can A literal look at Port Hope â€" its Long Said. fa > l e seen a me mile west 4 % & ) | of Waite‘s Cemetery. He would ;OSO%?JIE}:%W;L;‘?:IE%??; cnasmith@ s oien: work there until it closed, though _ Lowe, whose greatâ€"grandfather of northumberlandtoday.com _ CECILIA NASMITH he left between 1916 and 1919 to _ the same name had left behind a _ fwitter.com/NT_cnasmith 6 Northumberland Today: serve in England and France photo album of this and other P Frederick William Pearson took during the First World War. sights he enjoyed with three of his . | oz h time off his job at the Edville heo\nli‘;fkglc.l: :vlilfi\esé r&l;‘l:‘:y r':Il‘osed, four sons in a 1908 auto trip along _ | e ’i | CECILIA NASMITH Northumberland Today c“;tesvsofact“"vry to serve in the ship in roads maintena:lc:. w:i‘e 1-2*; (lj(rltng'ospfeilghwflv from Ortawa . | 4 mlfis'l:i:rger;i:tneaIo%ifcatli“Su‘cigtgyogeml;er iIi_rn Lowe shares photos Ei rld War. 3 and his wife were also caretakers 1 in a sprondlafiie‘= thotof it1g. % h ‘ of the Edville school (called the w;fiiéfi“‘ffi‘gfi?fi;fifi?fi l oo â€"a : â€" in f Sharon School) and Edville pentry bu%iness he had set up in â€"| ‘ pouasg c ‘ T""fiâ€"-’w‘,‘ hx f PÂ¥\ United Church, Ottawa. His only connection to wl ’\. P ~ : In 1949, they moved to Notham .. this area was that trip, where they ’¢ I e . hy f â€" | â€"â€" to live near one of their sons. He _ left the car in Port Hope, took a _ * | s . c tss Ed g hase M died in 1951, and is buried in _ steamer to Niagara on the Lake, M ‘1_}#?* A a “‘._:"’ PC caik "the + â€" ’ Me 95 .. c en Waite‘s Cemetery. and a train to Niagara Falls and EPy om § â€" C & !"" | A s Anne Tryon said frankly that _ Buffalo. i " We fi_ o f 3 d . ol | [ e F Mc Jesse William Winney married Fred Long has entertained the i e [d . 7 uim into her family just to gain a wife _ club in previous years with tales of .. [IMIM k 4 3 Ds | / who would look after his mother. _ his father, a magician who later l ¢ d Still, she said, he was a gentleman _ operated a candy store in Campâ€" C "al who was well thought of by all. bellford and became mayor of the | witl I" | . / | f Born in England in 1890, _ town. This year, he focused on his C h | w Winney came to Canada in 1913. â€" Uncle Frank and offered a crash | | It wasn‘t long afterwards that the _ course in making candy canes and | | First World War began, and he . taffy. T‘ | was in one of the first groups to It all depends on the hook, | Teave Cobourg for training in Haliâ€" _ Tong said, displaying the one that | CECILIA NASMITH fax. He would later serve in France _ had hung shoulderâ€"high on the . 4 C MWs * â€" «Northumberland Today and get a shrapnel wound to the _ wall of their family store. Lakeshore Genealogical Snciety M Una Pearson looks d right shoulder itbecame infected, . Long described how the pipingâ€" member Fred Long rescued this 8 ina Pearson looks down from and he had to be hospitalized in _ hot gunk that would become hook for its sentimental value CECILIA NASMITH Northumberland Today .. the second floor of the old Kingston. : eitherscandy canes or taffy does when the family store in Campâ€" â€" This is a photo from SS #9 Cramahe, of which Frederick William Pearâ€" E"“"}f °'fis: factory to check He graduated from Kingston _ ,". ... bellford was sold in 1974. son and his wife Una became caretakers. ona fock 8t I9NS: