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British Columbia Genealogical Society, Quesnel Branch

We’re Moving: the Quesnel Branch of the BCGS will be moving within the next few months as our building owners need space to expand their business. We wish to thank Marvin and Bruce at Willis Harper Hardware and Furniture for the use of office and meeting room space for the past years.

Our new mailing address is:

1-453 Wilson Street

Quesnel BC V2J 2W1

Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical () is a searchable electronic index to the science content of sixteen nineteenth-century general periodicals. This excerpt is from Punch, 23 (1852), 136–7 (Issue 852):

The Fogie Family Papers

Anon

Genre: Drama, Drollery

Subjects: Light, Technology, Domestic Economy, Education, Steam-power, Gender

Describes the responses of members of the Fogie family to their new lamp. Their exchanges about the lamp reveal their worries about the dangers of the lamp exploding. Contrasts are developed between Mr Fogie, who explains the mechanism of the lamp in terms of a steam engine, to his wife, who finds it difficult to understand the lamp, and the scientific explanation of the lamp mechanism offered by Miss Winterbottom.

What the heck is a Gypsy?

Many people referred to as Gypsies by outsiders prefer to be called Roma. The Roma are thought to be descendants of the ancient warrior classes of Northern India, particularly the Punjab, and they are identifiable by their language, religion, and customs. The first written reports of travellers appearing in Europe occurred in the 1500’s. There is linguistic evidence that tribes of Roms migrated 1000 years ago and spread throughout eastern Europe, eventually reaching Britain. Gypsies have been documented in North America since the 1850’s. The modern Romany language combines Sanskrit, Romanian, Greek, and Slavic words, as well as cant, the language of Elizabethan England beggars. Of course there is considerable variation between groups, and most maintain a social distinctiveness.

Some areas of England had large populations of Gypsy Travellers, such as the county of Kent. BBC has produced a series of online articles which are very interesting. These articles can be found at .

Historically, Gypsies lived in tents and used light horse-drawn carts. Extended families would move around doing seasonal farm work, such as fruit- and hop-picking. The familiar caravans, or varda, came into use in the middle of the nineteenth century. During winter, travellers might camp on the outskirts of cities in traditional stopping places making and selling items such as clothes pegs, or working at casual labour. Some common occupations listed in censuses for Gypsies are: hawker, basket maker, tinman, marine store dealer (dealer in scrap materials), peg maker, etc. Evenings were spent around the campfire. Gypsies have also been known as entertainers, operating travelling carnivals or circuses. They have contributed their own unique styles to many types of music and have influenced many other artists and musicians. Famous entertainers claiming Romani ancestry include Yul Brynner, Rita Hayworth, and Charlie Chaplin.

The Gypsy Lore Society, an international association of persons interested in Gypsy and Traveler Studies, was founded in Great Britain in 1888 and has been headquartered in the United States since 1989. For more information on the society, see

The Roma Community & Advocacy Centre of  Toronto, Canada, has produced the first-ever booklet of Canadian Romani Poems entitled Kanadake-Romane Mirikle (Canadian Romani Pearls). This booklet contains poems by Canadian-born Roma, Roma immigrants and Roma refugees.  For more information, visit .

If you are interested in Gypsy genealogy, see the Romany and Traveller Family History Society at (check out the extensive links page) and the Gypsy Family Genealogy Forum at .

Myrtle Tingley Webster

Quick Bio of a Quesnel Old-Timer

Myrtle Tingley was born June 1, 1919 in Brownfield, Alberta. She was one of five children born to Freeman Calvin Tingley and Bertha Litke: Ceal, Calvin, Myrtle, Rufus, and Helen. Freeman was born in 1862 in New Brunswick and had sixteen children altogether with three different wives. His last wife, Bertha, was born in 1886 in Manitoba or Russia. They’d met in Vancouver and married December 30, 1911 in Prince Rupert, BC. Freeman was a construction worker and moved frequently to find work.

The family was in Giscome, BC near Prince George for Myrtle’s first birthday in 1920, but moved to Quesnel, BC shortly thereafter in a covered wagon. They stayed initially at the haunted house at Haldon’s before moving into town for the winter. In the spring, the family took up property in the Pinnacles/Baker Creek area where Freeman built a house and small farm. They generally had a few head of cattle and several horses. Their nearest neighbour was about a mile and a half away.

Freeman died young on October 28, 1926, likely due to the rigors of a lifetime of heavy work. He never knew his younger daughter.

Myrtle and her siblings walked about a mile daily to attend the West Quesnel school on top of the hill. There were about thirty students from grades one to eight. She recalls that everyone made their own entertainment in those days. She played on stick horses, but loved riding the real thing and was on a horse from the time she could walk until well into her senior years. Baker Creek provided swimming in the summer and skating in the winter. Berry-picking was a popular summer pastime and Myrtle’s mother canned many blueberries and saskatoons.

After completing grade eight, Myrtle took part-time jobs when she could. It was not easy at that time for women to find work – men even dominated such jobs as clerking and waiting tables.

In 1940, Myrtle married William Blair Webster, who was born September 8, 1919. She moved to the Webster family ranch of Sunnyside in the Narcosli area, where Bill’s parents also lived. They remained there after his father, William John Webster, died September 19, 1952. The Webster ranch was very old, having been established in the 1860’s by William Adams, a friend of Bill’s grandfather, William Leith Webster. W.L. Webster and Adams become partners and the Webster family moved to the ranch in 1891. Sunnyside was reportedly the first ranch to grow oats in the Cariboo. Narcosli itself was a busy community at the time Myrtle moved there, with a sawmill behind every stump!

Bill and Myrtle had three children: Tess (McGowan), Billy, and Phyllis. Phyllis was killed in a car accident.

Bill died at the early age of 45 on November 27, 1964. Myrtle’s mother, Bertha, died in 1970. Myrtle and young Bill worked Sunnyside until moving latterly to Ramsey site on the West Fraser Road.

-Leanne Broughton

Time and offers a perpetual calendar feature. Just type in the year and country. At the bottom of the page, there are other useful links to features such as calculating the duration between two dates. You can also add/subtract days/weeks/etc to a date, which would be helpful for calculating someone’s birthdate when an exact age is given at death, eg. 79y 3m 4d.

The Register of the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 is a unique pay per view database for genealogists, military historians and medal collectors. The Register contains over 131,000 names which includes a completely revised casualty list of 58,000 casualty records. The minimum number of credits that can be purchased is five. One credit costs £1.00. In addition books, medals and Research Services can be purchased directly from the website.

Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records offers a directory of online US death indexes listed by state and county. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices & registers, obituaries, probate indexes, and cemetery & burial records.

Library Ireland is a free information resource on Irish antiquities, biography, genealogy, history (general, local and social), literature, and much more. Much of the Ulster Towns Directory 1910 is online.

The Ontario Vital Statistics Project has the following transcriptions in searchable online databases: Births 1869-1907; Marriages 1801-1922 (there are gaps pre-1869); Deaths 1869-1932; and Census.

This web page has transcriptions of headboards and tombstones in the Barkerville Cemetery. Barkerville, of course, was formed in 1862 when Billy Barker discovered gold on Williams Creek. Surnames: ALLEN, BELL, BELLINGS, BENNETT, BIBBY, BILSLAND, BLAIR, BLYTHE, BOVYER, BOWRON, BOYCE, BREW, BROWN, CAMERON, CASTAGNETTE, CRAWFORD, DANIELS, DAOUST, DAVISON, DENNY, DOW, DUNN, EASTER, EDWARDS, ENERSON, FRANKLYN, FRASER, GIBSON, GILES, GRIFFITH, HAGEMAN, HALL, HANSON, HEATHERINGTON, HILL, HITCHCOCK, HODGKINSON, HOUSE, HOUSER, HUGILL, ISAAC, JOHNSTON, KELLY, KIMBALL, KNOTT, LANYON, LINDSAY, LYNCH, MCINTYRE, MCKENNA, MCKINNON, MCLAREN, MCLEAN, MCLENNON, MCLURE, MCQUEEN, MALAMON, MALCOLM, MASON, MITCHELL, MITTON, MONTGOMERY, MORGAN, NORDBURG, PARK, PARKER, PATULLO, PHILLIPS, PINKERTON, POMEROY, POND, RESENDOS, RODDICK, ROGERS, RUDDELL, SHOEMAKER, SIMCOCK, STEVENSON, STEWART, STOBO, STONE, TRAVAILLOT, WALKER, WATSON, WEBSTER, WHITEFORD, WILKINSON, WINTRIP.

Our “Brick Wall Contest” is open to all readers of Cariboo Notes around the globe. Submissions are welcome and should be e-mailed to broughtonl@shaw.ca with “Brick Wall Submission” in the subject line. Brick walls will be published in each issue. The first person to break a brick wall as determined by the submitter will be awarded a small prize for their efforts. Contest end-date for each entry will be one year; however, grateful submitters will likely be happy to reward wall-breakers after that time!

Gorenko

There are a few brickwalls I’m attempting to scale but to date the biggest is finding answers to the many mystereies surrounding my GORENKO ancestors. Records I’ve found so far are:

• The ship passenger list for Constantine (Kosten) and Warwara (Vera) and their two children Wasyl, age four and Aleksander age one arriving in Halifax in 1899 from Austria

• In the 1901 census Kosten and Vera are only listed. Have both children died? If so, where are they buried?

• In the 1906 census I locate the Gorenkos with another Alexander age five, Donmica (Dora – my grandmother) age three and one-year-old Annie

• In the 1911 census another son George has been added to the family and in a couple years Lena, their last child will be born.

• According to land records Kosten and Lena took up a homestead near Devils Lake which is between Yorkton and Canora, SK.

One of the stories passed down from relatives is that while Alexander was in his teens he and a friend stole a cow, was caught and incarcerated for a short period of time. This was circa 1915 to 1919. Exact year and length of imprisonment is unknown. After his release his father Kosten met him at the train station, got into an argument and Alex threatened to leave and not come back. Which is apparently what he did. My grandmother saw him one more time in the late 1920’s. What happened to him? Where did he go? Did he marry and have a family? If so, he has an abundance of relatives scattered from ON to BC. My mother remembers her aunt hiring a private investigator to find him but the search was unsuccessful. I have requested searches in the court records but nothing was found. I searched enlistment and attestation records for WW1 thinking he may have lied about his age and went off to war. He certainly wouldn’t have been the first young man to do that.

His brother, George, died under suspicious circumstances as well. In the 1911 census he is listed as born in 1908. On his death certificate, his age is given as 13 yrs 3 mths. And so, in 1924 was he 13 or 16 years of age? Date of death is May 31st, date of burial is the next day, June 1st, which is somewhat unusual. Also unusual is that Constantine Gorenko is listed as undertaker. Because the SK vital statistics division will not release cause of death I am at a loss, so I questioned relatives. Apparently George got into a fight with some boys in the area and was beaten so badly he died of his injuries. I searched the 1924 Canora newspapers hoping to find an article or an obituary but there was nothing. I have not been able to verify these stories as truth or fiction.

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please e-mail: wayter@

Terrie Schmitke

1871 Dogwood Road, Quesnel BC V2J 4T7

NEED HELP WITH TRANSLATION behage hjelpe oversette

 

I'm looking for someone who might be able to translate from Norwegian to English.  I have several pages from a bygdebok that need to be translated.

Please contact:

Terri Schmitke        wayter@ 

New Member Interests: Lynda & Ernie Kuehn

1. Fritz Karl Arno Kühn/Kuehn

• Born 15 July, 1911 in Arnsgereuth, Germany 

• Christened 27 July, 1911 in Arnsgereuth.  Illegitimate.

• Raised by Hopfe relatives

• Came to Canada April 1930

• Mother: Anna Pauline Hopfe

← Born 23 November, 1891 in Judwein

← Died 5 November,1918 in Arnsgereuth (from Pneumonia)

← Parents: Ferdinand August Hopfe and Amalie Bertha Hubner, Judwein and later Arnsgereuth

• Father: Theodor Max Manilius Kuehn/Kühn

← Born 3 February,1887 in Arnsgereuth, Germany

← Died 24 December, 1916 in Tiefurt (death by drowning or to commit suicide)

← Soldier in the German army

← Parents: Karl Kuehn/Kühn and Lina Muller

← Married Anna Pauline Hopfe 12 April 1914 in Arnsgereuth

← A second mutual child, Otto Erich born 12 August, 1916 in Arnsgereuth, died 18 November 1916 same village

We haven't been able to find out if Theodore had brothers and sisters or how far back the family goes. Also only have Hopfes starting with Ferdinand and Bertha.

2. Francis Andrew Graham

• Born 23 January 1881, Buckna, Racavan parish. Registered Jan. 31, 1881 in the District Glenwherry in the union of Ballymena, County Antrim. Entry #154 in the Register Book of Births (above District) Ballymena office Date March 18, 1927.

• Came to Canada in 1906

• Married in 1913

• Father: Francis Graham of Buckna, labourer

• Mother: Mary McClintock

Family of Francis and Mary Graham:

1) Samuel Graham

2) Francis Andrew Graham

3) William Graham

4) John Graham

Children of John Graham: Herbert, Martha (Marshall), Annie (Murphy) John, Jeannie (Pike), Margaret (McClear), Mary J.

5) Robert Graham

Children of Robert Graham: Margaret (Haveron), Mary E. (Boyd), Sarah (Graham)

6) Andrew Graham

Children of Andrew Graham: Andrew, a Mrs. McKeen, Samuel, William, Margaret (Rankin),Hugh, Frank, and James

7) Mary Graham (Anderson)

Children of Mary Anderson: Robert, James, Mrs. M. Hamill, Mrs. William Stevenson, and Mrs. l. Smyth

8) Margaret Graham (McWilliam)

Children of Margaret McWilliam: Robert, Miss Agnes, Andrew, Ivan, Fred, Graham, Mary McDowell, Ethel J. Greenlees, and Mr. F. McWilliam 

 

No birth dates, locations, etc. My grandfather came to Canada in 1906, married in 1913 and fathered five children, all of whom are documented and accounted for. My aunt wrote to two of the cousins but would never give out the names.

Any help, hints, or suggested websites for Lynda and Ernie would be appreciated. They may be reached by phone at (250) 747-1164 or by e-mail at elkuehn@shaw.ca.

One-Place Studies

One-place studies (OPS) involve research into all the residents and local history of a certain place. OPS provide a social look at the lives of community members, not unlike some of the rich area history/heritage books we enjoy here in Canada. There are OPS in Britain and Europe, and some countries have numerous collections such as Germany (see ) and Norway ().

For Britain, check out the website which lists contact information for 159 OPS.

Fun Little Features of Family Tree Maker:

Bookmarks: You can bookmark an individual so that you may return to him/her more quickly in the future.

1. Click on the name in your family file.

2. Click CTRL+B.

Now when you want to go to a bookmarked individual, simply click the Bookmark button and select the individual from the drop-down menu. I have my and my husband’s eight g-grandfathers bookmarked (and myself!).

History: This button shows a drop-down menu of the last 30 individuals you have edited. Great when you get so absorbed in a session that you forget where you started.

Tools: Under this menu, I like to use the Relationship Calculator. Select the two people from your family file and click the calculate button to determine their relationship (if any). Today I was working on an individual I thought was an offshoot (“no direct relationship”), but after using this feature I found he was my half third cousin once removed. This feature is helpful when you have over 3500 people in your file! I also like the Family File Statistics just for fun. It lists: file size, # of individuals, # of marriages, average lifespan, earliest birth date, text records, # of generations, and # of surnames.

Books for Sale

Hard cover, 802 pp. 7"x 5". Combination gazeteer, travel handbook and advertiser listing. If you had ancestors that lived in South America in the 1940s, this will give an excellent overview of the ex-pat community in: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, British Guiana, British Honduras, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rice, Cuba, Dutch Guiana, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, El Salvador, Uruguay, Venezuela.

 

Particularly useful if you had relatives who were in business there. It is possible their company may be advertised! Additionally, if your ancestors vacationed or moved to South America in the late 1940s, this will give flavour to your family tree. Local politicians are mentioned often throughout the book.

 

$15, plus $10 shipping (Paypal, cash, email transfer, or money order drawn on Canadian bank) within Canada and the United States. For International Shipping Costs, please contact the seller: Susan Smith, 3010 Red Bluff Road, Quesnel, British Columbia, BC V2J 6C6, email: smithjosephy@shaw.ca

 

By R.D. Colquette. 308 pp Printed by The Public Press Limited, Winnipeg. Fully-indexed. Very interesting to any family historian who had ancestors from the Canadian Prairies who were invovled with United Grain Growers Limited or with the Co-operative Movement in the first half of the 20th Century.

 

$15, plus $10 shipping (Paypal, cash, email transfer, or money order drawn on Canadian bank) within Canada and the United States. For International Shipping Costs, please contact the seller: Susan Smith, 3010 Red Bluff Road, Quesnel, British Columbia, BC V2J 6C6, email: smithjosephy@shaw.ca

From the Quesnel Branch of the BCGS, #12-282 Reid Street, Quesnel, BC V2J 2M2:

By the Quesnel Branch of the BCGS. Recipes from Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Sweden, USA, Wales

$4.00 plus $1.00 S&H

By the Quesnel Branch of the BCGS. This brochure, the fourth in a series, has been put together to provide genealogical researchers an introduction to Quesnel and area place names, and general sources of further information.

$3.00 plus $.75 S&H

From Branwen Patenaude, 1582 Beach Crescent, Quesnel, BC V2J 4J6, Phone 250-747-2654:

By Branwen Patenaude. A collection of short stories on the history of Quesnel and area.

$11.50 plus 7% GST and $2.00 S&H

By Branwen Patenaude. History of the roadhouses en route to the gold fields of Barkerville. Volume 1 covers mainly the lower Fraser River.

$14.95 plus 7% GST and $2.00 S&H

By Branwen Patenaude. A continuation of Volume 1, covering the upper Fraser and Quesnel River areas (the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada).

$18.95 plus 7% GST and $2.00 S&H

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1. Kathie Edwards

4902 Zschiedrich Road, Quesnel, BC V2J 6H8

Ph/fax (250)747-2503; Ph (250) 992-7211; gkedward@

Surnames: APPS, BRENCHLEY, DIAMOND, BECK, EATON, EDWARDS, BOLLINGTON, KENDRICK, HOOLEY, POTTS, TRUEMAN, WRIGHT, PAINE, ARNOLD

2. Tammy Guldbransen

129 Lowe Street, Quesnel, BC V2J 5T4

Ph (250) 992-6114; gully4@shaw.ca

Surnames: Drummond, Ericksson, Guldbransen, Hill, Johnson, Jorgenson, Lindsay, Ostlund, Petterson, Reid, Russell, Waughop and Waynert

3. Beverley Preston

2639 Roberta Road, Quesnel, BC V2J 6L5

Ph (250) 747-0131; prestonv@

Surnames: BROUGH, MACHEN, BAKES, PARKER, LEWENDON, LEWINGTON, HISSEY, GOODWIN, WILKINSON, BLANCHARD, BOWES, MCWHINNIE, HORSEY

4. Penny Haering

Box 6, Alec Meadow Site, RR5, Quesnel, BC V2J 3H9; haering@

Surnames: INGHAM, HAINSWORTH, PEATFIELD

5. Leanne Broughton

536 Kinchant Street, Quesnel, BC V2J 2R8

Ph (250) 992-8980; broughtonl@shaw.ca

Surnames: BROUGHTON, PINCHBECK, DYE, READ, FÜRST, BEATH, WATTIE, BELCOURT, L’HIRONDELLE

6. Stacey Willson

1882 Alder Road, Quesnel, BC V2J 3T3

staceywillson@shaw.ca

Surnames: WILLSON, MUMFORD, SIMS, MOXAM, VON NIESSEN, GARNHAM, HEALEY/HEALY

7. Terri Schmitke

1871 Dogwood Road, Quesnel, BC V2J 4T7

wayter@

Surnames: PALAGHIAN, GORENKO, KNUDSON, CLEMENTSON, SCHUTTE, ANDRESON, CLEMETSON

8. Susan Smith

3010 Red Bluff Road, Quesnel, BC V2J 6C6

susmith@

Surnames: MORRIS, McQUILLAN, SIMPSON, GREEN, WALLACE, SAVAGE, DOOLEY, FROST, REED, CLASPER, KIPLING, BURDON, HART, MATTHEWS, SMITH, FARROW, FORD, RIDLEY, McCRUMMENT, GRANT, DENNIS, HARPER, KENNEDY, GILCHRIST, CLARK

#1-453 Wilson Street, Quesnel , B.C. V2J 2W1

EXECUTIVE 2006-07:

• President Kathleen Edwards

• Treasurer Gertie Garreau

• Secretary Tammy Guldbransen

• Librarian Kathleen Edwards

Positions are held for one year with

elections at the September meeting.

OBJECTIVE: to provide a local forum for genealogical research and discussions.

MEETINGS: held the second Tuesday of each month from September to June at 7:00 p.m. New meeting space TBA. Contact members for information.

MEMBERSHIP: $20.00 yearly, due September meeting or $10.00 basic plus $1.00 per month

until September. NOTE: Although a branch of the B.C.G.S., a specific membership is required to receive their newsletter, or for the use of their facilities.

FACILITIES: The Society presently has a small genealogical library, a microfiche/film reader

and some research aids. Our objective is to increase our library holdings on general genealogical topics, and to develop specific holdings according to membership interest. These books, research aids and fiche may be borrowed by society members for local use for up to four weeks.

The library has a good collection of genealogical info related to the Cariboo Gold Rush, particularly for Wells and Barkerville.

Inquiries for research will be passed to local members and charged at a rate of $3.00 per hour.

FUNDING: This is a non-profit society. Yearly membership fees and other fundraising

activities are used to pay for operational expenses.

NEWSLETTER: The society publishes three newsletters a year, in February (#1 Spring), May (#2 Summer/Fall) and November (#3 Winter). Subscription is included in yearly membership fees, available on a trade basis, or $3.00 per year for non-members.

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Volume

24

No.

1

Spring 2007

Cornish Water Wheel at Quesnel, B.C.

An Original Drawing by B. Patenaude

Vol. 24(1) Contents:

What the Heck is a Gypsy? 3

Myrtle Tingley Webster – Quesnel Oldtimer 4

Web Bytes 5

Brick Wall Contest – Gorenko 6

New Member Interests – Kühn, Graham 7

Twigs – One-Place Studies, Fun FTW Features, Eogen 9

Books for Sale 10

Member Lookups 11

How to Contact Us 12

Club Information 13

If you think that gedcoms and patronymics are university business courses, then you need the Encyclopedia of Genealogy. This is an online free encyclopedia that serves as a compendium of genealogical tools and techniques. It provides reference information about everything in genealogy except people. You can look up research terms, obsolete medical terms, and ethnic research advice. Check out .

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The South American Handbook 1947

The First Fifty Years: A History of United Grain Growers

The Family Cook Book

Quesnel & Area Place Names

Because of

Gold

Trails to Gold Volume 1

Trails to Gold Volume 2

How to Contact Us

PROJECTS:

• Newsletter Leanne Broughton

• Cemetery Mary Lust

• Births Bev Preston

• Marriages Bev Preston

• Deaths Leanne Broughton

We’re Moving! See inside for new address

Help for the

History-challenged

Member Lookups:

broughtonl@shaw.ca

A Tribute to the Past (Quesnel & area 1808 to 1928)

The Family Tree of Robert and Euphemia Beath (Lillian Bowdery et al)

Pre-1855 Fife (Scotland) Death Index

The Long Line (Benjamin Dye/Sarah Lemley family – by T. Bryan Campbell Hope)

The Wattie Family (1650-1996)

Kinross-shire (Scotland) Pre-1855 Monumental Inscriptions

One request per person per week, please.

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