Uncle Peg’s Chronicles
October 6, 2022
“Yt Gallen of Rum”
Number of pages in Outline Descendant Report: 121
(up from 120 last chronicle)
Number of pages in basic Descendant Report: 181
(up from 177 last chronicle)
Francis
Holmes is # 1. I am now # 286. # 285, where I was last week, is now Margaret
Rose Holmes.
Matthew
Williams, Jane William’s grandson, is last at # 402, up from # 398, and his son
is # ii.
#398
is now Melissa Grace Wellman.
This
should change weekly, if I’m doing my job.
It has been a
crazy couple of weeks and phew, today, September 29th, I must start
my cleanup and figure out where I left off in my genealogy, research, and
writing. My brother and sister, Paul and Pat, came up for a visit and we had a
wonderful catchup time and accomplished some things that needed to be done.
Fiona visited as well. Although she was not too cruel to us, only taking out
one big branch of a tree and it not falling on anything of any importance, she
did leave a mess which, between the four of us, we managed to bring into the
house. Pine needles everywhere!
I wonder how you
fared through Fiona and Ian’s nastiness. Do tell. I know Grace Holmes has a
little house in Florida and it was damaged. I’m not sure how they will deal
with that whilst in Maine; maybe an unexpected trip is in the offing.
I have the “now
you know the rest of the story” of John and Marcy written and now I am working
on revision and cutting out unnecessary works, phrases, and sentences. Every
word must contribute something to the article. It’s difficult to cut, as some
of those words mean something and I hate to let them go. But, I must. I have
one document that needs some words that still elude me.
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The Rest
of the John Holmes Story
Marcy married Dr. Richard Barnum after Peter’s death, and I have found very little information about him. I believe he outlived her.
As the documents have shown, dying intestate made life complicated for John’s widow, Marcy. However, John’s death was a good excuse for Stamford residents to throw a Puritan party. Recorded in the records, seven months after the event and available for us to read some three hundred years later:
Huntington concurs: “No doubt due to the manner of his death, the funeral service for Mr. Holmes appears to have been a public function, for at a town meeting held in Stamford 16 December 1703, ‘Voate is given yt gallen of rum for John Homes funarall’[1] be paid for by the town.”[2]
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Before a deluge of genealogy duties landed on my platter this week, I did a wee bit of Moore research. When Paul and Pat were here, we went through my Grandfather Moore’s scrapbooks and one article stood out to Paul – the story of Walter “Gus” Kyle and his wife, Doris. Doris is our first cousin once removed. Paul was intrigued – knew who he was right away. I told him we were related by marriage. After they left, I pulled out the article to see if I could glean any vital stats from it and a mystery fell into my lap. There was another woman. But. . . no divorces. (That’s common – not many divorce records are on line.) And, there was a baby. Three years after the baby arrived, he married the other woman. Funny thing was, newspapers.com listed his wife as the former wife, Doris, in his obituary. As I don’t have a subscription, I emailed Ann Marie to see if she could find it for me. She did. How odd. I dug further into the scrapbook and found a letter from Gus’s wife to my father. In it, she told me of the death of her sister, but the letter concluded with this paragraph, and the answer to my mystery about a hockey player of my brother’s era. Paul collected hockey cards and I used to have to ask him random questions from his cards – a precursor to my daughter and her love of Pokemon cards. |
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"Walter and I are back together after all these
years and thank God I had him as I don't know what I am going to do without
Marge [her sister] as we were very close and talked frequently on the phone. I
retired the end of April and am enjoying it very much. Walter is semi-retired
but still sells some insurance and I help him in the office which he moved back
into the house when he came, so it keeps me busy and I haven't missed working
too much - not the work but I do miss the people. We have been doing a lot of
golfing which we both enjoy and are planning on a trip in January to Bixoli,
Miss. to golf and get away for a little while."
~
Now, what else have I been up to.
Photos are from a 2016 skit at Settlers Landing - the arrival of the seven families on the sloop Lovey, ready to own their own piece of land in New Brunswick. I have a hunch that they weren't dressed quite that nicely after their sea journey from Pennsylvania.
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