Uncle Peg’s Chronicles
March 19, 2026
“Tear and Shriek and Whistle and Hustle”
“These
were their settlements. And they kept good family records.”[1]
Don’t
forget to look for the title which is embedded in the chronicle.
FAMILY ALBUM
I know this photo is a review. Since completing and sending off my
article for “Generations,” I have been working on “A Colossal Collection of
Cousins,” Westmorland section.
This is one of the reunion photos, the first on in 1924, I believe.
Back row: Charles, Peter, Anna, William, and James
Front row: Hannah, Augusta, and Carrie
Charles wife, Phoebe, did not attend. Peter
was married to Hannah. William was married to Anna, James was married to
Augusta. Carrie’s husband, Alfred, had passed away by this time.
And I Quote:
Thank you.
Kennon read it and commented that this [award to Philip Anklesaria] was a big
deal. Happy it made the newsletter.
~ Eleanor, on behalf
of Kennon Wilson, on the honour that Philip received. Eleanor is in the Peter K
Holmes line.
1925
to 1928
Those are the years that our Holmes ancestors spent
renewing relationships that had somehow fallen by the wayside but with
organization, letter writing, and challenging travel – by hook or by crook –
they managed to come together again. They reacquainted and rediscovered their
family ties. And then, one by one, they died, and many of those ties died with
them.
2025 to 2028
My article is in the hands of the
editor of “Generations,” Dave. Dave has a 66 - page journal to compile and send
out to members of the New Brunswick Genealogy Society every three months. It’s
a big job, and not one that I would like to do. All that fitting and formatting
– too much for me. I’m happy to submit an article to him once in a while, to
help him fill the pages.
This paragraph is not because I am selfish,
but because of the way copyright works. The journal is copyrighted by the
society, and the article is copyrighted by me. That means, it cannot be copied
without permission. I would not submit the same article to another journal.
What does that mean for my Holmes family and friends of the family? It means
that you can join the society and get a virtual copy on our website, or, for a
price, request a paper copy. I will adapt it for our family, but my own
copyright will remain on it. It is
called my “intellectual property." I am now working on the family’s copy.
So, about my article. I wrote about
Uncle Howard ‘Fenwick’ Holmes back in 2014, in “A Homestead on the Old Post
Road.” Since I wrote and distributed my book, I have learned a lot more about
both Fenwick and different places and ways to research. Most of what I wrote in
the book is basically correct, but I found a lot more stuff. Right now, I am
taking that book about Daniel Holmes and Charlotte Hoyt, and their children and
grandchildren, and updating it. I have inserted it into Colossal Collection
of Cousins, in a section I call Westmorland. I don’t know if I’ll
live long enough to do what I want to with CCC, but I am puttering away at it.
I especially want to get this sectiondone. Trouble is, rabbit trails and holes
abound, and sometimes I fall into their trap.
So, although I am using what I wrote
for “Generations” as the basis for my update, I am adding more to it for the
family, including some maps and photos I did not have permission to use
(copyright reasons) or I didn’t have space to include them. I shrunk the
article to nubbins, and now I’m growing it again, but I still want to keep it
neat and tidy. You, the family, will have access to it, but I probably won’t
distribute it much beyond the family.
By the way, I will now send family
members and friends of the family a copy of “A Homestead” in a pdf format, if
you want it.
Clarification
I want to clarify something about my
last chronicle. I wrote about Maud Lewis, and a couple of you thought I was
writing about Maud, wife of Fenwick Holmes.
Maud was a Nova Scotia folk artist, who
was a destitute and little-known physically handicapped folk artist in my
neighbouring province, Nova Scotia. Som
of her original works now fetch over $100,000. I went with my cousin to view an
exhibit of her work at the Art Gallery in Halifax.
She is no relation to our Aunt Maud
(English) Holmes.
News from Holmes
Congratulations
to David Moore and Jayde Goldsworthy, who married in Cleveland, Tennessee, on
February 22, 2026. David is the son of Paul and Ruth Moore. David is in the
Charles R Holmes line; he my nephew. Jayde officially changed her name to Jayde
Michell Moore, after her aunt and David’s sister. Thank you to Ruth for
suggesting this marriage announcement and photograph for the chronicle.
FAMILY HISTORY LESSON
It is time to start
posting my family history lessons again, for those who are interested. They are
generally more in depth than the rest of the newsletter, so I put them at the
end. But what, I wondered, as I often do, should I share? My
grandmother did what many people used to do – she kept a scrapbook. It’s mostly
newspaper clippings, with a few other bits of news that interested her that she
found in other places. She cut them out of local newspapers and glued or pinned
them onto an existing newspaper. Behind her clippings are songs of Christmas. I
decided to do this with my Fenwick and Maud (English) Holmes portion of the
Colossal Collection of Cousins. Easier said than done. It would be so much
easier to print them off and copy them onto a piece of paper and then scan the
pieces of paper. Why, you may ask? Because MS WORD has a mind of its own, one
that overrides my copy and pastes into it. Another challenge is putting all
these bits of information in chronological order. Gram’s scrapbook
was random – it didn’t follow a timeline. It is a gold mine of information, and
has helped me with information about my specific branch of the family.Most, but
not all the articles I included in this scrapbook are referred to in the article.
Even if I didn’t include them, they helped me understand the times and places
that Fenwick and Maud lived: full descriptions of the Rat Portage fires, for
example. Theoretically, a writer can think of them and subtly include details
in their article. I did not include this article – mostly for the amount of
room it would take and because, admittedly, the writer slept through the area
of Rat Portage and quoted the guidebook. But, if you read the entire clipping,
you get an idea of the journeys and surroundings that Fenwick and Maud would
have experienced.
For the full article, go to this link:
This ends
week twelve of our centennial virtual celebration of 1926 – 2026.
