HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-07-30, Page 35.N:_.., T .
ACIrlan in partnership with a Man from Blytitit
was otoerated.by Mike and Barney Benninger,
It ran successfully for several years but un-
fortunately burnt down in I917 and was never
rebuilt
overwhelming. People
would come with armfuls
of pictures and scrap-
books willing to' talk
about their family's
ancestors for hours. The
committee has attempted
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library sent them to Olive
and she went to Willy
John Stuthers. He sent
them to the cemetery,
where they found in-
formation on the tomb-
stones which verified
Happy
Birthday
Dungannon
From
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& Printing
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Happy Birthday
Dungannon
On the occasion of your
125th
Birthday
From
ASHFIELD TOWNSHIP
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• This. Is a view of the .back ''of .the creamery
owned ..by the River Cedar Valley Creamery
Company, built on Disher property a short
distanee ,along.'the road' from the fourth
concession, bridge with ,Thomas Disher's son,
The Dungannon two days before his death to verify all the in- information they already
Women's Institute has in 1913. -The diary is 'formation in the book but had,. connecting them to,
prepared a history book contained in a series of 12 they realize there may be their ancestors,
to be published in con- books. mistake& They ask'that if. The committee found
junction with the The committee spent there are mistakes or the medical histories of
omissions, people inform the families most in-
them so they can be teresting. There were
corrected-should another frequent deaths caused
edition of the book be by blood poisoning and
printed. one account of a young
The history , book has man who contacted
also put the committee in rabies. The death was so
stories which have to touch with people trying terrible, the family
remain unwritten to - to trace their family's smothered him with a
protect the families, but roots. A granddaughter mattress to end his
the committee laughs and great-granddaughter misery.lHe left a wife and
about the other history of the Hagens who lived two small children.
that still remains to be in Dungannon about 1874 Elma Black recalls
-writn, the one you can't were looking for— in- how she had the unique
write. formation about their experience of being.
Albert area. In the village They found the family at the Goderich Turn to page 130 Dungannonhistories--response to-their-request--llbrary:-
were done for the School, for information to - be cousin who worked at the
churches, businesses and
stores. The book also
includes township
minutes and reports of
road building; honour
rolls of the two world
wars.; golden and
diainond anniversaries;
methods of farming and
pictures from the in-
stitute Tweedsmuir
History book.
The committee used
the census of 1851, 1861
and 1871 to trace family
origins as well as
resources at the registry
office. Family histories
were done in the village
because many of the
village families were
retired couples who had
moved into the village
from the outlying farms
and their histories would
'have been repetitious.
The greatest find of the
research done for the__
book was a diary written
by William MeQuoid of
concession 7 in Ashfield.
Excerpts from the diary
published in the history
book cover wperiod of 40
years. Mr. McQuaid
wrote in his diary every
day -from about 1860 until
*Dungannon 125th bir-
thday party. Marian
Zinn, Olive Blake, Elnia
Black and Elsie Irvin are
members of the institute
who have worked on the
project and the fifth
member of , their com-
mittee has been Ashfield
resident, Sheila Gtmby;
The history book traces
the family history of the
farms in the southern
--part of-Ashfield-and-West
Wawanosh, and the Port
huurs talking with olcler
members, of the aorn-
munity whose memories,
of the past provided
valuable resources for
the history. Their
research produced
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