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Wednesday, March 3,1999
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Community
Geneoiogists discuss 1842
Huron assessment rolls tonight
GODERlCH . - Looking for
your ancestors? The Huron
Branch of the Ontario
Genealogical Society (OGS)
may be able to help in your
search for family history.
The Huron OGS group
meets tonight at 7:30 p.m.
at the Huron County
Museum and the topic for
the meeting will be the
1842 Assessment Rolls.
For more than 15 years
the Huron OGS has worked
to collect a vast wealth of
information about people
who were born, lived and
died in Huron County. Ther
group has more than 400
members, including more
than 60 local members
who _ work to compile and
maintain the records
which are stored at the
Huron County Pioneer
Museum.
The group offers open
hours at the log house on
the museum grounds when
people can come in and
search through the
records.
As well, last year the
Huron OGS undertook a
significant project, when
they compiled the 1842
assessment rolls for the
Huron District.
Patrick Rourke, a
Goderich high school stu-
dent, was hired to com-
plete the project and to
create a website for the
information.
Reg Thompson, a mem-
ber of the Huron OGS,
helped to oversee the pro-
ject and says that the 1842
Huron District Assessment
Rolls is the earliest official
population record for this
area.
"The records pre -date
most newspapers. Many of
the names were taken
from faded sheets, with
handwritten names in quill
pen.
While Reg noted that the
penmanship of the day was
quite elaborate, the names
were often difficult to read.
"Some names ran togeth-
er. There were spelling
mistakes and many oddi-
ties," Reg noted, adding as
an example, "The German
names in South Easthope
were a gibe challenge
because of the different
alphabet."
The 1842 Huron
Assessment records the
names of people who lived
in the area now known as
Huron County, excluding
the townships in the north,
which at that time were
still part of; the Queen's
Bush. However the roles do
include areas east to
Stratford including Ellis,
Downie, Logan, Hibbert
and East Southhope, and
the Middlesex municipali-
ties of McGillivray,
Williamsand Biddulph.
"There were three people
living in Logan Township,"
Reg said.
Compiling the 1842
records is just one of the
many projects that the'
Huron OGS has completed.
The active group meets
nine times a year on the
first Wednesday of each
month, and has guest
speakers and special topics
at each meeting
Upcoming meetings this
year will feature other
interesting topics, such as
the history of the House of
Refuge (now Huronview)
and war brides.
For more information
about the Huron OGS,
meeting times and family
search information, con-
tact the local president Pat
Saundercock in Clinton at
482-9650.
News from St.Anne's Catholic School
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This past week, as a t'und-raiser for Ontario Students Against Impaired Driving, the
students and staff faced off against the OPP hockey team. While we as a community
lost the actual game, we did gain, on Friday afternoon, a time for community develop-
ment and school spirit. I stood at the game and watched while students roared as Mr.
Craig, a student servicesteacher, scored yet another goal. Throughout the game stu-
dents worked their way through the crowd encouraging another cheer to urge our side
on. The students truly got a sense of the spirit of our O.P.P. as they played and staged a
scuffle, which our student Adam won, and it was all in great spirit. The final moments
of the game saw the bench empty as assistant Coach Brohman-Way released the full
power of the team and the ice was St. Anne's Blue and Burgundy, board to board .
I am not trying to write about a hockey game play by play, but rather about the spirit
that is youth. Students, .... teens, often get a bad reputation for apathy, for violence,
and for generally negative behaviour. In my experience, over many years in secondary
education, I have seen students working hard. I have seen students putting their tal-
ents into their communities and students developing into fine young adults. On Friday
we shared our enthusiasm for life and fun and consequently achieved a powerful goal.
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