Writing the story of Robert Tomlinson was actually quite difficult. I wanted to pull out facts, as facts are important. I also wanted to give enough information to get a picture of what we knew about him. There have been quite a few books written about him. Not all the information in those books is accurate – stories get muddled and changed through the years, and we have so much more access to records now than we did in the years since they were written. Some were written during his lifetime and some as late as 40 years ago.
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Ancestor History Alice Mary Woods
I have always wanted to write the life story of Alice Mary Woods. Therefore this *short* bit of information about her life was actually extremely hard to write. I wanted to expand, I wanted to dig deeper. But I am not a storyteller. I am best in facts. I’m saving all that for another day, when perhaps I have learned how to tell the story better. It was good to get the facts, it was fun to find the documents.
To come from a life of relative luxury first to Victoria, then to northern British Columbia, Alice must have been such a strong person. I saw that strength passed on to the wonderful ladies in the generations before me, and I can only hope others also see me as strong (to all my brothers, I said strong, not stubborn).
Too many Richards
When I was searching for my gg.grandmother’s parents I found Richard and Anne whose parents were Richand and Anne and Richard and Anne. So they needed sorting.
After reviewing more than 250 documents, I have sorts the Richards and Annes as far as a I can for the moment.
The plus side is that more than one side of the family are mentioned in deeds, both marriage and lease. So I’m have a lot more work to do. In the mean time, you are welcome to read about the Richards in my article called Open the door Richard.
Ancestor History Eliza Wells
The first ancestor history in the great-great grandparents category has been added. Eliza Wells is the mother of Agnes Glover. She lived only a short hard life and died from TB at only 35.
Ancestor History Agnes Glover
We can assume that Agnes’s father’s last name was Glover. Because when she was born, her mother’s last name was Wells. There is no other reason to give the baby a different last name than that of her mother.
When Agnes Glover was only two, her mother married Charles Parr. From that time forward Agnes normally used the name Parr as her name. When legal names were required, such as on the marriage certificate, this caused some confusion, and sometimes led administrative personnel to “correct” documents.
