As one natural disaster after another has occurred, we can feel proud as Canadians that we are there helping. Some of our organizations are on the ground. For example, Hurricane Irma and the damage in St. Martin, Global Medic is bringing water filter kits and basic supplies to the people there. The Red Cross and World Vision are two organizations there throughout the year. We help our own at home but are there for the world community too.
#naturaldisaster#hurrican#globalmedic#worldvision#stmartin#redcross
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
#58 BARB'S RELFECTIVE 150- TO OUR FIRST RESPONDERS
Canada is a nation of compassion and care. We have infrastructures in place. So to our police, fire men and women, forest fire fighters, hydro crews, health care professionals and all those who help in our natural disasters, accidents and all events. Our 150 could not be the same without all the efforts of the people on the ground. Many organizations depend on volunteers to help too.
NANA SAYS HELPING CHILDREN RESPOND TO WORLD EVENTS WITHOUT TRAUMATIZING THEM
Compassion. Care. Being aware of world events is important for children. But the fine line of informing without traumatizing them is important too.
The images on TV. The talk. With fires and hurricanes and floods in North America, it is difficult to keep all the information and images toned down.
So answer questions as children ask them. Do something to help. See kids- we are making a donation to Red Cross. This is how it helps.
I love the food bank drives at schools on special occasions. A simple way for children to be involved without traumatizing.They start to have a community conscience at a basic level. It is an activity that helps others locally. Doing activities to raise money for local hospitals and charities.
If you have lived through a natural disaster, get the support and help you need. Children need to process and that process could take years.
For adults, we can experience natural disaster burnout too. It is tough seeing those images and not asking- gee could it happen to me.
So letting children feel they are helping other children. For example, buying new socks for a drive where clothes and toiletries are needed. They are part of the solution. Teaching every little bit helps because it becomes a big bit.
One person can not save the world. But one person's part as part of the larger collective does help. One action at a time. Children can get that!
The images on TV. The talk. With fires and hurricanes and floods in North America, it is difficult to keep all the information and images toned down.
So answer questions as children ask them. Do something to help. See kids- we are making a donation to Red Cross. This is how it helps.
I love the food bank drives at schools on special occasions. A simple way for children to be involved without traumatizing.They start to have a community conscience at a basic level. It is an activity that helps others locally. Doing activities to raise money for local hospitals and charities.
If you have lived through a natural disaster, get the support and help you need. Children need to process and that process could take years.
For adults, we can experience natural disaster burnout too. It is tough seeing those images and not asking- gee could it happen to me.
So letting children feel they are helping other children. For example, buying new socks for a drive where clothes and toiletries are needed. They are part of the solution. Teaching every little bit helps because it becomes a big bit.
One person can not save the world. But one person's part as part of the larger collective does help. One action at a time. Children can get that!
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
5 WAYS TO HELP WITH NATURAL DISASTERS
A summer of unprecedented fires in British Columbia and Alberta. Homes lost and people displaced. Now with the over the top Hurricane season, it can be overwhelming. How can individuals help in any way.
1. Give to the Red Cross- International and National. Any donation helps. One does not have to give mega bucks.
2. Give to Global Medic. They have drones that can drop items into areas that are inaccessible. They have amazing water filter kits. Water is so needed.
3. Ask a colleague or friend if they know someone personally so that personal donations can be made to the person. We all have little personal, unused items that could help. If you would not wear it because it is stained or ratty then do not give it to someone else. Toiletries are often needed. How many makeup free samples do we have that could be forwarded?
4. Can you open up your home for a much needed vacation week for someone suffering. Especially the children. Treat them to a day at a zoo or museum or amusement park. Invite that relative or friend for a break. Listen on skype, text, phone calls and be prepared to help with the potential of post traumatic stress disorders.
5. No one is invincible so make sure your home has emergency items in case of a hydro outage or storm or whatever could come your way. Read what your insurance covers for your home, car and personal liability. The government is not responsible for you under every circumstance so be personally responsible.
Here's to everyone out there dealing with the aftermath of all these disasters. Reach out to each other. There for the grace of God go I!
#RedCross#GlobalMedic#donations#BritishColumbia#Alberta#hurricanes#posttraumaticstressdisorders#support
1. Give to the Red Cross- International and National. Any donation helps. One does not have to give mega bucks.
2. Give to Global Medic. They have drones that can drop items into areas that are inaccessible. They have amazing water filter kits. Water is so needed.
3. Ask a colleague or friend if they know someone personally so that personal donations can be made to the person. We all have little personal, unused items that could help. If you would not wear it because it is stained or ratty then do not give it to someone else. Toiletries are often needed. How many makeup free samples do we have that could be forwarded?
4. Can you open up your home for a much needed vacation week for someone suffering. Especially the children. Treat them to a day at a zoo or museum or amusement park. Invite that relative or friend for a break. Listen on skype, text, phone calls and be prepared to help with the potential of post traumatic stress disorders.
5. No one is invincible so make sure your home has emergency items in case of a hydro outage or storm or whatever could come your way. Read what your insurance covers for your home, car and personal liability. The government is not responsible for you under every circumstance so be personally responsible.
Here's to everyone out there dealing with the aftermath of all these disasters. Reach out to each other. There for the grace of God go I!
#RedCross#GlobalMedic#donations#BritishColumbia#Alberta#hurricanes#posttraumaticstressdisorders#support
Monday, September 11, 2017
FIND A BENCH AND WATCH THE WORLD GO BY
Taking time to quiet one's energy is a good thing.
Watching the world go by.
Watching the planes in the sky.
Sometimes smiling and saying hi.
Then to say goodbye.
See you later, I must fly.
You ask me why?
Too much living before I die!
Sunday, September 10, 2017
#6 BARB'S GENEALOGY TIDBITS- ELIZABETH ANNE FROST
Frost, Elizabeth Anne (1871-1948)
(1st- Barbara Di Mambro, 2nd- Parkin Alton, 3rd- Leonie Parkin)
Elizabeth was my paternal great-grandmother. We called her Gammie. In my research of her family line, initially it was complicated. I was given her last name as Derbyshire even though Frost had come up.
Documents can be convoluted.
Her father is Johnathan Frost. But somewhere along the line, he is out of the picture. Her mother was Anna Butterfield. The Frost family originated from Hockering, Norfolk County, England. I am still researching about the Butterfield line.
I even bought the book House of Industry for Athens, Leeds and Grenville counties, Ontario where the family had resided to see if he had been an inmate there. An email received in 2001 from Marjorie Hankins in Newmarket said Jonathan Frost went to the House of Industry where he died. Friends claimed the body for burial. She quotes the Athens Reporter- June, 15, 1898. Elizabeth was no longer in Athens at that time.
I do not have a birth certificate for Elizabeth but the date on her tombstone is July, 1871. Thus she is not found in the 1871 Canadian Census. Her parents and brother, James are there.
In the 1881 Canadian Census, Bastard & Burgess South, Leeds South, Ontario Canada, Libbie Frost age 10 , born 1871 is living with Johnathan Frost age 47; Annie Frost age 28; James Frost age 11; Amelia Frost age 8; Byron Frost age 6; Henery Frost age 4; Ida Frost age 3; and Rufus Frost age 2.
There are census records that have an Elizabeth living with an aunt? mother? and Uncle Benjamin Derbyshire. Probably not our Elizabeth as the age was 9 on the Census Records.
Corresponded with family of brother Jimmie, confirmed our Elizabeth was his sister.
A half-sister named Gertrude Derybshire, or Aunt Gertie as we knew her brings confusion too. Did her mother remarry.? I was still trying to find some birth and death information on her.
So Elizabeth married in 1890. On her marriage certificate, she is Libbie Frost. Charles WM Parkins married Libbie Frost, age 18 January 1, 1890 in Athens, Leeds, Ontario, Canada. He was the son Robt Parkins and Hannah Parkins. ( I wrote an article for Leeds and Grenville Newsletter- 01-34 to 01-35) Charles had Keeler cousins in the area and I surmised that is how they met.
Elizabeth was the daughter of John Frost and Ann Frost. Of course Libbie can be a nickname for Elizabeth. She married at the home of Benj Derbyshire, an uncle, in the Township Rear Yonge and Escott.They were both cited as Methodist. It is interesting to note her father is a John and not a Jonathan.
Again names can be both as nicknames and short forms are often used.
Elizabeth with her husband Charles W. and daughter Leonie.
In the 1891 Canadian Census, they are living in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. Charles Perkins, age 24?, Lydia age 19, Hannah mother widow, age 62 and Martha sister, age 23. Why did he call her Lydia?
They had two children. their daughter Leonie's birth information has Violet Leona Parkin born October 28, 1891 to C.W. Parkin and Lydia Derbyshire.
Cecil Robert Benjamin Parkin was born October 14, 1893 and died February 4, 1894 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. Parents are listed as Charles Parkin( the s has been dropped) and Libbie Derbyshire. Little four month old Cecil died from inflammation of the bowels after 3 days. There are no parents listed on the death information.
In the 1901 Canadian Census , Charles W. Parkins age 33, head; wife Elisibeth A. Parkins, age 29; Leonie V. Parkins, daughter age 9 and /// on Annie, Domestic, age 12.
When Leonie Violet Parkin married Cortland Alton June 30, 1914 in Lindsay, Victoria County, Ontario Canada she was cited as being the daughter of Chas W. Parkin and Elizth Anne Derbyshire. It is interesting to note that Leonie's first and second names get reversed.
On her daughter's Leonie Violet Alton death information her name was Elizabeth Ann Derbyshire. Leonie died June 5, 1944 in Belleville Ontario. The informant on the certificate was Cortland Alton.
So why the Derbyshire name. Yes there was a connection. her aunt married a Derbyshire. Clarification is need if her mother's second marriage was to a Derbyshire thus Aunt Gertie
( Gertrude) being a Derbyshire so I thought. Was the disconnect from the Frost name due to some family issue or scandal? It is interesting to note that with the exception of Jimmie and Gertrude, her other siblings are not mentioned in family information nor are there pictures of them. I am still trying to track to discover what happened to them.I have included the picture of Elizabeth with Jimmie and Gertrude.
Trying to find Aunt Gertie's statistic, I tried her husband Wesley Langman. Much to my surprise I found tombstones online- Search Death records- of Coldwater Cemetery. She is Gertrude Frost and not Derbyshire as everyone had thought and stated when the family history search began. So how and why her last name is still Frost needs further research.
(Photo by Wayne Cook)
So back to Gammie.
I remember the day in 1988, I went with my father to the Lakeside Cemetery. When I saw Elizabeth Ann Frost on the tombstone, I realized hours of Derbyshire research had been a futile journey.
( Photo by Barbara Di Mambro)
On the tombstone interred with her husband Charles William Parkin there is the Frost name. Tombstones often are cut with family names including the living and not deceased present on the stone. I would imagine it cut down the cost. Was it possible that Gammie did not complete any of the documents but another family member did? She approved what information was placed on the tombstone. Would she have approved of her nicknames Libbie and Lydia being on important documents? On Charles Parkin's death information the informant is Elizabeth Parkin. No nickname. Did she complete it?
Deciding which documents to trust and to re-evaluate all information is a must for all our family lines. But spelling errors, poor transcription and nicknames may replace the proper given name as it did with Elizabeth Anne. Initially when researching my family history, I acquired copious amounts of Derbyshie lines. Yes there is an uncle- Benjamin Derbyshire. All the research did reveal one important fact, her real name was not Gammie.
1954 with two great-grandchildren.
Endnotes
1. Birth Certificate- still trying to locate registered birth information on Elizabeth Anne. Tombstone- Valentia Cemetery has a date. Site visit 1988.
2.1881 Canadian Census. Family Search.Org. Canada Census, 1881. Bastard & Burgess South, Leeds South, Ontario, Canada. Household ID 561712. Digital Folder Number 4465517. Image Number 00473. GS Film Number 1375868.
3. Marriage record- Ontario Marriage Records. 1869-1927. Reference ID 006969. GS Film Number 1870307. Digital Folder Number 004529216. Image Number 00338.
4. 1891 Canadian Census- Mariposa Township. Census of Canada, 1891,. Ontario. Victoria South, District Number-121.Sub-District. Name-Mariposa. household Number-82. Reference-RG31-Statistics. Canada.
5. Birth Certificate 1891- Violet Leona Parkin. Family Search.org. Canada Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959. Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, 28 Oct 1891, Reference item 1 u 17 p 65; FHL microfilm 1846446.
6. Cecil Parkin- Born October 14, 1893. Family Search. Birth Certificate. Ontario Births 1869-1911. Reference ID cn 33362. GS Film Number 1846228. Digital Folder Number 004756730. Image number 00392. Death Certificate- February 4, 1894. Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario. Reference ID yr 1894 cn 17473. GS Film Number 1853584. Digital Folder Number 4172067. Image Number 454.
7. 1901 Census of Canada- Mariposa Township, Victoria County ( South/Sud), Ontario. District Number 120. Subdistrict Number-d-2. Archives microfilm- T-6501.
8. Leona Violet Parkin's marriage certificate. Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927.Reference ID 0211774. GS Film Number 002022063. Digital Folder Number 004705225. Image Number 00902.
9. Leonie Violet Alton death information. Office of the Registrar General Ontario. Registration No: 1944-905-039172.
10. Tombstone Lakeside Cemetery- Personal visit 1988. Photo of tombstone by Barbara Di Mambro.
11. 1921 Census of Canada- Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario. Polling division no. 2, all lots from 14 to 24. Digitized page of Census of Canada, e003044066. Courtesy Library and Archives Canada.
12. Coldwater Cemetery, Severn Township, Simcoe County- waynecook.com/CEMI-Coldwater.html
Written by Barbara Di Mambro
September 10, 2017
Copyright 2017
#grandparentsday#Frost#Parkins#Keeler#Alton#mariposatownship#Athens#VictoriaCounty#ElizabethAnne#Lakeside Cemetery#Valentia#familyhistory#genealogy#waynecook
(1st- Barbara Di Mambro, 2nd- Parkin Alton, 3rd- Leonie Parkin)
Elizabeth was my paternal great-grandmother. We called her Gammie. In my research of her family line, initially it was complicated. I was given her last name as Derbyshire even though Frost had come up.
Documents can be convoluted.
Her father is Johnathan Frost. But somewhere along the line, he is out of the picture. Her mother was Anna Butterfield. The Frost family originated from Hockering, Norfolk County, England. I am still researching about the Butterfield line.
I even bought the book House of Industry for Athens, Leeds and Grenville counties, Ontario where the family had resided to see if he had been an inmate there. An email received in 2001 from Marjorie Hankins in Newmarket said Jonathan Frost went to the House of Industry where he died. Friends claimed the body for burial. She quotes the Athens Reporter- June, 15, 1898. Elizabeth was no longer in Athens at that time.
I do not have a birth certificate for Elizabeth but the date on her tombstone is July, 1871. Thus she is not found in the 1871 Canadian Census. Her parents and brother, James are there.
In the 1881 Canadian Census, Bastard & Burgess South, Leeds South, Ontario Canada, Libbie Frost age 10 , born 1871 is living with Johnathan Frost age 47; Annie Frost age 28; James Frost age 11; Amelia Frost age 8; Byron Frost age 6; Henery Frost age 4; Ida Frost age 3; and Rufus Frost age 2.
There are census records that have an Elizabeth living with an aunt? mother? and Uncle Benjamin Derbyshire. Probably not our Elizabeth as the age was 9 on the Census Records.
Corresponded with family of brother Jimmie, confirmed our Elizabeth was his sister.
A half-sister named Gertrude Derybshire, or Aunt Gertie as we knew her brings confusion too. Did her mother remarry.? I was still trying to find some birth and death information on her.
So Elizabeth married in 1890. On her marriage certificate, she is Libbie Frost. Charles WM Parkins married Libbie Frost, age 18 January 1, 1890 in Athens, Leeds, Ontario, Canada. He was the son Robt Parkins and Hannah Parkins. ( I wrote an article for Leeds and Grenville Newsletter- 01-34 to 01-35) Charles had Keeler cousins in the area and I surmised that is how they met.
Elizabeth was the daughter of John Frost and Ann Frost. Of course Libbie can be a nickname for Elizabeth. She married at the home of Benj Derbyshire, an uncle, in the Township Rear Yonge and Escott.They were both cited as Methodist. It is interesting to note her father is a John and not a Jonathan.
Again names can be both as nicknames and short forms are often used.
In the 1891 Canadian Census, they are living in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. Charles Perkins, age 24?, Lydia age 19, Hannah mother widow, age 62 and Martha sister, age 23. Why did he call her Lydia?
They had two children. their daughter Leonie's birth information has Violet Leona Parkin born October 28, 1891 to C.W. Parkin and Lydia Derbyshire.
Cecil Robert Benjamin Parkin was born October 14, 1893 and died February 4, 1894 in Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. Parents are listed as Charles Parkin( the s has been dropped) and Libbie Derbyshire. Little four month old Cecil died from inflammation of the bowels after 3 days. There are no parents listed on the death information.
In the 1901 Canadian Census , Charles W. Parkins age 33, head; wife Elisibeth A. Parkins, age 29; Leonie V. Parkins, daughter age 9 and /// on Annie, Domestic, age 12.
When Leonie Violet Parkin married Cortland Alton June 30, 1914 in Lindsay, Victoria County, Ontario Canada she was cited as being the daughter of Chas W. Parkin and Elizth Anne Derbyshire. It is interesting to note that Leonie's first and second names get reversed.
On her daughter's Leonie Violet Alton death information her name was Elizabeth Ann Derbyshire. Leonie died June 5, 1944 in Belleville Ontario. The informant on the certificate was Cortland Alton.
So why the Derbyshire name. Yes there was a connection. her aunt married a Derbyshire. Clarification is need if her mother's second marriage was to a Derbyshire thus Aunt Gertie
( Gertrude) being a Derbyshire so I thought. Was the disconnect from the Frost name due to some family issue or scandal? It is interesting to note that with the exception of Jimmie and Gertrude, her other siblings are not mentioned in family information nor are there pictures of them. I am still trying to track to discover what happened to them.I have included the picture of Elizabeth with Jimmie and Gertrude.
So back to Gammie.
I remember the day in 1988, I went with my father to the Lakeside Cemetery. When I saw Elizabeth Ann Frost on the tombstone, I realized hours of Derbyshire research had been a futile journey.
On the tombstone interred with her husband Charles William Parkin there is the Frost name. Tombstones often are cut with family names including the living and not deceased present on the stone. I would imagine it cut down the cost. Was it possible that Gammie did not complete any of the documents but another family member did? She approved what information was placed on the tombstone. Would she have approved of her nicknames Libbie and Lydia being on important documents? On Charles Parkin's death information the informant is Elizabeth Parkin. No nickname. Did she complete it?
Deciding which documents to trust and to re-evaluate all information is a must for all our family lines. But spelling errors, poor transcription and nicknames may replace the proper given name as it did with Elizabeth Anne. Initially when researching my family history, I acquired copious amounts of Derbyshie lines. Yes there is an uncle- Benjamin Derbyshire. All the research did reveal one important fact, her real name was not Gammie.
Endnotes
1. Birth Certificate- still trying to locate registered birth information on Elizabeth Anne. Tombstone- Valentia Cemetery has a date. Site visit 1988.
2.1881 Canadian Census. Family Search.Org. Canada Census, 1881. Bastard & Burgess South, Leeds South, Ontario, Canada. Household ID 561712. Digital Folder Number 4465517. Image Number 00473. GS Film Number 1375868.
3. Marriage record- Ontario Marriage Records. 1869-1927. Reference ID 006969. GS Film Number 1870307. Digital Folder Number 004529216. Image Number 00338.
4. 1891 Canadian Census- Mariposa Township. Census of Canada, 1891,. Ontario. Victoria South, District Number-121.Sub-District. Name-Mariposa. household Number-82. Reference-RG31-Statistics. Canada.
5. Birth Certificate 1891- Violet Leona Parkin. Family Search.org. Canada Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959. Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, 28 Oct 1891, Reference item 1 u 17 p 65; FHL microfilm 1846446.
6. Cecil Parkin- Born October 14, 1893. Family Search. Birth Certificate. Ontario Births 1869-1911. Reference ID cn 33362. GS Film Number 1846228. Digital Folder Number 004756730. Image number 00392. Death Certificate- February 4, 1894. Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario. Reference ID yr 1894 cn 17473. GS Film Number 1853584. Digital Folder Number 4172067. Image Number 454.
7. 1901 Census of Canada- Mariposa Township, Victoria County ( South/Sud), Ontario. District Number 120. Subdistrict Number-d-2. Archives microfilm- T-6501.
8. Leona Violet Parkin's marriage certificate. Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927.Reference ID 0211774. GS Film Number 002022063. Digital Folder Number 004705225. Image Number 00902.
9. Leonie Violet Alton death information. Office of the Registrar General Ontario. Registration No: 1944-905-039172.
10. Tombstone Lakeside Cemetery- Personal visit 1988. Photo of tombstone by Barbara Di Mambro.
11. 1921 Census of Canada- Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario. Polling division no. 2, all lots from 14 to 24. Digitized page of Census of Canada, e003044066. Courtesy Library and Archives Canada.
12. Coldwater Cemetery, Severn Township, Simcoe County- waynecook.com/CEMI-Coldwater.html
Written by Barbara Di Mambro
September 10, 2017
Copyright 2017
#grandparentsday#Frost#Parkins#Keeler#Alton#mariposatownship#Athens#VictoriaCounty#ElizabethAnne#Lakeside Cemetery#Valentia#familyhistory#genealogy#waynecook
Friday, September 8, 2017
ARE YOU A POVERA ME PERSON? POOR ME!
Povera me means poor me in Italian. Everyone has stuff. Everyone gets busy. Jobs, children, poor health and well just too much to do in too little time. But the Povera me people always try to outdo everyone. You're busy but I am busier! Let me tell you about my sorrows! Well you get the picture! We all need to talk and share our lives. Friends can be good listeners. But to be a friend, it is also important to listen and not just burden with your stuff! Aging brings changes in life, body and soul. The energy is not the same as in our youth. Not just the forests but all the trees are tough!
With the social media world where everyone is trying to outdo everyone with how wonderful their lives are, we can feel well our lives are not that great. It can be smoke and mirrors too! So do we resort to Povera Me! My life is not like that image seen everywhere! So how to balance the good, the bad and the ugly!
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