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March 1997
Queries Beware - addresses etc below may no longer be valid.
Tanner: Wanted - Information on the family of Louis Tanner (approximate age now - mid 80s), wife unknown. Daughter: Mary Lou Tanner (61 or 62 years). Sons: Wesley Tanner and John Tanner (I may be incorrect here - I'm not sure). Any information that you could give me about the above would be appreciated. Send info to Sheila I. Connell, 123 Rivergreen Place S.E., Calgary, Alberta T2C 3V6. Email address:TatiannaC@aol.com
Hardy & Matthews: I would like information on two of my ancestors. They are Joseph Hardy and Daniel Matthews (Mathews), both "old settlers"(pre-Revolutionary) of Shelburne County, probably Ragged Islands. Where did these men come from? If from New England, what town? Send information to Harold G. Simms, P.O. Box 204, Norwell MA 02061.
Corkum Wanted: Parentage and dates of Grace Corkum, b. ca 1914 in Lunenburg NS. Married, c. 1930, William Gerald Daniels. Any info will be appreciated. Frank William Daniels, 216 Cedar Crescent, Barrie, ON L4N 4A7
Jodrey: Wanted: The parents of Kenneth Jodrey, born in Nova Scotia (according to his death records) on December 14, 1884. On June 30, 1911, he married Amy Blake in Rumford, Maine. He worked in the mills in Rumford. He died in hospital in Rumford, Maine, on July 1, 1923, and was buried in East Rumford, Maine. I have the names of his ten children, and I have visited at the home of his son, John William Jodrey, in Andover, Maine. They did not know the names of Kenneth's parents. I know the families of Kenneth's descendants, and would like to be able to connect the family to its Nova Scotia roots. Can anyone help? Send info to Murray L. Jodrey, RR #4, Bridgewater NS B4V 2W3.
Historical Notes of Queens County Continued from last issue
...by Robert Randall McLeod, from Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society for 1912
Andrew McLeod, a bare kneed Highlander when he came, married Sarah Lohnas of Lunenburg County, and made a farm adjoining that of Mr. Spears. This couple lived there the natural span of life, and always worthy of respectful appreciation. They left no posterity.
In 1811 Allan McLean, another kilted Highlandman, must have been not long from his native heath; My mother remembered his strange garb on his first coming. He soon got himself into a more taking courting rig for our girls, and captured Eliza, a daughter of Thomas Christopher, of Brookfield, and settled at Caledonia, where a large family was reared. Later in life Mr. McLean followed his children to Boston, where they were in prosperous circumstances, and there ended his days. His wife had died many years before in the old home.
John Douglas, with a fine face, and a rich accent, won a wife in the person of Abigail Foster, of Port Medway, a daughter of Milton Foster and Phoebe Tucker his wife. They made a beautiful home at Caledonia. A large family grew up around them, but these in turn have all passed away with the exception of two daughters, as it seems to me.
Richard Telfer married a sister of McLean's wife, Mary Christopher by name, and settled on a lot adjoining that of Douglas, where he cleared a good farm. He did not live to a great age. Two sons and two daughters are still among our respectable and useful people. His wife long outlived him.
George Middlemas had married in Scotland Margaret Douglas, a sister of our John, and they came with two or three children, and made a home a mile up on the West Caledonia Road. Twice their houses were burned, entailing great hardships. Mrs. Middlemas long outlived her husband, a most useful woman in the whole community, and far past the fourscore she told me of her ninety day's voyage from Scotland. Her four sons and a daughter are all dead, but the old couple are represented by a numerous posterity.
David Middlemas, brother of George, married Mary Freeman, daughter of James and Hannah Freeman, of Brookfield, and settled on the West Caledonia road, where he had a comfortable home and lived long enough to see his grand children grow up around him.
Near this time came Capt. Hallet Collins, of Liverpool and his wife Rhoda Peek, formerly from New England. This new settler was a brother of the Hon. Enos Collins, of Halifax. At that time fortune had not very distinctly smiled on the family, and Hallet did not seem to be contented with his lot at home. He had married Margaret Reynolds of Halifax, who was not well calculated for this pioneer life, and soon gave up the struggle. Her husband as usual consoled himself with another, a Miss Flower, of Annapolis County. He lived first in South Brookfield, and afterwards in North Brookfield. I don't think he ever cleared an acre of land, but in later years he was the Nabob of the District, driving the first covered buggy and amusing himself sailing his boat. The country seemed to be good for what ailed him, and he stuck to it a long while, in fact as long as he lasted, and that was well in to the time for me to recall his appearance. He left two children, Francis, a merchant of Liverpool, and Caroline, who married Edward Bishop, of Annapolis.
This new region seemed to have special attraction for sea captains, and the fourth of that calling was Captain Nathaniel Smith, of Liverpool, where he had sailed as master. He was the youngest son of Stephen Smith and Mahetable Eldridge, and uncle to Josiah, of Brookfield. He was able to hire help and soon had a good farm and a comfortable home. He was the first magistrate of the District, at a time when these officials were not so plentiful, that it was a great distinction to run clear of a commission than it was to receive one. They had a fashion in those days of matching the men with the office, and they dared write on their escutcheons the motto of the Earl of Lonsdale, "The Magistracy shows the Man." The old Romans had the fine saying that "the man should give dignity to his house and not expect his house to give dignity to him." The same rule should apply in official appointments, but we have got into the dispensation of "pulls" and merit does not count in the distribution of desirable plums. You will pardon this little aside, and we will go on to say that Mr. Smith had married Ruth, a daughter of Robert Millard and Ann Crowell, of Liverpool, by whom he had several children. They lived to an old age and their descendants are numerous but their children are all dead.
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