Hi from southern Ontario,
Chez moi/at home: what's happening here? Here we go again, 15-20 cm of snow forecast over the next 24 hours and it’s cold. It started to snow about 30 minutes ago and is coming down fast. It feels really cold in the house, it isn’t according to the thermostat but definitely time to turn on the gas fire.
The reno is officially finished, but that doesn’t mean my work is done, we still have many things that came out of bookcases, chests and shelves that have to go back where they belong. Having the sink and dishwasher installed and functioning is GREAT!
The stove won’t be fixed until next week, the defective part is being rebuilt, but the problem wasn’t caused by the reno so we are still managing with hot plates, BBQ and microwave. If I get the place tidy enough today, I’ll take some photos.
WikiTree: The Pattullo family, there are 2 of them and spouses buried at Alton and a dozen probably more buried at other local cemeteries. On Wednesday Greg Slade posted a G2g question ‘The other James Pattullo’. https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1547807/the-other-james-pattullo
Thanks Greg and then down another rabbit hole. I knew that the Pattullo who became premier of British Columbia was a descendant of the Alton area family. But darn it all it is one of those families with 11 children, they are the grandchildren of the immigrant ancestor Alexander who arrived here in 1820. I have it or I think I have it all worked out now all I have to do is create all the missing profiles that connect them.
Though I do have the immigrant ancestor and his ancestors traced back to the early 1700s in Scotland. Of course, there are people marrying their cousins Pattullo married Pattullo at least once. And if I can believe the Scottish Record Society records published 1898 they were an important family. With all the requisite spelling variations, one T or 2, one L or 2, plus Patillo, Pitilloe, Pitullow and any other variations you can think of.
What I did find interesting is that out of the many online trees no one has apparently researched the rather odd first name Halkett given to both a son and grandson of the immigrant ancestor, it turns out to be the maiden name of the GGM of Alexander, Janet Halkett Patullo she died in 1802 and is a key piece of information to tracing the family further back.
Her 1802 death record is interesting, under cause of death it says, ‘married cousin- John Patullo d 1795’. Maybe it was the only space available for more information and not the cause of death!
On the winding way to finding Pattullo records I found a marvellous book on Archive.org that is a history of a village not far from Alton and includes many wonderful tidbits about some of the families I am researching. It is not available for download now, so I may have to find a copy elsewhere, yes Amazon has it.
And just for Pip, All the Pattillos in the US are descendant of one of two brothers. George and Henry Pattillo came to America from Dundee Scotland in 1740. They were the sons of George Pattillo and Jane Johnstone.
George settled in Charlotte Co. Virginia, while Henry settled in North Carolina and in time became an eminent Presbyterian minister. He married Mary A Anderson.
In 1775, Henry was selected for one of the delegates for the county of Bute (now Warren and Franklin) to attend the first Provincial Congress of North Carolina. He became very involved in Colonial politics and eventually was unanimously chosen as Chairman of the Congress.
In 1776, the North Carolina Congress took the ground of Independence some two months before the action of the Continental Congress, as related in the chapter on the Declaration of Independence.
In the year 1780, Mr. Pattillo became the pastor of Nutbush and Grassy Creek, in Granville county and lived out his remaining days preaching and teaching.
If you Google "Rev Henry Pattillo" you'll find articles all over the internet about his work as a minister, starting churches, teaching, etc.
Source https://www.familysearch.org/service/records/storage/das-mem/patron/v2/TH-999-48644-1467-46/dist.txt?ctx=ArtCtxPublic
Other: we went to ‘a gala performance’ last night, called Bound For Canada; A Musical Journey From Hardship to Hope, described as music and vocals produced by the Canada Ireland Foundation. ‘The music is a tribute to the resilience of our Irish ancestors, and celebrates the compassionate response of the many brave and selfless Canadians who provided assistance to the thousands of Irish Famine migrants who arrived on these shores 175 years ago’.
In the summer of 1847, the Toronto waterfront witnessed one of the greatest human tragedies in the history of the city. Between May and October of that year, 38,560 Irish Famine migrants arrived from Ireland at a time when the city’s population was just 20,000 people.
The music was good, the vocals not so much, the 45 minutes of political speechifying before it started not needed.
We had dinner at a fine dining restaurant, took the GO bus (regional public transit) there and back about 70 km one way for less than $10 round trip each.
