(This refers to the hard copy masthead - doesn't apply here). Do you like the new masthead? It appeared from nowhere, such is life on a computer with the "supposed-to-be-smart" programs of today. It looked OK so I just left it. Sometimes it just isn't worth the fight. Who knows whether some Great Guiding Hand didn't set it up. However, it is more likely some plain dumb programming on somebody's part.
1998 is the Centennial year for Albury Church. The following are planned events for the year:
Further and the latest information can be obtained on the Albury Church home page at:
http://www.reach.net/~vrose/
On February 19th, I registered 8 of my family as U.E. Loyalists and 3 of my sister Jessie's family. I learned a great deal of interesting things about the family during my research. At the last I had to asked help from my friend Eleanor Carleton Moult who works closely with Ontario Archives. I could do it all except to join my Grandfather with his Father. The difficulty was all over "Cos".
When I asked for my Grandfather's death registration and gave his parent as James and Anna, they said they had no such registration. However, Eleanor who knew James as Cos, found it. His middle name was Coshman - that is where he got the "Cos". That completed my research.
What can I add but that I didn't know that. That piece of information never came down in my verbal history lessons. I always thought it came from a variation of Jacobus (ya-co-bus). Good work Helen..
Here is another part that changed my thoughts on the pacific nature of my ancestors.
When I wrote to Nova Scotia there was no record of a James Peck Sr who moved there. The Peck-Peek family are not on the ship's list that took refugees to Nova Scotia. We don't know how they got there, probably in their own boat, but his brother Samuel and James Jr are listed there in land grants. Halifax thought that since James Sr. didn't ask for land, they had no record. Anyway, the James Jr. family didn't stay long but returned to New Jersey and ran the ferry to Peck's Slip for two years.
There is sort of a secrecy about James Sr. James Sr. and his brother Samuel fought violently in the American Revolution for the British. They were both brought to trial and sentenced to be hung, but escaped and it was thought they went to Nova Scotia. Probably that is why they didn't go on the British boat. There doesn't seem to be anything conclusive of how James Sr. came to Big Island in Prince Edward County. But since James Jr. lived with his father on Big Island until 1800 when he moved to Ameliasburg, they must have landed together.
Now how about that! I always thought that my ancestors were very gentle people who did not take sides in the American Revolution (Americans please read War of Independence). I wonder if we were living then, what side we would take.
Ross has had some tough luck regarding his latest edition. He has put a lot of time, effort, and money into it. For those of us on computers, we can sympathize with his loss of data from a hard disk failure.
I have money on hand to refund any of those who sent money to Ross for his latest edition. I have done some refunding. If anyone did order the book, please provide me with the details and I will issue a refund cheque.
Now on hard disks, I teach (and preach to) my students that a hard disk can fail in 10 seconds, 10 minutes, or 10 years, and you have no idea when it will happen. I have heard more that once the sickening sound of a bearing going and then that fatal message of the disk drive being unaccessible. Back up! The new Zip disks make it a breeze to store large quantities of data. Backup! And again I say, BACKUP!
The Internet Service Provider that I am with, Cyberus, has just opened access lines across Canada. They have block time purchase available which means that the price is very reasonable.
For example, they have a 150 hours over 5 years for $75. Now if you use a lot of e-mail as I do with browsing only interesting sites, then that brings the cost down to $15 per year. I regularly use only two hours a month even though I get 5 to 10 e-mails a day. How you ask? I go on-line, retrieve my mail, and then go off-line (hang up the phone). It usually takes about 20 seconds. I do all my writing off-line. Then I go back on-line and dump the messages into the mail system.
Yes, I get up to 5 megs of home page storage and full internet access for browsing. And on top of all that, I have had one busy signal in 10 months. And if I run out of time, I will purchase another block.
Ask your local Internet Service Provider about block times. It is worth checking out.
I intend to take my Church there in January when my present contract ($100 per year) runs
out. If
you care to have a look at some of my work, try:
Lorne Bowerman Homepage
St Mark's Anglican Church Ottawa
The next newsletter will be in the spring of 1998.
Corrections or additions to the mailing list would be most appreciated.
The Peck Newsletter is edited and published by:
Lorne Bowerman