Saturday, April 7, 2012

Lest We Forget - Part 2

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Photo Courtesy of Bill, Margaret and Mark Symons who visited Vimy a few years ago. Many of the young men in our family have answered the...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Dire Endings

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Not all the descendents of James Johnson and Elizabeth Patterson carried the luck of the Irish with them through life.  James and Elizabeth ...
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Friday, February 17, 2012

The Saga of Captain James Scott Simmonds and Mercy Ann Freeman

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Flora Ann Campbell Beattie This is a great one! Captain James Scott Simmonds was the uncle of our Great Grandmother, Sarah Simmonds. - ...
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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Albert L. Cutten - Killed in the Halifax Explosion

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Albert Little Cutten was born in 1880 in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia.  His parents were John R. Cutten and Martha Teed (the granddaughter of bo...
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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Dr Edith Caroline Hudgell

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Harley Street, London England - 1927 In researching the Bragg Family history, I've unearthed (so to speak) many interesting charac...
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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Christmas at Windham Hill

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The year is 1880 and my name is Lucy Jane Bragg Taylor. I live with my husband Andrew in Williamsdale, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.  I...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Let Us Remember

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Cenotaph at Malagash, Nova Scotia The Keeper by Marilyn Bragg The old man stands there wizened and bent And watchs through tears as the...
Friday, October 21, 2011

Rogers, Johnson and Bragg - More Branches Entwined

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Researching the Bragg Family Tree is a bit like playing a game of Clue.  You get a piece of information and then another and suddenly the wh...
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Sunday, October 16, 2011

The Bragg Family Tree - Branches Entwined

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Last resting place of William, Catherine and their children  I guess it stands to reason that over the years various branches of our B...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Daniel Starritt Gamble - Johnny Appleseed was a Gamble?

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Daniel Starritt Gamble was my 1st cousin, 3 times removed.  He was the son of my grandmother, Julia Gamble's uncle Robert. Exerpt fr...
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