W. Lindley, Etching of York Castle Prison, 1759[ii] Bette Smith>Mildred Cameron>Stella Knox>Wm Wallace Knox>Margaret Anderson>Ann Graves>Richard Darling Graves>Mary Wragg>Richard Wragg (my 6th great-grandfather) Research Findings Last year, my sister Dorothy and I commissioned a professional historical and legal researcher, Susan T. Moore, to find the original records related to Richard Wragg’s incarceration and trial on … Continue reading Remember Those in Prison →

Robert Auchmuty Sproule "The Port of Montreal, 1830"[i] Bette Smith>Mildred Cameron>Stella Knox>Wm Wallace Knox>Margaret Anderson>Ann Graves> Richard Darling Graves>Mary Wragg>her brother William Wragg (my sixth great uncle) Those concerned in our  story as it begins in Montreal 1819 The Graves Richard Graves, out-of-work Master Blacksmith, lately returned from New York CityJuliann Maville [Richard’s wife] and … Continue reading Hard Times in Montreal →

Bette Smith>Mildred Cameron>Stella Knox>Wm Wallace Knox>Margaret Anderson>Ann Graves (my third great grandmother) When I think of Ann Graves Anderson, I imagine her as a hardworking farm wife in rural Clarence Township, Russell County, Ontario. She lived in an area of bad roads, few neighbours, and even fewer amenities.  In the 1860s, she and her husband, … Continue reading What Ann Saw on Mulberry Street →

Asher Brown Durand (American, Jefferson, New Jersey 1796–1886 Maplewood, New Jersey) [i] Bette Smith>Mildred Cameron>Stella Knox>Wm Wallace Knox>Margaret Anderson>Ann Graves>Richard Darling Graves>Mary Wragg>Richard Wragg (my 6th great-grandfather) One of our ancestors, Richard Wragg, a blacksmith, arrived in Saratoga, New York, scarcely a decade before the American Revolution began. We know he was from Ecclesfield, Yorkshire … Continue reading High Treason? Yikes! →