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ed him before he died of his wounds received at vimy ridge charlie walker arranged for the ring to be returned to my grandparents as a keepsake he died unmarried with no children the ring has come down through my family and is today in my care along with his enlistment and military unit photos as with all families whose loved ones were killed in the war my grandparents were devastated by the news of his death when their only son my father was born in 1924 they named him charles walker in tribute to their lost young man my father also did his best during his life to keep charlie walker s memory alive and now that responsibility is mine they shall grow not old as we that are left grow old age shall not weary them nor the years condemn at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them from for the fallen by laurence binyon posted by debra she who seeks at 04 00 42 comments labels first world war genealogy thursday 14 may 2015 slaveowner ancestors part 2 john green my 4x great grandfather was born in new jersey in 1740 during the american revolution his tory family remained loyal to england john and his four brothers all joined the royal standard and fought to keep british control of the thirteen colonies having lost that struggle john and his brother adam emigrated in the late 1780s to the niagara region in canada as united empire loyalists john brought along his wife mary seven children and a slave named tom slavery was perfectly legal in britain and its empire at that time it took british abolitionists many decades to convince people that slavery is morally wrong repugnant and should be abolished change came slowly in small incremental steps initially abolitionists succeeded only in having legislative reform measures passed to undermine slavery s viability and usefulness not to end it completely the first such measure was taken here in canada in 1793 at the behest of abolitionist john graves simcoe the lieutenant governor of upper canada he persuaded the legislature to forbid any new slaves from being brought to canada after that date while slaves already in canada remained enslaved any children born to them in upper canada would be freed at age 25 in 1807 britain passed its own incremental reform statute and abolished the slave trade although not slavery itself it took another generation of political and social agitation before slavery was completely abolished at last in britain and throughout the empire in 1833 john graves simcoe simcoe and his wife were good friends with john green and his family i suspect it was simcoe who persuaded or pressured john green to voluntarily free his slave tom now that they lived in upper canada it is said that after being freed tom chose to stay in the employ of the greens for wages john green prospered in upper canada until his death in 1830 in addition to owning a farm saw mill and grist mill he was also appointed as a surveyor road builder and justice of the peace his family name was given to the village of greensville today it is part of the suburban neighbourhood known as west flamborough on the outskirts of hamilton ontario west flamborough s christ church anglican and its old graveyard sit on land provided by john green in 1817 for that purpose john green and his wife as well as my 3x great grandfather samuel green and his wife are all buried there apparently although their tombstones have long since deteriorated and been lost to mortal view final two photos by debra she who seeks 2013 posted by debra she who seeks at 04 00 33 comments labels genealogy tuesday 12 may 2015 slaveowner ancestors part 1 do you like watching those tv shows tracing the ancestry of various celebrities i do because both history and genealogy are interests of mine recently there was a news story about how ben affleck had persuaded the makers of pbs s finding your roots not to mention his slaveowning american ancestors which the show had uncovered he felt ashamed about his family s connection to the odious institution of slavery and did not want it to reflect negatively on him and his image today but facts are facts in my opinion it does an injustice to history both national and personal to hide or deny the truth i suspect there are very few white americans from old families who would not find slaveowners among their forebears descendants have to come to terms with the terrible way in which slavery benefitted their family s material well being and advancement by way of contrast i just finished watching the current season of tlc s who do you think you are which also featured a couple of celebrities who discovered slaveowner ancestors tom paxton and melissa etheridge they handled it very differently than ben affleck both were subdued and saddened to learn of slave ownership in their families but recognized that such hard historical truths were common in the times under investigation they did not attempt to suppress that information being made public neither one celebrated this shortcoming of their ancestors but quite rightly also did not take the blame or shame of it upon themselves this issue is of personal interest to me because i have at least one slaveowner ancestor of whom i m aware i ll tell you his story in my next post posted by debra she who seeks at 04 00 36 comments labels genealogy friday 3 april 2015 a milestone birthday i m in manitoba right now with my mom who is celebrating her 90th birthday today this photo was taken during world war ii when she was 19 years old about two years before she met and married my father my sister and i are going to bring flowers and an ice cream cake to the nursing home and we will all partay aging is such a bittersweet process posted by debra she who seeks at 04 00 43 comments labels genealogy thursday 21 august 2014 ppcli centennial world war ii continuing on with the history of princess patricia s canadian light infantry today s post is about my family s more personal connection world war ii charles comfort sergeant p j ford the ppcli drew its members largely from western canada and so when my manitoba farm boy father joined the canadian war effort in 1942 he joined the patricias the regiment was part of the italian campaign along with british forces and patton s american units they invaded sicily in 1943 and fought their way up the italian peninsula successfully knocking fascist italy out of the war and diverting as many axis resources as possible from the eastern front in order to provide some relief to russia the princess pats then became part of the liberating forces of holland after the normandy invasion the allied soldiers in italy who had suffered the heaviest losses in the western theatre of war were sometimes teasingly called d day dodgers this caused much resentment i remember my dad still being pissed off about that nickname decades later lol when he was 21 my father returned from world war ii with what would today be easily recognized as a pretty severe case of post traumatic stress disorder of course in those days such symptoms were dismissed simply as temporary battle fatigue which soldiers were just expected to endure or ignore for the short term but undiagnosed and untreated my dad suffered from ptsd for the rest of his life after 20 years the worst of the extreme symptoms abated so he was no longer wild volatile violent or prone to suicide threats but he remained moody and subject to unpredictable fits of rage for a further 20 years the last 20 years of his life were the closest he ever came to living on a relatively even keel but still his moods could turn on a dime his military service was the thing my dad was most proud of in his life but he paid a high price for it as did we who lived with him posted by debra she who seeks at 04 00 28 comments labels genealogy o canada second world war saturday 6 july 2013 samuel green and the war of 1812 two hundred years ago today on july 6 1813 my great great great grandfather samuel green died he was a farmer and miller in west flamborough upper canada today part of hamilton ontario samuel belonged to a large united empire loyalist family which had fled to upper canada from new jersey during the american revolution he was 43 when he died leaving a wife and 11 children samuel died performing military service in the war of 1812 with his local militia unit the 2nd york regiment his wife margaret later received a war widows pension for his loss most accounts say that samuel green was a casualty of the battle of stoney creek which was fought during the night of june 5 6 1813 some accounts say he was killed in action but the later stated death date of july 6 would indicate that he must have instead died of wounds received in the battle or perhaps that death date on the pension application was simply a clerical error and july should have read june or did samuel survive the battle of stoney creek but die performing another kind of military service an entry in the militia muster roll and pay list of the 2nd york regiment says a samuel green was paid for batteauxing to york from june 25 to july 6 1813 batteauxing was how the british moved military goods supplies and ammunition over water from one strategic point to another by the use of large flat bottomed boats did samuel in fact drown in lake ontario or die accidentally while loading or unloading military supplies the pay record itself makes no mention of death while on duty could it perhaps have been a different samuel green doing that job records were often spotty or inaccurate in those days it s probably impossible to know now i prefer to subscribe to our traditional family history that samuel green was a casualty of the battle of stoney creek it was on this basis that my rare one and i went to hamilton in june to attend the bicentennial re enactment of the battle of stoney creek more on that to come first photo of a hamilton statue honouring the united empire loyalists comes from the internet second photo of militia re enactors of the battle of stoney creek was taken by my rare one posted by debra she who seeks at 05 30 32 comments labels genealogy war of 1812 friday 22 july 2011 what s in a name part 3 another couple of my older female relatives also had somewhat unusual names at least unusual for their time and place one was named beryl which is a family of crystal gemstones beryl comes in several colours like pink green yellow and clear types of beryl include emerald aquamarine heliodor and morganite it s a very pretty name if pronounced properly as bare ill but everyone called her burl which robbed her name of any musicality whatsoever another aunt from my ultra wasp family was inexplicably given the spanish name of inez where her parents out in the middle of nowhere on the canadian prairies ever learned that name is a complete mystery again pronounced properly it is a beautiful and melodious name ee nez but of course everyone anglicized it and reduced it to the considerably less tuneful eye ness matching her spanish given name first with english and then irish surnames my auntie was a pioneer of canadian multiculturalism in action posted by debra she who seeks at 05 33 27 comments labels genealogy thursday 21 july 2011 what s in a name part 2 my family s admiration for all things british continued into the early 20th century one of my older relatives was named baden powell after the brit who founded the boy scout movement another old uncle of mine was named minto after gilbert john elliot murray kynynmound 4th earl of minto who was the british governor general of canada from 1898 1904 the period when my uncle was born nor were women in my family immune to this commemorative mania a female relative born in 1917 was named vimy by her parents to honour the battle of vimy ridge suffice it to say i never ever met anyone else with any of these particular monikers these relatives truly had unique names and always stood out in a crowd posted by debra she who seeks at 05 31 17 comments labels genealogy wednesday 20 july 2011 what s in a name part 1 i don t know about your family but in mine some relatives chose quite unique names for their children sometimes these names came from the bible or commemorated famous people or events other times the choices were just kind of strange i m going to tell you about some of these names in the following three posts the most spectacular biblical name in my family belonged to my great great great grandfather eleazar so who the heck was eleazar in the bible he was the second high priest of israel having inherited that title from his father aaron the brother of moses as high priest only he could enter the holy of holies in the tabernacle where the ark of the covenant was kept eleazar s early life experience included the exodus from egypt and 40 years of wandering in the desert i guess my great great great grandfather s destiny was in his name because his early life involved an exodus as well during the american war of independence his new jersey family remained loyal to the british crown and afterwards fled to canada as united empire loyalists they settled in the niagara region of what is now ontario so thanks eleazar you and your family are the reason why i live today in a country with universal health care same sex marriage and no crazy religious right posted by debra she who seeks at 05 32 27 comments labels genealogy monday 10 november 2008 charlie walker s ring and namesake my grandparents gave charlie walker a ring when he went off to war a gold band with a red stone he wore it throughout his time in europe in the hospital after being wounded at vimy ridge and knowing the end was near he arranged to have the ring sent home again to my grandparents now that ring is in my possession my grandparents had seven daughters when their first and only son my father was born a few years after the first world war they named him charles walker in memory of the fallen soldier who they honoured posted by debra she who seeks at 12 52 2 comments labels genealogy saturday 8 november 2008 charles hengham walker charlie walker was born in scotland in 1891 and emigrated to canada as a child he may have come to our country as a barnardo s boy or as one of the home children who were shipped overseas from britain to be domestic help and farm labourers as an adult he ended up in southwestern manitoba and worked as a farm labourer for my grandfather he was very close with my grandparents and i believe he worked for them for several years in the winter of 1916 charlie walker volunteered for the canadian overseas expeditionary force after training he was sent to france with the 44th battalion of the canadian infantry manitoba regiment he was mortally wounded at vimy ridge in april 1917 and died about a month later on may 8 1917 he was 26 years old unmarried with no children charlie walker is buried at vimy ridge in france posted by debra she who seeks at 14 19 3 comments labels genealogy friday 7 november 2008 vigil 191...