Greeting from the Webmaster

Hello everyone!

I hope everyone is beginning to enjoy the possibility of spring! We're finally having some warmer weather here, but still lots of snow on the ground! Many thanks to Peter Rogers and Dean Snider for helping me keep up to speed by transcribing a number of the scanned images you're sending in.
I am almost caught up with obits and articles.
Many thanks as well to AM Benson for continually sending in notices of marriage and deaths, and articles from old Kingston Whig issues. A Few Notes...

Please Support This Site!

Please help support this site! This site grows by the kind submissions of researchers and those interested in preserving their history. Please send in scans of old photos and documents, transcriptions of certificates, obituaries, bibles etc. There is a spot for EVERYTHING on this site, and if there isn't I will make one. Please contact me if you don't have a scanner and would like to mail COPIES of photos or documents for me to scan and/or transcribe. (They will not be returned and you must cover postage costs)
Please help out by sending in anything island related, even if it isn't for your family! Mystery photos are most welcome! Please email me if you would like to help the site grow! Credit will be given to the submitter.

ISLAND SITE WISH LIST

Below are some projects hoped to be added to the site. If you have access to a library or family history center with these films and would be willing to take on the project of transcribing one of the below for the site PLEASE email me.
Census available to order through your library if it doesn't already have them, some also available at LDS family history center. Parish records available through LDS.

• Amherst Island Census- 1851,1861,1871,1891
• Pittsburg twp census (howe island)-1851
• Wolfe Island census- 1851,1891
• St. Andrews Church Parish records (wolfe island)

This site now has over 735 pages up from 709 pages on Jan 5.

This Newsletter has 127 subscribers same as last newsletter.

If you would like to submit a "BRICK WALL" problem to the newsletter please email me with "Newsletter Brick Wall" in the subject line.

What's New...

NEW:

March 14
*amherst people photo pg 9- McGrattan
*wolfe people photo pg 39- Knapp
March 10
*Lots of new links on the Links page (remember you can add links yourself too!!)
*new articles (see written word then articles section then year that applies); 1931 & 1931-wolfe island news/gossip, 1932 howe island baseball, 1934 howe island ferry road, 1935 2x wolfe island news/gossip & history of united church on wolfe & hornes ferry article, 1936 2x howe news and wolfe news, 1937 wolfe and howe news, 1938 wolfe island news/gossip
*2 poems by Alexander Grattan (Amherst Island)-see Written word-poetry section
*McGrattan/Grattan, Girvin, Wilson photos-Amherst people pics pg 8
*Amherst Island bio-McGrattan/Grattan family
March 9
*new articles, 1883-D.D. Calvin launched from Garden Island, 1888-news/gossip, 1889-reeve cox howe island, 1896 &1899- news/gossip,1923-Watertown Woman Remembers Battle Of The Windmill
*Island Connected Tree updated

RECENT:

March 3
*15 wolfe obits pg 21
*1 wolfe obit pg 18 (a 2nd for Harriet Dawson)
*1 Amherst island obit pg 6
*1 howe island obit pg 8
*1 for 1932 Howe wedding announcement
*1 wolfe island 1938 wedding announcement & 2 for 1932
*1 wolfe island anniversary-Greenwood
February 25
*1 new 2004 island article, 4 new 2002 island articles. See written word, articles- go to date- new articles at top of page
*many new wolfe old houses photos-see pg 14. Holliday homestead, fargos store
*2 howe people photos-Garrah & Kane surnames
February 24
*4 wolfe people photos-pg 38-surnames MacDonald, Mosier, Ryan & Mulvaney
*Wolfe island 90th birthday notice-Carmel Cosgrove-see Wolfe births main pg
*Amherst birthday notice-Mrs. Instand 1936-see Amherst births main pg
February 23
*New photos on Christ Church page-see churches
*3 Wolfe people photos pg 38, surnames King, Holliday & Vincent
*Wolfe death registrations; 12-1875, 6-1882, 6-1899, 6-1907, 11-1910, 1-1930, 2-1931, 13-1932
*Howe death registrations- 2 for 1932
*Wolfe birth registrations; 10-1873, 24-1877, 73-1882, 12-1883, 12-1884, 9-1886
*wolfe marriage reg-4-1904
*2 howe people photos pg 220 surnames Turcotte, Welsh, Garrah, White, Goodfriend
*photo of Welsh homestead-howe house photos pg 6
February 22
*12 Wolfe Island obits pg 20
*2 Amherst Island obits-pg 5
February 21
*marriage reg- 1-1905 offisland wolfe, 1-1904 off island garden, 1-1904 howe island.
*50th anniversary- wolfe island- Woodman
*Marriage announcements- 1 1888 amherst island, 1 1936 wolfe island
*Many new off island tombstons added. (Islanders buried in cemeteries not on the islands) See Cemetery Online.
February 17
*2 Wolfe people photos-pg 38. Surname Kenny (includes unidentified persons)
*Island Researchers email check
February 11
*News articles; 1882, 1927, 1937, 1945, 1989,1988,2000, 1993,1994
February 10
*Wolfe Island death reg; 11-1902, 5-1903, 20-1904, 6-1905, 20-1906, 11-1907, 8-1908, 3-1911, 2-1912, 3-1914, 3-1915, 4-1916, 2-1917, 1-1920, 3-1921,3-1922, 6-1923, 1-1924, 7-1925, 2-1927, 2-1929, 4-1931
February 9
*Wolfe Island death reg; 15-offisland (see main wolfe pg), 8-1874, 12-1877, 6-1878, 6-1880, 12-1882, 12-1883, 19-1884, 18-1885, 6-1886, 23-1888, 18-1889, 5-1890, 15-1891, 19-1894, 6-1896, 8-1898, 8-1900
*Howe Island death registratinos put online; 3-1884, 3-1888, 5-1894, 4-1897, 2-1899, 1-1918

Focus On...

BIOGRAPHIES

The Biographies section of the site is a great place where you can see family information all together. The Islands site is mostly divided by source type; registrations, articles etc.
Anyone may submit a biography- a write up on a person or a family group. One family group (parents and children) per biography please, or you can just submit an individual. Submit as many biographies as you like! There is no limit to text submitted. No more than 4 photos for each biography please.
(Other photos can be submitted to the Island Photos pages though!)
Please email me if you've any questions.
If you know of a biography not listed that is on a different site please email me the details and the url and I will add a link.

Working Together

The Islands site is built and grows through the efforts of those who use it. I do what I can to add new information, but I am only one person. Please consider submitting information, photos or anything else you have to add to this site. Credit will be given to the submitter.
Submissions are greatly needed for Amherst Island. Surf the pages to see what IS there.

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ISLAND LINKS

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If you would like to post anything to this newsletter please email me about it. I'd be happy to put little blurbs- either about family or if you would like to discuss an island topic or recount some island memories.

EVERYONE! Please don't forget to put the word 'ISLAND' somewhere in your subject line when you email me! I know I'm missing some of your emails because there is no subject line, or it is 'hi' or something similar and I delete it. I get A LOT of spam and don't take the time to check every email- I look at my subject lines. Thank you.

BRICKWALL

What happened to Bridget Clarke Beseau? She was known by several names, such as Gertrude, Kathleen, Bridget, and Catherine, Does anyone know anything about her? She had a child before she married John Michael Beseau. After having her second child James Beseau, she left the two children with the Priest,and then disappeared. I was told she died young and my grandfather John Clarke skated from Howe Island to Clayton and caught a bus to Watertown for her funeral. My father used to visit his sister's grave in Watertown cemetery on his way to Syracuse NY, but no one else knows, where this grave is located! Has anyone one heard any stories about Bridget? Please email if you have any. Thank You.
If you have any information please EMAIL EILEEN

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What is THE WRITTEN WORD button on the side bar???

This section of the site is devoted to... things written!
It includes sections for Diaries, Letters, Papers, Stories/Memories, Pamphlets/Brochures/Programs etc, Poetry and Song Lyrics as well as ONLINE books and Articles.

The Articles section is as it sounds, transcribed or images of newspaper articles relating to the islands. (See other sections for Obits, death notices, birth, marriage and anniversary annoucements).
The Articles section has recently been revamped and organized by century and then year. You can use the search engine for these pages!!
Be sure to check out articles listed as news or gossip-they contain a great wealth of helpful information!

Our earliest article:
Kingston Chronicle & Gazette
September 14, 1833
Population:
Wolfe Island 1832= 611, 1833= 656
Amherst Is. 1832= 512, 1833= 605

An Interesting article...
The Times
Feb 05, 1863; pg. 6;
Outrage on Canadian Territory.-- The Kingston News states that, on the night of the 8th of January, Lieutenant Haddock, of the Federal army, with two soldiers, landed on Wolfe Island, broke into a house there, and forcibly seized a deserter who had been living in the house for two months, handcuffed him, took him to a boat, and rowed off with him. Another boat with more men was in waiting, ready to give aid if the first party had met with serious resistance. These invasions occur frequently; if made know, and duly represented to the Federal Fovernment, apology and restitution follow; but the continual recurrance of the offence is calculated to disturb the harmony of the frontier.


If you've any newspaper articles to submit please email me the text or an image. Please include paper name and date if known.