Grand and Glorious Tree Individuals

 The most fun part of the tree was....well I guess it was all fun.  But I really enjoyed finding a clipart for each person.  

I was looking for something else when I saw this pipe. I felt all warm and cuddly inside and knew it just had to represent my father.  But he was an engineer too, so I added the tools.

This is my favorite. Charlie supervised a sash and blind factory.  It took me a long time to get the curtains faded just right so you can see the words.

Most of the art represents occupations.  Even back into the 1600s, there is usually a will or record stating their occupation .  

QUIZ - What do you think these occupations are?  (if you see a ship, ignore that; it means they were an immigrant). Answers at bottom.

See bottom for answers.

This couple owned a Windsor chair manufactory, and the clipart looks just like the stone buildings on the street where their manufactory was located, in Old Town Petersburg, Virginia, in the early 1800s.

My very first idea was to denote immigrants with ships.  But the ships in the 1800s looked very different than they did in the 1700s and 1600s.

Many towns have their own logos now:                      

                                                                  Isle of Wight is not an island at all, but named for the                                                                                  homeland in England

Kings County, Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia is known for its fertile farms

Barrington has its own tartan: red is for the lobsters, yellow for fishermen lost at sea, white for the many lighthouses, and blues for the ocean, harbor, lakes, and rivers

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, in which the Headless Horseman rides, is set here

Yorkshire is represented by the white rose of York

When Martha's Vineyard wanted to secede from Massachusetts, it designed its own flag

New London's logo remembers its history in the whaling industry

Surry, like many town logos, has a combo of fields, sun, and waterways

Our ancestors fought in almost every war.  During King Philip's War, John Harvey was one of the colonial militia who attacked the  Narragansett Indians in the Great Swamp Massacre of 1675 near Kingston, Rhode Island Colony.  He was so disgusted by the slaughter that he promoted peace the rest of his life.

John Mortimore served as a drummer in 

the King's Carolina Rangers during the 

American Revolution.  Drummers were 

old men or young boys and John was in his 

50s.  In 1781, he was a prisoner of the rebels.

I don't know what happened to him.

Jeremiah Rushton belonged to the Westchester

Refugees, which were mainly a bunch of ruffians.

They came to be after the British left in 1781.

They were not issued uniforms.

Michael Madden was described as an Irish Ranger

in Barrington records.  I have not found them, so

I don't know what his uniform may have looked

like.  I just made a Revolutionary uniform green. 

William Rowland, member of the Loyalist Company of Armed Boatmen of New York in 1781, 1782

George Rector, originally Franz Georg Richter, was a professional soldier from Saxony, Germany.  His regiment was hired by the British for the American Revolution and he assimilated into the British 38th Regiment of Foot.  He was stationed mostly in New York City.  After the war, he went with his regiment to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and decided to live there.

 William was kidnapped into the British Navy when he was 16.  Called impressment, kidnapping was the Navy's main recruitment method. When his ship docked in Boston, he deserted.

Impressment of American sailors was one of the causes of the War of 1812, between Britain and the US.  Chastain Blankenship fought in that war.  Chastain's son, Christopher Columbus Blankenship (love that name!) was a member of the Virginia Home Guard during the Civil War.

Joel Monroe Brown, reluctantly, and Stephen W. Pate both fought in the Civil War for the Confederacy.  Joel's cavalry regiment beat General Custer's in the Battle of Five Forks.

 John fought in Company M, 318th Infantry in World War I in France and is buried in National Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.

Interesting tidbits:

When Sarah Lovell emigrated from Yorkshire to Nova Scotia, she brought her small spinning wheel with her.  It is now in the Age of Sail Museum in Parrsboro.  Notice the foot pedal underneath for the spinner to operate the wheel while seated.  Sarah's wheel spun flax into linen.

Bella was a devout Catholic; 

Elmira had a Bible with her initials, E P, painted in gold on the red ribbon bookmark.

My cousins and I have 3 quilts that Phoebe made.  Mine, lightweight and pale yellow with daisy designs, wraps me in my foremothers' love. 

I don't know anything about my other great-grandmother's personality (we have the same name, Anne Elizabeth), but in one of only 4 pictures of her, she is holding her beagle, so she must love dogs.

 Berta belonged to the Protected Home Circle in Pennsylvania, a women's fraternal organization like the Eastern Star.  They promoted cultural pursuits for youth in the area.  But it was more than that.  Your dues got your family a death benefit.  It later became an actual insurance company.

The Holleman family built a red-roofed plantation house in the early 1800s that they still live in today.  Susan West's farm lay along River Philip, Nova Scotia, and the creek that flows by her grave looks just like this.  Isaac Rushton spent his entire life on Westchester Mountain.  Felecia Rowland's land along Shelburne Harbour, Nova Scotia, rises sharply from the water uphill to the forest. In the early 1800s, wild buffalo lived in Issabella's hometown in North Carolina. The Willey family and others founded East Haddam, Connecticut. Before the English colonized the mainland, they colonized islands in the Caribbean.  George Symes died in Antigua about the time that the English started sugar plantations.  His sons had already moved to Virginia.  Dorcas suffered a short and traumatic life.  I didn't want her card to represent that, so I chose these 3 happy-looking cows that her father left her in his will. Catharine grew an apple orchard on her land in Churchover.  Katharina called Rockenberg in Germany home; a small castle is located there.

 Can you guess what our occupations and hobbies are?

ANSWERS TO OCCUPATION QUIZ:

Frank Hazzard                                    iron worker

Theodore Zoeller                                cabinet maker (furniture maker)

Charles Nelson "Sonny" Brown         auto repairman

Charlie J. Thrower                              gas station attendant

Adam Sulzbach                                   teacher

Thomas Fenford                                  cooper (barrel maker)

John Spence                                        miner

Gertrude Kress                                    boarding house keeper

Robert Monroe Brown                        postmaster and election official

Jake Sulzbach                                      silk ribbon manufacturer

Betty Simms                                        wheat farmer

Ellenor Rector                                     farmer

Stephen Scovell                                   plank and stave maker

Georgie Seal                                        chicken farmer

Phebe Vaden                                        tobacco farmer

Bill Monroe Brown                             newsstand salesman

J. Henry Durrett                                  carpenter

Isaac J. McSparling Acker                  master mariner

Frances Durrett                                   miller

Samuel Brown                                    wheelwright

Eunice Thrower                                  saleslady

Thomas West                                      doctor

Joseph Robertson                                fisherman

Joe Robertson                                     Bonus if you got this one - he "worked on the ice" - cutting it in                                                                  winter and delivering it in summer for ice boxes

Moonyean Durrette                            hairdresser

Alberta Hazzard                                 homemaker - 1900s

Catherine Martin                                homemaker - 1800s

Grace White                                       witch aka healer

Chuck Brown                                     occupation welder, hobby race Jeep driver

Anne Sulzbach                                   occupation reading teacher, hobby genealogist

For more info on these people's lives, see Grand and Glorious Tree post, or type their name into the search bar.  If their name does not come up, that means I have not written about them yet, so check back later.  I am always writing!

Further Reading:

Information on Barrington tartan can be found on the Visit Barrington Facebook page:

Red - represents our long tradition in the lobster fishery, and our reputation as the Lobster Capital of Canada

White - symbolizes the many lighthouses that dot our shorelines, including the maritime's tallest lighthouse located on Cape Sable.

Brown is for the Municipality's forestry heritage and vibrant lumberjack culture.

Blue - represents our ocean, harbours, lakes and rivers.

Grey - represents our beautiful white sand beaches

Black - represents the bird sanctuaries which attract rare and endangered migratory species.

Yellow - is in memory of our fishermen lost at sea.