Nigel McKendrick of Red Deer AB seeks info on the above.
Mar 12, 2018
Hi Nigel,
Many thanks for getting in touch. Always good to meet new family. Attached is Rosa’s connection to me via my mother (who knows what the relationship is between you and me!) — all Quakers, they were. I will send you an invite to my tree, which might help you put this connection together. Attached also is the Hamilton-Webb wedding picture which I re-worked in photoshop along with two crops of that gathering.
The Quaker connection is most interesting to me. It just keeps going and going — all the way back to the early days of George Fox (originator) and including a marital connection to the man who brought Quakerism to Ireland, William ‘The Hammer’ Edmundson.
I am most willing to share thoughts and info. We’ve got some pretty interesting people in this family of ours.
Cheers, Peter Bruce
Hello Peter
Great to hear back from you . I have the same photos!!!!!!! Unbelievable Do you know Julie Lushington? My mother told me the Blanche Rosa Webb nick name “Brownie” and my grandfather had a thing for each other and the two mother Blanche Webb and Rosa Milner the twins as mom also calls them put a stop to it and Brownie married Mr. Hamilton. My mother dress up in the same clothing as Blanche Webb the elder would look like sisters my mother Annette has the same nose as the twins did. The resemblance is uncanny.. Peter I am in Red Deer Alberta Canada , I have not been back to UK since 2012 but hope to come again this year or next. I will invite you to my trees as well ….
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Hi Nigel,
Thanks for the interesting anecdotes. That’s the stuff that makes the tree come alive, in my view — not the dry facts but the stories about the people, the places they lived, what was important to them, what they did for a living, how they contributed to ‘community’ (as so many of our Quaker relatives did). What stories do you suppose lie hidden among that wedding party? Wouldn’t it be grand to have a contrivance you could point at the image of each of them and have him or her tell you those stories?
I always knew I had English roots. Both my parents were English. What I did not understand until this past year is how deep my Irish roots are. All Quakers, of course. I am not Quaker or religious. But I am intrigued by the Quaker culture of the 17 and 1800s. How diligent, ambitious and devoted they were to family, Friends (fellow Quakers), and to caring for the greater community. And how successful financially! My goodness, thriving businesses, grand estates, servants, motorcars with chauffeurs. I wonder how they rationalized all that with the principle of simplicity that their religion professed.
Anyway, all good fun to discover and ponder. By the way, I’m in Victoria, BC. No I do not know Julie Lushington. Should I? Cheers, Peter
