Hi from southern Ontario,
Chez moi/at home: what's been happening here? Number 1 topic is weather, that is winter weather, yesterday it was officially 5C, 41F but on my back patio in the sun it was 10C, 50 F, today the forecast is 10C, (at 10 am it is already 10C) and on the patio it could easily be 15C or 60F or higher in the sun. We have no snow, what little there has been has melted, we have above normal temps forecast for the next 10 days. I can go out on the patio without a Toque!
The one bonus of the warmer than it should be weather is that the rabbits are eating the grass not the bark off my trees and shrubs. Normal temps at this time of year are daytime high below freezing at about -2C, night time low about -16C. February is usually the snowiest winter month, with about 15 cm of snow, though last year we were breaking records with 17.5 cm on one day.
Later today we are going to ride the new bikes to Osprey Marsh and back, about 6km round trip.
WikiTree and family history: The Gooderham family of Alton are now complete.
And now I’m going back to the Morris family, one of the most complicated and conflated families I have run into, not on WT but definitely on FS and Ancestry. Immigrant ancestors for one branch are Edward Morris and Elizabeth Hughes both born in England. There are at least 2 Morris families in the Alton area, perhaps 3. And of course, they all have the same first names. Edward, Joseph, John, with Martha, Mary, Margaret and Elizabeth added just for fun. And of course, some of the wives have the same names as their mothers in law.
I researched the Edward Morris and Elizabeth Hughes descendant branch about 18 months ago. She was born in 1780 and married in 1811, died in 1870 at 90. There are baptism records for 4 children all baptised on the same date 21 April 1833 in Mono, Ontario, with WowWee their birth dates, from 1819-1826, sponsors their parents and a sister Mary. Those baptism records prove they were in Canada in April 1833. There are baptism records for possible other children born in England after their marriage in 1811, they may have died young or may not have accompanied their parents to Canada as they might have been married with their own families at the time their parents emigrated.
Some of the ‘other’ theoretical children were born long after she was 40. The first Canadian census was in 1851, the record for the parents does not include their children which makes sense as all of the children shown on the baptism records would have been adults and no longer living with their parents. There are census records for people who could have been children of Edward Morris and Elizabeth Hughes. Unfortunately, other records such as marriage records in the 1840s for those children do not include parent’s names, this is not unusual for the time. It is going to take quite some time to make any progress on this family. I might put it on the back burner and work on other family groups.
Plus many thanks to Cindy Cooper for connecting my grandchildren's paternal grandmother https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Beaulieu-1106 to her Acadian ancestor https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Goguen-10 and his ancestor https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hudon-88, born about 1620 in France, and reducing my unconnected list by 1 profile!
What else: Tucson holiday plans are progressing with a possible/probable meet up with Carol Baldwin and Cindy Cooper.
Summer trip: I have to check on ferry schedules and am hoping the summer schedule is now available.
