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Kate Douglas Riggs
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Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin Riggs (1856-1923)
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin Riggs was born on 28 September 1856 in Philadelphia, to Robert Nash Smith, a lawyer, and Helen Dyer, later Helen Bradbury. Kate is well known as the author of “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” but not as many people realize she was a champion of children's rights and, in particular, free education.
She was quite young when her father died, and her mother, Helen, moved them to Portland, and then Hollis, Maine. Helen remarried to Albion Bradbury and had a son, Philip. Kate studied at Abbot Academy in Andover MA and enjoyed the rural life in Hollis, Maine but in 1873, as a result of her step-father's lung disease, the young family moved to Santa Barbara, California.
Kate took a kindergarten training course in Los Angeles under the instruction of Emma Marwedel, the German founder of the Kindergarten movement in the United States. In 1878, Kate and her sister Nora, started the Silver Street Free Kindergarten, the first free kindergarten in San Francisco, California. They also began their own training school for kindergarten teachers.
Women were required to give up teaching jobs once they were married, so when Kate married Bradley Wiggin in 1881, she stopped teaching at the Silver Street Kindergarten but remained financially supportive. To raise funds Kate began a writing career and gave the proceeds from her stories to the school. Her fundraising stories were The Story of Patsy, written in 1883, and The Birds' Christmas Carol, written in 1887.
In 1888, Kate and Bradley moved from San Francisco to New York but when Bradley died the following year, Kate left New York and moved to her childhood State of Maine. She spent the next seven years rather quietly. She travelled whenever she could and worked on her writing.
In 1895, she married a second time to George Christopher Riggs, who was very supportive of her writing career. She kept her pen name as Kate Douglas Riggs; her output more than tripled and her success flourished. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and it's sequel New Chronicles of Rebecca would be her most well-known work.
Kate also wrote a delightful childhood memoir about a discussion she had with Charles Dickens, at the tender age of eleven. A Child's Journey with Dickens.
On Kate's 1919 US Passport Application her “purpose" for the Passport is listed as Necessary business with book publishers. Her signature on the document matches the signature in the UPEI Provenance copy of Ormond. A Tale:
UPEI's Provenance copy of Ormond. A Tale, is not authored by Kate. Instead, it is a book from her own personal collection, written by Maria Edgeworth, one of the first “realist writers” in children's literature.
On 24 August 1923, Kate died of bronchial pneumonia in Harrow-on-the-Hill, London, England, while she was attending the Dickens Fellowship as a New York delegate. Her ashes were returned to Maine and and scattered over the Saco River.
Kate's autobiography, My Garden of Memory, was published just months after her death.
Sources:
1880 United States Federal Census. Census Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Roll: 75; Family History Film: 1254075; Page: 422C; Enumeration District: 097; Image: 0545
1905 New York State Census. New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1905; Election District: A.D. 29 E.D. 02; City: Manhattan; County: New York; Page: 52
1910 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Manhattan Ward 22, New York, New York; Roll: T624_1045; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 1290; FHL microfilm: 1375058
California, Biographical Index Cards, 1781-1990. California State Library; Sacramento, California; Biographical Files.
“Kate Douglas Wiggin." Find A Grave. Accessed 2 March 2017.
New York, New York, Marriage Index 1866-1937. Marriage between Kate Wiggin and George C. Riggs. Certificate number: 4921
U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; NARA Series: Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925; Roll #: 862; Volume #: Roll 0862 - Certificates: 104250-104499, 08 Aug 1919-08 Aug 1919
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. A Child's Journey with Dickens, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. My Garden of Memory Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923.
Photo:
From the George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ggbain.05033., 1. Bradley Wiggin, 2. George Christopher Riggs, Robert N. Smith (lawyer), Helen Dyer (later Helen Dyer Bradbury)
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Katharine Bowne Smith
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Katharine Dana Bowne (1872-1943)
Katharine Dana Bowne was born on 6 Jun 1872 in Richfield Springs, New York. Her parents were Samuel W. Bowne and Helen Dana.
Katharine married, lawyer, Harrison Brooks Smith on 12 May 1896. They had three children: Harrison Bowne Smith, Helen Dana Smith and Alex Quarrier Smith.
There is a picture of Katharine on her 1922 US Passport Application. Her description is listed as dark brown hair, blue eyes, round face, with fair complexion, and a large mouth. The application indicates that she planned to go to Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and Egypt for the purpose of sightseeing. She would have been fifty years old at the time.
According to the 8 Dec 1944 edition of the Princeton Alumni Weekly:
Harrison B. Smith, known to us as Jopah, died on October 18, 1942, at the age of 77. His widow survived him but a few months. They had three children, one son dying only recently in a tragic accident.
Katharine died on 4 June 1943. The tragic accident (death of son Alex) occurred on a return trip from his mother's funeral in Charleston W., VA. On Alex's way to the Salt Lake City, he stopped in Chicago. He fell off the 14th floor of the Chicagoan hotel. Cpl Smith had been in the Army a year and was en route to the Air Corps base at Salt Lake City. He left behind a widow, Margaret Shawkey Deisher.
Katharine and Harrison had five grandchildren: Harrison Bowne Smith III, Dorothy Bowne Smith, Katharine Bowne Fox, John Dana Fox, Helen Quarrier Fox.
UPEI Provenance Collection
Sands, George. Germaine's marriage: a tale of peasant life in France. New York: Richmond Croscup, 1892. [Bookplate with Harrison Brooks, and Katharine Bowne Smith].
Sources:
Princeton Alumni Weekly, 8 Dec 1944
1880 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Brooklyn, Kings, New York; Roll: 845; Family History Film: 1254845; Page: 171C; Enumeration District: 082; Image: 0480.
1900 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Charleston Ward 6, Kanawha, West Virginia; Roll: 1762; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0048; FHL microfilm: 1241762.
Evans, Frederick. After twenty-five years, class record of 1886 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1911), 164-165.
New York, New York, Marriage Index 1866-1937.
U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; NARA Series: Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925; Roll #: 1808; Volume #: Roll 1808 - Certificates: 109350-109725, 07 Jan 1922-09 Jan 1922
West Virginia, Deaths Index, 1853-1973. Katharine Bowne Smith, date 4 June 1943., Harrison Brooks Smith, Harrison Bowne (2 March 1898), Helen Dana (2 March 1900) and Alexander (23 March 1908)
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L.D. MacDonald
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Lauchlin Donald MacDonald (1909-1994)
Dr. Reverend Lauchlin Donald MacDonald was born 9 April 1909 in Kilmuir, Prince Edward Island to Capt. John N. MacDonald and Effie (MacKinnon) MacDonald. He was baptised on 10 September 1910. He had six siblings, four sisters and two brothers: Christina, Annie, John K., Neil R., and Catherine.
Lauchlin attended Prince of Wales College from 1925-1928, where he could be remarked for being an excellent student and well-rounded individual. A quote from College Times: “During his three-year stay he has taken a prominent part in all college activities and has proved himself to be a fellow of good principle and sound judgement. He is always willing to do his best to maintain the honour of our college.” (pg. 32)
After his time at PWC, Lauchlin would continue his education and receive both his Bachelor’s of Arts (1930) and Bachelor’s of Science (1932) from Dalhousie University. He also received his Masters of Arts from Toronto in 1933. Afterwards, he had studied Theology at Emmanuel College, Victoria University, Toronto.
He became an ordained priest in 1934 in the United Church of Canada in Sackville, New Brunswick. During his time in Toronto, he met and fell in love with Helen Anne Karl whom he married on 23 May 1936. They had five children: John, Joan, Carole Eloise, Neil, and Katherine.
On 6 October 1942, Lauchlin, his wife, and two of his children (John and Joan), moved from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia to Massachusetts to permanently reside. According to the Border Crossing Manifest, Lauchlin was 6 ft. 1 in., had medium complexion and had brown hair and blue eyes. He petitioned to become a naturalized citizen on 19 October 1944.
In the United States, Lauchlin continued his education, he received his A.M. from Harvard in 1946 and then his Ph.D. degree from Boston University in 1950. Lauchlin would continue teaching as both an associate professor and a professor throughout various States. During his time as a professor, he would be published several times and held memberships in several esteemed societies.
When Lauchlin retired in 1976, he was both a Pastor Emeritus in the United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. and a Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York.
After retirement, Lauchlin and his wife moved to Florida where he died 24 September 1994. Upon his death, he donated his entire professional collection of books to UPEI’s Robertson Library in memory of S.N. Robertson.
Other L.D. MacDonald books in the UPEI Provenance Collection:
Adamson, Robert. Fichte. Edinburgh; W. Blackwood, 1881. [Ex Libris Dr. Lauchlin D. MacDonald Professor Emeritus State University of New York at Fredonia N. Y. Formerly of Kilmuir, P. E. I. to the Robertson Memorial Library University of Prince Edward Island, stamped.]
Edward, Caird, LL.D. Hegel. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1899. [L.D. MacDonald signature and date, 5-2-35 (February 2, 1935)]
Meredith, James Creed. Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgement. Oxford, 1911. [L.D. MacDonald signature and date, 27-12-38 (December 27, 1938)]
Muirhead, J. H. Chapter from Aristotle's Ethics. London: William Clowes and Sons, 1900. [L.D. MacDonald signature and date, 25-10-37 (October 25, 1937)]
Scott, Sir Walter. The Lady of the Lake. Cassell and Company Limited, 1908. [L.D. MacDonald signature and date, 23-IV-40 (23 April 1920), also signed by Harry, Parker., Mt. Allison, Jan. 28, 09.]
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1911 Canadian Census. Census Place: 25 - Part - Lot 59, Kings, Prince Edward Island; Page: 3; Family No: 27.
1921 Canadian Census. Reference Number: RG 31; Folder Number: 103; Census Place: Whim Road Cross, Kings, Prince Edward Island; Page Number: 3.
Baptismal Record. Year: 1909. Place: Kilmuir. Prince Edward Island Public Archives and Records. Record Book No.: 3.
“The Central Guardian.” The Charlottetown Guardian, 1 May 1936, pg. 3. Accessed through Island Newspapers on 9 August 2016.
“Dr. MacDonald Pastor of College Hill Mississippi.” The Charlottetown Guardian, 24 October 1949, pg. 8. Accessed through Island Newspapers on 9 August 2016.
“Former Islander Pros. of Mississippi Philosophy Assoc.” The Charlottetown Guardian, 29 March 1952, pg. 10. Accessed through Island Newspapers on 9 August 2016.
“Lauchlin D. MacDonald.” College Times. May 1928, pg. 32. Accessed through Prince of Wales College Archives. Identifier: pwc:1798-03.
Lauchlin D Macdonald in entry for Carole Eloise Macdonald, 1951; citing School enrollment, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States, Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Jackson. Digital Folder No.: 004624334. Image No.: 00250.
Lauchlin D Macdonald in entry for Joan Helen Macdonald, 1951; citing School enrollment, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States, Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Jackson. Digital Folder No.: 004624334. Image No.: 00250.
Lauchlin D Macdonald in entry for John Lauchlin Macdonald, 1951; citing School enrollment, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States, Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Jackson. Digital Folder No.: 004624334. Image No.: 00250.
Lauchlin D Macdonald in entry for Neil Macdonald, 1953; citing School enrollment, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States, Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Jackson. Digital Folder No.: 004624334. Image No.: 00250.
“Receives Fellowship.” The Charlottetown Guardian, 13 April 1943, pg. 7. Accessed through Island Newspapers on 9 August 2016., 9 April 1909, Kilmuir, Prince Edward Island, 24 September 1994, Florida, United States of America, Effie (MacKinnon) MacDonald, Capt. John N. MacDonald, Christina, Annie, John K., Neil R., Catherine, Helen Anne Karl, 23 May 1936, Toronto, Ontario, John, Joan, Carole Eloise, Neil, Katherine
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Louis F. Budenz
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Louis Francis Budenz was born on 17 July 1891, in Indianapolis, Indiana, US to parents Mary Sullivan and Henry Joseph Budenz. He had four siblings, Katherine (1893-1948), Henry J. (1895-?), Mary J. (1897-1969), and Leon Albert (1901-1962).
Louis would attend Xavier University in Cincinnati, and St. Mary's College in Topeka, Kansas. In 1912, he would go on to receive his LL.B. from Indianapolis Law School.
Louis played a large role in the labor movement which stemmed from this faith as a Catholic. He would work with the Central Bureau of the Roman Catholic Central Verein, which was a reform-minded and social justice-oriented organization, based in St. Louis in 1915. It was also reported because of his participation in the trade union movement, he was arrested twenty one times but never convicted.
On 23 December 1916, in Terre Haute, Indiana, Louis married Gizella Geiss (1893-?); they would adopt a two year old daughter, Louise (1917-2006), in 1919.
In 1920, the Budenz family moved to Rahway, New Jersey, where Louis worked for ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) as the publicity director. Louis was also the managing editor of the monthly magazine Labor Age, between 1924 and the early 1930’s. In the years 1928, 1930, and 1934, he would advise striking workers in Kenosha Wisconsin, Paterson, New Jersey, and Toledo, Ohio, respectively. Louis was also teaching labor organizing and strike management at Brookwood Labor College.
In 1931, Louis and Gizella would separate and then finally divorce in 1938. In 1934, Louis served as the national secretary for A. J. Muste's Conference for Progressive Labor Action, later known as American Workers Party.
In 1935, Louis became a member of the Communist party and a member of the National Committee of the Party. In this time, he would also join the staff of the Daily Worker. Louis was such a loyal supporter of the party, he was given the editor position, replacing Clarence Hathway, who began to have doubts.
Louis would become a devout Roman Catholic, renouncing Communism, in 1945, under the influence of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. This resulted in him being replaced as editor of the Daily Worker by Morris Childs. He would then contact J. Edgar Hoover, and offer the FBI information about the former communist party. He gave an estimated 3,000 hours to the agents in interviews. The trial of the leaders of the American Communist Party would go on for nine months and it would come to light later on that Louis was estimated to have been paid $70,000 for his information during the trials. He began testifying in 1946, and was called on thirty three different occasions.
Louis would marry Margaret Deaumer Rodgers (1908–2002) and have four daughters. Three were born out of wedlock: Julia M. (1934–2010), Josephine T. (1937–), and Justine. After Louis and Margaret’s return to Catholicism, they baptized their daughters and married in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Their fourth daughter, Joanna, would be born thirteen months later.
Louis became a professor of Economics at Fordham University and was praised by Joseph McCarthy and his Government Committee on Operations of the Senate by having, “testified in practically every case in which Communists were either convicted or deported over the past three years; one of the key witnesses who testified against... Communist leaders." (Spartacus Educational), when he provided evidence against Alger Hiss and others.
Louis became a published author in 1950 with the book, Men Without faces: The Communist conspiracy in the U.S.A. He would also write three others, The Cry is Peace (1952), The Techniques of Communism (1954) and The Bolshevik Invasion of the West (1966). He also wrote an autobiography titled, This Is My Story in 1947.
At the age of 80 years, Louis Francis Budenz passed away on 27 April 1972, at Newport Hospital in Rhode Island.
The UPEI Provenance Collection, has a copy of Louis’ novel The Cry is Peace, with the inscription, “To Father James Kelly in honor of Our Lady of Fatima Louis Francis Budenz”, dated Feb 14, 1954.
Sources
Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA.
United States, Selective Service System. Selective Service Registration Cards, World War II: Fourth Registration. Records of the Selective Service System, Record Group Number 147. National Archives and Records Administration.
Indiana, Marriages, 1810-2001. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
Simkin, John. “Louis Bednez.” Spartacus Education. September 1974 (edited 2014).
Louis Francis Budenz. Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190012737/louis-francis-budenz
Rieker, Jane. “No Longer Red and Far from Dead, Ex-Communist Margaret Budenz, 71, Enthralls Her Catholic Students” People Magazine. May 5, 1980.
Photo:
Simkin, John. “Louis Bednez.” Spartacus Education. September 1974 (edited 2014)., 17 July 1891, 27 April 1972, Mary Sullivan, Henry Joseph Budenz, Katherine (1893-1948), Henry J. (1895-?), Mary J. (1897-1969), and Leon Albert (1901-1962), Gizella Geiss, Margaret Deaumer Rodgers, Louise, Julia M., Josephine T., Justine, Joanna
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Lucy D. Waterman
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Lucy D. Waterman (1866-1931)
Lucy Dwight Waterman was born on 14 January 1866 in Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine to John Anderson Waterman, owner of a law office, and his first wife, Evelina Lewis Pierce.
John and Evelina had a total of five children: Eva Lewis, Fanny Anderson, Margaret Payson, John Anderson Jr., and Lucy. Following Evelina’s death in 1881, John remarried Mary Ellen Smith and they had one daughter together, Caroline Fox Waterman.
In 1897, at the age of 31, Lucy received a diploma from library school, presumably somewhere in New England. After working in several positions, she wound up becoming the librarian of the New York Law School from 1898 to 1901. According to the 1901 City Directory of New Bedford, Massachusetts, Lucy had relocated from New York and taken up a position as a clerk.
In 1904, Lucy became the first librarian of Benson Memorial Library in Titusville, Pennsylvania. She remained there until at least 1909, possibly until 1915. From 1916 to 1917, she was employed as an assistant at Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and likely stayed there until 1920, when she moved to Providence, Rhode Island.
Censuses show that Lucy was an assistant at Providence Public Library for the last decade of her life. Sadly, she passed away on 8 July 1931, due to a brain tumor. She is buried at Eastern Cemetery in her hometown of Gorham, Maine. There are no records to suggest that she ever married or had any children.
UPEI’s Provenance Collection’s copy of Stepping Heavenward, by Mrs. Elizabeth Prentiss, is signed on the inside cover by the author’s husband, Dr. George L. Prentiss, to “Lucy D. Waterman, from Dr. Prentiss--1890”. Evidently, Lucy had introduced Dr. Prentiss’s speech at the celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Gorham, Maine in 1886.
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1870 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Gorham, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: M593_540; Page: 307B; Image: 169235; Family History Library Film: 552039. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
1880 Tenth Census of the United States. Census Place: Gorham, Cumberland, Maine; Roll: 478; Family History Film: 1254478; Page: 318C; Enumeration District: 035. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
1920 Fourteenth Census of the United States. Census Place: Providence Ward 4, Providence, Rhode Island; Roll: T625_1677; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 216. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).
1930 Fifteenth Census of the United States. Census Place: Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; Roll: 2175; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 0131; Image: 249.0; FHL microfilm: 2341909. United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
Lucy D. Waterman. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995. New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA.
Evelina Lewis Pierce, Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts through seven generations : Volume 1.
John Anderson Waterman, Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts through seven generations : Volume 1.
Lucy Dwight Waterman, Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts through seven generations : Volume 1.
“Lucy D. Waterman”, Find A Grave Memorial# 121448465, Accessed June 2017
Lucy Dwight Waterman, Death Records. RootsWeb., Evelina Lewis Pierce, John Anderson Waterman, Eva Lewis, Fanny Anderson, Margaret Payson, John Anderson Jr.
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Lucy Julia Cartwright
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Lucy Julia Cartwright (1854-1932)
Lucy Julia Cartwright was born on 11 October 1854 in London, Middlesex, England, to parents Colonel Henry Cartwright and Jane née Holbech Cartwright. They married on 15 December 1853 in Farnborough, Warwickshire, England.
Lucy’s father had joined the army as an ensign in the Grenadier Guards, (foot guards) on 26 July 1832. He rose to rank of Captain on 2 October 1846 and Colonel on 20 June 1854. He retired from the military in 1857. He would also become the MP (Conservative) for Northamptonshire from 20 February 1858 to 17 November 1868. Lucy’s grandfather, (Henry’s father) Lt. Colonel William Ralph Cartwright was also an MP of Aynho.
In 1855, Lucy’s younger brother Henry William was born, sadly he did not live past 7 days. A couple of years later, Lucy’s sister Maud was born in 1857. Then in the next few years Lucy’s three younger brothers were born, Henry Aubrey (1858-1945) who followed in his family’s footsteps in the military and became a Lt. Colonel, Edward Arthur (1860-1925), and William Digby (1866-1926). Edward and William both became Reverends.
Lucy’s family was rather wealthy and in the England census’, they had many servants, nurses, butlers, etc. over the years. In 1861, Lucy, Maud, Edward and Henry were living in Little Kineton with seven servants, an upper, wet, and under nurse, house and kitchen maids, a groom, and a butler. In 1871, Lucy, Maud, and Henry Aubry, were living with their father, Henry, in Eydon Hall in Northamptonshire, with twelve servants. Younger brothers Edward and William were living with their mother, Jane, on 20 Marina Street, St. Leonard’s.
Throughout her younger years Lucy and Maud lived strictly with their father in Northamptonshire but her brothers would come and go between their father and mother. Although, sadly on 29 December 1877, their mother, Jane Holbech Cartwright, passed away.
In 1881, Lucy, her father, Maud, and Edward were living at The Hall on Main Street, this time with thirteen servants, and William was a scholar and boarding at Eton.
In July of 1890, Lucy’s father Colonel Henry Cartwright passed away.
After Lucy’s father passed, she was living on her own with three servants on 45 Leamington Road in Southam. She had never married and she was living by her own means. By 1911, she was living in The Abbey with servants, Maria Cartwright, a house/parlour maid, Sarah Annie Tarran, the cook, and Mary Gulliver, a between maid.
Lucy Julia Cartwright died on 21 May 1932, she was 78 years old. She would leave all her belongings to her younger brother Henry William Cartwright, her only surviving sibling.
In the UPEI’s Provenance Collection, the book, Amye Robsart, The Earl of Leycester and Kenilworth by George Adlard has Lucy’s bookplate on the inside cover page. The bookplate reads “Lucy Julia Cartwright, The Abbey, Southam 1906”. The year 1906 was handwritten.
Sources:
Warwickshire Anglican Registers. Warwick, England: Warwickshire County Record Office.
General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Office for National Statistics.
Board of Guardian Records, 1834-1906 and Church of England Parish Registers, 1813-2003. London Metropolitan Archives, London.
1861 Census Returns of England and Wales. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1861. Data imaged from The National Archives, London, England.
1871 Census Returns of England and Wales. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1871. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England.
1881 Census Returns of England and Wales. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1881.
1901 Census Returns of England and Wales. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives, 1901. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England.
1911 Census Returns of England and Wales. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA), 1911.
Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England © Crown copyright.
Clark, Rupert. A Military History of Aynho.
Colonel Henry Cartwright Profile, Former MP for Northamptonshire Southern. TheyWorkForyou.
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Lucy Maria Caven
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Lucy Caven (1865-1940)
Lucy M. Caven was born on 20 March 1865 in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is the daughter of John Caven, a professor at Prince of Wales College, and Catherine (Kate) Maxwell Rigg.
Lucy had five siblings: Mary (b. 18 August 1856), Kate E. (b. 8 June 1858), William W. (12 January 1860), John J. (b. 12 Dec 1862), and Thomas Paul (b. 9 August 1866). They were all born in Scotland, but Canadian records only indicate that Kate, William, John and Lucy were in Canada. Mary died sometime before the 1861 Scottish Census and Thomas Paul died sometime before the family came to Canada.
Lucy had her first communion and her confirmation on 28 March 1878 in St. Dunstan’s Cathedral in Charlottetown.
On 6 September 1880, Lucy entered the Convent of the Sacred Heart, in Halifax, and was a boarder there throughout her schooling. She completed her education at the Convent in June 1883.
Lucy’s mother died on 20 August 1888, at the age of 58. Lucy would have been 23 years old. Only a few weeks before, on 7 August 1888, Lucy stood as a bridesmaid for Virginia M. Newbery to her marriage to George Conroy.
In the 1891 Census of Canada, Lucy 25, is living with her father, her sister Kate, and her brother William. They have a domestic servant in the home, Flora McLeod.
On 15 January 1902, Lucy became the third wife to Francois Xavier Thomas Berlinguet. They were married in Notre Dame Cathedral in Quebec City.
Lucy and Thomas had two children together; a son, Lorne Francis Caven Berlinguette, baptised on 27 November 1903, and a daughter, Marie Madeline Catherine Barbara Berlinguette, baptised on 23 December 1905. Both children were baptised in Granby, Quebec, near Montreal.
By 1911, they were living at 111 Rue Laviolette in Trois-Rivières, Quebec and they were still there in 1921, but moving next door to 113 Rue Laviolette.
Lucy died in 1940, and is buried in Trois-Rivieres PQ. Her husband, Thomas, died in 1957, at the age of 102.
UPEI’s Provenance Collection includes the book Natural History of Animals. by Sanborn Tenney and Abby A. Tenney. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1866. Inscribed inside in ink is Lucy Maria Caven, Sacred Heart Halifax and on the next page, written in pencil, is Lucia Caven.
Sources:
1881 Census of Canada. Census Place: Charlottetown Royalty, Queens, Prince Edward Island; Roll: C_13163; Page: 146; Family No: 700
1891 Census of Canada. Census Place: Charlottetown Royalty, Queens, Prince Edward Island; Roll: T-6383; Family No: 68
1911 Census of Canada. Year: 1911; Census Place: 29, Trois-Rivière and St Maurice, Quebec; Page: 14; Family No: 124
1921 Census of Canada. Reference Number: RG 31; Folder Number: 147; Census Place: Trois-Rivières (City), Three Rivers-St Maurice, Quebec; Page Number: 13
Canadian Archival Information Network. Series S227 Francois Xavier Berlinguet. Accessed on 6 December 2016.
Convent of the Sacred Heart, School Registers.
The Daily Examiner Tuesday, 7 August 1888. Accessed from PEI News Items. 1888 on 5 December 2016.
Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin. Gabriel Drouin, comp. Lorne Francis Caven Berlinguette, Baptême (Baptism) 1903.
Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin. Gabriel Drouin, comp. Marie Madeline Catherine Barbara Berlinguet, Baptême (Baptism) 1905.
Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin. Gabriel Drouin, comp. Lucy Caven, Enterrement (Burial) 1940.
Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin. Gabriel Drouin, comp. Lucy Mary Caven and Francois X Thomas Berlinguet, Mariage (Marriage) 1902.
“Dr. Caven” (obituary). Charlottetown Guardian 27 August 1914, p.3. Accessed from Island Newspapers on 6 December 2016.
Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. FHL File Number: 6035516.
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Some information was provided by the Sacred Heart School of Halifax formerly the Convent of the Sacred Heart., John Caven, Catherine Maxwell Rigg, Francois Xavier Thomas Berlinguet, 1. Lorne Francis Caven Berlinguet
2. Marie Madeline Catherine Barbara Berlinguet
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Mabel Williams
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Mabel Williams (1861-1951)
Mabel was born in the early months of 1861 to Clergyman James Augustus Williams and his wife Emma Louise Lenny, in Dummer, Hampshire, England.
In the 1861 Census Mabel was 2 months old and living with her parents, two brothers, three visitors, and seven servants: cook, housemaid, nursemaid, wet nurse, kitchenmaid, coachman, and butler/footman. Before the next census two more siblings would follow (sisters Florence & Eva).
By 1881 Mabel was studying at Newnham Hall, North Ladies College.
She devoted her career to education and eventually became Headmistress at Clergy Daughters School, in Casterton, from 1892-1921. During this time she signed two books, The Early Days of Christianity and Life and Work of St. Paul (now in the University of Prince Edward Island Provenance Collection) given to Ethel Hodgson as a reward for memorizing Scripture.
Mabel Williams was also President of the Casterton Women’s Institute from 1919-1921.
She died in 1951 in Casterton, Cumbria, England., James Augustus Williams, Emma Louise Lenny
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Mary D. Metcalfe
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Mary Dana Metcalfe (1874-1923)
Mary Dana Metcalfe was born on 25 October 1874 in Newcastle Maine. Her parents were Horace Warren Metcalfe and Adeline C. Glidden. According to the 1900 U.S. Census, Adeline and Horace had four children and by 1900 only two were living. We only know of Mary’s two siblings: Horace and Annie G. Metcalfe.
Horace was born on 14 January 1862 and died on 2 February 1862. On the family gravestone he is listed as “Little Horace”. Mary’s sister, Annie, married William Harold Parsons and they lived in Damariscotta, Maine. They had one daughter, Gladys Mary, but she died in 1893 sometime before her second birthday. Gladys’ death ended this line of the Metcalfe family.
Mary, Annie and Horace’s father spent most of his working life overseas in England as a U.S. Consul. In the 1900 Census Mary and her mother, Adeline (Addie) were living with Ann M. Glidden, Mary’s maternal grandmother while her father worked in Newcastle England. This position was a family affair as Mary’s uncle, Albert Glidden, was also a U.S. Consul to PEI.
Mary never married and remained home with her parents as they aged. In 1910 the three of them traveled oversea. They returned to Boston MA, from Liverpool England, aboard the Cymric in August 1910.
In the 1920’s Mary traveled to the French and British West Indies, Cuba and Haiti. According to her passport application this trip was planned for health reasons.
In a span of four years Horace, Adeline and Mary all passed away. Horace Warren Metcalfe died on 17 March 1923. His wife, Adeline Glidden Metcalfe, died less than two years later on 18 January 1926. Mary died a year and a half after her mother on 12 October 1927. She was 52 years old.
Mary’s signature, Miss Mary D. Metcalfe, and location of Damiscotta Maine were found in the book, “Dick’s Games of Patience, or, Solitaire with Cards.” The book was passed on to Bessie E. Myrick from Tignish PEI in 1906, from Mary’s uncle, Albert Glidden, a United States Consul to Prince Edward Island.
Sources:
1850 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Newcastle, Lincoln, Maine; Roll: M432_260; Page: 407B; Image: 174
1880 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Damariscotta, Lincoln, Maine; Roll: 483; Page: 463C; Enumeration District: 122
1900 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Newcastle, Lincoln, Maine; Page: 10; Enumeration District: 0169; FHL microfilm: 1240596
1920 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Newcastle, Lincoln, Maine; Roll: T625_645; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 94
Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. Official Register of the United States, Containing a List of the Officers and Employees in the Civil, Military, and Naval Service. Digitized books (77 volumes). Oregon State Library, Salem, Oregon.
Grave of Annie Metcalfe Parsons
Metcalfe Family. Find a grave memorial
Parson Family. Find a grave memorial
Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston, Massachusetts, 1891-1943; The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; NAI Number: 4319742; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: 85; Series Number: T843; NARA Roll Number: 152
U.S. Passport Applications. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; Roll #: 1118; Volume #: Roll 1118 - Certificates: 750-1125, 25 Mar 1920-25 Mar 1920
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