Yesterday was a busy day with transcription, kayaking and walking. It did look so very much like rain but a quick check on the weather and no rain before five so we were off for an hour of kayaking and walking at Petrie. Lovely time. Buying the parking pass was such a good idea as we never have to go and purchase a parking sticker anymore. The pass is reasonable especially as we have, in spite of the smoke days, been a good many times to Petrie both for kayaking and walking. I am surprised that everyone doesn't get a parking pass actually as it is a much easier method for attending the park whenever it strikes your fancy. Plus it helps to pay for the maintenance of the facility.
Through the day I continued to transcribe the answer document for the Siderfin family at Timberscombe. Up to line 23 now and each line of the document is two lines of typing on a legal sized paper in landscape orientation so quite a large document as I am about 1/4 of the way through. As for the times, it is quite repetitive and I was correct in thinking that the answer would include the argument presented in the complaint. I was more interested in the information on the defendants than the argument itself but it may prove interesting in that Robert Siderfin the elder of Timberscombe/East Linch may have married an Ursula Francke either a daughter of the house or a widow of the house. That remains to be seen; there is still 3/4 ths of the document to transcribe. A daughters dower or a widows claim to a piece of land due to marriage settlement being contested is not unusual following the death of her husband/father when a sibling will attempt to take back a piece of land so granted. Families can be quite fascinating to study. The Siderfin family, as shown by James Sanders book, was an extremely interesting family although the lines that were the most controversial and prominent did tend to either daughter out or simply not continue. It does appear that the Siderfin family today is all descendant of Robert Siderfin and Elizabeth (Question) Siderfin with Robert likely being the son of John 5 (Robert 4, Robert 3, William 2, John 1) and his wife Thomasine. Although James Sanders does not entirely agree on the exact lineage during the fourth/fifth/sixth generations on that the passage of land and property but the naming of the next generation and their location does appear to support that idea. I will write it and using a Creative Commons License I leave it up to the next researcher to do the same as I have done and revise and update my book at some point in the future and I do welcome that as the correct version of history is always more interesting than any concocted version written to cover up misdeeds and what not!
I also continued to work on formatting the last pages of the book as well with just another thirty pages to work on. I am removing all mentions past 1920 and that is making the task much quicker than the chapters preceding this one. I should soon be finished that and will send off Thomas (younger brother to my Elizabeth (Betty) Siderfin) since I have a correspondent willing to check that out for me to see if what I have found for Thomas fits their records. I do not have any family lore for the Siderfin family passed down to me as the name was lost in family discussions although she was the mother of Elizabeth (Rew) Pincombe my 2x great grandmother who emigrated with her husband John and their five children (John, William Robert, Elizabeth Anne, Richard and Louisa) to Upper Canada via the Port of New York. They traveled to Genesee New York where Robert Pincomb (elder brother to John) lived with his family and then on to southwestern Ontario arriving in the spring of 1850.
Another beautiful day in God's world; the wind is gently rustling in the trees as God moves about us watching and waiting for us to live the life that Jesus told us we must live. When will we ever get there? I do wonder if all Homo sapiens can learn to do the right thing and respect and love their fellow man/woman/child. All wars would cease and peace would come to our world so that we can work together and defeat climate change and protect ourselves, if necessary, from anything that might be out in the universe. We must always be ready to take care of ourselves as we do not know what awaits us in the universe but peace on earth would be a beautiful gift obtained by following the words of Jesus sent to us by God Himself.
Breakfast awaits.
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