I can feel my mind sliding back into my work finally after really six years. I did a lot of work the past six years but my mind was often on other needs. But I now feel that I am back squarely working on these items that were so close to my grandfather's and mother's heart. Interestingly they end up being both sides of my family - Blake for my grandfather and Pincombe for my mother.
Perhaps one day I will work on the Buller and the Rawling/Cotterill? families but that is in the future. I do have a lot of material already on Buller and Rawling. I actually have a couple of interesting Cotterill DNA results that I only briefly looked at and will see if they do take me back to Kimpton where my grandmother was born. The other element in this is the Cotterill family already being in this Rawling line. My 5x great grandfather William Rawlins married Mary Ford 30 Sep 1741 at Wylye, Wiltshire and their daughter Mary married Stephen Cotterel 28 Jan 1764 at Enford, Wiltshire. Stephen Cotterel was the son of William Cotterel and brother to a William Cotterel. This William Cotterell married Elizabeth Kempton 3 May 1760 at Wilsford near Pewsey, Wiltshire and they had three children - William, Charles and Elizabeth. Charles married Mary Bartlett 31 Dec 1786 at Woodborough, Wiltshire and they had two sons Charles and William. Charles married Hannah Alderman 23 Oct 1824 at Kimpton and they had two children William and Mary. William married Jane Sherwood 21 Feb 1852 at Kimpton and they had a son George a couple of years younger than my great grandmother. So I need to be careful as I look at Cotterill matches that they are not descendant of my 4x great grand aunt! and her husband Stephen Cotterel. It is a small world.
I am contemplating adding in one will per day and will check that out in the near future. I would also like to complete that task and then I can publish the wills in *.pdf format for each county for a more permanent life for them. A lot of the wills that I transcribed have been published on my blog already.
I want this to be a little less restrictive on my workload as the Siderfin book dominated my time and I just really didn't think about or look at much else other than my newsletters which I publish the first of every month in the different disciplines that I study with the FT DNA results.
Canada on the move as we reinvent our industries lost to free trade. Just a few days and we will be on that path. It is an exciting time in Canada; it will be a tightening up time as it will cost money to do all of this and there is only one real source of money and that is us. We all have to heave to so to speak and do the job that needs to be done to bring us back to where we were in the 1950s but so much better off because our population is twice as large and we are united as a people like never before. Experience and youth will carry us forward and they must work together no matter the result of the election. I grew up in a military city (London, Ontario's largest employer was the military when I was a child) and you could feel the pride and responsibility we had as people of Canada in my home town. The vigour was there and it will return and build this great country as it was meant to be built - free, independent and strong. We do not need the government to pay for our teeth, to pay for medicines - we can do it ourselves and the baby boomers who have benefited enormously from Canada will now help to make us one of the most powerful in the G7. Back to work Canada - we can all work, all of us to make this country flow with power. Whether it be with our purchasing power in our old age or helping our young people to take on extra responsibility; we can do this. Go Canada.
Summer tires on and my six or seven times driving about completed that yearly cycle from summer to winter to summer tires once again.
Today is a work day but, weather permitting, I will do a little raking outside. Gardening is never my thing; my husband loved it and I helped him as sickness over took him (it was a long 10 years but we shared it together). Mostly he liked to just be out gardening in the spring and would even shovel the snow away to get started earlier. On that we differed for sure; I was encouraging him to think about a smaller place with a smaller garden but he loved it here and when I took a picture to him in the hospital of the spring flowers blooming through the snow not long before he passed he enjoyed seeing his flowers once again. We had so much in common but also differences which perhaps makes a good 54.5 year marriage.
Go Canada; reach the pinnacle - First Nations and colonials together we will make Canada one of the most productive countries in the world. The Americans will always be our best friends/our neighbours. We share a 9000 km border with them and our friendship is important to us. We will not be distracted as we move ahead in our ambitious drive to bring Canadian to its natural fruition as a powerful strong nation in the economic world but first we must build up the inside of our country to create housing, pipelines and any other item that we need in order to exist as a people in this cold northern climate. We know the way and we have the will. External trade will be our luxury and like most luxury it will not come immediately but we can work at it.
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