Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day. Ken and I met my Mom and Dad at a breakfast restaurant in Pickering where we had a mother's day brunch. We then drove down to a park in Ajax and walked by the lake. The lake was so calm and so blue. It's easy to see why the early explorers thought they found the ocean when they first saw the great lakes!After we parted ways, Ken and I drove to the public library in Port Hope. I was hoping to find out more information about the Pethick line, and find stuff we did!
Quick family line: There's me, - then my dad Ted Bacon, then his dad Howard Edward Bacon, and his dad was William Henry Bacon and his mom was Mary Irene Pethick. Her name later became Rena Mae Bacon (after she was married of course). Mary Irene was born in Port Hope and I have found some census information about her family. Yesterday Ken looked up records on the computer and then I looked at the newspaper microfilms. I read and copied down several birth, death and marriage notices from the Port Hope Weekly Guide. The picture is of George Pethick's obituary. George is Mary Irene's grandfather and the first Pethick to come to Canada. We made the happy discovery that he came to Canada from 1851 and that he was born in Marhamchurch, Cornwall. The obituary is from 1885 and was published in the paper one week after his death.
If you double click on the picture it will open into a new screen and then it will be large enough to read.
