What's New - Sep 10, 2024
Genealogy Stuff
Lapp in Brighton & Grafton
An email contact asked about one of the many Lapp people who migrated to Saskatchewan and are connected to the large and complex Lapp family tree. Charles Albert Lapp ran the Brighton Ensign for several decades, continued by his son, Clarence Lapp. This is a huge tree and is nowhere near complete here, but it certainly is better represented now.
Rouse and Reddick - Cramahe/Brighton Border
A wonderful picture has come to light regarding the Murray Canal. It shows a work crew placing stone in timber cribs which would be sunk to make piers for the canal. The name on the picture is George Reddick and a descendant of the Reddick and Rouse clans passed it to me. It has been determined that one fellow in the picture was George Reddick. A wonderful find! In the process, I improved the information in my system for these families. More info is always welcome.
Richard Vaughan
While looking at cemetery records, I came across the memorial of Richard Vaughan in the Old Methodist Church Cemetery on Aird Street in Grafton. Turns out that this fellow had a foundery in Bond Head, on the lakeshore south of Newcastle, when Daniel Massey was looking for a place to build machinery. Vaughan sold the foundry to Massey and he started a more serious version of his farm machinery manufacturing business in this location. A few years later he needed to expand to meet the demand and that is when the Massey company became established on the main street in Newcastle.