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Forfar Family News
- Christmas 2006
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An occasional
family newsletter for descendants
and relatives of Serg. David & Jeannie (Dalgity) Scott, pioneer
settlers in Nova Scotia, circa 1802, having married in Forfar, Scotland.
Hi
Folks, Seasons Greetings to all from Eastern Canada.
This week on Prince Edward Island, we are beginning to see the arrival of winter, giving a white frosting to everything
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This year we are looking forward to having everyone home for the first time in a few. Our eldest son Rob has moved back to PEI from British Columbia, and Andrew, is home from New Brunswick for the week. He hopes to graduate in May, as does Suzanne who continues to enjoy her Travel & Tourism program at Holland College, despite being sidelined from soccer and basketball for the College after a soccer injury to her knee. Last season she received the Female Athlete of the Year award. |
We
have had several opportunities to visit
the Scott farm in Ste.
Croix (Elm Farm). The most recent was to help Uncle Fred Scott,
celebrate his 95th birthday. I contacted an old family friend, in hopes
that she might like to send him a card if she knew it was a special
occasion. It
turned out she was living in Ohio but had lived and worked at Elm Farm as
a teenager for a year. She was planning on being in Nova Scotia the
next week to visit her sisters - and so arranged to come to the party.
Once we started talking family history, we discovered that we were
related in three different ways. |
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| We were thrilled to learn of a reunion of another family, at the other side of the continent which will see 22 year old Celeb Feaver, of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team join his family in Oregon for Christmas. He and his brigade had completed a tour of duty in Northern Iraq and were scheduled to return home to their base in Alaska in August, however, they were notified that instead, they had been reassigned to Baghdad. Having experienced the reality of war, and the loss of companions, we know everyone is very happy to have Celeb finally home. |  |
 We recently located a document
that tells the story of the migration that Celeb's great-great-grandfather, Alexander Dill Scott made from Elm Farm in Nova
Scotia to settle in California in 1883. |
 A
Christmas
story worth
mentioning is of Celeb's great-great aunt Jessie Helen Scott who left a
memorable impression on the entire village of Ste Croix during a
extended visit with her grandparents in Nova Scotia during
1894-95. |
Daphne and I had a chance to explore areas of Scotland this year. We spent a week on Mull where she has roots, and then a week in Edinburgh area where my parents lived when Dad was a graduate student in the late 1940's. We were especially pleased to reunite with a family that befriended my parents at that time. We joined Maxa Davidson for a meal in the home of her son John and his wife Mary, along with family members. The connections between the families remain alive through Maxa's continuing contact for over 50 years.
John, like his father twenty years before, offered to take us on a day trip throughout the Border Country. We toured Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott and areas that are rich with Scottish history.
Visiting other potters remains a travel interest and thus we added more Scottish studios and pottery images to our Flickr site.
The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland was also in session, and we were able to attend St. Giles Cathedral for Sunday service. St. Giles has a lengthy history and because of that, is considered to be a Mother Church for many Presbyterians worldwide. We were surprised to discover that the assistant minister was from Prince Edward Island and his wife from Nova Scotia. Almost as surprised as discovering the week before, at a local Kirk on Tobermory, while enjoying a mission society lunch with the congregation, that there were two Ian's sitting beside me - three Ians in a row.
Family history research continues --HomePort continues to grow -- although I must apologize, my efforts to keep in touch with everyone have been wanting. It will be time for New Year's resolutions soon. The site has been reworked, and some parts rewritten, so when you get a chance take a look at both the main page and Scott@HomePort. As always, we are keen to hear from others and learn of family activies.
The bard himself will
provide the farewell.
Heap on more wood!
The wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
The wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.