Greetings to all near and far.

Here on Prince Edward Island, we enjoy a local tradition of having lobster on Mother's Day; fishing season having opened the week prior ensures a fresh supply. It has become such a strong tradition that our church embarks on a fundraising project each year to sell a take-home lobster lunch with cooked lobster, salads and carrot cake included. This year we managed to produce 500 lobster meals with Daphne (my wife) as one of the organizers. A major undertaking, it remains a popular event that get everyone involved. After seeing the meals picked up, we headed home to enjoy our own lobster supper with family and, were glad to finally put up our feet on Sunday evening.

The same weekend saw a birthday and the seasonal opening of our family business in New London, PEI for our 45th season. Village Pottery which is now capably managed by our daughter Suzanne who is also launching a new business next door by converting a heritage home into an ice cream parlour and cafe called Potter's Parlour.

 

Since Christmas we have been working making and staying in contact with extended family. We hope you find HomePort located at IanScott.ca helps you stay connected. Scott material starts at the Scott@HomePort link. We hope to make contact in other ways but find that email addresses change and sometimes we have no contact information, so please consider passing along this link to others who share our Scott/Dalgity connection.

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Family From Forfar - Update

Considering the recent celebration of Mother's Day, it may be a good time to revisit some of the stories of ancestral mothers whose dedication to family made such a difference. Starting with Jean Dalgity the Scottish ancestor who faced personal disaster when her husband was murdered in 1803, but believed that staying in Nova Scotia with her three young children was best, despite plans by military authorities to ship her back to England. Although the paper trail runs thin for those decades, we know her dream did come true and the children survived as did Jean (Dalgity) Scott. How she managed we may never know but it must have been one determined mother who found a way to survive in the military town of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

In every generation at least one member of the family has lived in Halifax at some point. I have a sister living there now, and my father Rev. Jack Scott studied there and served with the Royal Canadian Navy there in WW II. His father John Albert Scott moved there from rural Nova Scotia as a young boy when his own father David Scott opened a store called Ste. Croix House in the city. The business closed after almost a decade and the family returned to their farm in Ste. Croix, Nova Scotia. My great grandfather who opened the store in Halifax was David Scott a namesake grandson of the original immigrant Sergeant David Scott who married Jean Dalgity in Scotland. Some of the details of the early Halifax years are told in Chapter 1 of Family From Forfar.

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Fresh Finds

With mothers and brides in mind we are pleased to share some exciting news that has recently been located. Among the Scott family that became established in Boston was Sarah Ann Scott (1830-1889) who relocated from Nova Scotia about 1853 and in the 1860s married Sylvester Danforth Waugh (1834-1907), a Civil War veteran who worked as a milkman in Roxbury. Sarah Ann was a member of the third generation in North America and was the fourth of five children born to John Scott and Elizabeth Dill in Nova Scotia.

Sarah and Sylvester Waugh had a family of five children - three boys and two girls. Sadly their first son John Albert Waugh, died before he turned two and his brother Charles S. Waugh died at age 11. The two girls remained single, but the family line continued with their son Varnum Waugh who on February 8th 1888 married Lucy Ada Damon. The story of Lucy's wedding dress is told through a newspaper article. How it became part of the exhibition Wedding 396: Four Centuries of Wedding Fashion in Plymouth held at Pilgrim Hall Museum is equally interesting.

Lucy Ada and Varnum Waugh had no children and at some point various items were donated to the Norwell Historical Society collection thus their current staff were pleased to learn of family connections to the treasured artifacts in their care and and form part of the Jacobs Farmhouse administered by the Norwell Historical Society. By contacting the museum staff I was able to get pictures of the restored wedding dress and the wedding invitation.

There are additional pictures on HomePort.