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Forfar Family News
- Christmas 2018
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A newsletter for descendants & relatives of
Sgr. David & Jean (Dalgity) Scott
who married at Forfar, Scotland in 1795, and were
stationed
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with the
Royal Artillery in 1801.
Christmas Greetings to all.
Here on Prince Edward Island, we had a busy
summer in the tourist industry.
We celebrated the 45th season at Village Pottery which is now
operated by our daughter Suzanne who this summer
opened an ice cream parlour and cafe called Potter's Parlour
next door.
We love to hear from extended family. We hope you find HomePort (IanScott.ca) helpful in staying connected. Scott material starts through the Scott@HomePort link. Please feel free to share these links with others.
We love to hear from extended family. We hope you find HomePort (IanScott.ca) helpful in staying connected. Scott material starts through the Scott@HomePort link. Please feel free to share these links with others.
Family Visits
We were thrilled to see visitors this
fall who had travelled from great distances. In September,
Stanley and Kathryn Scott (at left) drove across the continent from California to meet up with their
daughter Sasha Scott here in
Charlottetown. Sasha, who lives
in Boston had flown to Nova Scotia and then drove over to
meet them here. It was a chance to retrace a journey begun
135 years before by Stan's great grandfather Alexander
Dill Scott (1860-1945) who left Nova Scotia in a
train car headed west in 1883. "Dill" as he was known, was
young, single and bound for a new life in California. A
local paper described how, "A large party of respectable persons, mostly farmer's sons, from near Windsor, Nova Scotia, left here yesterday for the Pacific Coast. The party consists of 14 persons and four children.They will have a special car to themselves most of the way. The sum paid for the tickets amounted to over $1,000."
A later writer told of the journey,
"At Newport Station the passengers boarded a local train and took the emigrant train at Windsor Junction. The train crossed into Maine and travelled via Boston. This special car contained the emigrants and all their possessions. Here they cooked, ate and slept through the long journey."
By train and boat Dill arrived in northern California where his family prospered despite the early death of his first wife. Left with two young children to raise, he eventually remarried. His descendants now includes a sixth generation. Add those to the three prior generations which lived in Nova Scotia and you get a picture of the span of time that the family has lived in North America over the last 217 years.
The California family of Dill Scott (Stan's great grandfather) maintained connections with the family of Dill's brother, John Albert Scott (my grandfather) in Nova Scotia. When money was short for my father to complete university training it was a loan from Dill's daughter Jessie Helen Scott, a retired school teacher, which made the difference. It was Jessie herself who was helped by the Nova Scotia relatives as a young child when her mother died. Jessie Helen Scott came to live with the Nova Scotia family around 1893 and a Christmas story about her days in Ste. Croix may be timely reading today. A Christmas album of photographs taken by her brother Alger Scott Sr. with a camera bought as a teen, shows the life of this early Novato, CA family.
I was lucky to visit with Stan, Kathryn & Sasha in California in 2002 and looked forward to seeing them in PEI since. You can follow Stanley and Kathryn's journey, which circled the continent, through their travel blog.
More Family VisitsIn October we welcomed cousins Scott and Meg Little (on left of photo) who were on a cruise ship travelling from Montreal, Quebec back to their home in Mount Dora, Florida. Meg is an avid researcher and continues to expand our knowledge of family history on Scott's side of the family. Scott is a great-great-grandson of Daniel DeWolf Scott, (1842-1919) who moved from Nova Scotia to Boston with his family in 1850 as an eight year old boy. Daniel was the grandson of the founding NS couple (Sgr. David Scott & Jean Dalgity), he returned to Nova Scotia where he met his wife Abigail "Abbie" McNutt during the height of the American Civil War. They began their family in Nova Scotia but eventually they moved their young family to rejoin their relatives in Boston in 1872. Scott Little's grandfather George A. Scott was one of those children and he visited Nova Scotia in the 1920's at my father's boyhood home, Elm Farm in Ste. Croix, Nova Scotia, where the occasion was captured.
We had a wonderful day exploring Prince Edward Island with Scott and Meg and kept a family tradition of capturing a picture of the gathering before they caught their boat headed south to visit sites with family connections in Halifax, NS and Boston, MA. Like his great-great-grandfather, Daniel DeWolf Scott who travelled from Wolfville NS to Boston on the schooner Albatross in 1850, their voyage was by water. This time the journey was aboard a much more comfortable ship.
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If you are on Facebook, and we haven't found each other already, please send along a friend request so we can stay connected. You can also connect through Instagram or LinkedIn, or by email. A growing collection of family genealogical material on FamilySearch can be accessed through this link. Family Search requires users to register for a free account to access the materials.
Merry Christmas
We trust the holiday season is a
happy one for you, your family and friends. An
annual tradition in our house is to mount a camera
on a tripod and set the timer to capture a Christmas
photo. This was our 2017 gathering. From
Charlottetown, our wishes to you for a very Merry Christmas!
The bard's own words have carried down through the years.
We trust the holiday season is a
happy one for you, your family and friends. An
annual tradition in our house is to mount a camera
on a tripod and set the timer to capture a Christmas
photo. This was our 2017 gathering. From
Charlottetown, our wishes to you for a very Merry Christmas!The bard's own words have carried down through the years.
Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832)
Sincerely, Ian Scott
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