Katerina in the June sunshine – 3 years ago.
Author: Janet McKee
I currently wear many hats. My interests are genealogy, history, reading, knitting, and more. I now live in an assisted living retirement community.
Stamp Collecting and Postcards
I have been buying a number of postcards online from dealers all over the country and a few even from dealers in Europe and Asia. They come in various safe and secure ways. I really appreciate when the dealer is obviously interested in stamps as well as postcards. And I have resurrected my interest in stamp collecting. Pictured above is a U.S. stamp of a bluebird. It is on an envelope postmarked Phoenix Arizona, 17 April 2021.
More colorfull was an envelope postmarked Rockport Maine. Look at the great stamps on that envelope. Four different images – that dealer went out of his way to use as many stamps as he could. Bonanza! Note the stamp honoring Frances E. Willis. I have a lot of Willis ancestors. I wonder if this Frances is among them.
Cats in Postcards
The only information that I have about these 2 postcards is that they were printed in Switzerland. They feel old. Love them.
One More Postcard/Memory
Of Pirates, Prizes and a Pinafort
Here is someone else tracing their ancestors lives.
Just before he closed his eyes each night, Simeon Perkins wrote in his diary. The crusty old seaman did this for 46 years! Just like my Great Uncle Jacob Miller and his son Garrett, Simeon was a privateer, funding ships to capture the prizes during the Napoleonic War It took me an hour with a magnifying glass to decipher each of his words but the endeavor was worth it, giving me a glimpse into one week of Garrett’s life. These two entries were penned 222 years ago by Perkins, written in 1799.
June 3, 1799: Our auction of the prizes of the GMW and Schooner Fly and cargoes of the Prizes and commences the Diligence to Garrett Miller 1000 pounds. The next week on June 8th, he wrote: We have some difficulty with who bid off the prize, Brig LaLibre, on account of…
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Postcards and Memories
I think this is a postcard. Postcard or old image, it makes me think of my mother’s first trip to Europe in 1934. According to her diary of the voyage from Boston to Southampton, she was very active in organizing activities for the passengers,
For All Knitters
With Thanks to Franklin Habit
Immigrant No. 5, continued
I started on this ancestor and was led down a rabbit hole. So, I start again. John Priest Sr. was one of my 8th Great Grandfathers. John Priest Sr. 1615-1704. Born in Leiden in 1615, He came to America on the Mayflower arriving in 1620. Born in 1615, he was only 5 years old for the Mayflower voyage.with his parents John Priest and Sarah Allerton. His father died in the first winter. His mother remarried.
Now I have a puzzle. Another source says that our John Priest traveled alone on the Mayflower and his wife and children were to follow later. But after his wife heard that her husband had died, she remarried and she and her new husband and children came to America on the ship ANNE in 1623, landing in Plymouth.
Conflicting records – what to do. I think I’ll move on to another immigrant where the records are clearer.
Let’s just say that John Priest my 8th Great Grandfather arrived in Plymouth in 1620 or 1623. He lived in Plymouth and later moved to Salem and finally to Lancaster in Massachusetts.
A Postcard From The Past
This road lead to the village of Dundrum and on to Stepaside and to Enniskerry 7 miles distant. If I recall correctly, in the early 1900’s people came out from Dublin centre to get fresh goats milk in Dundrum
Additions to my Postcard Collection
For my postcards of cats
Janet's Thread 2 