| Pumyea / Venedam Family Tree |
| Father Mike's *Letter |
July 18,2002 Dear Donna I have gathered up the info I had and am sending it to you in the hope it will be of some help in your project with the family tree. I started to look up the ancestry about twenty five years ago, that's before computers and internet and found it so time consuming that I gave it up. I'm happy to hear you are doing it now. I would like to find out about the ancestors of Michael Blanch, my great great grandfather. Maybe with the help of the computer you may be able to find out something. Sorry I could only give your approximate dates of birth. I have a snap shop of James Armstrong and Mary Anne McEvoy They are my great grandparents from my mother's side. I think I told you that his name was Jeremiah. I saw it somewhere in the records but his name was James. Good luck with your project, Love Fr. Mike *************** Michael Blanch 7 Brigit Fitzgerald Barnabas Notes: Michael & Brigit lived in or around Dublin Ireland and never left Ireland. Their son Barnabas emigrated 6to Newfoundland and then to New Brunswick, Canada. Two of his brothers were with him, but moved to United States. Barnabas met and married Catherine Dalton. They lived in New Brunswick the rest of their lives & are buried in a church cemetery near Moncton, N B Barnabas aBlanch &Catherine Dalton Edward (b 1844) Agnes (b 1850) George (b 1848) John Michael (b 1846) Martin (b 1851) James Bradley Ambrose William Notes: The dates of burth, at least the years are from tombstone in N B Going back from the 1st son it would make Barnaba's birth date about 1815. The exact date could be obtained from the church records if important. George Blanch&Anne Hackett William b Jan 31, 1883 James Barnabas Frank Michael Peter Kate Amelia May Saara_Elizabeth Anastasia Notes: George & Anne lived all their lives in New Brunswick. Anne Hackett died quite young imn childbirth and Kate the oldest girl (13 years) had to cook and run the house. William, the oldest boy had to work for the store owner, an impire-loyalist to pay for the family groceries. He left home at 16 and went to Nova Scotia and worked in 'Roads and Curry's' carshop - making train cars. when he was 18 he went west on a harvest excursion and worked south of Winnipet & didn't go back east. He went to work in the lumber camps in the Rainey River District and there met Bernadette Armstrong and were married in 1901. In 1916 the family moved to Saskatchewan and farmed in the Burr District. In 1919 they moved back to Rainey River District where work in the lumber camps & tried to do some farming. In t1928 the family moved back William Blanch& Bernadette Armstrong married in 1909 George ( b 1910) Leo (b Mar 29, 1912) Mary ( b Aug 7, 1913) Anne Patrick Arril 20, 19 William ( b June 5, 1917) Bernadette (b 1918) John (b Nov 9, 1919) James (b Jan 15, 1921) Margaret (b June 19, 1922) Joseph (b Oct 16, 1923) Joseph (b Oct 16, 1923) Frances (b July 24, 1925) Michael (b June 20, 1927) Notes: I have dates of birth for all except George and Bernadette. George died of diabetes at 7 years & Bernadesse of diarriha at 18 months. they were buried in the 1st cemetery at St Scholastica In 1916 the family moved to Saskatchewan and farmed in the Burr District. In 1920 they moved back to the Rainey River Dictrict where William worked in the logging camps & tried to farm. In 1928 they moved back to the Burr Dist & remained until retiring to Humboldt in 1944. In 1943 William made his first trip east to see his family after 40 years |
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