Dana, for the record, here is the list of sources that I have established over the last 13-14 years in the process of researching parallel aspects of the Prudence Journal and the ship the “Orient”.
I thought it best to catalogue these sources for others to follow up (and expand on the site) in the future.
I am heading to Calgary on Sunday Mar 15 (for business meetings with CP Rail on Monday Mar. 16) and will stop by to see Vera Sunday afternoon to show her the first cuts of the web site. I talked to her tonight and she told me that the journal was obtained by Gordon and Vera from Peter Frymann (Born May 19,1946) in England. Peter is the son of Arthur (born 1910) and Yvete Frymann, a relative of ours through the Becklake, Frymann and Robinson clan. Vera will try to put me in contact with Peter (address and phone number) so that I can alert them to the pending web site and to attempt to trace who gave the journal to him and try to trace it back to Prudence.
Gordon advised me that Captain Strible Hill’s sister Frances Strible Hill was my Great, Great Grandmother, so there is the connection.
The Captain lived on Putnam Ave in New York, died in 1888 and is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in NY.
Prudence died in 1904. Her diamond ring was passed onto to her niece, Martha Theresa (also known as Aunt Tiese) (born 7 / 20 in New York / 1871 died 9 / 4 / 1946, (unmarried)
Reading the family tree further, I might be able to connect the dots to tract the path that the Journal took to get to Peter Frymann and possibly, the hands that the quilt passed through to get to Kay Robinson. Betty (who now has the quilt) is going to ask Kay, at her 102nd birthday in June, in Salmon Arm.
We have copies of the family trees that traces the Smith / Frymann / Robinson / Becklake families through to my parents and me.
Love, Dad
(Hugh Parkinson to Dana Parkinson)
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