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6
Mar

The journal and resources

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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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6
Mar

Vera and visit to Calgary

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Tim,

I am going to be in Calgary Sunday Mar 15 (business mtg at CP Rail Monday Morning).

I called Vera (Becklake) last night and mentioned that I would like to stop by and see her to show her the start of our family web site (that my daughter Dana has started working on) on the shipThe Orient.

I also asked her to pass on the address and phone number for Peter Frymann (in England).

As mentioned to you in an earlier email Tim, Peter is the relative in England that was the keeper of the Prudence Strible Hill (Captain George Strible Hill’s wife) journal, that Gordon and Vera picked up, from Peter, and brought back to Canada.

The web site will include pictures of the quilt that Prudence hand made while on the Orient.

Fortunatley, the quilt is now in the hands of Betty (nee Robinson) and Garth down in Denver, Colorado. Betty took the quilt away from Kay Robinson (102 years this June) now in a nursing home in Salmon Arm, knowing the significance of its family history of this quilt, in order to make certian that it was not thrown away (or given away by mistake by a care worker). Vera says she has a small photo of the quilt, as well.

I will also be asking Peter if he can trace a path back to who he received the “Prudence” Journal from to see if we can link it back to Prudence.

We will also (through Betty) attempt to trace the trail of the Quilt and determine who (in England, or possibly New York, where Prudence died), she got the quilt from. An interesting bit of detective work, to say the least, Tim.

I will have a copy of the (Prudence) Journal, along with all the background info, with me on Sunday, so if you would like to review this, I will be pleased to brief you on it, at Vera’s.

I will be there around 1:00 p.m. ( I know that Vera has a St. Patrick’s day dinner at 5:30 so I will only be there until about 3:00 pm)

Hope to see you there.

Regards

Hugh Parkinson (to Tim Becklake and Dana Parkinson)

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