Sask Kate & what happened next.

Post by **joette** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:48 pm

She is one of the reasons I started on my Family History.She was born in Penicuik,Midlothian the eldest daughter of William Scott & Christina Taylor Young.She was seven years older than my Grandfather & was the eldest of four girls with an older brother & three younger.She married in Penicuik to Hugh Lindley & they had two children John & Christina.
She was the mysterious woman photographed atop a horse-drawn buggy in Phippen Sask.She was the author of the letter from there to my Grandparents on their Wedding Day some thirty years after her own & she tells them to be kind to each other & hoped they would stay in love as much as she & her Hugh still were.
I knew that her Grandson had been in the Canadian Forces during WW2 & had visited my Grandparents or at least my Granny & after that nothing.
With a fairly unusual name & a location I thought finding them would be easy.I started looking about ten years ago.
I managed to find their Land Grant for their homestead via my FHC.
After a while I put them on the back burner.
Then late last year I had a message on the Lothian Family History Forum.
It was from a descendant of one of Hugh Lindley's five sisters & she lived in BC.She told me that the rest of the Lindleys-parents,daughters,son-in-laws had emigrated 1902 via North Dakota.Catherine & Hugh's daughter was born in Penicuik 1904 so I knew they must have went later.
She knew Hugh had died in 1937 & after that the family had lost track of Catherine & her children.We have stayed in touch & kept hoping & Lori was able to send me details when the 1911 Canadian Census was released.
I later found on Ancestry a grandson of one of my Grandfather's brothers & he too had been searching for Catherine & family.He had her in-laws obituary & that was interesting too but no Catherine.
Then about a fortnight ago I had a wonderful message via Ancestry from the husband of Catherine's Great-Granddaughter Karolee & Gordon.
She had the good taste to marry a Nova Scotian.They were very excited to meet & any doubt fled as we exchanged identical photos!
Catherine(Kate as I nicknamed her) had remarried in 1940 so no wonder we couldn't find her.John had married & had children & young Christina (Tina) had married & had TEN children.
What saddened me was that Catherine had lived to be 97 dying in 1975 when I would have been able to know her.

She must have been as strong as her photos looked.I know life as a homesteader & then a farmers wife was not an easy one & to cross those miles & leave behind all your birth family.She outlived all of her siblings & her son & two husbands.
So Catherine Anderson nee Scott previously Lindleyaka as Sask Kate so glad to have found you.
Oh yes & turns out that Lori(the Lindley desc.) lives about a half-hours drive from Karolee & Gordon.So

YIPPPEEEE

Post by **paddyscar** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:47 pm

Well done, Joette! I was getting goose bumps reading your find.
Frances

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:37 pm

Me too!!!

Thanks for telling us all. perseverance and patience combined

Just proves that you don't lose relatives.....merely displace them

Can we all jump up and down or will that unbalance the world?

Russell

Rach · Post by **Rach** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:09 pm

Joette, I will take a lesson from you and keep persevering with my lot in Sask and B.C. and who knows where! I live in hope that someone over there is following up their family history too and one day we will collide!
Well done!
Rae

Post by **joette** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:14 am

Thanks it was the release of the 1911 Census that led them to look so maybe all of you with canadian connections will be so lucky too.
I just never thought this day would come-I was scared to open the message just in case! It has reunited me with my Penicuik cousins too & answered a lot of questions on that side too.
If we all jumped up & down we would at least start a tidal wave or an Earthquake!

mallog · Post by **mallog** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:27 am

A good read. I found it sad too when I discovered a lost branch of my tree had actually stayed about 10 miles away from me and still alive during my lifetime. It was the other side of the country from where they had first come. Anyway I was able to visit the grave and found more details.