My Family History

• Surname List


• Index of Individuals


• InterneTree

Family Photos

• Ellen Keyes Black (6 KB)
  My grandmother's mother
• J.R. McCurdy & Eva Caldwell (5 KB)
  Winter Weddings seemed to be common.
• 1927 SS # 1 Goulbourn School Photo (505 KB)
  Isabel Black's class picture.
• Aunt Rosemary's Wedding Day (9 KB)
  Aunt Rosemary MacDonald, a teacher, married my Uncle Bob. She passed away in the summer of 2003.
• J.R. & Leighton 1947 (8 KB)
  Just before selling the family homestead, my father, Leigh, with his grandfather John Rockcliffe McCurdy
• Leighton Arthur McCurdy (10 KB)
  My father, also a teacher, passed away in 1995.
• Wedding Day December 24, 1901 (12 KB)
  Eva and J.R. on their wedding day December 24, 1901.
• Weston, ON, with Diana (8 KB)
  I was born in Weston. One of our father's hobbies was building and racing go karts. Here we are at the track in our strollers...watch out!
• Wedding Day Dr. Paul Gallway and Lorna Bowman (59 KB)
  Lorna is my grandmother, Isabel Black McCurdy's niece.
• The Twins (34 KB)
  My Uncle Bob and Uncle Bill were twins. This twin thing runs in the family. My grandmother, Martha Kemp McCurdy had a twin sister, Emma.
• The Day their House Burned Down (14 KB)
  My Aunt Dorothy Johnston, her cousin, and my grandmother Miriam Jelly Johnston drying dishes the day after a house fire.
• Grama and Grampa McCurdy (William "Arthur") (33 KB)
  This is my favourite picture of my grandparents.
• Uncle Harold Johnston DVM (1 KB)
  Uncle Harold is my mother's younger brother. He passed away at age 45 in 1975
• Harriet Worden the Artist (15 KB)
  Harriet was one of the first female graduate from the Ontario College of Art. She did watercolours and painted Limoge pottery.
• Uncle John Johnston DVM (1 KB)
  Uncle John is still working in Brockville, Ontario.
• Isabel Audrey Black McCurdy (3 KB)
  My paternal grandmother died March 2005
• Margaret Johnston McCurdy and Grandson (13 KB)
  My mother in her new role as grandmother.
• George Kemp's Tombstone (16 KB)
  RIP
• Roy Johnston WWl Veteran (27 KB)
  He was with the 48th Highlanders in the first world war. Imagine the courage that it takes to wear a skirt to war.
• My little brother and I hugging at Blue Grama's (608 KB)
  Blue Grama tinted her hair blue. Red Grama on the other hand, dyed her hair red.

Related Links

• SS # 10 was located at Stanley's Corners
• Great Aunt Muriel Black, secretary to Prime Minister Bennet.
• Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury's book with my additions at the end
• My C@ts
• My Best Childhood Memory
• Best Holiday Memory
• My Mother's Men were Orangemen