THE BICKNELL FAMILY IN CANADA
| On June 26, 1872, James Bicknell, eldest son of Thomas Bicknell and his wife Maria Pellett, sailed from the Port of London, England on the S.S. Medway.With him were his wife Anne (Caplin) and their children James 10, Annie 7, Ellen 5 and Alfred 2. They were bound for the Port of Quebec in Canada where a new life awaited them in Hamilton, Ontario. Their son Harry was born in Hamilton in September 1873. On the thirty five day voyage to the Port of Quebec, James kept a diary. A relative told me of the diary and offered to share it with me some day. However, it seems to have disappeared with her death. How wonderful it would be to read James' account of the family's adventure on the sea. My research has traced the life and times of the Bicknell ancestors in England and their descendants here in Canada. THE HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE BICKNELL FAMILY IN CANADA is available for purchase: email: [email protected] Copies in: Library & Archives Canada: NAME(S):*Singleton, Margaret R. (Margaret Rose), 1935- TITLE(S): History and Genealogy of the Bicknell family in Canada: Whose ancestors came from Normandy and Great Britain / Margaret R. Singleton PUBLISHER: Ottawa : M. R. Singleton, 2006. NOTES: Includes bibliographical references and index. NUMBERS: Canadiana:20059074957 ISBN:0973404000 : $45.00 CLASSIFICATION: LC Call no.:CS90 B44412 2006 Dewey:929/.2/0971 22 SUBJECTS: Bicknell family Ontario--Genealogy England--Genealogy My new Book is here: THE BOX IN THE CLOSET; MY JOURNEY TO CLAIM WHO I AM A MEMOIR ISBN:978-1-4269-9000-7 (sc) ISBN: 978-1-4269-9001-4 (hc) ISBN: 978-1-4269-9002-1 (e) Library of Congress Control Number: 2011914408 This powerful and unusual story contrasts The Bicknells, a wealthy and influential family in Rosedale, Toronto, into which I was born out of wedlock, with a farm couple from near Brockville, Ontario, who adopted me in 1935.At the age of sixteen I began to feel unsettled and lost. Eighteen years later I finally acted on that feeling and began to search for my lost parents. Using documents I found in a box in the closet of my adoptive mother after her death, I have retrieved the moment when a sleek limousine emerged from the dust of a gravel road delivering me to my new parents. The book follows that limousine back as I searched for my birth mother, taking me into mystery, intrigue and cover-up by the legal system but bringing me finally to a supper dance in the Crystal Ballroom of the historic King Edward Hotel in Toronto, where by chance my birth parents were reunited. The memoir is a story of loss and recovery but it is also a story of love, strength and redemption. CONTACT: [email protected] for purchasing information. | THE BICKNELL FAMILY IN CANADA Updated October 20, 2011 |
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