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Topic: 'Forty-niner' ancestor to Barkerville (Read 1133 times)
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hepburn
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Wow Lydart, you even have a photo of John, how brilliant is that.....
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J.J.
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I'm not sure if I pointed you in the right direction for textual files... 
Those records are here:
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/sn-A0B786/textual/general/textual.htm
This mining lease from the Cariboo government agency records for 1897 says:
Call Number: GR-0216 BOX# 129 File# 3 Contents: Pomeroy, John et al Oct. 19 1897
which means he and others leased
Ashcroft Supreme Court probate/estate files 1907-1990
His estate files GR-3245 reel B09551 / Pomeroy, John / folio year: 4/1914
also found: Call Number: GR-3245 duty #420 file#55 / Supreme Court / Pomeroy, J. 1914
There is another file for a Pomeroy J....but there was also a James...so you'll have to see as it is in later years....
oooohhhh...who did he leave it all to?  J.J.
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8:12 C.S.T. here in Canada...That site url is again working perfectly? Perhaps it
is on a small server and got overloaded...
The interest from rootschat can probably overload a site...Your query is only a day old and has 75 views already!
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Lydart
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WOW, , WOW !!!!
This is what RootsChat is for !
I'm so excited, particularly at the photo of him ! WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is so much to read through, I'm jumping up and down on my chair at the lap-top, such that I can't concentrate !
And would you believe it ... I think I said I went to Barkerville about 5 years ago, BEFORE I had researched or even knew about that side of my fathers family. And last night I searched my book shelves, and found the book I had bought there on the history of Barkerville, called 'Barkerville: A Gold Rush Experience' by Richard Thomas Wright, pub. Winter Quarters Press of Williams Lake ... and would you believe it, there's a little bit about John in it ! Sitting on the shelf in my bedroom all this time ! It says he died in the Royal Kariboo Hospital; that he had had a ranch near Williams Lake, and had originally mined in the USA before going to BC for the Antler Creek strike, and had settled at Williams Creek (Barkerville).
Why don't we do this research BEFORE the oldies die ... there's no-one to get excited with, except RC people of course !
I'm on the verge of booking another air ticket to Canada !!! (Perhaps !)
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Dorset/Wiltshire: Trowbridge, Williams, Sturney, Prince, Foyle, Fripp, Triggle ... and more Cornwall/Devon/CANADA: Pomeroy Somerset: Clark(e) Durham: Law London: Poplett Lancashire/Cheshire/CANADA: Stubbs, Walmesley Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Lydart
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Hope this is acceptable, copyright wise ... someone tell me if not please ?
He was obviously a hobbit, being a miner and very small !
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Enterprise gold & silver mine...is this his name in here, spelled "John Polmere"
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/page.aspx?id=543071
He is also listed under: Guide to the province of British Columbia for 1877-8...as a citizen of Barkervilee...as "Pomeroy, J."
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hepburn
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Hi Lydart,
I think he looks lovely!!!
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JJ ... I checked that out and he appears as John Pomeroy alongside a John Polmere, so two different men. See pages 3 and 16 ...
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He is also listed under: Guide to the province of British Columbia for 1877-8...as a citizen of Barkervilee...as "Pomeroy, J."
Is that a book, or a web-site, please ??
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This topic is widening !
I've found another relative:-
Stubbs, William, Shawnigan, Labourer, Cow
on the 1898 voters list you gave me J.J. ... can you or anyone translate it please ? What has a cow to do with voters ?! And is Shawnigan a place, and where ?
But lets keep the topic on Barkerville miners, once past this sideways step !
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oonagh, I agree. He does look lovely.  A Victorian gent with a taste for adventure.
I bet if he had been a bit younger he may have headed for the Yukon. The Klondike gold rush .
http://www.nps.gov/archive/klgo/history.htm
Anyone interested( and who could not be? ) can put 'Yukon, gold rush, pass' or similar words in 'Google ' and choose 'images'. Click on them to enlarge.
The sight of that line of men going single-file over the Chilkoot Pass is amazing.
They had to carry their own supplies with them, and had to climb, as the pictures show, over the pass carrying their stuff on their backs, then return to make the same trip many times to get all their supplies.
There were certain items that had to have. Everyone had to be independant.
But you can read all about it. It is fascinating. Some people like to follow the route the gold rush prospectors followed.
Lydart, If you do come to B.C . again I am sure you will enjoy Barkerville, and the Cariboo area so much more knowing about the family connection.
There is a place calleded 'Shawnigan Lake' on Vancouver Island.
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Boyle, Co. Leitrim Boyle, Co. Tyrone, Shaughnessy, Co in Ireland unknown, and Manchester, UK. Pope, Cheshire. Chadwick, Speke, Lancs. Frankish, Hunmanby, Yorks. Brindley, Audley, Staffs and Middlesex.
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What a miner had to carry in order to be able to survive was staggering ... have a look at this list:
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/galler04/frames/equip.htm
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re: stubbs...go to the top and see:
NAME / RESIDENCE / PROFESSION, TRADE, or CALLING / DISTRICT
COW being the district and Shawnigan residence
Likely short for Cowichan
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