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Left to right – Florence Mabel (Peer), Lucy Richards (Peer), George Rowsome, Lillian Spicer (Peer), Reuben Peer Jr., (Hannah or Mary Peer) and Kitty Peer.
Photo taken in 1930 at the Peer Family Reunion
Dec 27th, 2007 – note from Julie Hinton: Miranda and I visited my cousin Betty in Nov. and we both agreed that grandma and grandpa Hinton are not in the Peer Family Elder pic or the Peer Family Reunion pic.
Caption updated Dec 26, 2007 and again on Sept 20, 2009.
Do you know the names of any of these people? (click on image to view larger)
This photo of the Peer Family of Eastern Ontario (Elizabethtown Township, near Brockville) was saved by my mother, Della Jean Charlton (nee Connell), seated in front on the far left. The Peer Reunion took place at the home of George and Margaret Rowesome at Jellyby, Leeds County, Ontario.
Standing second and third from left are my grandparents, Ethel May (nee Richards) and Delbert Connell. Standing second from right, by the hand pump, is their son Gerald Carson Connell. Immediately to his left is Mary Lillian Spicer (nee Peer).
Beside my mother (seated on the grass on the left) is a man with a baby. The woman behind them is Jewell Glenora MacGregor, the daughter of Katherine Matilda Peer aka Kitty Peer. Going strictly by the body language, I suspect the man is her husband and the baby, her child.
Kneeling to the right of the man with the baby is George Rowsome and seated beside him also with a baby is Lucy Adeline Richards (nee Peer), Ethel May’s mother.
According to their great grand daughter, Pamela Vittorio, the gentleman in suit and tie standing behind the children is Reuben Peer Jr. with his wife Florence Mabel Peer.
Dec 26th, 2007 note from Julie Hinton: Miranda and I visited my cousin Betty in Nov. and we both agreed that grandma and grandpa Hinton are not in the Peer Family Elder pic or the Peer Family Reunion pic.
Robert Charlton was born November 12, 1882 at 143 Front Street, North Brancepeth Colliery, Brandon, County Durham. By age 18, he was working as an apprentice carpenter and living with his parents in the Village of Station Road, Houghton le Spring.
All that changed when he left home to commence his studies for the ministry in 1902. His first stop was the Wesleyan Church at Castleton Hall in Castleton, Derbyshire under the auspices of the Home Mission Board of England. When Castleton Hall closed he moved with his fellow students to Cliff College at Curbar, Derbyshire. The latter remains a Methodist College to this day.
In 1906 he immigrated to Canada and by 1907 was “Received on Trial” at Ebeneezer. Between 1908 and 1911 he attended Wesley College, Winnipeg and was “Ordained” in 1912 at Moose Jaw.
