My relation to Mary Dyer (and Anne Marbury Hutchinson) are as follows:
1. Mary (Barrett) Dyer
2. Samuel Dyer (Samuel is Mary Dyer’s son who married Anne Marbury Hutchinson’s grand daughter Anne Hutchinson)
3. Anne Dyer
4. Elisha Clark I
5. Elisha Clark II
6. Elisha Clark III
7. Hannah Clark
8. Edward Weyman McLeod
9. Agnes Bassett McLeod
10. Helen Lottie Good
11. William Browell [...]
My memory of the Good family is a bit limited as I do not remember Uncle Elbridge at all and very little of Aunt Ethel Deakin.
Aunt Gertrude Raney visited us in Saskatchewan a few times but I really got to know her when I stayed with her a few days while I was in Ontario. [...]
Yet another death notice I received through the kind folks at the Durham Clayport Reference and Local Studies Dept, this one gives local perspective to the death of my Grandmother, Helen Lottie Good in 1920.
Death of Mrs. R. Charlton
The death occurred under painfully sudden circumstances on Monday afternoon at 26 Western Hill, Durham, the residence [...]
Thanks to Allan Argue of Woodville, Ontario for providing this scan of Gertrude Raney’s obituary from the Cannington Gleaner dated Wednesday, January 15th, 1969. Gertrude was my Helen Lottie Good’s sister.
Dear Renae:
When you ask me if I remember things about the Good family you must remember that I am old enough to be losing my memory, but I do remember most of them quite well.
When I attended high school in Fillmore I lived with Grandpa and Grandma the first year and was a real experience. [...]
Hi! this is Renae’s mother, Donnett Elder.
So nice to meet you and to hear from you on all this history.
I do remember my mother in law, Gretta Ruth (Good) Elder talking about her younger sister, Helen. She always spoke so fondly of her, her marriage and with sadness of her early death in [...]
Thanks Renae for sending me these.
On the left Leonard Good’s Family Bible and on the right James E. Good’s Family Bible. These bibles were passed onto Ira Good, then to Barry Good of Fillmore who has passed these bibles onto me, Renae (Elder) Grubb.
Here’s 2 pages from Leonard Good’s Bible. As you can [...]
Photo and text submitted by Renae (Elder) Grubb
In July 2005 Sandra Hall and I organized a “Good” family reunion in Fillmore. Here’s the photo of those who were able to attend. Click on photo to view it larger.
Back row: Renae (Elder) Grubb, Steve Scott, Bruce, James and Heather Horsman, Landon and Jeff Grubb, Jalisha [...]
Yesterday, for the second time, this blog accomplished something quite remarkable. It reconnected family across generations. In this case, the Good family. I have often wondered what happened to Lois Scott’s research papers on the Good family. Her letters to me outlining the New Brunswick connection were lost along with a number of other important [...]
Not the official registry but a keepsake handed down through the family.
This Certifies that Robert Charlton of Maklin Sask. and Helen Lottie Good of Fillmore, Sask. were united in Marriage according to the ordinance of God, and the laws of Saskatchewan at Fillmore on the Seventh of August in the Year of our Lord (1912.)
By [...]