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Maple Creek Cemetery Names & Stories - Thomas Edward Pinnell

Maple Creek Cemetery Names & Stories - Thomas Edward Pinnell

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 11:34PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Pinnell
I am interested in finding out any information in the booklet "Our Pioneers" from Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. In particular, the story about Thomas Edward Pinnell is of interest.
If it is possible to purchase this booklet, I would like to do so.

Re: Maple Creek Cemetery Names & Stories - Thomas Edward Pinnell

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 3:49AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello,

I don't know if the book is available for purchase any more, but my local library has a copy. I would be happy to type and send the story of Thomas Edward Pinnell to you, if you'd like.

Re: Maple Creek Cemetery Names & Stories - Thomas Edward Pinnell

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 6:40AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 13 Jun 2013 3:58PM GMT
Surnames: Pinnell
You can search this site for the book:

http://www.ourroots.ca/e/

Most of the History books for Saskatchewan are available online & you can view them through this site for free:)

Actually I just found a small article on Thomas:

http://www.ourroots.ca/e/page.aspx?id=4207748

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1901 Census:

Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Thomas Pinnell M 50 England
Wife Frances Pinnell F 41 England
Daughter Linwa Pinnell F 17 Mb
Son Ernest Pinnell M 16 Mb
Daughter Francis Pinnell F 13 Mb
Son Osbern Pinnell M 7 Assa
Daughter Evan Pinnell F 5 Assa
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1906 Census:
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Thomas Pinnell M 56 England
Wife Fanny Puinell F 48 England
Son Ernest Rube M 20 Manitoba
Daughter Lennie Rube F 21 Manitoba
Daughter Frances Rube F 18 Manitoba
Son Osborne Pennell M 12 Northwest Territories
Daughter Eva Pennell F 11 Northwest Territories
Niece Fannie Osborne F 20 England
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1916 Census:

Household Gender Age Birthplace
Boarder C Cunningham M Scotland
Self Francis Pinnell F 56y England
Son Osborne Pinnell M 22y Saskatchewan
Daughter Francis Rubie F 27y Manitoba
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Re: Maple Creek Cemetery Names & Stories - Thomas Edward Pinnell

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 2:16PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Pinnell
That would be great if you could do that.

I have gone online and found the book: Maple Creek & Area: Where Past is Present where there is an article about Thomas Edward Pinnell. But the last line in that article indicates that there is an interesting account of the family recorded in "Our Pioneers". This is what I am looking for.

Thank you so much for your help!

Re: Alberta History books- Pinnell

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 3:41PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Pinnell

Re: Maple Creek Cemetery Names & Stories - Thomas Edward Pinnell

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:32PM GMT
Classification: Query
Here's the write-up; I can't seem to send it in a private message. Let me know if you would like any more biographies from "Our Pioneers."

I hope this helps!

[Note: The year of arrival of 1879 really does say that in the book.]

M.C. 1886 THOMAS EDWARD PINNELL -- 1850-1907
M.C. 1891 MRS. F. RUEBE [Miss Frances Osborne] -- 1858-1946

Mr. Pinnell was born in Ireland. He came to Maple Creek as the baker at the local Barracks. This position also included some guard duty. He completed 20 years with the Force. He married the above widow and became a good father to her three young children. To this happy union were born a son, Osborne, in 1894 and a daughter, Eva, in 1895. Their home was a log house in a bend of the creek just north of the first Barracks Bridge. The George Hammonds were neighbors in the next bend toward the north, for a short time. They became good friends.

Mrs. Ruebe and her former husband, Franz Ruebenstein of German and Danish descent were married on June 10, 1881 at Birkenhead, England (her birthplace) and they arrived in Winnipeg in 1879. He was a watch maker by trade and was employed at the Henry Birks Jewelry Store. Their family of three were all born in Winnipeg, Lenora in 1883, Ernest in 1885 and Frances in 1887. The father died suddenly on September 13, 1889. The mother was confronted with the problem of supporting her three little children. In 1891 she answered an advertisement in a Winnipeg paper and arrived here as housekeeper for Major Moodie until his wife and family arrived from Battleford. Thus it was that she and Mr. Pinnell met. Her two oldest children had been left in Winnipeg with her brother and his wife. Mrs. Ruebe returned for them and upon her arrival back in Maple Creek she and Mr. Pinnell were married.

Here is a story Mrs. Pinnell related. Life in the West was a little new to her and the use of firewood and the cook stoves of that time even newer. She was in the log house with her family one day when she was struggling to get an ill fitting, knotty length of wood into the stove. It lodged and refused to move in or out. She applied her foot to the end of it. It went in in a hurry and likewise her foot, which refused to return. She called for her children to support her while she hastily untied her boot and slipped her foot free. She then rescued the scorched boot.

While living on the creek their mode of travelling was by single horse and buggy. The children walked to and from the town school but for longer trips old black Croppy and the buggy were used. Croppy was not noted for speed and Mrs. Pinnell did her kindly best to encourage him by apparently pushing on the reins. Then she would take up the slack in a hurry. The snap and the jerk at least kept him awake. The rest of the family used a whip when they were in command. Thus they wended their way to church several times on Sundays. Croppy took more interest in life when they were bound for home. During the summer holidays some of the family loaded into the Croppy-powered buggy and headed for a berry patch. That was our main fruit supply in early days. At times the Pinnells drove out to the Hammond ranch on Hay Creek where wild gooseberries, saskatoons and chokecherries thrived. If a rain storm came on they would be bedded down for the night and Croppy would sleep in the stable instead of at the end of a picket rope. At times the old sod roof would begin to drip water which was no help with company spread around.

In 1906 Mr. Pinnell retired from the Barracks where he had served for 20 years. He opened a bake shop of his own in the town on Maple Street, 1st block, and the dwindling family moved to town. Frances did the fancy cooking for the bake shop and Mr. Pinnell made the bread. The two youngest attended school, Ernest clerked at Cooil's Busy Store while Lenore, the eldest, was off to become a teacher. With little warning Mr. Pinnell passed away and was laid to rest in our local cemetery. Ernest then became the main support of the family. He and his mother both took up homesteads near the track two miles NW of town. Mr. George Hammond in 1907, helped them build a lumber house. When they got their patents they sold out as the water supply on their land was not good. Around 1911 they all moved to Calgary where Mrs. Pinnell passed away. She had lived a good long life but refused to let her eldest daughter write it up saying "There are too many sad happenings to make a good story."

By a friend with help from Mrs. D. E. Rubie

Re: Maple Creek Cemetery Names & Stories - Thomas Edward Pinnell

Posted: 14 Jun 2013 2:47PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Pinnell
Thanks so much for taking the time to type that whole write-up for me!

A few members of my husband's family used to live in Maple Creek in the 1880's. I recently found articles from "Our Pioneers" regarding Edwin Perrin and Rosina Hammond on an archived Ancestry message board. Would there be any articles regarding other members of the Perrin or Hammond Families? Or on the Rubie, Ferraby, Palmer or Newby Families?

You have been a tremendous help to me!

Re: Maple Creek Cemetery Names & Stories - Thomas Edward Pinnell

Posted: 14 Jun 2013 5:11PM GMT
Classification: Query
You're very welcome!

Yes, there are a few articles:

Edward Perrin Sr. and Ellen Palmer
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Perrin
Winnifred Perrin, wife of Robert Hancock
Frank Newby and Elizabeth Innes
Ernest Rubie and Daisy E. Hammond
George Richard Hammond and Ada Cook
John Frederick Hammond and Nina Blanch Frederick
Kathleen Ada Hammond
George Lester Hammond and Ivy M. Rex
Rosina Mary Hammond
Percy William Hammond and May Smith
Elsie M. Hammond and Joe Thomas (there is also a studio portrait of Elsie)

Re: Maple Creek Cemetery Names & Stories - Thomas Edward Pinnell

Posted: 14 Jun 2013 5:44PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Rubie, Pinnell, Hammond,
Gee, I am familiar with all those names in the family tree. Ernest Rubie is my husband's grandfather. His great grandmother, Kate Palmer, came over on a ship from England with the Hammonds and Perrins. Kate married a Hammond, and their daughter, Daisy, is my husband's grandmother. One of the Perrins married a Newby.

I sure wish I could buy that booklet somewhere! Typing all those articles is too much to ask of you. If you scanned the pages and e-mailed them to me, would that work for you? I could type them out at this end.

You can e-mail me at marytherose@hotmail.com

Re: Maple Creek Cemetery Names & Stories - Thomas Edward Pinnell

Posted: 15 Mar 2015 8:24AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Pinnell
Thomas Edward Pinnell"s mother Jane Pinnell (nee Hawkins) is my 2xgg grandmother.
I have been endeavouring to find her in England after 1864. I feel that she may have emigrated to Canada to be with her son as I cannot locate a death for her in London UK or thereabouts.
Is anyone able to point me in the right direction to find Jane.
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