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2 - PORT PERRY STAR ~ Thursday, Jan. 18th, 1968 By Mrs. T. Redman After the holidays, Club meetings seem to be back to normal again. Maybe a little quiet after the usual rush of preparing for family gather. ings, but time goes quickly and we can look forward to spring and all its glory. Club meeting was very well attended Wednesday on January 10th. We have one hundred members paid up to date, which we think is very good for Senior Citizens. Plans have been made for us to go to Toronto by bus on Wednesday, Jan. 17th to see a show Dr. Doolittle. Bus to meet opposite 1.G.A. Store at 12 p.m. Older folks can get out for a break, particu. larly since this Club was or- ganized over five years ago, * by some of our members who had the interests of Senior Citizens, and we do have some jolly times together. So here is hoping the weather will be in our favour. We stop at Watts restaur- ant on way home and par- take in a usual enjoyable dinner. © These. Clubs are Senior Citizens Club getting very popular all over and Ontario has organized nearly 400 Clubs in a short while. The annual Christmas din- ners are a wonderful succes as nearly all the members manage to attend, so hats off to these older folk who make all these things possible. . Next meeting will be Wed- nesday 24th of January 2.00 p.m. Next Euchre will be Saturday 20th of January at 8.30 p.m. at the Hall. Last Euchre was well attended considering the weather. A good lunch was provided by group in charge and good prizes to the lucky winners. Hall is comfortable and folks seem to enjoy meeting their friends at these twice monthly euchres held all through the 'year. Lucky winners at last Euchre as fol- lows: By the way Mrs. A. Menzies is still donating a hair do as first prize to ladies and if out of town, will re- ceive another prize if not convenient 4o. receive hair. thanks again to Mrs. Menzies. If we are nearby we like to 'As most of us know without be lucky enough to win one. First prize was won for la. dies by--High, Mrs. H. Web- ster; Second. M==,M: Rowland and Consolation Mrs. L. Cas- sidy. Gent's High (played lady) Mrs. M. Chapman; We will get through and 'And shall welcome the Spring Warmer weather and a loud AA AR A manage somehow, with longer days Hip Hip Hooray. econd Mrs. E, Watson; Con- solation Mr. G. Bright. Please keep in mind the above dates. * * .. Real Winter Weather For a few days it was really cold being told. Twenty below for the oldsters is hard to take, Especially if one is unable to skate. When 'walking and shopping it's not so neat ) If one slips and falls and can't keep on your feet, But can't expect the weather to be all nice days. All can't.enjoy Florida and-- the lovely sun rays, So we struggle along, try to laugh and sing, And hefore long it will be .the good. old Spring. Might just as well accept things the way they are For so many couldn't even start their cars. : Now weather is nicer, getting SUPERTEST 7 Days A Week LUBRICATION EXPERT REFRESHMENT 'BOOTH ATTENTION S AVE ..wnypray more On Premium Quality | GASOLINE '-- DIESEL and MOTOR OILS { : Farm Tanks and Pumps Available Out of Oshawa, Whitby and District (DX Ol 'FARMERS! | CALL COLLEC] 668-3341 BRIAN'S OPEN PHONE 985 - 2243 milder now. BROADLOOM Hl Draperies by the Yard | Hl Venetian & Cloth Blinds B Custom Made Drapes | : i! Drapery Rods & Tracks "Interior Decorating Service SER Ee EE The article below was received from Clarence W. Sadler, R.R. 4, St. Thomas, Ontario in Nov- ember of last year. How- ever due to shortage of space during the time pre- vious to Christmas, it was necessary to hold the arti- cle over until this issue. . The article was written by Mr. Sadler during a school year 1965-1966 while on sabbatical leave in Eng- oR NH RES EE EA RR the Aylmer, Ontario Ez- press, and the Padstow Echo, Cornwall, England. . The article coricerns the emigration of the Martyn the Port Perry area, over ,.-100 years ago. It appeared in the Pad- stow Echo in June 1966 under the heading "Cana- dian Cornish writes the Padstow Echo about 19th century sailings from Pad- stow." The article should be of much interest to the Star readers and we _extend 'thanks to Mr. Sadler for his fine contribution. ~_--The Publisher. On 13th April, 1966, Allen Martyn his wife and two children, his cousin Dorothy and her husband, your writ- ér, threaded their way through the stone houses of Padstow, down to the har- bour. There lay the Espani- ole, out of Falmouth, a tidy three-masted sailing vessel: was it expecting to sail with Cornishmen in search of a new life in America? This was the centre of the Mar- tyn's search. Down to this harbour from Tintagel in 1846 had come John William Martyn, his wife Sarah Brown 'Martyn, and their six child- 'ren. They had boarded a sailing ship and six weeks later landed in Cobourg and ey Sailed From land, and has-appeared-in---- Samily "from Cbriwall to began their new life in Up. per Canada. Hundreds of their descend- ants centred around Pt. Perry Bowmanville, Exeter, and Springfield in Ontario can look back with wonder and pride at those adventure- some ancestors. 'found it - exciting to gather part of that story and to pre- pare a family tree. The few clues to the Cornish back- -which I found on 13th April, - have excited me again. Most of my .neighbours in Canada: are immigrants of known 'time: -can their stories he as interesting as mine? "1 cannot, and I need not, describe the six-weeks ocean crossing of 1846. It is well that the Martyns did not de- lay: potato-blight struck Ire- land in 1845; it brought crop failure in '46, and during the next few years . émigrant ships were crowded with near-destitute people, and fever landed with every ship. Perhaps the Martyns found In 1962 I their first Canadian winter cold, but the European win- ter of 1846-47 was a'good one to miss -- steady 'north-east winds brought unusual cold and snow down from the con- tinental north. Cornwall is a windy place; the trees-lean one way, but the prevailing "west winds from the ocean are not icy. And so, John and Sarah chose wisely the date, and provided well for their children, for the entiré family arrived safely in Up per Canada. Emigrant ships in the St. Lawrence River usually un- loaded and turned -at Quebec or Montreal, hoping to make two round trips each summer season, It is doubtful, there: fore, that the one ship. car ried the Martyn family to its destination -- Cobourg, mid- way along the north shore of Ll ee A Lake, Ontario. Possibly there was some thought of settling in Peterborough, "that settlement to the north, founded by the Irish colon. izer, Peter Robinson, : John -William Martyn was probably a miller in Corn- wall, because as a miller 40 miles west of Cobourg * he prospered. Allen: Martyn's father, William J., enjoyed telling me in 1962 the stories Phillip Hockin Brown Martyn of teaming wagon-loads of flour-barrels down to Whitby harbour. Phillip, -born in 1844, was the youngest of the family to cross the Atlantic. * South of Brooklin, Lot 18, Con. 6. A sister, Maria (b. 1833) mar- ried William Thorn, a part- ner in the milling business. Rrosperity hit a peak during the Crimean War: the British market was paying high pri. ces for all the" ffour that . Martyn and Thorn could mill. They plunged, buying all the wheat available. . The Crimean War hogan in 1854 and ended in 1856. The millers who paid good prices for wheat that last year were caught with-a poor market. Martyn and Thorn lost their mill. This led to the scatter- ing of the family. Before we follow the sec- ond migration, let us read some of the story in the old Bible Christian Cemetery in Columbus; Ontario, the vill age near the mill. Maria Martyn Thorn died Nov. 2nd, * 1858 at the birth of her third child; Maria had been thir. teen years old on the trip from Cornwall: she must have been a great help to her mother. Thomas Brown Mar- tyn lost his wife Jane, aged 24, the very next month, and her storie has this verse in o the moral fashion of the time: "Young people all as you pass by O think of me for you must die Repent in time nor time delay 1 in my prime was called away." Thomas, the eldest son, found employment as a mill- er in Exeter, a centre of the' ground of the Martyn family, 451d to him by-his father, English settlement of the Huron Tract of Southern Ontario. Although his sec- ond. wife borne him ten children, he has only one grandson to bear the name Martyn. ~The second daughter, Mary, married Lyman Grainger who made a profitable investment in real estate. It seems that "he owned a large part of the _ townsite of Rochester, New York, across Lake . Ontario, and when Mary died, aged 98, many .nieces and nephews shared in the fortune. The third daughter, Sarah, married a Glanville, William Brown Martyn (b. 1840) 'moved to work in Till- son's Mill, in Tillsonburg, southern Ontério;" he did some land surveying there, and then turned to farming a few miles north-west of the town. His wife, Elizabeth Stroud, gave him twelve children, and there are many descendants in the area--in- cluding my wife and our children. Phillip, mentioned previous sly, turned from milling to farming, and then to store: keeping. His family is now ',. centred in the Pt. 'Perry area. Carrie, born in Canada, married Tom Marriott and lived in the Kingsville (Jack " Miner's) area. The Canadian-born son, as . all of his brothers before him, received his mother's 'surname as a middle name, A EARLY SETTLERS IN PORT PERR y AREA Padstow, England In 1846 the' Colonies were leading -Mary, Tintagel Castle? . and, John frown Martyn, or simply "J. B." became well. : 2 known as a merchant ir Bowmanville, If you cannot find a? Martyn in Bowman: i ville, ask for a Morris or a i Stevens and you may find a descendant. . What prompted John wil liam Martyn to emigrate in~ 1846? Conditions in Corn- wall, and the attractions of whole villages to emigrate. There was government assist- ance to emigration. Perhaps John read the poster.display: gz ed in Padstow in 1844, which was reproduced in the Pad-. stow Echo of 5th April, 1966: "EMIGRATION TO UPPER CANADA The First Ship for QUEBEC . the well-known British built Brig' JOHN AND MARY - Perhaps John took. the ship's name personally, for himself and' his sister Mary -- for her husband. John Cock, and child Jane emi- grated too. John Cock as a 7 "Bible Christian local preach. . ? er must have helped to es- tablish that church in Colum- bus, Ontario. And so, for me, the dates 1846 and 1856 are exciting milestones in peoples, lives, "in family stories. The name "Tintagel" ting Tes the tip of my tongue with questions. I took a pic- ture of the font in the Parish church: were' John William Martyn and his ancestors bap- tized there? 1s it John's grandfather) and' father who rest dnder /the stone south- east of the church -- Thomas and William Martyn? Do . Sarah's parents rest nearby in the 'Brown' plot? If John was a miller, was his the mill by the path leading down to ~ AR ; |--Clarence W. Sadler