Slow Going



Steamer, Quebec City, c.1870

Steamer, Cleveland 1875

Dead leads and dead ends have been the continuing theme of my recent research.  I have nothing substantial to relate at all, other than that I found a detailed family listing of Bartholomew Pearce's wife's family  for Cousin J., which has everyone on it up to the present family members, who live around or in London, Ontario!  Once again my old paths have been crossed with people connected to us of Portland origin.  The odd thing about this family listing is that they have Bartholomew's wife married to someone else on it, and I have not been able to find when he died, or anything else about him.

My latest mother lode of a discover has been the website for The Maritime History of the Great Lakes.  There are thousands of images and old newspaper transcriptions available here of all things related to shipping in the Great Lakes, and I have only just begun to look at it this morning.  I have lost my initial optimism that we will be able to find out anything more specific about how Bartholomew made it from Quebec to Cleveland, but it is possible to see how he could have  (if it was by inland steamer), by examining the pictures and articles in this repository of information.

Now, as today is the only day that everyone can get together this week, we are having a family feast/late birthday celebration for one of my nieces out at the farm - and it is a beautiful day for it - so, I must get to the preparations of my contributions now, and leave the Great Lakes for another day.

image credits: http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/1452/data?n=1,  http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/454/data?n=39, http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/1067/data?n=48