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My favorite hobbies are scrapbooking, genealogy, and needle crafts. I do LOTS of scrapbook genealogy.
I started paper scrapbooking in 1999, have done digital scrapbooking for 20 years and more, well over a thousand pages, and digital graphics several years before that. But I don't want to be a designer.
Currently, I work at a university and love it. The students and the serene atmosphere on our beautiful campus are the best!
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Journaling reads:
Landing at Castle Garden NY on 23 May 1855, the frigate Belle Wood brought Holland and Ellen Eyre Catton with four of their children - Mary, Martha, Benjamin, and William - to the United State. Also aboard was Holland’s brother Thomas, and his siter Alice Catton Eyre, who was married to Ellen’s brother George, along with five of her children - James, Mary, William Benjamin, and Ellen. George accompanied his brother-in-law John and brother-in-law and his wife William and Ann Pacey Catton arriving at Castle Garden 15 May 1856.
A decade after Holland and Ellen arrived, her uncle and aunt, James and Ann Naylor Hare (Eyre) along with their two youngest children Benjamin and Edwin boarded the same ship - the Belle Wood - departing Liverpool on 29 April 1865 and arriving at Castle Garden on 31 May 1865. Sadly, Ann died at sea and James died in September 1865 at Bridger, Wyoming just a few days short of their destination in Utah. James, Ann, and seven of their thirteen children suffered appalling persecution at home in Dowsby, Lincolnshire, England when they converted to the Mormon faith. James, Ann, Benjamin, and Edwin joined some 628 other Mormons seeking peace and a safe haven in Utah. Not being Mormon, I did not know of this wonderful branch of my family tree until 1999 when I “met” my elder cousin Stan on-line and he introduced us.
Sails Away Mini Kit by Simplette Designs
Fonts: Title – Colonna MT and Journaling – John Lennon
Images: left Victorian Lady and right from my archives downloaded from Ancestry.com
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