IMMIGRATION LOG
Ancestor |
From |
To |
Date |
| Jonathan PICKERING Trip #1 |
Hednesford Staffordshire ENGLAND |
Pittsburg Pennsylvania UNITED STATES |
1892 (circa) |
| Jonathan PICKERING Trip #2 |
Cannock Staffordshire ENGLAND |
Lethbridge Alberta CANADA |
12 August 1907 |
| James COOK |
Belfast IRELAND |
Maple Creek Saskatchewan CANADA |
1908 |
| Benjamin PICKERING |
Cannock Staffordshire ENGLAND |
Taber Alberta CANADA |
29 October 1909 |
| Irene WARREN |
Exeter Devon ENGLAND |
Piapot Saskatchewan CANADA |
1912 |
| John GOODMAN |
Chorley Lancashire ENGLAND |
Taber Alberta CANADA |
1911 |
| Mary Ellen GOODMAN |
Chorley Lancashire ENGLAND |
Taber Alberta CANADA |
1913 |
| Jakob VAN KEIMPEMA |
Sexbierum Friesland NETHERLANDS |
New Norway Alberta CANADA |
08 April 1927 |
| Antje GROENEWOLD |
Bedum Groningen NETHERLANDS |
Duncan British Columbia CANADA |
15 January 1954 |
| Kornelis TROMP |
Warffum Groningen NETHERLANDS |
Duncan British Columbia CANADA |
Mid 1954 |
John & Mary Goodman
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John Goodman was a "bookie" and was often known to take a gamble. In the spring of 1911 Canada was "booming" and John Goodman convinced his wife Mary to move to Canada. So, together with their four youngest children, William, aged 11, Emily, Albert and Olive, all who were younger than Bill, set sail for Canada. Mary Ellen and Elizabeth, the two eldest daughters stayed in England and would travel to Canada at a later date to join their family. Their destination in Canada was Taber, Alberta....why this was the place they immigrated to is not known but it may be that Mary's sister, Sarah Packard (Potter) was living there at the time of their arrival. Upon arriving in Taber, Alberta, John purchased a boarding house for Mary to run. Business was good and the boarding house prospered but John spent a lot of time in the gambling halls so they never got too far ahead. Polly gave birth to another girl in 1912, Virginia. The bitter cold of Canadian winters imposed a burden on newly immigrating families and there was a constant need to ward off colds, the flu, grippe, croup and other ailments from which many died over the winter months. Virginia did not live long and died shortly after her birth and was buried in the Taber Cemetery, as was their youngest child, Olive who was buried on January 9, 1913. Elizabeth and Mary Ellen never saw Olive again from the day they parted in England. Back To Top |
Mary Ellen & Elizabeth Goodman |
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Mary Ellen (Nellie) and Elizabeth (Bessie) had stayed behind in England with their Aunt Emily when the remainder of the family immigrated to Canada. Nellie worked in a factory that made high top laced up boots where she inserted the rivets. Gracie Fields, the well known singer of World War II with hit songs like "When the Lights Come on Again", worked alongside Nellie. They became good friends and Nellie remembered Gracie always getting into trouble for singing while she was working. In the spring of 1912 tickets were purchased for Nellie and Bessie to travel to Canada to join their family. The tickets were inadvertently set aside in an ashtray and were later discovered amidst some ashes, burnt to a crisp. When the brand new steamship of the White Star Line, the "Titanic" set sail on her maiden voyage bound for New York, Nellie and Bessie were not aboard. In April, 1912, the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland and 1,595 passengers out of the 2,223 passengers were drowned. It must have taken some time to earn enough money to buy more tickets for the passage of Nellie and Bessie, costing approximately $36.00 Canadian. Quite likely, after the sinking of the Titanic, there was considerable apprehension to Nellie and Bessie sailing across the cold Atlantic waters alone and so were parted from their family for another year. By 1913 enough money was finally saved and Nellie, 17 and Bessie, only 11, set sail for Canada. It must have been quite a revelation when Nellie, dressed in her big feathered hats and high top laced up boots arrived in the small prairie town of Taber, Alberta. Back To Top |
James Cook |
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James Cook, at the age of 16, lied his age in order to get accepted into the army where he served as a drummer boy in the Boer War in Africa. He came to Piapot, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1908 where he went to work on his Aunt's farm (The Moorhead Farm) and was a great "Mr Fixit". Back To Top |
Irene Warren |
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Irene Warren originally applied to migrate to Australia. When she went to have her medical, they told her she had T.B. and was rejected. She then applied to go to Canada and was accepted. In 1912, at the age of 17 she answered an advertisement in the local papers seeking domestic workers to come to Saskatchewan, Canada. Her trip across the Atlantic, and train across the prairies was paid for by the sponsoring family, but was expected to be paid back out of her wages, which took three months to pay back the $36.00 fare. Her place of employment was in Piapot, Saskatchewan for the Moorhead family who owned a large ranch. It was here that she met James Cook and on the 7th of April, 1915, James and Irene were married in the Hamilton Moorhead home. They continued to live on the Moorhead farm until they got their own homestead, also in Piapot, Saskatchwan in 1916. Back To Top |
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