Monday, November 26, 2012
I recently lost my father and have been clearing through many years of personal materials. I have found a sympathy card and letter send to my parents (Frederick and Iris Wood (nee Trickett))signed by Ruth & Alf Peckham, 'love and sympathy from your cousins', after the death of my Auntie Phyllis Turner (nee trickett). The letter is dated June12/1980, with a postal address :PO Box 29, Luseland Sask. Canada S0L 2A0. The letter gives details of 'Our son Dave and his wife Dorothy have a nice little family. Jason was 6 yesterday and has had his first year at school. Corinne will be five in August and will start school this fall. Christine was a year in February. She has been walking since last November'
I found this site by typing 'Ruth & Alf peckham' into Google. I hope you do not mind my using this website to try and communicate - I was amazed to find the details of your family matched the names in the letter.
If Alf and Ruth were my mother's first cousins, our 3 children(William, Rupert and Duncan) (my wife is called Deirdre) would be third cousins to Christine and Jason and Corinne (I was saddened to see that she had died at such a tender age).
I would love to know the common ancester we share and how your family (I assume) started a life in Canada. My grandmother was called Rose Meakin before she married my Grandpa Trickett. Perhaps Rose Meakin was Auntie Rose to either Ruth or Alf Peckham?
Please do e-mail me - it would be very exciting to discover some 'new' relatives.
Regards
Andrew Wood
