Photographs

If you are looking for headstone photos, please see the Cemeteries page and click on the appropriate cemetery page, or, if you know the person's name but not where they are buried, see my Virtual Cemetery page. Otherwise, for the following photos, please click on the small photos for larger views.

Verge Family

	Chuck Verge - My Dad, my hero! After retiring from the Canadian Air Force, my dad still flies, using his years of experience to train new pilots through the Air Cadet League of Canada, at the Northern Ontario Gliding Centre in North Bay, Ontario.
	Chuck & Joan (Kelly) Verge's family - Left to right: Chuck, Kelly, Natalie, Joan and Peter. This photo was taken on a visit to the Miramichi in 1998 for my grandmother Mildred's 90th birthday.

Langille Family

	Charles Dennis Langille - This is my Langille great-grandfather, for whom my own father was named. Charles and his wife owned a farm in Martin's River, Nova Scotia, where my father lived for his first eight years, before his family moved to Sudbury, Ontario.
	Charles Dennis Langille - This photo was taken in 1911, when Charles was 25.

Strum Family

Ellen Amelia Strum - This is my Langille great-grandmother. Judging from this picture, Ellen and her daughter, Nina (my grandmother) looked very much alike.

Kelly Family

	Ellen (Fitzpatrick) and Peter Kelly - Peter and Ellen were my Kelly great-great-grandparents. Peter was the son of immigrants Philip Kelly and Katherine Gratton.
	Michael Kelly - Mick was a son of Philip and Katherine (Gratton) Kelly.
	Thomas & Johanna (Sell) Kelly and family - Thomas was a son of Peter and Ellen (Fitzpatrick) Kelly, who went to Minnesota and started a family there. This photo was taken in 1946 for Thomas' and Johanna's 50th wedding anniversary. The photo includes all of their children (except for Fred and Frank who died young): back row - Peter, Lucy, John, Rose, Clarence; front row - Ethel, Thomas and Johanna, Ellen
	Bernard & Mary (Sullivan) Kelly - These are my Kelly great-grandparents. Bernard was the son of Peter and Ellen (Fitzpatrick) Kelly.
	Bernard & Mary (Sullivan) Kelly
	Bernard & Mary (Sullivan) Kelly
	Bernard Kelly on the river
	Mary (Sullivan) Kelly & Anne (Ross) Kelly - My great-grandmother and her sister-in-law, Anne Ross (wife of Peter's brother Patrick)
	Burt & Mildred (Underhill) Kelly - These are my maternal grandparents. Burt was the son of Bernard and Mary (Sullivan) Kelly. Mildred is the daughter of Alexander Bishop and Margaret Catherine (O'Brien) Underhill. I think this photo was taken sometime in the 1940's.
	Burt & Mildred (Underhill) Kelly's family - This is my mother and her siblings. From left to right: Elaine, Theresa, Joan and Peter. The last child is Donna Carrigan, a neighbor.
	Philip Bernard Kelly, Mildred (Underhill) Kelly, Theresa Kelly, Mary (Sullivan) Kelly and Bernard Kelly - Philip (son of Henry Kelly) was first cousin to Bernard Kelly. Mildred was married to Burt Kelly, son of Mary and Bernard. Theresa was Mildred and Burt's youngest daughter, so this picture was taken
	Mildred (Underhill) Kelly & daughters Joan (Kelly) Verge & Elaine (Kelly) Jimmo - This photo was taken at my grandmother's 90th birthday celebration in 1998. My mother, Joan (Kelly) Verge is on the left, and my aunt Elaine (Kelly) Jimmo is on the left.
	Capt. Gerry Power - Capt. Power served in the Canadian Air Force and was stationed in Germany when he was killed in a plane crash. He was married to Lois Hachey, whose mother, Loretta (Kelly) Hachey, is a daughter of Philip Bernard and Mary (Taylor) Kelly.
	Ruby Kelly and unknown children - Ruby (second from the left) was a daughter of Bernard and Ellen (Sullivan) Kelly. The other children may be her students.
	Earl O'Brien, Willis Kelly and Burt Kelly - Burt Kelly was my grandfather; Willis was his youngest brother. Earl O'Brien was a son of Elizabeth Kelly and Peter O'Brien - he was Burt and Willis' first cousin.
	Loretta Kelly and boys - Loretta is at the far right. The boys are Watson McEvoy, Lloyd MacDonald, Frank Manderville, and Marquis Manderville. Watson was a great-grandson of George and Catherine (Donovan) Colepaugh.
	Kelly girls and friend - top: unknown, Ruby Kelly; bottom: Marguerite Kelly, Alice Kelly, Stella Kelly. They were daughters of Bernard and Mary (Sullivan) Kelly.
	Stella Kelly and John McCarthy - Stella was a daughter of Bernard and Mary (Sullivan) Kelly.
	Mabel O'Brien, Pat O'Brien, Mona O'Brien, Clarence (Tam) O'Brien, Stella Kelly - Mabel and Mona O'Brien, and Stella Kelly were first cousins. Mabel and Mona were daughters of Peter O'Brien and Elizabeth Kelly (one of Peter and Ellen Kelly's daughters); Elizabeth was Stella's aunt. Pat and Tam were first cousins (once removed) to Mabel and Mona; their grandfather, John O'Brien, was the brother of Peter O'Brien.
	Evelyn O'Brien - Evelyn was another daughter of Peter O'Brien and Elizabeth Kelly.
	Mabel O'Brien, Ethel Gordon, Evelyn O'Brien
	St. Thomas Class of 1927 - Burt Kelly is in the upper left quadrant (white arrow)

Underhill Family

	Alexander & Margaret (O'Brien) Underhill - These are my maternal grandmother's parents.
	Alexander & Margaret (O'Brien) Underhill and family - Standing: Jim Underhill, Carl Hogan, Margaret (O'Brien) Underhill, Alexander Underhill; Seated: Mary, Pat, Daisy and Villa Underhill. This picture was taken by my grandmother, Mildred Underhill, sometime in the early 1930's. The photo shows all of her siblings except her eldest brother Herman. Carl was at that time the brother-in-law of my grandmother's sister Mary, but he would later become my grandmother's second husband (1981).
	Mildred Underhill - This is my maternal grandmother. I think this photo was taken in the late 1920's or in the 1930's.
	Mildred Underhill at age 90 - planting trees! - As part of my grandmother's 90th birthday celebrations, we planted some shrubs and trees given to her by her family. Left to right: Paul Jimmo, Joan Verge, Peter Verge, Beth Jimmo, Mildred Underhill

Colepaugh Family

	Catherine (Donovan) Colepaugh and Geraldine Colepaugh - Kate was married to Thomas Colepaugh. Thomas' father George also married a Kate Donovan!
	Margaret Agnes Colepaugh (on right) - Margaret was a daughter of George Colepaugh and Kate Donovan.
	Herman Colepaugh and John McCarthy - Herman was a son of Thomas Colepaugh and Kate Donovan. John was a son of Margaret Agnes Colepaugh and Murdock McCarthy.
	Bernard and Christopher Colepaugh - Bernard and Christopher were sons of Thomas Colepaugh and Catherine Donovan. Bernard married May Vickers; Christopher moved to British Columbia.

McCarthy Family

	George and John McCarthy with unknown women - George and John were the sons of Margaret Agnes Colepaugh and Murdock McCarthy. George and John moved west, first to Stillwater, Minnesota, where this picture was taken, and then across the border to the Thunder Bay area.
	George and John McCarthy - This photo was taken before George and John left the Miramichi.
	John McCarthy and Ed Powers - John's cousin George Colepaugh married a Mary Powers - perhaps she and Ed were related.
	John and George McCarthy - This photo was taken in Fort Frances, Ontario, in 1977, shortly before John passed away. He was 90, and George was 88.
	Alice McCarthy - This photo belonged to John or George McCarthy - maybe Alice was a cousin of theirs?

Places

New Brunswick

Miramichi, Northumberland County

	Miramichi River at Nelson-Miramichi - I took this picture across the road from my grandmother's house, looking down the river. They were building the new bridge from Chatham Head to Newcastle at the time; if you look closely you can see the cranes. I think the picture was taken in 1998, when I was on the Miramichi for my grandmother's 90th birthday.
	Russell Tomb on Beaubears Island, Nelson-Miramichi, NB - I wrote a bit of a travelogue of Beaubears Island, for a truly gruesome website called The Asylum Eclectica, for their Morbid Tourist" section. (I'm not going to give a link because I mean it when I say that it's truly gruesome. You can look it up quite easily if you want, but don't even bother if you don't want to see very graphic images of stomach-turning subjects. You've been warned!)
	Miramichi River & Centennial Bridge, Chatham, NB -
	Miramichi River at Middle Island, Chatham, NB - This picture was taken just down the road a bit from my Aunt Elaine and Uncle Wally's house - they're lucky enough to see this beautiful view every morning!

Barnettville, Northumberland County

	The Spring at the Underhill Homestead - In July 2002, my son Liam and I visited the Underhill Homestead, built in the 1800's. This spring provided water for years, as well as cooling the dairy and flushing out the outhouse!
	The Underhill Homestead Barn - My son Liam, playing in front of the barn built by my great-great-grandfather, James Underhill and/or his father Noah, in 1850. This photo was taken in July 2002, the day before the barn was pulled down - it had become unsafe and rickety.

Renous, Northumberland County

St. Bridget's Catholic Church - This is the original church, which was built in 1851, but was destroyed in a storm on August 14, 1911. The old cemetery is partially visible in the foreground. Construction of the new church (I have a photo somewhere, I will add it), commenced not too many years after that; the cornerstone is dated 1916. [This photo is not mine - I found it on the web. But now the only copy I can see anywhere is of really poor quality, so I posted this one. Hopefully it's not a problem...]

Nova Scotia

Martin's River, Lunenburg County

Strum House - This house, which is painted red, is where my father lived for his first eight years, from 1940 to 1948. It belonged to his grandparents, Charles Dennis Langille and Ellen Amelia Strum, and had been in Ellen's family since 1839. The house may date as far back as 1835, when the land was owned by Joseph Langille, an ancestor of both Charles and Ellen. For more history on the house, read this excerpt from South Shore; Seasoned Timbers (Vol. 2) by the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia

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