A Big Thanks to Many
Additional sources gratefully acknowledged:
• Several closely typewritten and sometimes annotated sheets of family notes labori-ously typed 1970s Ottawa by my late father Howard Vincent Wallace when old.
• The 20pp booklet The Munros c.1980, co-written by our late Mummy, Rita (Carew) Wallace, and her oldest daughter Margot (Wallace) Hanington [driving force behind the project]. Produced in Halifax by Margot’s son Brian Hanington.
• Illustrated booklet A Man to Remember 28pp in memory of my Nova Scotia cousin Neil Wallace prepared 1984 by his older and now deceased brother Dan.
• Illustrated 50pp booklet A Short History of the Haningtons c.1985, by late Daniel L. Hanington [ret’d and distinguished Canadian rear admiral].
• Wallace and related families 175pp computer printout 1991 and earlier from Rev. Pat Byrne, 3rd cousin then serving St. Mary’s Parish, Lindsay, Ont.
• Granville Family Tree 96pp computer printout 1993 with artwork, by Cousin J[oseph] Owen Granville, Bradenton, Florida, USA. Owen produces multi-volume Granville periodical. Also The Halifax Granvilles, 78pp computer printout enhanced by clever layout and colour, copyright 1998. Owen visited Mormon archives, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1999 and European sources. Much Granville lore in my Catalogue is thanks to antiquarian Owen who graciously gave me permission to either quote from him or rephrase, with credit of course.
This is also an opportunity to thank sincerely other relatives for their written, tele-phoned and oral replies to my many queries, sometimes over years. For example:
Cousin Bernie Granville and hospitable wife Stella in Ottawa, his sister Greta Marie in Halifax, his brother Owen again in Florida, and Helen Rebecca MacDonald in Kingston, Ont., married to their youngest brother John. They winter in Owen and Carol’s city. Cousin Anne (Carew) Hallisey in Halifax [Anne holds The Carew Bible]. Cousin Ron Wallace when retired mayor there. Cousin Frank Wallace and wife Eve Ottawa.
In laws – Fred and Kay Small’s patient responses about their bountiful genera-tions, mostly around London, Ont.; Doug French Ottawa and Florida, his late sister Elizabeth Walsh contributed from St. John’s; brother-in-law Edward French’s draft begats from Vancouver concerning numerous Newfoundland relations. Son-in-law Bill Rothery for help getting and running a bigger computer/printer combination and for data on his family tree. Lucie, helped by her mother Marie, told me about Bazinets and Poiriers. Debbie (Forget) Wallace ditto from her parents. John Harder for his Albertans, Dave Smith for computer tips, for retouching my snapshots from previous generations and getting kinks out of my computer, Tina for a few of many Reevies, Lily for her Fayads. Hilla Jürissen, Barnaby’s former mother-in-law in Switzerland for the medieval legend behind her formal name Reinhildis after I bogged down in Wagner’s Nibelungen and in Old Norse mythology. Barnaby’s former wife Uta also helped from Europe.
I continue grateful for a decade spent in three Roman Catholic grade and high schools Halifax. So I have tried to be respectful touching religious concerns in this Catalogue as far as a skeptical Scots-Irish descendant wary of authority can do. (Mrs.) Carmel Faulkner from Donegal, later Ottawa convalescent hospital executive, showed how some names of old Irish saints should be pronounced. Sure it’s the busy who know how to find time.
Most long-suffering beside my wife is my oldest sister Margot Hanington who from Victoria and Surrey, B. C. and on visits here guided me, youngest of our family, through many matters a little kid wasn’t told or half-heard in the comforting drone of adults. The Irish can vie with Jews any time when it comes to schmoozing.
If inadvertently I’ve omitted some who helped but don’t see their names in these lines, please let me know and try to forgive me!
My own family members were really great. My wife I single out, not just for be-ing a patient, humorous source, but for those many occasions she was a sympathetic listener while I read aloud rough drafts. Another standout is our #5 son Matthew whose unsolicited provision of a laptop, ideas and technical advice got my stalled project going again, giving an old, hunt ‘n’ peck hack the happiest handful of years I’ve had in a good many. These writings above all are my special way of telling the family that I love you.
(Howard Carew Wallace)
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