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From: Gary Brookes <>
Subject: history refound
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 21:05:03 -0700

This is a short story of my grandmother's horseshoe.
She was born Alice Porter Sept 16,1894 in Aberdeen and after a failed
engagement (?) left for Canada as a single woman. When she left a friend
who was a smithy gave her a good luck horseshoe, which as a child I always
remembered to be nailed above the back door of their house. In 1961 when
the family was settling the estate after my grandfather's short and second
marriage (grandma died in 1959) their was some strife and the least of the
problems was thinking of this horseshoe. Fast forward to 1995, my mother
just happened to be driving by this old house and saw a "for sale" sign
being put in the front lawn, so she stopped and made a few questions. As it
turned out, the agent was the daughter of the family that bought the house
in 1961 and also remembered that horseshoe. She enquired of her family,
found it stuffed in someone's drawer, and returned it to my mother.
I now have this family heirloom nailed above my back door where it
continues its lucky charms for us!

The genealogy question attached to this is: if she was Catholic (which she
did not continue practicing in Canada) but her parents were! and was
engaged , would the banns have been read? if so, which church? or were
there many?
still horseshoed
in Vancouver
Gary

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