Letters: Sep 5/13

Letters | Sep 04, 2013

Family in Canada found

You may remember an email I sent you on 25 Jan, 2012 with regards to my search for my father, Harold Vankoughnett’s family. Within a very short time I had emails from a number of direct family members giving me lots of information about my Canadian side.

With the help of one member in particular, Poncho Wood, I now have a complete tree and lots of information about the family and I am very grateful to her.

I have learnt so much about the family that it’s going to take a long time to sort it out into chronological order.

I have also done a lot of research in to my mother’s side. I have found that I have both a murderer (Elijah VanKoughnett) and a murdered family member (my mother’s brother Ernest). But it’s the VanKoughnett family that I find so interesting. I can now look forward to the cold days of the coming winter so I can spend time in the warmth and sort some of it out.

I have recently heard of the death of my sister Ida, who died on the 7th August and because of that I am now in touch with my niece Helen.

I am hoping to visit Canada next year and look forward to meeting some of the people I have gotten know via the internet.

Again many thanks for publishing my first letter and also for (I hope) publishing this one.

Harold W. Atkins, Edenbrige, UK

Re: Hiller takes on Hydro

I am glad to read that our MPP Randy Hillier is taking on Hydro. He speaks for many. In the state of Texas, one of the most forward states in the USA, a bill was passed where the utility companies give their customers a choice of three meters to record usage. That is democracy!

Marie Anne Collier