Chesterville Reunion

Hubby went to his family reunion in Chesterville. It's a complicated family!

You see, once upon a time, three brothers married three sisters. Now, it was more two sisters and a brother married two brothers and a sister, but you get my drift. It was the Kelly/Chambers reunion.

The top pair in  my graphic are my husband's grandparents. This took me forever to figure out! He and his mother lived with Murray Kelly and Theresa (Chambers), after his father died in 1951. There are more children in his grandparents' generation, of course.  Good Catholics, they had many kids. It is his great-grandfathers about whom we know the most.

Richard Kelly came from County Mayo, in Ireland. They had Mary Jane, Sidney, Mary Ellen, Margaret, Edward, John, Patrick, Richard.
Thomas Chambers also came from County Mayo, and they had George, Annie, Katherine, Annie. Coincidentally, my first, late husband's mother's family was also from County Mayo!
We've taken many Trips to the cemetery! Those are all the photos I have.

Several family members planned this for months. Then they created a Facebook page, prepared photo displays, organized games for the kids and a pot luck dinner. They sold hoodies, at least, took orders for them.

 There was a photo in the Chesterville Record, too. Hubby has ordered a copy. I did not attend, as I was recovering from babysitting the grandkids. Branches of the family created posters to show family relationships.

These are our photos. JB's farmhouse is gone, now just a pond. The barns are gone, too.


They took a guided tour, led by JB's cousin. The siblings all had farms on the same road. We've been to visit a couple of times, just passing by. His grandfather gave up the farm when he was a youngster. The other two farms kept going, with various iterations. Some more successful than others.


We have satellite tracking of the car, through our car insurance and when hubby takes these city/rural trips I follow him. The tour, over the three farms, took three hours!