Fonds 02-004 - Aureen Richardson fonds

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    • 1811-2000 (Creation)
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      Richardson, Aureen

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    3.5 m of textual records and other materials
    ca. 1500 photographs : ca. 30 negatives
    3 slides
    2 computer disks

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    (1931-2015)

    Biographical history

    Aureen Richardson was born 15 August 1931 and lived in Warkworth, Ontario. She married Raymond Richardson and had two sons, Raymond and Richard. She was a school teacher for 36 years, and, for 50 years, beginning in 1949, was a volunteer newspaper reporter for local newspapers on a variety of topics, including coverage of the community, churches, the disabled, local history, seniors' events, and travel. She was responsible for creating local and government interest in the erection of plaques dedicated to J.D. Kelly, St. James Anglican Church (Roseneath, Ontario), Alderville First Nation Reserve, John Weir Foote, Warkworth Cheese Country, and the Richardson archaeological site. Richardson also wrote three books, Weaving on the family loom: an anthology of Northumberland County families, Historic visions of J.D. Kelly, and Warkworth Cheese Country. From 1980 to 1986, she presented a regular four-minute "News of Northumberland" radio segment on CJBQ in Belleville, Ontario. Richardson inherited a rare neurological disease, familial spastic paraplegia, and was an advocate for the disabled throughout her life. She was a leader in Campbellford's "More Able Than Disabled" Club, was a member of the Quinte Writers' Guild and the Ontario Historical Society, and was a regular Elderhostel participant. Aureen Richardson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Trent University in 1974. She died 6 February 2015.

    Custodial history

    This fonds was created by and in the custody of Aureen Richardson before it was donated to Trent University Archives via Aureen Richardson's son, Ray Richardson.

    Scope and content

    Fonds consists of photographs, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings related to Aureen Richardson and her family, and to her genealogical research and historical research on events and people in the United Counties of Northumberland and Durham and Hastings County.

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    Some documents have been subjected to mold. Please handle all documents with care.

    Immediate source of acquisition

    Fonds acquired in 2002 from Ray Richardson.

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    The papers were entirely unorganized when acquired. They have been arranged by the archivist in subject and/or chronological order.

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        Box 1

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        1. Correspondence 1909, 1915, 1943-1966
        2. Correspondence 1970s
        3. Correspondence 1980-1986
        4. Correspondence 1987-1989
        5. Correspondence 1990-1992
        6. Correspondence 1993-1995
        7. Correspondence 1996-1997
        8. Correspondence 1998-2000
        9. Correspondence undated
        10. Greeting cards
        11. Greeting cards

        Box 2

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        1. Aureen Richardson: biography
        2. Richardson family: Aureen and Raymond Richardson's 25th, 40th, and 50th wedding anniversaries
        3. Richardson family: Christmas form letters, 1965-1991, 1997
        4. Richardson family: Rick (Aureen's son): letters, cards, etc.
        5. Richardson family: Ray (Aureen's son): letters, cards, etc.
        6. Richardson family: awards, certificates, diplomas
        7. Richardson family: Raymond's 80th birthday
        8. Richardson family: miscellaneous
        9. Richardson extended family:
          • diaries: Verda White, 1918, 1919
          • "Golden Wedding Anniversary Guests" book dated 1912-1962, Dartford, Ontario
          • postcard with transcription written by Frank Brown, n.d.
          • probate document relating to Arthur T. Richardson, 1960
          • document related to 40th anniversary of William James Richardson and Aureen Isobel Richardson
          • Thomas Richardson chair plaque (grandfather of Raymond)
          • family postcards 1908-1923
          • correspondence to Aureen Richardson re "Aunt Helen's estate", n.d.
          • Roswell Comstock/John Richardson deed, 1811 (original & photocopy)
          • David J. Richardson 1915 Horsemanship certificate (located in Large Materials Cabinet - Drawer 40)
            10: "Common Prayer" book, 1865: "To Mrs. A. White from the Revd. W. [Masory] 12th July, 1874"
            "Common Prayer" book, n.d.: "John White gave this book to Verda White... July 1912 not long before his death"
            Loose in box: sports medals

        Box 3

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        1. Aureen Richardson: writings
        2. ibid.
        3. ibid.
        4. ibid. (includes 2 computer disks)
        5. Aureen and Raymond Richardson's "Weaving the family loom: an anthology of Northumberland County": newspaper articles re book launch, etc.
          Located on shelf beside Box 3: a copy of "Weaving the family loom" (also a catalogued copy in Trent Collection)
        6. Aureen Richardson: travel journals, articles about her travels, Elderhostel trips
        7. ibid.
        8. ibid.
        9. Aureen Richardson: notes
        10. ibid.
        11. ibid.
        12. ibid.
        13. Aureen Richardson: diaries
        14. Aureen Richardson, correspondence by
        15. Aureen Richardson: aphorisms
        16. Aureen Richardson: her illness
        17. Aureen Richardson: her illness; Campbellford District Rural Transportation Inc., 1990-1999
          18: ibid., 1995-1999

        Box 4

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        1: Aureen Richardson: radio reporting for CJBQ, Belleville, 1980-1985

        1. Aureen Richardson: teaching
        2. Aureen Richardson, articles about
        3. Richardson farm archaeological site (includes 3 photographs) Trent University conducted two excavations - 1969 and 1976. Includes "The Richardson Site Preliminary Excavations June 1969" by Fred. B. Richardson and "A Preliminary Report on the 1976 Excavations at the Richardson Site (7ND12), BbG1-4" submitted to the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Recreation by Robert J. Pearce, Trent University November 1976.

        Box 5

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        1. Bray family genealogy
        2. Brooking family genealogy
        3. Calnan family genealogy
        4. Ewing family genealogy
        5. Hubbel [Hubble] family genealogy
        6. ibid.
          Loose in box: Hubbel family genealogy (black binder)
        7. Losie family genealogy
        8. Richardson family genealogy
        9. Skinkle family genealogy
        10. Stickle family genealogy
        11. White family genealogy (includes original letters to and from Mrs. John White, 1932)
        12. Young family genealogy (includes documents related to William Henry Young estate, 1930)
        13. Miscellaneous genealogical materials relating to the following families: Kelly, Brenton, Brown, Climo, Osler, Weir, Babcock, Atkinson, Barnums, Marsden, Mason
        14. Miscellaneous genealogical materials relating to the following families: Cochrane, Watson, Kintzing, Clark, Campbell, etc.
          Loose in box: Miscellaneous genealogical materials (grey binder)

        Box 6

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        1. John David Kelly plaque & book by Aureen Richardson
        2. ibid.
        3. Richardson memorial plaque
        4. St. James Anglican Church, Roseneath plaque
        5. Major John Weir Foote plaque, 1970-1991
          Loose in box: Major John Weir Foote plaque scrapbook

        Box 7

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        1. Crafts, tatting
        2. Church cookbooks
        3. Quinte Writers' Guild, 1980-1992
        4. Warkworth Improvement Committee, 1980-1983
        5. Warkworth Cheese Country plaque & book
        6. Music festivals, 1966-1990
        7. Schools: S.S. #10 Percy register (1930s) & cash book (1949-1964); S.S. #6 Percy clippings; Norwood
        8. Miscellaneous:
          • Map of Percy Township: Percy Township Road Directory. 1:50,000, 55cm x 37cm, original, produced by Warkworth Community Service Club, 1992
          • Farm Record and Reference Guide, Alberta edition, 1938-9: entries dated 1937-1945; also notes referring to the ending of WW II
          • list of wardens of Northumberland and Durham Counties, 1851-1967
          • newspaper article of Alnwick Township Honour Rolls, WW I, WW II, and Korean Conflict
          • handwritten poems, mostly of a religious nature
          • Canadian Pay Book for use on Active Service, Army Book, belonging to W.M. Bailey, 6th Canadian Reserve Battalion, n.d.
          • Pay Book, Canadian Expeditionary Force, belonging to W.M. Bailey, 1917
          • notebook belonging to Stewart S. Clysdale, Norwood, Ontario: list of wages for various people 1962, lists of food, etc.
          • Methodist Church yearly membership cards for Chas. McClary and Mrs. Chas. McClary, 1923
          • Alderville War Memorial, near Roseneath, postcard
            -Camp Iona: The Presbyterian Church in Canada postcard
          • The Crystal Palace, Picton, Ontario postcard

        Box 8

        Photographs [1800s - 1920]:

        Album 1: entire album is of unidentified people, except for one identified male, Samuel McCleary

        Album 2: "Miss M. Ewing" on cover; "Mrs. Margaret Richardson, Brighton, Jan. 1918" on inside cover; this album has several identified people: Eunice Ewing Gould; Rosa Stickle; B.F. Ewing, Brighton; Sloan, Sarah & Minie Patterson; Mrs. Isabell Alger; W.E. Bartlett & D. Ewing; R.D. Ewing; [C.]A. Richardson; Mrs. H. Story, Brighton; N. Johnson, Prince Edward, Ont.; Mr. & Mrs. Alen Spiers, Warkworth; James Alger; Fra. Ewing; Frank Kelley; N. Richardson; William Waller, Frankford; Mrs. William Waller; David Ewing; Almira Patterson; E. Bentley, Stouffville; Harry Crawford, Detroit; A. Gould, Brougham, Ont.; Peter Spiers; etc.

        Album 3: photographs of unidentified people, especially young couples; a few photos are identified as being near Cobourg, i.e. Cobourg Hospital [1918-1920]

        Album 4: photographs of unidentified people; several photographs have horses and carriages, and farm machinery [1918-1920]

        Envelope 1:
        1 - 25: unidentified people

        Envelope 2:
        26 - 40c unidentified people (note: #40c is a tintype of a woman)

        Envelope 3:
        41 - 81 (note: #s 68-70, 78 are photocopies) unidentified people except for the following:
        75: 3 men having a picnic at lake shore
        76: large ornately designed house with horse and carriage and several people situated in front
        77: horse and man
        78: several horses and horse-drawn carts loaded with cargo; also several people, and large building in background
        79 - 80: cows
        81: 2 cats seated on ornate chair

        Envelope 4:
        82 - 92: Arthur Richardson (#'s 90-92 are of Arthur in a barbershop)

        Loose in box:
        93: Arthur Richardson, 139th Battalion (photograph of several men in uniform)

        Envelope 5:
        94: Becky Richardson Ritchie
        95: Carleton Richardson
        96: Mr. & Mrs. D. Richardson, Dartforth, 1905 or 1906
        97: Sadie Richardson
        98: Sarah Jane Richardson
        99: Isabel Richardson Bellring
        100: Isabel Richardson
        101: Isabel Richardson
        102: David Richardson
        103: David, Arthur, Isabel, and Fred [Richardson]; Bertha Wilson; Hattie Rosevear

        Loose in box:
        104: Arthur, Fred, David, Becky, Carleton, and Isabel [Richardson]
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        105: Richardson family: Rebecca, Carleton, Arthur, David, Isabel, Fred

        Envelope 6:
        106: Elwood & Talbert Skinkle
        107: Mr. & Mrs. William Kelly, Sarah Richardson, Grace Potter
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        108: Will Kelly family
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        109: several people, taken at the Bailey home
        110: ibid.
        111: Truman, Hattie Rosenear, Mary Ewing
        112: Emma [ ], Jane White, Maude Turk, Mary Ann Bray Pillage, Sarah Elliot, James Pillage
        113: Thomas Bray, Betsy Anne Stevens
        114: Liddy Mongronery
        115: Pearl Rutherford McDonall
        116: Mary Ewing, Hattie White
        117: Marvin Bailey
        118: Artie Wilson
        119: Alex Ritchie
        120: Dr. A.M. Ritchie

        Envelope 7:
        121: Beatrice Hutchinson
        122: unidentified
        123: unidentified
        124: Carleton & Becky Richardson
        125: unidentified
        126: unidentified
        127: Simmons, son of Susan Young
        128: Frank Brown
        129: Mary & John
        130: 4 sisters just before Jane White's death
        131: Verda Brown & Hazel Skinkle
        132: Mom & Uncle Ray
        133: Ernest & Carrie Brisher Stickle
        134: [Rev. Harry Frost]
        135: Eliza Yonge
        136: Will Stickles
        137: Bruce Hopkins
        138: Elda Thomas
        139: Mr. & Mrs. H. Kinnear
        140: Mrs. Shannon
        141-142: Mrs. James Frost; grandmother of the late Harry
        143: Vincent Jones Brickley
        144: M.A. Crawford
        145: Clare Cunningham twins

        Envelope 8:
        146: William [ ] Pollock
        147: twin sisters of Wilbert Hoar
        148: Miss Bell
        149: Mrs. Dave Simmons' brother
        150: Mr. & Mrs. John White
        151: Clare
        152: [ ], Mary, Jim
        153: Mr. & Mrs. Wm Young, Sarah Richardson, Gertrude Campbell
        154: 1906 Wedding, David Richardson & Sarah Young, with other members of wedding party
        155: Aunt Alice, mother, Aunt Blanche
        156: Ernest Stickle
        157: Eunice Dolittle
        158: Hellen & Jack Ewing
        159: Margaret Ewing Richardson (photocopy)
        160: Margaret Ewing Richardson
        161: B.F. Ewing & family
        162: ibid. (photocopy)
        163: Maggie Blake, Andrew & Mrs. Blake
        164: Sarah Young, Bertha White, Isabel Richardson, Grace McCracken, Gertrude [ ]
        165: Alec Ritchie, Call of Dentists (several men in a group)
        Note: numbers 166-177 are photocopies)
        166: Mr. & Mrs. Crawford
        167: Thomas Richardson & Margaret Ewing family
        168: Jane Pillage & John White
        169: Betsy Ann Stephens Bray
        170: Thomas Bray
        171: Elizabeth Brenton Brown
        172: William & Catharine White, John & Jane White, Jim Long, Hilton, Verda & Lloyd
        173: Richardson couple
        174: Mrs. John Skinkle II, Catherine White, Alice McBride, Thomas McBride, Viola Clarke
        175: 4 generations of Greenlys
        176: Dr. Nicholas Dennis Richards & Dr. James Nelson Richards
        177: sisters of Dr. N.D. Richards
        178: Jim Young
        179: Mrs. Thomas Bray
        180: Thomas Bray
        181: Ewing family 1906
        182: John Skinkle
        183: Amarella Babcock Skinkle
        184-186: Amarella & John Skinkle

        Loose in box:
        178: Wedding photo 1906: Rev. C.W. Barrett, Ernest Stickles, Isabel Richardson, Clara Ewing
        179: School class photograph [possibly SS#10 Percy Township]; on back is written Miss Margaret Ewing School

        Envelope 9:
        180: Anglican picnic, Idlewild
        181: group photo, "Percy Boom", 1908
        182: group photo of men in uniform; caption reads "dinner served by I.O.D.E. to Brighton O.E.CT. of. 139 Bat at home F.A. Philp, Colborne Ont."
        183: Woodvale School class photo, 1905 (photocopy)
        184: Continuation School, Chatsworth, Ont.
        185: Dartford, Ont. (church)
        186: Old Springs (church)
        187: "Kings Plate" postcard; inscription on back reads "Tom Frast won the Breeder's Steak about 1943"

        Box 9

        Note: The photograph albums include loosely inserted photographs, clippings, cards, etc., some dated earlier than 1920

        Album 1: unidentified people

        Album 2: several photographs related to St. James Anglican Church (Roseneath), i.e. interior and exterior shots, and events and people associated with the Church

        Album 3: unidentified people and events, several with children, school events, etc.

        Album 4: (loose pages from an album) Aureen and Raymond Richardson's wedding photographs; several photographs of groups of people, i.e. children, families, weddings, [First Communion/Confirmation church events], etc.

        Album 5: RCAF memorial service, etc.

        Album 6: Richardson Site plaque ceremony

        Album 7a: travel photographs
        Album 7b: travel photographs
        Album 7c: church congregation/choir photographs, St. James Anglican Church exterior, etc.

        Envelope 1-4,
        plus one photograph loose in box:
        Richardson family including Aureen, Raymond, their sons, Raymond and Richard, and their grandchildren (the photographs depict weddings, travel, Aureen (as teacher) in a school class photograph 1961, Aureen's Trent University graduation, etc. (ca. 180 photographs))

        Envelope 5:
        Richardson family home (ca. 20 photographs)

        Envelope 6:
        Crafts; also photographs of wedding cake, etc.

        Envelope 7:
        Memorial stones, plaques (misc.)

        Envelope 8:
        Travel & scenery photographs (includes one photograph of a small boat entitled "Diving for a penny")

        Envelope 9:
        Horses, pigs, cows photographs

        Envelope 10:
        1: Audrey Wentworth
        2: Ken May
        3: White family & Jim Long
        4: Grandma White, John, Mary, Dad, Gene
        5: Ed's boy, Roy
        6: Neta, Mom, Nella, Larry
        7&8: Marjorie admiring her Great Uncle Carleton
        9: Kerri Anne McCleary & Gregory Langford
        10: John & Marg
        11: Mom, Verda Brown, Mary Bellamy
        12: Ralph, Ray, Bill White, etc.
        13: Nancy Haig, Neil Johnston
        14: Faith Atkinson, Leslie Caton, Anthony Cunningham
        15: Timothy Bishop, John Postma, Roger Bulman
        16: Joanne Finlay, Karen Ferguson, Marlene Jones
        17: Everett T., Olive T., Verda B.
        18: Shein & Rob
        19: Matthew
        20: Norma Yeats
        21: Alan, Gary, John, Lois White
        22: Jack & Bernice Ferguson
        23: Mom's wedding
        24: Mom & George Skinkle, Nellie & Charlie Hunter
        25: White family
        26: Mary & John
        27: Uncle Hillon
        28: Mary Bell[ ]
        29: Mary & Claude
        30: Mary, John, Mom, & Gene
        31: Frank Brown, McEachran
        32: Jane White
        33: Ray Mackie wedding
        34: Gene's baptismal
        35: Mom for Halloween
        36: Mom & Dad, previous to marriage
        37: Bishop Buel[ ] & Gordon
        38: Gordon & Elmer Sweet
        39: Helen Atkinson, Howard Atkinson, Betty Atkinson, Robert Atkinson
        40: Graves & Atkinson family
        41: Auril's children, Blair, Misha, Jasmine, Josh
        42: Joyce & Elmer Sweet
        43: Farn family
        44-45: Angela Wagner
        46: Angela Wagner & her Dad
        47: Noreen, Helen, Neil
        48: Percy Campbell
        49: [ ] & Janice Arbuckle
        50: Borden Campbell
        51: Dr. John Young, Prof. Ray March at Trent University convocation 1989
        52: Garnet & Jean Skinkle's family
        53: White cousins
        Note: (numbers 54-61 are photocopies)
        54: Eric McKague
        55: Margaret McKague
        56: Clarence, Eric & Wilfrid McKague
        57: S.A. Wilson at C.N.E. 1917
        58: McKague, Honey, & Wilson family
        59: Bill Bowen, Clarence & Eric McKague
        60: Wilfrid McKague, Bill Bowen, Clarence & Eric McKague
        61: Sarah Young Richardson
        62: Clarke & Mable Sweet, Mom, Aunt Mary
        63: Suzanne Marie & Sara Jeanne
        64: Verda White Brown (photocopy)
        65: Verda White Brown
        66: David Richardson & Ray Eugene (photocopy)
        67: Nelda Beavis, Gene Smith, Verda Brown, Aureen Richardson (photocopy)
        68: Myrna Ellard
        69: James Long
        70-74: Northumberland Farm Forum, 1954
        75: 50th Anniversary of Roseneath Women's Institute
        76: Claremont 1957 group photo of several people all identified: includes last names of Saracuse, Ashenhurst, Munro, Coulter, Blair, Brown, Whaley, Cunningham, McEvoy, Japp, Archer, Chisolm, Thackeray, Thompson, Hergott, Gay, Moorcroft, Morrow
        77: Warkworth High School 1922 class photograph (photocopy)
        78: Warkworth High School 19[ ] class photograph (photocopy)

        Envelope 11-13:
        Unidentified people, events, etc. (ca. 175 photographs)

        Envelope 14:
        Unidentified buildings

        Envelope 15:
        Miscellaneous negatives, 3 slides

        Loose on shelf:

        High school yearbooks

        • East Northumberland Secondary School, 1963-64, 1964-65, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, Silver Anniversary Edition 1955-80
        • Campbellford District High School (Trent), 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974
        • Centre Hastings Secondary School (Patter), 1970, 1972, 1973
        • Belleville Collegiate Institute & Vocational School (Elevator), 1972-73, 1973-74
        • Quinte Secondary School (Quintessence), 1976, 1976-77, 1978, Silver Anniversary Edition 1954-1979 (2 different anniversary editions)

        Scrapbooks

        1-15 plus a large pile of loose scrapbook pages: the scrapbooks are comprised of original and photocopied materials related to Aureen Richardson, her family, and her historical research; the materials include greeting cards, photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, historical documents, family documents, brochures, pamphlets

        A few of the scrapbooks have themes/significant documents: these are listed below:
        4: music festivals
        5: Royal Military College/Raymond's graduation
        6: music festivals
        7: crocheting
        8: numerous pages of photographs related to family holidays, and extended family members; includes a Trent University First Summer Session class photograph 1968
        12: this book is a Brickley Cheese Factory ledger, 1891-1895, that has had some ledger pages pasted over with scrapbook items; two pages are of 1894 minutes of the cheese factory and Jas. Oliver is listed as one of the directors; one entry is for Thomas Richardson
        13: this book is a Ledger with the inscription "J.R. H[ ]" on the front cover; the ledger is dated 1851-1866 and lists hardware/building items in the accounting transactions; the first half of the ledger has been pasted over with scrapbook items
        14: loose scrapbook pages from one scrapbook, placed in a folder
        15: students' letters of request for a plaque to commemorate Dr. Allen Dafoe

        Large Materials Cabinet - Drawer 40

        • David J. Richardson's Beery School of Horsmanship certificate 1915
        • Photograph (framed): Cobourg Collegiate Institute, 1947-48

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