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THE CALLAWAY FAMILY ASSOCIATION
CFANET e-NEWSLETTER
  June 2002

Volume III  No. 6

EDITORIAL  by Dr. Bruce Callaway

 

A most gratifying return for the recent survey, the results of which are analysed by Bulletin Bill below. For those who have not yet responded, please consider doing so as your amateur ‘highly paid’ editors seek only to provide you with that which you want to read and when.

 

Some interesting comments ensued. Firstly the Bulletin is not intended to replace the Annual Journal. This latter has the capacity to publish in depth genealogical research. We wish to publish short articles on member’s research and heartily encourage you to forward this at any time to the editors. Genealogical enquires should be forwarded in the first instance to our esteemed genealogist Sherrill Williams. If by snail mail her address can be found in the Journal. If by e-mail then SHERRILLUWILLIAMS at embarqmail.com. Sherrill will then be able to put you in touch with the persons assigned to your line, or in many instances answer directly.

 

Worry was expressed that too many odd names and spellings were being published. To this I would reply that it is my opinion that genealogical research cannot progress if one ignores a spouse name. It takes two to tango! Or else none of us would be here. By not ignoring ‘odd’ spellings, your genealogists have been able to take your ancestors back 900 years! This places the CFA at the forefront of genealogical societies, and one of the few in the world which has broken the ‘medieval barrier’. This is something of which we should all be proud.

 

Offers of help with the publishing of the Bulletin, and offers of contributions have been gratefully received. We will follow up the former and as to the latter, LET’S HAVE’M!

 

CFANET  BULLETIN  SURVEY
 
A total of 84 surveys were returned out of a possible 359 for a 23% return rate. This is better than expected, and we congratulate those of you who took the time to respond.
 
If, for some reason, you do not wish to receive the Bulletin in future, just send an e-mail to callawaybill at shaw.ca and type UNSUBSCRIBE in the Subject. Then I will remove you from the CFA Address Book.

Bruce has already talked about the narrative answers to Questions 14, 15 & 17, so I will deal mainly with the responses to the other questions.
 
1. Frequency of publishing the Bulletin.
     82% want it to continue monthly
     12% want it decreased to every other month
       6% want it decreased to quarterly
 
2. Receive special issues when major breaking news occurs
     92% said Yes
      8% said No
 
3. Your reading habits
     71% read each issue thoroughly
     18% read selected items only     
     11% skim
 
4. Print copies for (a) filing and future reference           55% No     45% Yes
                           (b) giving to family or friends           78% No     22% Yes
 
5. Ever forwarded an item, a link to a story, or a copy of the Bulletin
     66% No     34% Yes
 
6. How soon read the Bulletin once it arrives in your Inbox
     55% same day
     32% within two days
       9% within the week
       4% longer than one week                 
 
7. Length of the Bulletin
     95% right length
       4% too short
       1% too long
 
8. How many of 27 issues of Bulletin received
     54%   All
     25%   5 - 14
     18%   15 - 26
       3%   1 - 4
 
9. How often look at CFA web site
     49%   Seldom
     34%   Once a month
       9%   Every week or oftener
       7%   Never
       1%   Every other week
 
10. www.callawayfamily.org bookmarked (Favorite)
     74%  Yes       26%   No
 
11. Go to CFANet Archives on CFA web site to check out past issues of Bulletin
     57%   Never
     39%   Seldom
       4%   Often
 
12. Ever signed Guest Book at CFA web site
        61%   No
        39%   Yes
 
13. Resume Bios and Autobiographies of CFA members
       94%   Yes
         6%   No
 
14. Kinds of items for the Bulletin
        45 responses, many with more than one suggestion
 
15. Types of items not wanted in Bulletin
        13 responses
 
16. Willing to consider contributing an article or note of interest to a future issue of the Bulletin
       55%   Yes   This is a rather amazing response!
       45%   No
 
17. Additional comments and suggestions
        27 responses
 
Age Groups
    41%   65 & over
    39%   50 - 64
    17%   35 - 49
      3%   19 - 34
 
Gender
    53%   Male
    47%   Female
 
Our Webmaster, Donna Morgan, on seeing the results of Questions 9, 11 & 12, commented that:
 
"It seems that the readership of our newsletter is less actively involved with the internet than I had hoped. It makes me want to ask another question of those surveyed - 'How often do you surf the web?' There have been over 10,000 visits to our site since we opened it, and I believe the vast majority of those visitors are amateur genealogists searching for family information."
 
EXCHANGE RESEARCH OFFER

 

‘Ask not what your Association can do for you, but what you can do for the Association’

Bill Hamilton of Delaware, barnacle at voicenet.com wants someone in California to help with research there. His ancestors are from Sussex/Kent Co. DE. In exchange, he will help with any research needed by them in Delaware.

 

PROBLEMS EXPERIENCED BY SOME APPLE MACINTOSH USERS

 

The recent survey highlighted the fact that some Apple users experienced difficulty in replying due to the format used by Apple. We have been able to help those users who have contacted us. If you are one of the persons who have not replied due to this difficulty, please do not hesitate to contact us, and we may be able to talk you through it. In fact, any recipient of the Bulletin who is having any difficulty with the format should do likewise. We only aim to please!

 

ANCIENT COATS OF ARMS

 

These ancient heraldic devices indicated family relationships in colourful form. They are most helpful to genealogists in tracing marriages and inheritance, and as previously indicated, your active genealogists from around the world have been spending quite a lot of recent time in studying those relating to our C/K Family. A device common to them is depicted as four pears arranged between an X, formed by glaziers’ ‘nippers’. These latter are a primitive tool (still in use) used by trades persons in the glass industry to trim glass. It is thought that our ancestors must have been involved in the supply of stained glass to the Churches, Monasteries and Abbeys, which would partly explain both their extraordinary wealth during the 13th to the 16th centuries, and their possession of the right to bear these arms.

 

Bill Kellaway Piper of Kent England is in the process of developing a website where some of these coats may be viewed in colour now. Do visit it by just clicking on http://members.lycos.co.uk/dreycott/coats.htm

 

THE NEWFOUNDLAND GREAT SEALERS STRIKE OF 1902

Contributed by Don Kellaway quinte at attcanada.net of Belleville, Ontario, Canada

 

Simeon Kelloway (or Calloway)  (1858-1903) was born Pool’s Island and married Clara Jane Jeans June 1, 1882 at St. James Church. (Nfld Archives VS 78A). He was a fisherman of Badger’s Quay who is traditionally identified as the leader of the great sealer’s strike of 1902. He spent his first spring at the ice when he was 10 years old. Fished at the Labrador and was one of the first to settle the mainland adjacent to Pool’s Island, Badger’s Quay.

 

In March of 1902 he and two young sealers from Conception Bay, led a strike of 3000 sealers in St. John’s, protesting a rumoured decrease in the price that the men would be paid for seals and demanded that the practise of vessel owners charging “berth money” be stopped. The strike lasting four days was settled on terms favourable to the sealers, who had the assistance of lawyer and politician Alfred B. Morine. Kelloway died of heart failure the following fall aged 45.

 

Children

1.      Mary Jane KALLOWAY b.Sept 9 1882 Pinchard’s Island, Nfld.

2.      Ernest Edgar KALLAWAY b. Aug 13 1886 Pinchard’s Island, Nfld.

3.      Aubrey Richmond KALLAWAY b.Nov.20 1887 Pinchard’s Island, Nfld.

4.      Gertrude KALLAWAY b. Mar.29 1890 Pinchard’s Island. Nfld.

5.      William James Jeans KALLOWAY b.Aug 27 1892 Badger’s Quay, Nfld.

 

 

Eds. Note:The Dominion of Newfoundland gave up responsible Government in 1943. From then until 1949, when it joined Canada, a Commission responsible to the British Government in Westminster governed it. Newfoundland has a fascinating history, the framework of which can be found by clicking http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/cod/fwork.htm

 

VOICE/VIDEO LINK BETWEEN MEMBERS

 

As previously mentioned, this exciting possibility was demonstrated to the Board at the Key West meeting by Gary Garnett and Kermit Bridges. Microsoft NetMeeting and Yahoo offer the two modes. To quote our first Vice President Gary, “This new technology opens some new opportunities for the CFA as it may provide a forum for members to share genealogical research”. Any member interested is invited to contact the Editor.

 

                                                      CO-EDITORS

 
Dr. Bruce Callaway                                                                Bill Callaway
Sydney, NSW, Australia                                                        Parksville, B.C., Canada
bruce at callaway.com.au                                                    callawaybill at shaw.ca
 
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