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MEETING
Come visit Thursday, Friday & Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The next general meeting will be held Tuesday, September 17, 2024 at 7 PM in the conference room of the Community Credit Union: Business Innovation Centre, 5 Ratchford Street, Amherst, NS. Our speaker for the evening will be Jean Weathered McFarland, Prince George BC.
The Weathered/Wethered family is in possession of a 1797 British Officer’s sword that has been handed down for several generations. The sword has been in Western Canada since 1968. We have decided that this sword should be located as close as possible to Cumberland/Westmorland Counties, where it was first acquired.
We believe that this sword was acquired by Joshua Winslow Wethered, born at Fort Cumberland in 1764, member of the Second Westmorland Battalion after the Revolutionary war, High Sherriff of Westmorland County, New Brunswick, for 10 years. He died in 1822 and is buried at St Mark’s Anglican Church, Mt. Whatley, Aulac, New Brunswick.
The presentation will be about tracing the history of the sword: Who What Where and When?
Meetings are always open to the public, so please come join your local family Genealogical Society, which has been serving Cumberland County for the past 23 years. Research your heritage and find new relatives. Learn about what times your parents, grandparents and other ancestors, lived through, where, when, how, education, religion, occupations, etc.
Email: "archives@ccgsns.com" or Call: 902-661-7278
Get you colourful family memorial leaves placed on the CCGS Memorial Heritage Tree and watch it grow. Add your own ancestors using the attached form and see the tree continue to blossom with Gold, Silver and Greenery.
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