Album Grimshaw Family from Deborah Lundbech

Fred Halkard Grimshaw, 1930s

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:41:47 +0000

My husband’s great uncle - his grandmother’s brother.
Fred’s wife and first child died in childbirth. He later married a woman from Texas (he was a Vermonter).
He died in 1964, in Farmer’s Branch, Dallas, Texas

Below is a photograph of him (brought forward) as a child.

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The Joyless Family

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 23:13:15 +0000

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Hopefully, they were a little more animated and cheerful in real life.
This is a relative on my husband's side. The father is my husband's Grandmother's cousin. (Ada May (Grimshaw) illingworth)
I found this information in the 1920 census.

1. Father - Frank Hubbard Stone b Weathersfield, VT 27 Nov 1881 (son of James Edwin Stone b 27 Oct 1850 and Frances Ella (Grimshaw) Slattery Stone, sister of Charles Augustus Grimshaw, daughter of John Grimshaw and Jane Seavey.
2. Mother - Edith Mary (Westney) Stone b Alstead, NH 21 Sept 1881
They married in Springfield, VT 13 April 1904
3. Blonde Boy - Arthur Willian Stone b Bellows Falls VT 15 Mar 1907
4. Dark Haired Boy - Frank Fairbanks Stone b Bellows Falls VT 24 Feb 1909
5. Tallest Girl - Alice Westney Stone b Laconia, NH 26 Feb 1911
6. Next Tallest - Gertrude Irene Stone b Laconia NH 19 Jan 1915
7. Next Tallest - Merwin L Stone b 1917
Youngest girl - not yet known - and possibly 2 more girls born after this.

Renovate Your Feathers!

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:59:24 +0000

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Might be worth a try.

Samuel Halkard - my husband's great great uncle
Ada May's maternal uncle.
www.adamaygrimshaw.blogspot.com

Here's part of the TOTALLY BIZARRE fine print:

READ THIS

Extract from a lecture on the existing causes of Diseases by Dr. Alfred L.Castleman, delivered at Milwaukee.

"...Examine your feathers when first plucked from the fowls. The quill end of each one is loaded with grease, blood and other animal matter. They are laid away and could they be kept dry, well aired and never slept on, they would do no harm. But night after night, for years nightly are the dead matters of your bodies cast off by perspiration and respiration and mingled with the animal matter. Summer after summer has some member of your family sweated on the same bed: the poison causes his sickness and perhaps in addition to this your young children have slept on it and added to the foul combinations the still more disgusting excretions of their bodies...."

Snow Fashion

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:26:08 +0000

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Brought forward for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of "Could be a scene from a movie."
We have been having major computer problems here and I have missed posting for awhile. Hopefully we are back on target now. (New hard drive!)

Unknown woman on the left, Ada May Grimshaw on the right. Ada is my husband's maternal grandmother.
www.adamaygrimshaw.blogspot.com
Ada appears to be wearing a wildly impractical hat for cold weather. I've never seen anything like it. Her friend's clothes seem far more sensible.
Ada lived her entire life in Springfield, Vermont but this does not look like Springfield. I'm not sure where it is.
Are those collared trees for sugaring? They look more like elms than maples, though.

The Post Office, Perkinsville, VT

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:14:09 +0000

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Unsent, divided postcard.
My husband's family lived here and in nearby towns.
An amazing number of power lines on those poles!

A Friend, Ernest and Ada. Courting Days, c1900.

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:26:52 +0000

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Can any Springfield people tell me if this is Stoughton Pond?
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Ernest Illingworth and Ada Grimshaw

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:11:20 +0000

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Courtship c1900.
My husband's maternal grandparents, Ada May Grimshaw and Ernest Illingworth.
www.adamaygrimshaw.blogspot.com

Ada May Grimshaw 1902

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:42:42 +0000

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I am transcribing Ada's 1915 - 1919 diary at
www.adamaygrimshaw.blogspot.com

Ada Grimshaw

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:33:04 +0000

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Ada Grimshaw (on right) with friends abt 1900. Perkinsville or Springfield, Vermont
www.adamaygrimshaw.blogspot.com

Ada Grimshaw

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:12:04 +0000

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Ada Grimshaw (in the middle) picnics with friends in Perkinsville or Springfield Vermont abt 1900.
www.adamaygrimshaw.blogspot.com
i love the "surrey with the fringe on the top" in the background. This also looks like the box lunch auction at the end of the movie Oklahoma.

Unknown Grimshaw

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:13:44 +0000

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Photo taken of a photo - one of a pair -sold in their original frames. Identified as Grimshaw by Ada Grimshaw's daughter but further info not known.
I'm guessing this is 1870s - 1880s. Anyone who knows about costume have a more informed guess?

Ada Grimshaw

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:57:32 +0000

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Ada Grimshaw abt 1890. Taken in Springfield, Vermont.
I believer that they often cut children's hair if they were very ill and wonder if this is why Ada has this very cropped style.
I think I remember reading that cutting hair when a child was sick stemmed from a belief that hair "sapped your strength" but in reality it could have been just a practical way to stop the snarl of tangles from a long time lying on a pillow.
www.adamaygrimshaw.blogspot.com

Fred Grimshaw

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:26:03 +0000

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Fred Grimshaw of Springfield or Perkinsville, Vermont about 1894.
Ada Grimshaw Illingworth's brother.

Ada Grimshaw

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:40:26 +0000

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Ada Grimshaw about 1888 in Perkinsville or Springfield, Vermont.
Follow her diary here:
www.adamaygrimshaw.blogspot.com

Ada Grimshaw

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:51:12 +0000

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Ada Grimshaw b1883 in Springfield, Vermont.
My husband's maternal grandmother.
Follow Ada's diary ( 1915 - 1919) at
www.adamaygrimshaw.blogspot.com