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Object Description

Object Name

Picture postcard

Object ID

0753

Title

The Simpson family.

Date

[1909?].

Description

Landscape oriented black and white photograph postcard depicting the Simpson family standing outside a house. The family is as follows (left to right): George Simpson (probably George Simpson Sr.) holding Peggy Allen, Annie Allen (nee Simpson), Mrs. George Simpson. The family is standing in a row, possibly with a black and white dog in front of them, on the grass in front of a wooden fence. Behind the fence is a simple wooden house that is pale in colour with a dark rood and dark detailings. The house takes up the majority of the right side of the photo but the background is visible on the left side and consists of a hill and the sky.

Photo Inscription/Caption

Inscription in ink: individuals names.

People/Subject

Allen, Annie (nee Simpson)

Annie Allen (nee Simpson) married James (Jim) Allen on December 26, 1906, in New Westminster. The couple had at least two children, Mary M. (b. 1908) and Barbara (b. 1909). She died May 4, 1953, and was buried in the Fort Langley Cemetery.

Allen, Peggy

Daughter of Jim and Annie Allen (nee Simpson).

Simpson, George, Jr., Mrs.

Simpson, George, Sr.

George Simpson was born in Scotland in 1857. He married Margaret Mowat in Rathen, Aberdeenshire, in 1881. With his wife and three children, George, Jr., James, and Annie, George came to Sedro Wooley, Washington, in 1891 to join his brother-in-law James Mowat, and moved to Fort Langley the following year. He operated a farm in Fort Langley and was one of the original members of the Delta-Surrey-Langley Pioneers Assoc. The family bought their home-site from James Mackie, where George lived until his death in August 1941 at the age of 84.

Simpson, Margaret (1860-1939)

Margaret Simpson (nee Mowat) was born in Huntley, Scotland, in 1860, and married George Simpson in Rathen, Aberdeenshire, in 1881. With her husband and three children, George, Jr., James, and Annie, she came to Sedro Wooley, Washington, in 1891 to join her brother James Mowat, and moved to Fort Langley the following year. The family bought their home-site from James Mackie, where Margaret resided until her death in July 1939, at the age of 79.

Term Source: HPC Records (HPC-227/1023), Cemetery Burial Binder, Fort Langley, pg. 35 (Township of Langley).

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