Viewing Object

Object Description

Object Name

Photograph Album

Object ID

2012.018.004

Title

Pepin and Peacey Family Photo Album.

Date

[between 1924 and 1988].

Description

A black leather photograph album. The cover has "Photographs" embossed on the top left in gold. The binding is made of three strings running through four holes. The album itself has been catalogued by the museum as (A). Inside the pages are black, holding various black and white photographs of people, animals and landscapes (dated approximately 1924 to 1988). The first page of the album features a black and white photograph of a young boy sitting on a bench. There are 5 loose items (B to F) tucked inside the front cover of the album:

B - Christmas postcard with "Joyeux Noel" on the front and a colour photograph of a family (2 adults and 3 children).
C - Postcard with "Ludlow" on the front. It features four colour pictures.The reverse has "By air mail/Par avion" sticker. It is addressed to "Mrs. Lily Pepin" and dated by a stamp "19 Sep. 1988".
D - Photograph of two women. The reverse has "87/I/14" written in pencil.
E - Polaroid photograph of two women. One woman is sitting in a chair and the other is leaning over her.
F - Polaroid photograph of two women standing next to each other.

The album contains photographs of many unidentified people. Some are believed to be members of the Peacey, Nordman and Pepin families. The 48th page contains photographs of the wedding of Lillian Margaret Nordman and John Ernest Gold on September 15, 1934. The bottom of one of the photographs is inscribed with: "Sept 15 1934". Other inscriptions included in the album include: "Doris with bear shot at Lazo", "3314 - The New School at Courtenay, B.C. / Photo. by C. Broadway - Copyright -", "Harding Monument", "Silver Lake", "Cultus Lake", "Hobbs Hayes Farm Eng.", "Billy 6 month", "Bill at Kings College", "David at 9 months", "May 1944", "Mr. & Mrs. Easton Victoria", "1946", "June + Mom", "Eva Mother 1926", "Opal + Bill Cultus Lake", "Marvin + Carol", "Brian, Kathy, Francis, Isabel, Fynn[?] + Me", "Mar. 6 1954", "Oct. 20 , 1955" (underneath a photograph of the gravestone of Clara Peacey), "Oct. 25, 1955" (also underneath a photograph of the gravestone of Clara Peacey), "Army Camp Vedder", "Mary", and others.

People/Subject

Peacey, Clara (nee Hickling/Hicklin)

Clara Peacey was born in England, likely in 1872. She married Hubert John Peacey and had 5 children, Margaret Evelyn ("Eva"), Albert Henry, Lillian May, Dorothy Ruth and Kathleen. The family lived in Langley. Clara died in 1940.

Pepin, Lillian May (nee Peacey)

Lillian May Pepin was born Lillian May Peacey on Jan. 12, 1904 in Wascana, Saskatchewan to parents Hubert John Peacey and Clara Peacey (nee Hickling). Lillian May married George Herbert Morrow on Dec. 14, 1928 (George Morrow died in 1943). Lillian married Alexander Joseph Pepin. Lillian May Pepin died on Dec. 8, 1989. She was an active member of St. Dunstan's Anglican Church in Aldergrove.
Sister to Margaret Evelyn Peacey, Albert Henry Peacey, Kathleen Peacey, and Dorothy Ruth Wilkinson (nee Peacey).

Obit. reads "she and her husband, Alex, came to the Langley area in 1922, settling in the Campbell Valley area".

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