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Family Timeline

Travel two centuries in a glance, from the earliest keepers to the newest arrivals.

1820s

The first Kinlore land

The earliest deed in the archive: meadow acres and an orchard slope, bought with harbour wages and worked by the whole household.

1880s

Harbour wages, orchard rows

One line of the family works the boats while another plants the rows Margaret would one day press. Letters begin crossing regularly.

1928 – 1941

A generation of keepers is born

Margaret, Brooklyn, Jenny, and Evelyn arrive within thirteen years — the orchard keeper, the light-keeper, the historian, and the teacher.

1960s – 1980s

Boats, classrooms, cameras

Robert's workshop, Evelyn's classroom registers, and the first reunion photographs. The family starts gathering on purpose, not just by chance.

1990s – 2010s

The archive takes shape

Jenny's binders, Bessie's kitchen ledger, Daniel's nine thousand negatives. The 2015 reunion quilt carries 214 signatures into the reading room.

Today

The living tree

Two thousand verified profiles, three branches, and new pages every month. The next entry could be yours.