Friday's Faces From the Past ~ Everett Deyarmond Family in Burnside 1953

The handwriting above this picture is my great grandmother's, Melvina Jane Hamilton Bustin (1886-1974). Everett Deyamond (1876-1942) was her cousin, she being the daughter of Peter Suther Hamilton (1852-1929), and Everett being the son of Margaret Rebecca Hamilton (1857-1937). Burnside is a small community in the Stewiacke Valley of Nova Scotia.

Having come across this wonderful "family gathering" photograph, I sent it to Judy from the Stewiacke Valley Museum Facebook page.  She kindly passed it on to one of the people in the photograph, a young girl in the photo, Mrs. Freda MacKay Rogers. Mrs. Rogers identified everyone in the picture, and also was able to date the photograph at 1953 or 1954.

Here is an alphabetical list, by surname, of everyone in the picture:

Berkelow, Maria Deyarmond

Deyarmond, Adela Roode

Deyarmond, Art

Deyarmond, Dick

Deyarmond, Eldridge

Deyarmond, Frank

Deyarmond, Jean Cox

Deyarmond, Lance

Deyarmond, Lester

Deyarmond, Mary Graham

Deyarmond, Terry

Deyarmond, Wayne

Fisher, Curtis

Fisher, Velva Deyarmond

Goff, Doris Whidden

Graham, Betty Deyarmond

Graham, Gordon

Hamilton, Albert

Hamilton, Stella

Johnson, Ella Deyarmond

Johnson, Herman

Johnson, Von

MacKay, Alice Deyarmond

MacKay, Ian

MacKay, Freda

MacKay, Norman

MacKay, Robert

Stevenson, Deanna

Stevenson, Laura Deyarmond

Stevenson, Linda

Stevenson, Lloyd

Whidden, Foster

Whidden, Frances

Whidden, Gary

Whidden, Harry

Whidden, Nettie Deyarmond

Whidden Philip

Whidden, Roy

Albert Hamilton and Stella Hamilton are my great great uncle and aunt, respectively, siblings of my great grandmother, although, in one way or another, I am related to all 38 people in this picture.

Wedding Wednesday ~ Ed Noyes and Mary Hamilton

Edward Kent Noyes and Mary Ellen Hamilton

Married in Portland, Maine

December 28, 1904

Mary Ellen Hamilton was the older sister of my great grandmother and her two sisters who married the three Bustin brothers (see above tab entitled "3 Brothers Marry 3 Sisters") She did beat all three sisters to the altar, however, by marrying Ed Noyes, of Falmouth, Maine.*

Courtesy of 2d Cousin, 1x removed, Peter Noyes Greeley's Public Member Tree on Ancestry.com

They were married at the home of Rev. John A. Watersworth at 72 Auburn Street in North Deering, with brother of the groom, Wilbert Edson Noyes, and cousin of the bride, Maria Jayne Deyarmond, as witnesses.

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*Melvina married Fred Bustin in 1907, Nessie married Ben Bustin in 1910, and Cassie married Tom Bustin in 1918.

Record Source:

Maine.  Record of a Marriage (28 Dec 1904), Edward K. Noyes and Mary E. Hamilton;  Maine State Archives, Augusta; photocopied from microfilm July 2, 2012.