Monday, June 26, 2006

1630 James Rollins-- with Lenora Winter

From: "Lenora Winter" <murphwin@frontiernet.net>
To: <gjteacher@netzero.net>
Subject: Re: Nice to hear from you! Re: Yes!!  Re: website
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:46:16 -0400

Hello Gaylene,
Yes, I was wondering what happened to you!  Glad you are okay.
Wow, we don't begin school until September 5th.  The summer does go fast.  I have been into school a couple of times but we are in the middle of a  building project and there is no sense doing anything until they get more done.  The classrooms look like warzones, the ceiling tiles are all out, everything is covered in dust, and the furniture is all over the place!  I have a feeling I'll be in there about 30 hours the weekend before school starts!
Talk to you later,
Lenora

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Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: Nice to hear from you! Re: Yes!! Re: website

Hi, I bet you thought I'd fallen off the earth. I'm so bad about emails at times.  I've done a bit of research to find James immigration, but came up with nothing.  Perhaps he was a servant on the ship and wasn't listed among passengers. 
   I haven't done much exciting this summer.  Last week I did go with my brother's family to a mountain town resort.  We had fun and it was good to get away.  They had a natural hot spring.  Tomorrow I need to go into school to get my room set up and send home letters for conferences next week.  We start teacher meetings next Monday.  How quickly time goes.
   I hope all is well with you and you've enjoyed summer.  Keep in touch.  I'll try to be better.  Thanks!  Gaylene

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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:34:26 +0000
From: "murphwin@frontiernet.net" <murphwin@frontiernet.net>
To: "gjteacher@netzero.net" <gjteacher@netzero.net>
Subject: Re: Nice to hear from you! Re: Yes!!  Re: website

Hello Gaylene,

I am in Maine now!  On a whim I brought my laptop computer and guess what?  There is wireless internet! Of course, my 14 year old son is happiest.  He has been "chatting" with his friends at home. So, I have to use the computer while the getting is good. That is what I am doing now.... 6:30 in the morning, drinking my coffee, reading my e-mail.

We go to Ocean Park, Maine.  It is the cutest little summer town.  Ocean Park is on the ocean.  It is located near Old Orchard Beach maybe twenty minutes south of Portland, Maine.

My grandmother on my mothers side) bought 4 cottages when my mother was a teenager.  We still own 3 of them and that is where we stay.  This is tradition.  The day we get out of school, my children and I come up for a week.  Sometimes we bring friends sometimes we don't.

We actually rent the cottages out for the summer. So, as exciting as it sounds, this is the only week I will be here during the season.  I am hoping when my house is paid off, in about 10 years)  I can pay the taxes  myself and sit here for the summer!

What do we do in Maine?  I'm sure you are hoping we go and find old family homesteads and search cemetaries!  I did some of that when my kids were younger.  I'd like to start again and someday I will.  I guess the real answer depends on the weather.  Ocean Park is so close to the beach that we spend a lot of time on the beach-- when the weather is nice.  We bring our bikes, kayaks, we shop and do alot of eating out!  I love seafood.  There are amusement parks I take the kids to.  There are lighthouses to see, with tidal pools to explore in.  There are marshes and nature trails to take walks on.  I quess we just relax and goof off.  My arm hurts today from playing catch with my daughter so much yesterday--that sounds stupid. My arm shouldn't hurt from a    normal game of catch!  But we whip the ball at each other and try to get it over each others heads, and other fun crazy stuff. (I'm sure it is funny to watch us!)  We play inside games and relax.  If there was a hammock on the porch I'd probably take an afternoon siesta!

I've had a hard time finding anything on James and which boat he actually was on.  I've read a ton of shipping logs too.  You are right, he probably was a servant or not listed for some reason.  Isn't James the family member that made a trip or two for the King of England?

Didn't he bring a cloak or something back to him?!?

Sorry, the original homestead in New Hampshire is not in existance.  An oil company now sits on that lot. That is fairly new...like within the past 15 years or so.   I've driven past the oil company.  I've wanted to get out and explore the lot because I think there is a family plot in the area or on the land somewhere.

Lately, I have not worked on my genealogy very much (this "new" job at school takes up alot of my free time!).  But, I have been dabled in the genealogy on my mothers side of the family and my husbands side.  We have deep roots there too, as in actually being on the mayflower or real close in that time period.  The house that my mother, aunt and brother live in, has been in the family for 11 generations.  So, it is very interesting.

That makes me think... you know every now and then you get a questionaire that asks what your ethnicity/heritage is?  Those bug me.  It is like I am a good old American... 300 years of a little of this and a little of that!  My great great grandmother on my fathers side was a full blooded American Indian!  My grandmother's father came from Scotland. It just gets very interesting!  I know I always put caucasion but that seems to trivialize it also.

Let me apologize ahead of time.  I am a faily decent writer, speller and typist...just NOT on the laptop.  This machine does funny things and sometimes I catch it and sometimes I don't.  So, if there are any errors please excuse them!

Oh, well enough of my rambling.  Have a great day and write when you can.

Lenora

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From: "gjteacher@netzero.net" <gjteacher@netzero.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:49:59 GMT
To: murphwin@frontiernet.net
Subject: Re: Nice to hear from you! Re: Yes!!  Re: website

Hi Lenora,
It's great to hear from you. One of my travel dreams has been to go to Maine and find where my great-grandfather Enoch P. Rollins lived and the other Rollins. Where do you go in Maine? Where do you stay? What do you do in Maine? I've been on one trip back east through several states which included several of the American history sites.
Have you looked for the immigration record of James Rollins? I was searching the other night and found in 1832 there were two shipping dates--one in the spring, and one in the summer on the ship "The Lyons". James Rollins is not listed on either passenger list. It says that servants on the ship were probably not listed so I'm thinking perhaps that's what he was probably being quite young. I understand from the internet that James Rollins home in New Hampshire still exists. Have you ever been to see it?
I think it's wonderful that you have an original 1874 Rollins book. I copied it off microfilm a few years ago, but noticed now the entire book is on the internet.
Keep Utah in your thoughts and hopefully we'll meet in a couple of years.

Until later, Gaylene