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Joshua Birchell STEWART

Father: George Emery STEWART
Mother: Nancy Elizabeth BIRCHELL

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William Leith WADE

Father: William John WADE
Mother: Catherine Alma O'BYRNE

Family 1: Edna Beryl BOYCE
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Notes

The following is from A History of Two Families by Clayton Boyce and Dori s Forbes Boyce, information provided by Linda Mae Boyce-Morgan:

William Leith Wade was born on December 28, 1901 in Brownsburg, Quebec, C anada. His parents were William John Wade and Catherine Alma (O'Byrne) Wa de. His mother's parents came to Canada from Ireland. When Uncle Leith w as a small boy, his family came to the west coast and settled in Anecorte s, where his father ran a cigar store. The faintly moved to Guemes Islan d when Leith was seven years old. Leith got started working on boats whe n he was fourteen years old. At age fourteen, he was working the ferry th at ran between Guemes Island and Anecortes. Over the years, Leith worke d on a number of boats, including a mall boat that made a stop at Frida y Harbor.
In due time, Leith fell in love with Friday Harbor. He had a sister livin g there, whose husband operated a butcher shop. Leith eventually moved t o Friday Harbor, and lived with his sister and her husband for a time. H e first got a job delivering meat for his brother-in-law. I asked Aunt Be ryl how they met and she told me that they just sort of saw each other. B eryl was sixteen years old when they had their first date.
Beryl and Leith went together for about three years. They were married o n December 20, 1927 in Seattle, at the home of one Leith's sisters. Follo wing their wedding, they came back to San Juan Island, which became thei r life-long home.
After they had been married for a while, the work situation on the islan d was not too good, so Leith took a job working on a pile driver in Aneco rtes. Previous to that, a situation had occurred where he had been able t o get a disabled boat started for another fellow. This man worked for th e Friday Harbor Canning Company, which was located on the Friday Harbor w aterfront, south of the ferry landing. One day, someone from the canner y contacted Aunt Beryl and asked her to get hold of Leith and tell him th ey wanted him to come to work for them. It seems the man he had helped ha d told the people who ran the cannery of the incident, and they had nee d of a man who knew his way around boat engines. He did go to work for th e cannery. For some time he was skipper of the fish tender Nereid, a buye r boat, the same vessel that my Uncle Neil later skippered and my cousi n John Wade engineered on. Uncle Leith later was skipper of the Sockeye , another fish buyer boat, a job he held for several years. I remember be ing out on both of these boats at one time or another.
Uncle Leith worked for the Friday Harbor Canning Company for 22 years. I n later years, he was the superintendant of the cannery. He, Aunt Beryl a nd their family lived in the "cannery house," just a short walk through t he trees and up the hill above the cannery. I stayed with them in that ho use on at least one occasion, when I was working on the island during Wor ld War II on a job for the U. S. Coast Guard. This area, including wher e the cannery was located, is now all apartments and condominiums.
The cannery eventually went out of business. When this happened, Uncle Le ith, along with another fellow, formed their own pile driving company. Le ith remained at this occupation until his death on April 12, 1986.
As I related earlier, I had the opportunity, at various times, to stay wi th my grandmother Almira Boyce at her house on Little Road. In those days , Beryl and Leith lived in a house just up the road, on the site of the o ld Boyce home, which had burnt down years earlier. It was during these ti mes that I got to spend time with and get to know my cousins Rich, John a nd Kitty Wade. These were some great times!
For several reasons, none of them very good, I suppose, Doris and I had n ot visited San Juan Island for many years. Three years ago, we went bac k to the island for the first time in a very long time, and have returne d several times since. Being able on these occasions to visit with Aunt B eryl and just sit around and talk, especially about the old times, has be en very special to both Doris and me (these are times when one thinks bac k and wishes their priorities and decisions had been a little different-a ll the rationalization in the world will never make up for opportunitie s not acted upon).
Aunt Beryl has been of invaluable help in contributing to the material an d information that has gone into this book. More than that, she is a ver y special person-one who loves everyone and in turn, is loved by everyone .

Uncle Leith and Aunt Beryl have three children; Richard Alexander Wade, J ohn Lowell Wade, and Katherine Mildred Beryl "Kitty" Wade.

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