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Newspaper clipping about the Beckett family and their Jersey Hill farm in Effingham, c. 1923. The article states the family purchased the farm in 1807 and six generations of the family worked on the dairy and fruit farm. Taylor Beckett died next year…

Obituary for Taylor Beckett of Effingham, who died on July 22, 1924.

Black and white photograph showing Taylor Beckett on the binder machine at Jersey Hill farm, Effingham, undated.

Early Welland citizen Jacob Ryan recounts history of the area, from 1835-1911. Article from the October 24, 1911 edition of the Welland Telegraph.

In the article it states he was born in 1827 in Wainfleet, and moved to farmland on what was later…

Black and white photograph of the Beckett family outside their home in Effingham, c. 1900. Fred Beckett is sitting in the middle at the front. Anna Beckett (nee Manson) is sitting front right.

Black and white photograph of Fred Beckett posing with his parents Taylor and Ella, c. 1915.

Black and white portrait of Taylor Beckett of Effingham, c. 1880.

Black and white photograph of the three grand old men of Effingham, c. 1920.

Affectionately so called by the local citizens of Effingham's past, they are from left to right: William Norris (1842-1927), Peter Ward (1847-1924), George Beckett…

Microfilm copy of an obituary in the Welland Tribune for George R.E. Burgar, considered Welland's oldest settler, May 23, 1890.

Biographical text from the book "The History Of The County Of Welland" by the Welland Tribune Printing House, about George R.E. Burgar being one of Welland's earliest settlers. It gives an interesting account of what Welland was like when it was…