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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.

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 showing Taylor Beckett on the binder machine at Jersey Hill farm, Effingham, undated.

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

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…

Handwritten note concerning a short history of the Beckett family of Effingham. The letter was written in the 1970s or 1980s by a member of the Effingham Heritage Association. The text reads:

"About the year 1793, three brothers came from England…

Black and white photograph of Lelia May Beckett as a child, c. 1917. Her parents were Permilla Arlena Beckett and Frederick Miller Beckett of Effingham. Lelia later married Alfred Oates.

Black and white photograph of a portrait of John Abram Miller and Martha Jane Miller (nee Killman), c. 1888. He was 58 and she was 59 at the time of the photograph. They married in 1852, and were the parents of Ella, who married Taylor Beckett of…

Black and white photograph of Permilla Arlena Beckett (nee Coon) and Frederick Miller Beckett of Effingham, roughly c. 1915. The photo was a cabinet card taken by T.S. Hill Photographers at 25 Queen Street, St. Catharines.

Black and white photograph of Frederick Miller Beckett posing outside, the son of Taylor and Ella Beckett of Effingham, c. 1894.