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LLFA Board
Past President
Dr. Ken E. Loucks
1012 2nd Ave. N.
RR 1 GMB Q29
Sauble Beach, ON N0H 2G0
ken@availabletech.net
President
Ross W. McCurdy
114 Mayflower Terrace
So. Yarmouth, MA 02664
rwmccurdy@comcast.net
Vice President
London Loukx, Jr.
22 Dora Street
Dracut, MA 01826
loukxjr@netzero.net
Treasurer, Canada
Shirley J. Pearce
2022 #111 Pacific Way
Kamloops, BC V1S 1T1
hepear@shaw.ca
Newsletter Editor
Luren E. Dickinson HOW SOME OF OUR EARLY ANCESTORS CAME
3291 Lee Road
Shaker Heights, OH 44120 OVERLAND FROM THE UNITED STATES TO CANADA
lurend@msn.com
© Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of Ontario, 2008
Rev. Douglas L. Loucks
21 McGhie Street
St. Catharines, ON L2R5A7
Our Pennsylvania German ancestors began arriving in Ontario as early
dougloucks@gmail.com as 1786 in Conestoga wagons as pictured here. It took four sturdy
Joseph R. Louks
Conestoga horses to draw these heavy freight wagons loaded with all
2431 W. 600 N. of the implements, tools, furniture, seeds and food the families
W. Lafayette, IN 47906
joelouks@yahoo.com
needed to start their new homestead. There was no room in the
wagons for people so everyone walked including the teamster.
Theresa Kowell
4924 Homestead Way
Ladysmith, BC V9G1H3 (continued on page 2)
alpinemeadows2@shaw.ca
The Louks/Loucks Family Association is a one of those we know is connected to Henry,
Canadian-American organization that was but how is the question.
formed on July 31, 1993. It publishes this
newsletter and hosts biennial meetings. The 300 year anniversary of the coming of
Annual membership dues are as follow: the Palatines to America is being celebrated
One Year: $10 CDN $9 U.S. on several fronts in the coming months, two
Two Years: $20 CDN $18 U.S. of them being successive weekends in June,
Lifetime: $100 CDN $90 U.S. about which Luren will have more
information elsewhere in the newsletter.
(continued from page 1)
The one on the 4th weekend will be at York,
The families left Pennsylvania on the six- PA where a very large reunion was held
week, 500-mile, journey at various times, about 100 years ago. I don’t want to dampen
often in late summer when the trails were your excitement, but that one would be for
dry and solid and grass was plentiful for the our Pennsylvania cousins rather than the
animals. Some wagons arrived as late as the Louks/Loucks of the Hudson River valley
third week in October (as pictured on p. 1). from which most of our membership stem.
I intend to attend all three gatherings as a
The settlers knew that black walnut trees representative of the Association.
grew where the soil was rich and deep so
they were anxious to find land where the Meanwhile, keep up your family research,
black walnut trees grew tall and straight (like and assist our editor, Luren Dickinson, by
those in the background of the illustration). submitting material for the newsletter.
A people of strong faith, with hard work and
perseverance, they carved their homesteads Ross W. McCurdy
from the wilderness of The Twenty
(Vineland/Jordan), Waterloo, and York.
They created the beginnings of our
communities and left their imprint on the
economic and social life of Upper Canada.
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Township, Ontario (or very close to that NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO MARK
area) in July because many LLFA members, 300TH ANNIVERSARY OF PALATINES
especially those enumerated in the latest
book, have roots in Houghton Township. Palatines to America (PalAm), a national
However, it was recently pointed out that the organization, will be holding its annual
annual Norfolklore Genealogy Fair, which conference this year on June 17, 18, and 19 in
would interest most members, is to be held Fishkill, NY to mark the 300th anniversary of
on September 24, 2011. A survey of members the arrival of the Palatines in 1710.
showed that none were against, and most
were favorable, to moving the LLFA date to Entitled, “Celebrating Our German Heritage,
coincide with the genealogy fair. 1710-2010: 300 years of years of German
History and Heritage in America,” the
conference will feature the following:
2:00–2:15 p.m.
Opening Welcome Session
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Leslie Albrecht Huber: 300 Years of German Alice Clark: The Palatine DNA Project
Immigration
Track Two, General German focus
6:00 p.m. with presentations by:
Evening Banquet and Dinner Presentation Mel Wolfgang: Some Tips on Becoming a
by Philip Otterness “Digital Alhnenforscher”
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A sister group of the LLFA is sponsoring the Friday, June 25, 2010
300th Anniversary Reunion in York PA area
because some Laux descendants migrated 9:00 a.m.
from New York to Pennsylvania as early as 13 Registration & Pictures
years after their arrival in the New World.
The well-documented 200th anniversary Displays, Icebreaker Activities, Group
celebration was also held in York in 1910. Pictures, Opening Remarks
11:30 a.m.
Lunch
1:00 p.m.
Presentations, Entertainment
5:30 p.m.
Dinner
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Saturday, October 2, 2010
9:30 a.m.
Reservation desk opens
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HAZEN/LOUCKS UPDATES
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area but was unable to conclusively show After thoroughly searching the Wallau
that link. He indicated that additional work microfilm, we plotted a strategy to search the
needed to be done to provide conclusive surrounding parishes and those that were
evidence. That is what we have been trying mentioned prominently in the Wallau films.
to do. I have personally hired a researcher to
help go through the microfilm of the original The parishes Koppenheim, Niederseelbach,
baptisms, marriages and deaths of that area Erbenheim, Okriftel were all searched
around the Wallau area of Germany. without finding any Lauck at all. The parish
of Eppstein had one Lauck baptism,
Abraham, who appeared to have links to the
Wallau Lauck.