Emma (Quimetco) BARR
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Name Emma (Quimetco) BARR Birth Kamloops 
- Kirkpatrick Gold newsletter, Nov 15/91:
Her mother was of the Thompsons. Her father was of mixed blood, being the decendant, many generations back, of the original Hudson Bay Factor at Winnipeg (a Scot named Johnny Barr and his Cree wife). Emma Bar's father, Jimmy Barr, was the factor at Fort Kamloops, as was his father before him.
Gender Female Death 1892 Person ID I110 kirkpatrick Last Modified 12 Apr 2014
Family Thomas Gilham KIRKPATRICK, b. 3 Nov 1823, Bond County, Illinois, U.S.A. d. 7 May 1907, Ashcroft, BC, Canada (Age 83 years) Marriage Abt 1870 Children 1. Ida Isabella KIRKPATRICK, b. 26 Oct 1873, Cook's Ferry, BC, Canada d. 1929, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Age 55 years)Family ID F31 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Jul 2009
- Kirkpatrick Gold newsletter, Nov 15/91:
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Notes - "She grew to Womanhood at Kamloops, she was not Educated, but Spoke English very well, Jimmy Died rather suddenly so Emma had to go to her Relatives at the Spatsum Reserve, on her first visit to Spences Bridge she met the Tall Blonde Thomas G, they were attracted to one another by the fact that they Converse in the English Language. Thomas was amazed and Probably Facinated, as White Women were few and Far between in those Days, so naturaly a Romance Bloomed like a Flower, but fast, after a whirl wind Court ship they in Double Harness, it was a Blessing for young Jim and Billy, as the oly words they had learned to speak was in the Indian Language. Emma was very Devoted to Thomas, and accepted his ready Made Family and Proceded forthwith to add to it, and eventually became a Mother to a large Family of Kirkpatrick. My Mother was Probably the only Mother that Jimand Bill ever remembered, as Bills Mother died early in Life."
Gary Stephenson called her "Georgi Thomas," though I don't recall why. (Chat with Gary, June 2013, Dawn (Kirkpatrick) Turner) [1]
- "She grew to Womanhood at Kamloops, she was not Educated, but Spoke English very well, Jimmy Died rather suddenly so Emma had to go to her Relatives at the Spatsum Reserve, on her first visit to Spences Bridge she met the Tall Blonde Thomas G, they were attracted to one another by the fact that they Converse in the English Language. Thomas was amazed and Probably Facinated, as White Women were few and Far between in those Days, so naturaly a Romance Bloomed like a Flower, but fast, after a whirl wind Court ship they in Double Harness, it was a Blessing for young Jim and Billy, as the oly words they had learned to speak was in the Indian Language. Emma was very Devoted to Thomas, and accepted his ready Made Family and Proceded forthwith to add to it, and eventually became a Mother to a large Family of Kirkpatrick. My Mother was Probably the only Mother that Jimand Bill ever remembered, as Bills Mother died early in Life."
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Sources - [S427] Samuel D. Kirkpatrick, A Short History of James Douglas Kirkpatrick, (Typed by Samuel by hand, approximately 1963.), Page 1 (Reliability: 3).
- [S427] Samuel D. Kirkpatrick, A Short History of James Douglas Kirkpatrick, (Typed by Samuel by hand, approximately 1963.), Page 1 (Reliability: 3).
