Ah, the Irish and their potatoes!
/"Ah, the Irish and their potatoes, every meal, every day." Ronald Barrons wrote to share a family story.
"Here the Barrons family prepares their potatoes for spring planting. My father Harry Barrons is at the back, his brother Charlie in the foreground. Their grandfather came to Canada in the 1850's. Also shown is their mother Lena, whose 3rd great grand father Timothy McGinness came to America before 1738."
Ronald Barrons sent this photo adding “The Barrons siblings in 1989 at Beaver Creek. My father was the first to die, in that year at the age of 71. His sister, Theda, lived until 2020, aged 103
Harry Barrons was married to Edna Jackson by Pastor W.P. Fletcher of the United Church in Marmora on May 23, 1942. Witnesses were Harry’s brother, Everrett Barron and the bride’s sister, Ethel Forsyth.
