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Date Posted: 16:28:09 02/21/07 Wed
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My name is Donna Lutes and I’m a fifth generation descendant of Margaret Stove. I would like to find as much information about her as possible and a picture would be fantastic.
Margaret Stove: birth name unknown
b 1841 in British Columbia, Canada; m (date unknown) James Stove, Nanaimo, B. C.; d 12-17-1897 at the age of 56 in Nanaimo, B. C.
James Stove: b 1829, Orkney Islands, Scotland; d 1/14/1908 Nanaimo, B. C. Occupation: Coal Miner, Carpenter or Ax Man, & Farmer
Five Known Children:
Margaret Stove b 1857; d (?); m1 11-26-1875 Johann Henry Westfield In Nanaimo, B.C; m2 (date unknown) Fred Vahle*
William Stove b 1859; d (?); m (?)
James Stove b 1861; d (?); m (?)
John Stove b 1863; d (?); m (?)
Robert Stove b 1864; d (?); m (?)
All five children were Baptized 5-26-1867 at the Ebenizer Methodist Church in Nanaimo
I don’t have the names of her parents or siblings. We know that she was not originally from Nanaimo but from somewhere in Northern B.C. Family legend has it that her father was a Haida Indian Chief. Later we were told she was from a Kwakuiutl tribe. As I understand it, she would have lost all of her Indian rights when she married James thus only her Christian name is known.
I found an article titled “Lost Nanaimo – Taking Back Our Past” by Dr. Jean Barman(http://www.bchistory.ca/PDFs/Barman38-3.pdf) first published in the Gabriola Historical and Museum Society’s journal SHALE. This article mentions the first census taken in February 1857 by Mark Bates of the Hudson Bay Company. He counted 132 persons living in Nanaimo. The article quotes Bates’ glowing recognition of James Stove from the Orkneys and how “Bate erased Stove’s Aboriginal wife, …”
I’ve heard that there may be a picture of Margaret in a California Museum. I’m assuming that it would be a museum in Sacramento, California. Her granddaughter Sofia (Westfield) John or Johns lived in Grass Valley just outside of Sacramento.
As an aboriginal wife of a white man, she was unacknowledged by her own people and by her husband’s contemporaries. This is why I would really like to honor and acknowledge her. I know that a search for her Birth Parents will be difficult given the limited information available. However, any information provided about her native family and heritage would be greatly appreciated.
*I’m descended as follows:
Margaret & James Stove had
Daughter: Margaret (Stove) Westfield Vahle had
Son: William Vahle b 12-31-1894, Nanaimo; m 5-1-1922 Janet Marsden in Cumberland, B.C; d 3-12-1967, Nanaimo, had
Daughter: June Vahle b 1927 Cumberland, BC; m 1952 Milford Westhaver, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; had
Daughter: Donna Westhaver b 1960 Kirkland, Washington; m 5-1-1988 to Robert Lutes, Orange County, California
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