The young woman in the photo is my grandmother Kate Emily Oakey, born in 1886, in Gloucester, England. She and my grandfather, Richard Brick, emigrated to Canada in 1907. Kate lived to a healthy, vigorous 89 years, and her stories of days gone past sparked my interest in genealogy.

Presently I am focusing on the surnames Brick, Currie, Elliott, Evans, Fowkes, Gibson, Grebenikov, Oakey, Porter, Serbinoff and Wakeham in Scotland, Wales and England.

I hope you will find something of interest in the pages following. Please contact me for further information.

A fuller listing of names is found on the Surname page.