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POTTS Family - Shellbrook

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The Wedding of Thomas Potts Sr. and Mary Mather
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World Road Show
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Robert Potts Family
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Tom Potts Jr. Family
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Tom combining canola on the Potts farm

Home Town or Home Community:
Shellbrook

Our Story:
THE SHELLBROOK POTTS FAMILY HISTORY

Sarah Jane and James Potts Sr., my Grandmother and Grandfather, and family - James Jr.; Thomas Sr., my father; Walter; Elsie; and Florence moved to Shellbrook from Sheffield, England in 1904. James Potts Sr. homesteaded the SE 28-49-3 W3 and proved up in April 1909. This was three miles north of Shellbrook. They lived in a log shack just inside the north fence line and a little west of a road on the east side of the quarter.

Walter homesteaded NW 27-49-3 W3 and proved up in September 1912. Later James Sr. and  ...more Story

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Contact:
Tom Potts
PO Box 508
Shellbrook SK S0J 2E0
Canada
tl.potts@sasktel.net