Just a roughed-in draft but it is a beginning. I will spend the month of January working on it. Must get back to my Blake Newsletter though as it is due on the first of January!
The
Kip-Kipp Family Newsletter
Table of Contents
1. The
Kip-Kipp Family Newsletter
2. Edward
Kipp, HBSc, PhD, MLS
3. Kip
Family in America
4. Letters
to the Editor
5. Origins
of the Kip Family
1. The
Kip-Kipp Family Newsletter
The idea of creating this Newsletter has emerged over the past couple of
months. There is a lot of Kip-Kipp material to share in my husband’s research
and the best means of doing so actually lay at my fingertips although I did not
realize it for many months. I kept trying to think of who would carry on his
research.
This Newsletter is born of that thought process. I will begin the Newsletter
and in God’s own time another Editor will appear to take over the task. I am
perhaps best suited to begin on his work as I shared thoughts with Edward
through the years as he talked about his Kip-Kipp ancestors.
The watermark is Edward’s favourite picture of himself and will help me as I
type and add material to this newsletter. Likely in the future another
watermark will replace this one but for the moment my memory of him and his
image will help me through this initial publication.
2. Edward
Kipp, HBSc, PhD, MLS
Edward Kipp was born on
one of the Kipp family farms in Burford Township in southwestern Ontario. His father
Lorne Kipp managed the farm for his mother Ida (Schultz) Kipp and had done so
since the death of his father William Henry Kipp in 1921. Edward was the second
child and son of Lorne Kipp (and his wife Phyllis (Link) Kipp). He was born in
the midst of World War II in 1943. His father was 43 years of age when he was
born. Unfortunately, Lorne suffered a farming accident in 1945 and passed away
which resulted in the farm being sold and Edward moved to Princeton, Ontario
with his mother and older brother where he lived until he went to the
University of Western Ontario (now Western University) in the fall of 1962. He
studied Chemistry as an undergraduate and then did his PhD in Inorganic
Chemistry completing his dissertation and public lecture in the summer of 1970.
He then did a Postdoc in Chemical Engineering at the University of Western
Ontario and followed that up with a MLS in Library and Information Science in
1975. This change to information specialist gained him a job (hard to come by
in those days) and a career that spanned thirty years at the National Research
Council in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I entered the picture when we first met in
1965 and we were married in 1966. Although he missed being a Scientist he
grabbed hold of life’s offerings and quickly entered into his new field. Along
with that his interest in genealogy, which had begun before I knew him, took on
a new life in many ways. A cousin, Gordon Riddle, introduced him to the Ottawa
Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) which they attended together
in the early 1980s here in Ottawa. Edward continued this association with the
Ottawa Branch the rest of his life. He served in many areas including Chair of
Gene-O-Rama (a yearly conference), Treasurer (several times) and for more than
fifteen years Editor of the Newsletter (Ottawa Genealogist as it is now known).
Edward was also very active with his class reunions helping to organize them
every five years for many years. Unfortunately, illness caught up to him and
God took him home on the 10th of April 2021. His task though remains
a work in progress and over time I am sure other eager hands will pick up the
traces and carry on the Kip-Kipp Family Research.
3. Kip
Family in America
Fortunately for the Kip Family in America another earlier researcher put
together an extensive family genealogy book (Eugene Kip published
Edward did enter all of the information in this book into a genealogy program
(Legacy) and it can be found on the World Connect website:
https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/133965/I1/hendrickhendricksen-kip/individual
I will eventually download the gedcom and put it up on our website where it can
be downloaded.
4. Letters
to the Editor
5. Origins
of the Kip family
Edward has written several blogs which I shall reproduce in this newsletter
over the next issues.
