12 George Davies George Davies travelled a long way to find a home: he never quite reconciled himself to the loss of his family in England , but he was content in his adopted community. George farmed the property he had bought in Eldon and, with his wife Janie Penny , raised nine children. His one great loss associated with Prince Edward Island was the death at age ten of his oldest child, George, in a farm accident. However, the rest thrived and remained nearby. Howard, the second-born, lives on the homeplace in Eldon: Marie, Evelyn, Minnie, and John, the next four, are in Charlottetown : Margaret, the seventh, is in Millview : and only the youngest two live off the Island - Lester in Pictou, Nova Scotia , andEdythe in Fredericton , New Brunswick . In his last years, George wrote of his life in letters and journals and pored over the hundreds of photographs he had collected of his family and his past. Well, I was always kinda forward, always liked looking for adven¬ ture or whatever you call it. I was always like that. Something that was new. When you're starting out on something, you know, you never know what you're going to meet up with. Beginnings I was born in Perrybar, , in the County of Stafford, England , on October the 28th, 1899. Son of George Acquila Davies and Lucy Ann Pemberton .... Yes, I was the oldest. As far as I know, there were six in the family. There was two ahead of me that died and then there was myself and Victor and John Ernest and my sister Gwendolyn.... In my time, when I left there, she was only about two years old. George Davies 101