Royal Family Reunion and potluck
 Saturday September 18, 2004
Report coming soon!
Held at: CCD Center-Across from St. Catherines Catholic Mission 45603 Limestone St. Concrete, WA
Doors Open at 11:00 am (beverage & snacks available all day) 12:30 Potluck starts...Itinerary includes...Noel Bourasaw Skagit River Journal "Why we can be Proud of our Skagit county Heritage....Phil Royal shares memories on our guests of honors (will invite others to do so)...Dan Royal shares new findings on the Royal Ancestry to Ireland...Music Jamboree with Country Standards. Starts by 4:00 pm...George Mclain; guitar, Janice McLain Roderick; fiddle, Phil Royal; vocals (anyone with instruments or want to sing are welcome)...doors close by 8:00 pm.
HONORED GUESTS
Jackie & Howard Royal, George & Shirley (Royal) McLain, Jack & Betty Royal, Orlie Royal
HOWARD & JACKIE ROYAL, GEORGE & SHIRLEY (ROYAL) MCLAIN, JACK & BETTY ROYAL, ORLIE (COOK) ROYAL
REUNION DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF: THOMAS E. ROYAL, MABEL BOYD ROYAL-STEEN, THOMAS OWEN ROYAL, MAUDIE ROYAL, OLLEN STEEN, JACKY (ROYAL) RYAN, RALPH RODERICK, MANY OTHERS.
  • In Pursuit of Ireland
    Though we've still not found where the Royal family came from in Ireland, we now know the family immigrated to New Brunswick in 1830. posted
  • BOOK REVIEW: Ireland to North America emigrants from West Cork
    by Joseph A. King K &K Publications 1994
    "Ireland to North America is a story of emigration from a remote parish in Southwest Cork, focusing on a typical Irish family of the early 19th century. It describes their life in Ireland and follows their fortunes to New Brunswick, Canada, where family members learned the logging trade, then took their skills westward over the course of two or three generations, following the rivers and the pines, and later the railroads, into Maine, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Pacific Northwest." Joseph King
  • "Royal Treatment" By Linda Bryant
    "After spending several hours with Howard Royal's mother, I know her as surely as if I'd sat at the kitchen table in the three-room home she and her children built in the upper Skagit Valley 70 years ago. I met Mabel through her words..."

    • Mabel-Life & Times

  • Serializing the Life & Times of Mabel Boyd Royal-Steen, stories written by Mabel Boyd Royal-Steen, annotated & edited for the website by Dan Royal.©
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1"Up The Stump"
  • Chapter 2"Uh! April Fool"



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