KABLOONAS

KABLOONAS
Burial of John Franklin. Author: me

KABLOONAS

Kabloonas is the way in which the Inuit who live in the north part of Canada call those who haven´t their same ascendency.

The first time i read this word was in the book "Fatal Passage" by Ken McGoogan, when, as the result of the conversations between John Rae and some inuit, and trying to find any evidence of the ill-fated Sir John Franklin Expedition, some of then mentioned that they watched how some kabloonas walked to die in the proximities of the river Great Fish.

I wish to publish this blog to order and share all those anecdotes that I´ve been finding in the arctic literature about arctic expeditions. My interest began more than 15 years ago reading a little book of my brother about north and south pole expeditions. I began reading almost all the bibliography about Antarctic expeditions and the superknown expeditions of Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, etc. After I was captured by the Nansen, Nobile and Engineer Andree. But the most disturbing thing in that little book, full of pictures, was the two pages dedicated to the last Franklin expedition of the S.XIX, on that moment I thought that given the time on which this and others expeditions happened, few or any additional information could be obtained about it. I couldn´t imagine that after those two pages It would be a huge iceberg full of stories, unresolved misteries, anecdotes, etc. I believe that this iceberg, on the contrary than others, would continue growing instead melting.



miércoles, 27 de junio de 2012

LA DESCENDENCIA DE ROBERT HOOD/ THE ROBERT HOOD OFFSPRING

Del libro "To the Arctic by Canoe: 1819-1822: The journal and paintings of Robert Hood" he sabido que la familia Birch fue la que logro hacer sobrevivir el diario y las acuarelas de Robert Hood desde 1822 hasta la actualidad. 

Catherine Hood, hermana de Robert Hood recibió el diario después de que Franklin lo empleara en la redacción del libro "Narrative of a Journey to the shores of the polar sea" en 1823. Catherine se casó con William Roe. Cedieron el diario a su hija Marion que a su vez se casó con George Birch. Su hija mayor murió en 1933 pero el diario fue encontrado en una caja llena de libros viejos en el ático del garage o cuadras (coach house) en la casa familiar de Roscrea en Tipperary Ireland. Una vez encontrado este pasó a ser propiedad del hijo menor de Marion, Alfred Birch. Este a su vez se lo dió a su hijo Richard Garnett Birch.

En 1953 Clifford Wilson, el editor del magazine "The Beaver" escribió una carta a un amigo de la familia Birch hablando de un asunto del cual John Hepburn ya había sacado a la luz anteriormente durante la expedición en búsca de John Franklin con Joseph René Bellot. 

Robert Hood había dejado descendencia durante su estancia en Canada, había tenido una hija. Durante el invierno de 1820 su amor por GreenStockings derivó en la concepción de la que sería su única descendencia. En la carta de Clifford al amigo de la familia este le preguntó si sabía que Robert Hood había dejado un "Souvenir" en el norte.Wilson dijo que la niña estaba en las listas del censo de Fort Resolution de 1823 como la hija huérfana del teniente (a título póstumo) de Robert Hood.

Keskarrah and his daugther GreenStockings_from Wikipedia_By Robert Hood


He encontrado una serie de e-mails entre familiares de la familia Birch donde hay múltiples coincidencias con los descendientes de Catherine Hood, entre otras cosas que se vendió la casa familiar en 1933 (cuando apareció el diario, quizás el único motivo para hacer una profunda búsqueda de artículos en ella) cuando abandonaron Irlanda para ir a Canadá, aún no los he leido todo pero los nombres y las fechas coinciden.

El unico memorial u homenaje a Robert Hood conocido es este ubicado en la iglesia St Mary en Lancashire, Inglaterra y lo comparte con su hermano George:

http://memorials.rmg.co.uk/Memorial.cfm?Search=hood&MemorialPage=2&MemorialID=M1717

Su hermano George murió tan solo dos años después por enfermedad en una expedición en áfrica también como teniente.

From the book "To the Arctic by Canoe: 1819-1822: The journal and paintings of Robert Hood" i know that the Birch family was the cause of the survival of the Robert Hood  journal and his watercolours of the overland expedition since 1823 to nowadays.

Catherine Hood, the sister of Robert Hood receive the journal of his brother from Franklin after being used to write the "Narrative of aJourney to the shores of the polar sea". Catherine married with William Roe. They pass the journal to her daugther Marion which married with George Birch. Her daugther died on 1933 but the journal was found in an old box full of other old books in the attic of the coach house in the familiy house in Roscrea in Tipperary, Ireland. Once found it becames property of the youngest son of Marion, Alfred Birch, and he gave it to Richar Garnett Birch.

In 1953, Clifford Wilson, the "Beaver" Editor, wrote a letter to a friend of the Birch family talking about a certain subject that John Hepburn had arosen a lot of years ago during his travel with Rene Bellot.
Robert Hood had left descendants during his stay in Canada, he had had a daugther. During the winter of 1820 his love by Green Stockings derived in the conception of the person who would be his only descendency. In the letter of Clifford to the family friend, he asked him if he knows anything about that Robert Hood had left a "Souvenir" in the north. Wilson said that the girl was in the list of the census of Fort Resolution in 1823 as the orphan daughther of the Lieutenant (posthumously title) Robert Hood.

I´ve found this chain of e-mails between relatives if the Birch famly, where are multiple coincidencies with the descendants of Catherine Hood, between them that the family house was sold in 1933 (when the journal arose, and perhaps the only reason to make a deep searching of things on it) when the family left Ireland to go to Canada, i´ve not read all of them but the names and the dates coincide.

The only known memorial of Robert Hood is this in located the St Mary Church in Lancashire, near Manchester:


His brother George Hood died only two years after by disease also as a Lieutenant in africa.








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