The Western Gammans

From an email from Steve Gamman, living in Seattle, WA.
Lawson Gamman is my grandfather.  We believe the photo to be about 1905 because he went to Swift Current, Saskatchewan to homestead and then returned at least once before he married Edna Mary Young in 1910 in Ottawa and moved permanently to Swift Current.  Lawson and Edna had 10 children 8 boys and 2 girls, my father Wilbur Charles Gamman was the second oldest and was born in Swift Current in 1912.  This branch of the Gammans stayed in Swift Current until about 1920, when they moved to Pentiction and had there 8th child.  The stayed in Pentiction until about 1925 when they moved to Everett Washington where they had their last child.

To answer your question about how we got to Washington State.  Well there has been a lot of discussion about this between my aunt, and my only surviving uncle and me, but it would appear that it was a friend of Lawson who said there may be work here, the same reason in moving to Pentiction.

Lawson was a painter by trade and until I got a copy of the 1901 Canadian census we all thought that he learned painting in Pentiction but his employment is listed as painter in the census.

The reason I said our branch of the Gammans in Swift Current is that I
discovered another Gamman, Walter Gamman in Swift Current at the same time Lawson was there.  Nobody in the family had ever mentioned this other Gamman family!  Which is interesting because my father would have go to school with them.  Unfortunately, like many English descendants my family was very stoic and never discussed family or family history, much to my loss as well as my children and grand children.

Well now you know more than you ever wanted to know about the Nathanial Gammans.