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Email from Island Researchers looking for information



Every now and again I get an email from a researcher looking for help on a brick wall.
If any one can help or answer a question & the email address is not with the email send me a note & I will put you in touch with the.
I also get a lot of email with genealogy information that could help others. This page is for that.
Hope it helps someone with their research.



OCT,2013... Hi Jen (Thelma). My wife Nancy is a Curran and we are researching her Curran ancestry.
Her mother had correspondence with Martha Parker and she had an email address but it is no longer in use.
I noticed that Martha was a contributor to your site but when I tried to contact her the mail was returned undelivered.
I wonder if you could tell me who is covering the surname Currans on your website so that we may connect to share family history.
I would very much like to hear back from you at your earliest convenience as I am assisting with a new family history book being produced
for Ashfield Twp in Huron County Ontario. Cheers


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Aug. 2014
Hi

I am looking for information on my GG grandparents.. James Clarke and Mary Bridget o'Duffy. I am wondering if you know who Eileen Truesdell is?
Where I can contact her concerning "the Clarke book".
My grandmother was Elizabeth Anne Garrah ( married Richard Ambrose O'Shea) daughter of Elizabeth Agnes Clarke
and Thomas Henry Garrah. Any information would be good!
Thank you!!
Judy [email protected]






Sept. 2014
Hi I would like to connect with people from Garden Island. I am an artist (hobby artist actually) and
I would like to be able to visit for a day to paint, before the fall comes.
How may I contact you - preferably via Facebook or phone? Thanks and regards,
David Dossett
Visit me @ http://david-dossett.artistwebsites.com/ and http://www.daviddossett.com
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Sept. 2014
Hi Thelma,
I'm trying to piece together my family history. I noticed that some of the early settlers of Amherst Island
were McWhinney's and that they originally came from Ireland. I also noticed that they left the Island and settled in the Goderich area.
I'm not sure that they are directly related to my ancestors but I thought it would be worth reaching out to you to see if there was a connection.
Here is what I know:
My 2X great grandfather James McWhinney was born in Ireland
in 1831. I'm not sure where but I believe it was in County Down. That is where most McWhinney's come from
He came to Canada sometime before 1851 with his parents Robert and Margaret McWhinney as well as his older brother Samuel.
Robert, Samuel and James each petition for free land grants for 50 acres of property each in the Township of Brant in 1851.
They fulfilled the requirements of their grants in 1852. Their property was along the Saugeen River - in between Walkerton and Hanover.
I would imagine that they settled somewhere else in Canada prior to completing their land petition applications.
it possible that they were residence of Amherst Island first?
Do you have any details on the McWhinney's that lived on the Island at that time?
Let me know if you can be of assistance.
Thanks, Maureen
[email protected]

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Jan. 2015

I am researching Captain John Hoover (no middle name) who has been listed as living on
Wolfe Island for approximately 10 years during the 1830's and early 1840's.
He was married to Emiline Wells from Cape Vincent,
in February 1838 and was living at that time on Wolfe Island.
They had a son, John E. Hoover, that was born on Wolfe Island in 1839 (no month).
They also had two daughters and according to the 1865 U.S. census they were born in Canada.
Their names are as follows: Celestia Clara Hoover, b. 27 May 1842 and Celia Hoover, b. 15 April 1844. (no further information) and I am assuming that
they were also born on Wolfe Island. I am planning to come to
Kingston and Wolfe Island to followup on the births and any other records I can find.

What I am looking for is some advice where to start
looking for these records, if they exist.

Second, I was looking through Barbara Wall La Rocque's book
Wolfe Island: A Legacy in Stone. On page 128 next to last paragraph it states "Thirty-three Wolfe Island fishermen,
some of the more prominent surnames being Davis, Busch, Hoover, ..........".
This is the first and only place I have seen the name Hoover associated with Wolfe Island,
other than some of our local histories. Also the time period is right, 1836.
I would like to find out if this is the Hoover I am looking for?
A source was not listed for that statement in the book and I was wondering if you had
any information pertaining to it or where the information may have come from.

Thank you for any help on this matter.

Regards,

Lewis Beers


John g. gibson

Judique, Cape Breton, B0E 1P0 5 March 2015.

Dear Ms Moye,

I wonder if I might ask for your knowledge about a Reverend James MacIntosh,
Amherst Island in 1858. I know that he supplied information as super- intendent of
schools for Addington county, information that was published in Annual Report of
the Normal, Model, Grammar and Common Schools, in Upper
Canada, (1859), p. 21. I think that he may have been an Episcopal minister.

I must try to get his dates, if possible, including when he emigrated. I would
like to find out if he was a Presbyterian or an Anglican, who his parents were
and where he came from in Scotland. Indeed I'd be delighted to fill in more
about him if I can. It is an end-note, but I like end-notes and imagine that
others enjoy a gemmishness like that.

My work is an history-cum-ethnography dealing with Scottish Highland dancing
as brought to north-east Nova Scotia. In August 1829, in the "province" of Moray,
there were terrible floods, bridges torn out, land carried away, and properties
galore. A man, James MacIntosh(73) went back to his damaged home twice to
retrieve valuables. The last one was a pair of silver "specks" sent him from "Canada"
by his son who was an Episcopal minister.

This will be my fourth book and I have hopes for this manuscript. I hope you will give me an idea of your charges or perhaps re-direct this inquiry.

With many thanks (and wishes for an end to winter), Sincerely, John G. Gibson.



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Sept, 2016

on the 1891 census, Thomas Morris has a British Home Child named Frank Fenton with him.
I am researching Frank Fenton, and cannot find any information on him past 1891.
I am wondering if somene perhaps knows anything about this Home Child. I appreciate any help you may offer. Thank you, Joan Cybolsky
My email is [email protected]

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Fargo/Sherman Wolfe Island
Ann Ramage [email protected]
October, 2016
Greetings from Kamloops, B.C., I love your website. My ancestors from Wolfe Island are Spinning, Hinckley, Fargo & Sherman.
Olivia M. Imogene Spinning is my parental grandfather's mother. My x2 great grandmother was Lydia Sherman Spinning.
am writing to you today about my Fargo/Sherman connection. Time and time again when I search these names many e-mails from your dear late friend Chris Morrell, come up - I have made a list of them.
I wonder if she ever shared with you her findings about Parthena Fargo & James Sherman? Her comments about Rutland,
Vermont have provided much help to me - yet, I am missing so much information. Thank you for your time and I hope to hear back from you.
All the best, Ann :-)




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