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Permalink Reply by Ellen Reisman on July 13, 2009 at 12:35am

I am researching the FEILD name. We know that either a cousin of per haps a brother to the branches that are in the US settled in Canada but have ad trouble connecting them to the branches here. WE know that Bishop Edward Feild was a man of some importance. We had 2 family members arrive by boat in 1621 and 1624 from England. Bishop Theophilus Feild is buried in Cripplegate Church, London England.

Any help or leads you can give me would be gratefully accepted. I haven't figured out Canadian research yet and just get confused and stuck.

Thanks,
Ellen

Permalink Reply by Frankie McGraw-Nicol on July 13, 2009 at 4:36pm

Do you have any first names of the Canadian Field family? Any idea which province they would have emigrated to?

Permalink Reply by Mina Patricia Grant on October 2, 2009 at 1:56am

Ellen, My Field Feild connections are in Newfoundland. You can find out a lot on Newfoundland Roots
Pat, in Michigan

Permalink Reply by Barb Ragucci on July 15, 2009 at 9:18am

I have a brick wall in Canada, I have been able to find absolutely nothing on my children's great-grandfather Christie Phillip and his family, he was born 22 Feb 1911 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He moved to Cleveland, Ohio while he was still a child. According to his marriage license, his parents were Joseph Phillip and Carolina Verrich. Here's where it gets tricky, his wife told me that his first name was really something like Tristano, and that the last name may have been De Philipe (sp). She said his father died when he was about 4 years old. She didn't know anything other than that, they are both deceaced now. His daughter doesn't know anything more than that Carolina remarried, though she doesn't know to who, and they had a daughter. This daughter also had a daughter, we had her name and tried to contact her (she lives in Canada), but got no reply. Since we don't who Carolina married, we have not been able to find her death. Can anyone help?

Permalink Reply by Randi Rountree Mathieu on August 15, 2009 at 8:02pm

I am trying to trace my friends lineage, I found her fathers birth record in Sault St Marie in 1945 in the French Catholic Records for Ontario. It lists his parent as Joseph Armand Roy and Blanche Cote. I can find no marriage record for them, and the only Joseph Armand Roy I can find married Frances Daley, however they stopped having children in 1942. I have found 2 Blanche Cote's one in Edmonton and one in Ottawa. I am tending to believe that Joseph Armand married Frances Daley, and maybe she passed between 1942 and 1945 at which time he remarried the Blanche Cote from Edmonton.

Are there marriage records for Alberta, French Catholic or otherwise? Anyone else have a clue on where to look next.

I have looked at the parish records for the 3 parishes that any of them were attached to and came up blank.

Permalink Reply by Lynnette McMahon on September 21, 2009 at 2:40pm

I would really appreciate some help reading and translating a marriage index entry for Thomas Roy and Mary Anne Bisson. Found the entry online, but my high school French is failing me...

It is on the right side of the page. Thank you!

Permalink Reply by Barbara J. Snyder Mercure on September 26, 2009 at 5:38pm

Lynnette, I am not a french linguist, but I have been researching my French-Canadian family using the Drouin records and am able to translate most of the records I have encountered. I am very fortunate to also be a member of the Vermont French Canadian Genealogical Society where we have a few people who can do translations. While this is not exact, it should be helpful. By the way you just have the first part of the marriage record displayed in your inquiry. I have retrieved and attached the second part for you and have also included the translation below.

Translation:

First Part--On January 13, 1801 after the publication of 3 banns of marriage were made during our masses for 3 consecutive Sundays between Thomas Roy, farmer and adult son of Thomas Roy and Angelique Bolduc, his father and mother of the parish of St. Francois Assisi of New Beauce, and Marie-Anne Bisson, adult daughter of Jean Francois Bisson and Marie Josephe Belo, her father and mother of this parish. The same publication of banns having been made in the parish of St. Francois it appears that the certificate of the curate of St. Francois has not discovered any impediments for the marriage approved by the parents and the undersigned curate of Ste. Marie in New Beauce and have received the nuptial blessing
Second Part--according to the preferred form by our mother the holy church, in the presence of Thomas Roy, father of the husband, Jean Roy, brother of the husband, Baptiste Bolduc, brother-in-law of the husband, Jean Plante, friend of the husband, Jean Francois Bisson, father of the wife, Jean and Barbe Bisson, brothers of the wife and Clement Bisson, uncle of the wife and several other relatives and friends who all declared they will/can not sign. Read to witnesses. Signed by Villade, priest.

Regards, Barb Mercure

Permalink Reply by Lynnette McMahon on September 28, 2009 at 9:26am

Barb -- thank you! What a lot of info!! I can confirm names of parents and siblings with this record. Thank you again for your wonderful assistance.

Permalink Reply by Barbara J. Snyder Mercure on September 28, 2009 at 11:50am

Lynette,

You're welcome

Permalink Reply by Jeff Cooper on September 14, 2010 at 7:34am

Hi My names Jeff Cooper I have been given copies of three letter from a very old relative who emigrated from Buckland Brewer Devon UK to Montreal in approx 1830 his name was John? Bridgeman he married a lady from lyonkley Barton in America in 1834 the 3 letters dated 1874 1876 and 1886 all had the same address as 947 St Catherine Street Montreal if you would like a copy of the letters i will need a e mail address my e mail is jeff.cooper10@yahoo.co.uk it will be great to get to now about the Bridgeman family or even the address in st Catherine street thanks Jeff

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Permalink Reply by Allysa Carberry on April 16, 2011 at 4:20am

I am researching marriages that involved Trevillian/Trevelyan family members in the Ontario are of Canada around 1840-1880

Any help would be appreciated

Allysa

Permalink Reply by Thomas Clyde Linton on July 3, 2011 at 11:09pm

I've got a line on LaPointe ancestors in Canada, but they seem to have anglicized even their first names before they dropped their surname dit LaPointe in favor of LaPointe. Any ideas on pushing the line farther back? Farthest was John LaPointe b. 1783-4, Williamsburg, Dundas County, Quebec. I'd particularly like to know the original surname.