The BARON of BRENTWOOD Home Page - ALBERT EDWARD BELANGER

As a retired school teacher, one of my hobbies is genealogy. I am in the process of putting together a family history for my children, grandchildren, and yet unborn generations of descendants. Hopefully, as has happened by me oftentimes in doing my research, someone someday will happen upon my efforts some years, or generations from now, and experience the wonderful delight of finding a treasure trove of already researched data.
My paternal FRANCOIS BELANGER ancestors are from Quebec Province having settled in L'Islet County. My maternal MATHURIN GAGNON line is from the north side of the St. Lawrence River near Lac St. Jean.

My wife's JOSEPH BLANCHARD line started in Massachusetts, moved to Barre, Vermont, crossed the Oregon Trail in 1851, and returned to Massachusetts following World War I. I am trying to find information and other pioneers who, in 1851, went with JOSHUA PETTINGILL BLANCHARD and his bride REBECCA JANE RACE across the plains with Captain NOLAND as their leader. They left from Peoria on 1 April and arrived in Old Oregon City (Canemah) in the middle of September. I would like to correspond with anyone interested in the Oregon Trail groups of that year.

I have a great deal of research completed on all of these lines as well as my wife's SMITH and SEAL branches which are of Madison and Fauquier Counties, Virginia. In particular, I am trying to find the parentage of ROBERT ALLEN SEAL who was in Orange Co.,VA, in 1850, in Madison Co., VA, in 1860, and moved to OR with his wife MARY JANE McCULLOCK in the late 1880's.

The names about which I am MOST interested in exchanging info follow:
BELANGER...BLANCHARD...EDMISTON...GAGNON...HUGHES... MATTHEWS...MOORE...PETTINGILL...PLANTE...POORE...RUMFORD...
ST-PIERRE...SEAL...SMITH...WHITEHOUSE...

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• User Home Page Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of Joseph Blanchard


• User Home Page Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of Robert Allen Seal


• User Home Page Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of Francois Belanger


• User Home Page Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of Barnabe Gagnon


• User Home Page Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of George E. Hughes