| Byce Family I am just beginning to form our Family Tree. We are searching for information on the Byce family originally from the Westmeath ( Ottawa valley ) area of Ontario Canada.Henry Byce appears in census records circa:1850`s. Henry married Diana Harris. Henry Charles (Harry) Byce was the son of Henry and Diana and he married Lousia Saylors in Chapleau in the early 1900`s We are also seeking information of the Saylors of the MooseFactory Cree First Nations and the Chapleau Ontario Fox Lake Cree First Nations. The Saylors/Sailors family relocated from MooseFactory on James Bay to the Chapleau area in about 1898. As there were no roads or rail lines in this area at the time, they came by canoe and by foot in this relocation. We are also seeking information of my mother`s family, the names DeGrasse and O`Neill of Saint John New Brunswick. I would be extremely grateful for any and all information and would be willing to share any information that I accumulate. We are also researching the family history of my wife`s family and are seeking information on the names Burroughs originally from the eastern Ontario, Carlton County, in the Ottawa Valley moving to the Chaplin Saskatchewan area in the late teens or early 1920`s and the name Hughes ( Palmer ) moving from Ontario to the Chaplin Saskatchewan area in the early 1900`s. Time has come and gone but the search goes on forever... it seems. Byce: We now have a somewhat clearer picture of the Byce family history. John Byce as the head of the family so far was in Vermont in 1763. Henry Byce was born in Vermont in 1763. Information now seems to show John Byce in Terrytown New York in 1782 where their land was confiscated because they remained loyal to the Crown and were then Loyalists during the American Revolution. They moved to the Ottawa Valley of Canada in about 1800. More to come soon. There is now a link going back to Jan Buis in 1624 in New York. Jan Buis was from Holland Saylors: The family of Isiah and Mary (nee McLoud ) our Cree ancestors left MooseFactory on James Bay by canoe in the late spring or early summer of 1898 and arrived in the Missanbi/Chapleau Ontario area sometime in November of that year. More to come soon. A recently received package of information from Church records in Moosefactory shows that Isiah Sailors/Saylors was baptised on May 7, 1865. He was then probably born in 1865 or 1864. Isiah's Father was Jacob Sailors and his mother Rachel. There are no Church Records for Isiah's parents as their birth and marriage predate the establishment of a church in Moosefactory. The Wesleyan Society established the first Christian church in 1840. George Barnly was the pastor until about 1848 when he left. The Wesleyan Society strangely sent no replacement for him. Following this, the employees of the Hudson's Bay Company sent a letter to the Anglican Bishop for that area requesting a replacement and St. Thomas Anglican Church was established in Moosefactory in about 1850. The links for marriage and birth certificates have now been added for Isiah & Mary and their childern, our parents and grandparents. Several more birth certificates will be scanned and added soon. More to come here soon. As I have been spurred on tonight( June 27, 2004), perhaps by fate I plan on making more time to spend on our family history. |
The Byce Family
Updated June 27, 2004 |
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Frank Charles Byce fbyce@cablerocket.com |
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