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Roots and Branches Perreault and BrighamUpdated March 21, 2004 | My mother's family is descended from the Great Migration of Puritan families in the early 1600's to New England. My children's father's family comes from the same ancestry. I have found several identical ancestors between the families making my children their own cousins several times over. My father's family are of French-Canadian ancestry and have been traced to mid-1500's France. They must have come with trading companies--perhaps the Hudson Bay Company--as trappers--to Canada as the times and dates coincide with historical reports. I have found many cousins in my research on-line, several who are multiple cousins, descended from the same lines as I am. In my searches, someone has found a "lost" ancestor for me, and I have found a "lost" ancestor for someone else. My late father-in-law was married and then widowed at age 23. He told the story that when he married his first wife she had a son who was born out-of-wedlock. He was working on a whaling vessel at the time of her death from consumption and did not know of this until he returned to port. His in-laws did not like him and buried her under her step-father's name, thus making it all but impossible to find the grave or the son--who had been placed in an orphanage. Because of a posting I made on that name board, the son of that man was able to contact me, and it is now positively known that the "out-of-wedlock" son was definately born one year after the marriage and belonged to my father-in-law! It took 89 years to resolve this for the families--from the birth of the son in 1914 to 2003! |
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