Time for our Annual Brickwall checkup (I guess the rollcall is finished.) About once a year we list our brickwalls. The last Acadian founders discovery was the baptism of the Melansons in London. but ask about anyone later. (We will do the "Imaginary Ancestors" next) Do you have any brickwalls we have not looked at in a while. Tell us know what you know about the person, the spouce and the children lines you are following. Do you have specific questions? But we share anything interesting we we find on the family. It may be the clue that solves the brickwall. Start a new subject for each family. Please reply to the list as others also may be following the family. The only no-no is about anyone who may still be living.

Another brick wall of long standing is my Pontiff line, going back to Charles Pontiff (b. 1732 — no one knows where, but Quebec or Acadia seems likely). He married Catherine Hauptmann/Hoffman/Ockman etc. in about 1775 in St. Charles Parish, and they had 14 children, of whom Marie Louise (b. 1 Mar 1778) who m. Louis Exnicios is my direct forebear. I suspect Pontiff may be a “dit” name, but the only surname I’ve found that was “dit” Pontiff is David. There was a Jacques David dit Pontiff in Port Royal who m. Jeanne de St. Etienne de la Tour, but the records I’ve found show only one son, Jacques Francois David, b. 9 Feb 1705. His descendants seem pretty well researched and don’t appear to include Charles. I did find an unauthenticated source that listed two other sons — Pierre and Charles Emmanuel — but I have not been able to verify this, even as to where this information came from, much less whether it’s accurate. I have Charles’s line tracked pretty thoroughly after his arrival in Louisiana, but before he got there I know nothing whatsoever about him. Any help would be much appreciated. cheers, Gordon > On Apr 2, 2017, at 3:24 PM, Paul L LeBlanc via ACADIAN <acadian@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Time for our Annual Brickwall checkup > > (I guess the rollcall is finished.) > > About once a year we list our brickwalls. > > The last Acadian founders discovery was the baptism of the Melansons in London. but ask about anyone later. > (We will do the "Imaginary Ancestors" next) > > Do you have any brickwalls we have not looked at in a while. > > Tell us know what you know about the person, the spouce and the children lines you are following. > > Do you have specific questions? > But we share anything interesting we we find on the family. > It may be the clue that solves the brickwall. > > Start a new subject for each family. > > Please reply to the list as others also may be following the family. > The only no-no is about anyone who may still be living. > > > . > ------------------------------- > To check our Archive > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/acadian/ > ------------------------------- > To subscribe to the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. You will receive a confirmation e-mail to try & stop "machine" enrollment spam. Give it the "Name" you would like us to call you. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message