Forwarded - ----- Original Message ----- From: "BARRY HARRISON" <bharrison11@rogers.com> To: <ANGLO-ITALIAN-L-request@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 9:01 PM Subject: John W. Ward/Abbadi/Abbate b c 1793-1796 d 1889 Canada Searching for above, rumoured to be orphaned during Napoleanic war, adopted by English family on docks in England or North America. Listed as Italian descent in cemetery records & as being born in London, England in his daughter's death certificate in Brooklyn NY, USA. Was a ship builder/carpenter working at dockyards in Halifax til he was pensioned off. He married in 1826 to Mary Dorothy Burroughs/Burrows in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and remained there til they both died in 1889.