This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cain Mercier Nester Welch Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XOH.2ACIB/2144.1.1 Message Board Post: As in the message below, I have a Michael Cain who would approximately fit these dates. My Michael married Joan Nester - I have no other information about the couple, except their children, of which they had 12. The first of which, Margaret Helen/Ellen Cain/Cane was b. 1865. Other children were: Jim, Bill, Bernard, Mike, Tom, Ed, Jack, Nan., Cakey?, and Jonny. Margaret Cain married Wilfred Mercier of Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, b. 1868. They had two children, C.E. (Charles Edwin) and Helen Margaret. C.E. married Edna Welch, also of Detroit, Michigan, and they had 9 children, Anne, Mary, Susan, Lawrence, Peter, Margaret, Craig and Michael. (Susan is my mother-in-law) We have lost touch with all Mercier cousins of Wilfred's generation because of some long-forgotten family rift. Would love to re-establish family ties and research the Mercier name back to Canada. And more relevant to this list, would also love to find ANY information regarding Michael Cain and Joan Nester. Thanks - Catherine --------------- I have a Michael Cain b. 1845 in or around Franksville Ont. Migrated with his family to Michigan about 1853...one sibling that I'm aware of is John Francis Cain who went back to Canada at some point. Could be siblings of your James William (or not). Parents listed variously as Michael Patrick or Patrick Michael and mother as Agnes Mary or Mary Agnes Meshaw (Macha). My Michael had brothers John, Cornelius, Alexander and a sister Mary listed in his obit in 1910...No James. Sorry, but if you see any connection, let me know.