I've been working on this study for 16 years. Is there anything about the Swiss or de Meurons in your book? (The release seems to have lost its formatting when I pasted it.) Thanks for checking. Best, Maralyn Wellauer For Immediate Release January 2000 SELKIRK PROJECT UNDERWAY I am still actively collecting data pertaining to a select group of early Swiss emigrants who left Europe in 1821 and traveled together to Lord Selkirks colony on the Red River of the North in Western Canada. Presently, the location is near present-day Winnipeg, Manitoba. Beginning in 1823, entire families relocated to areas in the Minnesota and Wisconsin territories, Illinois, and Missouri. Others remained in the colony until 1826, when they too left for the United States. I am most interested in evaluating the extant primary source material relating to the migration, to identify the individual members of the group by name, age, occupation, and social status; and to determine the fate of the families. Of particular interest are personal accounts contained in contemporary letters, diaries, and colonial papers. The majority of the first group of Swiss in Wisconsin originated in cantons Bern and Neuchatel. Other cantons are represented as well. Approximately 44 families participated in this emigration, including Abram Perret (a.k.a. Abraham Perry,) and Benjamin Gervais, founders of St. Paul, Minnesota, the renowned artist, Peter Rindisbacher, and father of the famed Civil War General Augustus Louis (A.L.) Chetlain of Galena, Illinois. The project focuses around a core group of 10 Swiss families with the following surnames: Aeberli, Aebersold, Chatelain, Hofmann, Marchand, Monnier, Quinche, Rindisbacher, Scheidegger, Schirmer, and Stramm. The emigrant party also included a number of professional soldiers, of German, Swiss, and French origins, who were formerly attached to the de Meuron and de Watteville regiments. The names of primary interest are: Bain (Bane, Bayne,) Bruechler (Brickler,) Ehrler (Erler,) Fournier, Gerber, Langet, Ostertag (Osterday,) Paquet (Paquette,) Polander (Bollender,) Schmid (Schmidt,) and Verring (Varing). Correspondence relating to this group is welcomed. Please contact: Maralyn A. Wellauer, MA, Editor, The Swiss Connection 2845 North 72nd Street, Milwaukee, WI 53210 USA Tel: 414.778.1224 Fax: 414.778.2109 e-mail: swissmiss@execpc.com -----Original Message----- From: Jim & Marla <manson@junction.net> To: CAN-MB-WINNIPEG-L@rootsweb.com <CAN-MB-WINNIPEG-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, January 17, 2000 9:27 AM Subject: [MBWINNIPEG-L] Red river Settlement >Hi Joan >You can get info from the Hudson Bay Company Archives in Manitoba. >200 Vaughan Street >Winnipeg, MB >R3C1T5 >There is an site online that you can send your messages to as well. I have >received a great deal from them. You could also write to the The Lord >Selkirk of Rupert's Land Association in Winnipeg. They have their own >archives about the Red River Settlement.. You can also join this group of >Selkirk descendents by proving your line back to the origional Selkirk >Settler. It has a $5 a year membership. They send all sorts of info out >quartly. Send a letter to >The Lord Selkirk Association of Rupert's Land >c/o A.B. Campbell >902-277 Wellington Crescent >Winnipeg, MB >R3M 3V7 > >I am also related to the Gunn's/McBeth's of Red River. Email me privately >with the names you are searching for and I can look them up in the Lord >Selkirk Family Book. > >Good Luck >Marla > > >==== CAN-MB-WINNIPEG Mailing List ==== >CAN-MB-WINNIPEG-L Mailing List >http://www.rootsweb.com/~mbwinnip/canmbwinnipeg.htm >