This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mlund Surnames: Thompson, Lund, Towse Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.canada.newbrunswick.westmorland/1060.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The origins of Jacob Thompson b 1818 and his first wife Ruth (Lund) b abt 1820 have been frustratingly difficult to determine, but the discovery of them and their children in the 1850 census for East Machias, Maine provides some hints for Ruth at least. East Machias was a booming coastal town not far from the NB border at that time. A good portion of its inhabitants migrated from NB or NS as the 1850 census records. George Lund Jr also appears in that census inland from East Machias in a place known then as Plantation 14, now locally known as Lunds Corner. George Jr has many descendants in the area. HIs father George Sr was a pioneer settler in Cookville, beyond Upper Sackville NB. He appears there in the 1851 NB census with his wife Jane (Ibbitson), also a son Thomas, 20, previously unknown. Her son John (my g'g'grandfather) married to Mary Anne (Towse) is nearby. For over 100 years there have been "other Lunds" in or from the Sackville area whose origins were unknown, ! descending from Henry A and Daniel Lund. The 1851 census records them as Henry and Daniel Towse, orphans, with George and Jane. Henry (Towse) Lund became a sea captain out of Calais Maine, on the NB border. Daniel lost an arm as a sailor in the US Civil War: he returned to settle in Sackville. Mary Anne's Towse family lived on Aboujagan Road near Cookville (Towse Road still connects the 2 areas). Most of the Sackville Towses on record descend from John and Mary Towse who arrived from Yorkshire in 1817, the same year George Lund arrived. However, at least 2 brothers came with John: it must have been one of them who died leaving the orphans Henry and Daniel. So here, at last, is my point: Ruth Lund may have been another unknown child of George and Jane Lund, or the widow of the deceased Mr Towse. Interestingly, Jacob Thompson was living on Aboujagan Road when he died in 1889. Ruth is buried near the Towse and Lund sites in the Upper Sackville graveyard. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.