At 09:32 AM 8-29-2004 +1000, Jennifer Jorgensen wrote: >I am searching for anything that will lead me to the life and death of >Donald CHISHOLM, born in Inverness to William Chisholm, Comar, Inverness. >He died I think, 12 NOvember 1843 Antig Harbour. That would be *Antigonish* Harbour. /The Casket/, the Antigonish newspaper, only began publishing in 1852, so the odds of coming up with an obituary are not great. http://libmain.stfx.ca/newlib/collections/reference/geneology.htm However, since he was Bishop FRASER's uncle, you may well be able to come up with something on him. >He was not Catholic and his sister Jane (jean) changed her religion to >marry one John FRASER. Sister was Jane or JEAN, FRaser (nee Chisholm) >married to John Fraser - their son was William Fraser, the Roman >Catholic Priest of ARICHAT (rather famous I think?) William FRASER was one of the early bishops of the diocese: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nsantigo/priests/p5.htm#i232 http://catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bfrazer.html Also see the longish posts from Hugh Niven at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CAN-NS-ANTIGONISH/2002-03/1016217600 and from me at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CAN-NS-ANTIGONISH/2000-10/0970673397 If Hugh doesn't catch this message, it may be worthwhile dropping him a note. Without actually looking it up, I seem to recall that the bishop's mother came over and died in Nova Scotia. I have a bit more on the family of Bishop Fraser: "Bishop Fraser, who was the son of John and Jane (Chisholm) Fraser, had eight brothers and one sister. The sister, Jean, married Donald Chisholm..."[1] I quoted this at more length in the post mentioned above. [1] MacLean, Raymond A, editor. (Johnston, (Rev) A(ngus) A(nthony) and others, author). [ITAL:]History of Antigonish[:ITAL]. Antigonish, Nova Scotia: Casket Printing and Publishing Company, 1974. V2 p 113 note 102 Joe -- Joe Makowiec can be reached at: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe http://makowiec.org/