This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WOC.2ACE/3006.1.1 Message Board Post: Mary, I have not done a great deal of work on this family. I was interested in John J. Hoare who was supposed to have been born in the US in 1863 but returned to the Pictou County area and married Bessie Thompson. One of their sons Robert O'Mullen Hoare married Anna Mortimer Thompson of the line that I am searching. I have John J. Hoare as a son of John Hoare b. 1834 who was listed as a butcher from England in the 1871 census. He was married to Ann? (also from England) and they had three other sons; James 13, Charles 4, and Thomas 2. They were the only family with this surname listed in the 1871 census. The children were all born in the United States according to the census information. I don't have any subsequent census details though. I'm afraid that I don't have much additional information to that. If you need me to look some details up I can try on the weekends possibly. I hope that this is of some help. I have not been able to connect Greg Hoare into my tree yet. I've been doing the obituary work to try and create the links. Thanks, David