In the 1838 census, Samuel Doleman is listed as a stonemason, resident in Ball's Bridge, Cape Breton County, with a family of 6. His birthplace is not known. He and his wife Eleanor (birth name unknown) are known to have joined Calvary Baptist Church, North Sydney. Their daughter, Mary Anne (also sometimes called Marian) married Peter Grant, brother of this writer's gg-grandfather, about 1848, and raised a substantial family. Samuel Doleman and Susan Jane Doleman were witnesses in a court case tried in Sydney in 1850. The court records are sparse, but it is probable that Susan Jane was the victim of an assault. From a local newspaper report of the trial, which did not name the victim, it is also possible that Susan Jane was about 16 at the time and may have been mentally challenged, to use modern terminology. At that point, the family completely disappeared from local records in Cape Breton. (In particular, they were not on the passenger list of any of Norman MacLeod! 's ships for New Zealand in the 1850's.) Since the surname Doleman is much more common in the southern counties of Nova Scotia than in Cape Breton, it is at least possible that Samuel had relatives there. I am therefore trying to check the possibility that he may have moved his family to another part of Nova Scotia after the traumatic events of 1850. Unfortunately, I do not have ready access to census records from that part of the province before 1881. I would therefore be very grateful for any information which anyone may have about a Samuel, Eleanor or Susan Jane Doleman, the first two probably born in the early 1800's, the latter about 1833 or 1834. Doug Grant Sydney, NS