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/EQC.2ACI/764.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Denise, All my sister got out of my grandmother was that she went to a "convent school" and was forced to speak French. In fact when we spoke she said she would only go to a Catholic church with French-speaking priests. We don't know if it was a convent school or an orphanage. One rumor is that she was orphaned at a young age. She was not allowed to take the Parker name because she married out of the tribe or her mother did. My dad always wanted to move to NS to some small fishing village, of course there are a few of those. But as you say, they didn't speak of their heritage. One story says the French nuns forbade them to speak it. We used to correspond with Rev. D'Entremont and we did meet him also. The D'Entremonts and the Muse/Muise families are all intermarried, but have some kind of war going on...this comes from a woman at Ste Annes du Ruisseau(spelling?) Church in Eelbrook, where my sister and I were told to go for records. I just spoke with this woman last October, 2005. She said she would email me but never has! This was the 2nd time I was there and I'm going back to Eelbrook next spring because that was the first name we got over 12 years ago. and that's how many times I've been to NS searching. One person we did locate was Peter Crowell also at Argyle Township. He insisted we were French...Needless to say we didn't bother with him anymore. See if you can find out any info on St Joseph's Orphanage in Yarmouth County...They also had records. It did burn but some of the records were saved. Also, my uncle before he died, went to NS to get his mother's birth certificate, but there was none as the! towns didn't have the money in those days to keep them, but the Catholic Church did and all he said before he died was his mother's name was not Nellie Parker but Maryellen Muse and she was Mi'kMaq and he had to stay there an extra day and travel north to get her baptismal record....so why can't I do the same...even the Church gave us no help....I'll keep searching though and contact you asap should anything come up....Any chance us meeting in NS next spring? Regards, Barbara