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/7aB.2ACEAE/2293.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you, Eileen, for your response, and in particular, the info regarding the 1817 census - it is that time period which is of greatest interest to me, since my ancestor, John Cullen (father was Mathew Cullen) was born in 1811. I have US Census records which prove that Mathew's wife, Charlotte Jeffreys, emigrated to the US with John and his wife, but no record of what happened to Mathew. I don't know if he died in Ontario, prior to the 1847 emigration, or whether he also relocated in the US with son John and his family, and died here. Again, my thanks to you for your kind follow-up response. -Jody