This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AUI.2ACIB/264.1 Message Board Post: The Mary Chamberlin who married Georges Payette was born about 1872 or 1875, prob. Old Chelsea, Gatineau Valley area, Quebec , one of 8 or 9 known children of Josiah(7) Chamberlin, b. 1826 there [not 1845 as you have it listed], d. 1915, Calgary, Alberta, by his wife Anne Mulvihill, b. 1834, Farm Point, Quebec, d. 22 Oct 1876, Old Chelsea, Que., dau. of John & Julia (Ryan) Mulvihill. Here's some census data for this family: - 1881 Census, Hull, Ottawa, Quebec, Canada, p. 86, household 370, Josiah Chamberlain, widowed, age 54, mechanic, Baptist; Howard, age 17, farmer, Catholic; Anna, age 14, Catholic; Josiah, age 12, Catholic; Mary, age 9, Catholic; John, age 8, Catholic; Mary, age 6, Catholic; Julia, age 4, Catholic; Philip, age 3, Catholic; all persons born Quebec. Living next door is the family of Charles Chamberlain, Josiah's brother. Though the census lists the surname spelling as Chamberlain (which is correct for earlier generations), family records list it as Chamberlin in later generations. According to family tradition, Josiah(6), together with three of his brothers - Thomas, John & Leonard - came to the Gatineau area from Lowell, MA, (originally from Merrimack, Hillsborough Co., NH), together with Philemon Wright [an older gentleman, b. 1760, Woburn, MA - buried in St. James Church Cemetery in Hull, Quebec] in the early 1800s, to work in the mills. The Chamberlin family was heavily involved in millwork in the Chelsea area of Gatineau for many years, and some Chamberlin relatives still live in the area. Actually, this account isn't quite right, because these Chamberlin brothers were still quite young in the early 1800s, and probably came to Gatineau c1823 when Josiah, "age 27" applied for a land patent there. The ancestral line of descent is listed as: Josiah(6), Josiah(5), "Souhegan" John(4), Samuel(3), Thomas(2), Thomas(1) Chamberlain, one of the five original Chamberlain immigrant ancestors in the early 1600s in New England. Please contact me via Email if you wish to discuss this information in greater detail, including contact persons (your cousins). I am not related to this family, but I do have considerable reseatch data about it, that I've gathered in my Chamberlain/lin files here.