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/157.1 Message Board Post: Though your short message two years ago doesn't give much information, I'm supposing that you are the same person as Barbara Ferguson of Marina, CA, who submitted a query in the Chamberlain Chain, Vol. 26, p. 27, with considerable information on the family of Nathaniel Chamberlain/lin and his wife Lydia (-?-), with another message about one of their children. I also see that an LDS Ancestral File (Mormon Internet Family Search site) lists this same couple, without giving Lydia's surname or any other information about her. For the benefit of other researchers, this Nathaniel(6) Chamberlain was born 9 Feb 1788, prob. Newbury, Orange Co., VT, marriage and death data not known, with 8 children, including an Ephraim, with births listed between Nov. 6, 1814 and as late as 1846. Nathaniel is 1 of 11 children of Nathaniel(5) Chamberlain LN4673, b. 5 May 1746, Northfield, MA, d. 10 Dec 1801, perhaps Hull, Quebec, Canada, and Mehitable Elliott, b. 17 Sep 1753, Rockingham, Chester T! wp., NH, m. 30 Apr 1771, Newbury, Orange Co., VT, d. 22 Apr 1836, Hull, Quebec; Nathaniel is a descendant of Richard(1) Chamberlain. Considerable is known about this family - see articles in the Chamberlain Key, Vol. IV, No. 2, pp. 31-34 and No. 3, p. 59. It is uncertain that Nathaniel(5) ever reached Hull, Quebec. He either died on the way from the States or shortly after, but his widow with her four sons and five daughters reached Hull very shortly after the colony started, or about 1806. So it is clear that Nathaniel(6) must have gone to Hull, Quebec when he was at least 18 years of age, but wasn't married to Lydia until perhaps 1813 - early 1814 when he was about 25, judging by the birth of the eldest child of record, Melessa/Millisia(7), 6 Nov 1814 (where??). I would suppose that you and/or other researchers have looked for marriage records for Nathaniel & Lydia at about this time in Quebec, and birth records for the first children, without success. One also suppo! ses that this family was Loyalist, and stayed in Hull, Quebec during the War of 1812, but perhaps this was not the case. A curious IGI record states that the second child, Ephraim Elliott(7) Chamberlin, was born in England, Oct 1816, and I've supposed this to be in error (as is often the case with IGI records), but if not, one supposes that Nathaniel's marriage might have taken place anywhere, including the States, or in England. More needs to be learned about his whereabouts during this period of time between 1812 and 1816, it would seem, if one is to locate an actual marriage record. Perhaps there is some type of British or U. S. military record for him. A search of military records (with possible pension record), and search of early land records in Hull, etc. might turn up something. I have no idea whether someone has already conducted this type or research. I also note that the names of Nathaniel & Lydia's children seem to derive from his parents, aunts and uncles - I see no clue in these names which ones might have been derived from Lydia's family. I also note that daughter Melessa (wife of Ellis Campbell), died in Vermontville, Eaton Co., MI; that son Ephraim Elliott's family was located in Minnesota; that son Edmund's children and some descendants have been identified (did they live in Hull?); and that nothing seems to be known of the other five children: Nancy, Lydia, Nathaniel, Rosanna and Teresa. I'm speculating that, since Nathaniel & Lydia's death records are unknown (assuming someone has already looked for death/burial records in Hull & vicinity), that he and/or his wife Lydia migrated elsewhere with one of their grown children, and, to the extent that these children can be traced, more might be learned about Nathaniel and Lydia. Please respond to me via Email if you have any questions or wish to discuss this matter in more detail. I hope this discussion has been helpful.