Hi Lynda Family stories are notoriously inaccurate, especially one such as this going back over 160 years. You might want to start a parallel question on the list asking if there was a practice of people being "expelled" to Canada in the 1840's - there may not have been. There was a practice involving many of the colonies of what was called Remittance Men where men who caused or might cause, problems for their families, including younger sons of wealthy families who would not inherit, were paid by the families to stay out of Britian - i.e. money was remitted to them so long as they stayed away. This was a family matter, and not an expulsion. See, for example, http://www.fortsteele.ca/exhibits/kootenay/ethnic/rmen.asp http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/english/7 http://www.multiculturalcanada.ca/Encyclopedia/A-Z/e3/7 Remittance men in Africa <http://books.google.ca/books?id=XS7iGMnW43kC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=remittance+men+africa&source=bl&ots=aahg9g-byl&sig=slaAGpVwX5DvtLVdmj5FpIB5C60&hl=en&ei=Zp9bTNHiCYKmsQON6Z1F&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=remittance%20men%20africa&f=false> Hope this helps Jason Victoria, BC Canada Lynda Brattan wrote: >Hi, I wonder if anyone could direct me in the right direction to find any >records on John Williams born in Bodmin in 1816 to Thomas Williams and >Phillipa Bake. John married Ann Goninnan Cruett in Bodmin in 1840, and our >family story says that he was expelled out of Cornwall and England to Canada >sometime after he married, but before 1844. Is there any way to find out >what John was involved in to be deported to Canada? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Lynda > > > > > >------------------------------- >Listmom: ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com > >Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription information http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >