Hi, I'm looking for pieces of my family tree but the problem I'm having is that they keep changing the name...here's an example but they have also changed to other names... If anyone out there with a Decker surname that has changed from one of these please let me know (I already have 2) Michelle Also DeCares |Jean Dicaire/Dicker | SEX: M | M: to Sarah Teckel | (1: fisherman) | | | |Jean-Louis Dicaire/Dicker/Digaire | | SEX: M | | B: 1694 @ Hauzerburg, Newfoundland | | M: 08 Jan 1720 to Marie-Suzanne Lorain/Lorrain | | @ Riviere-des-Prairies | | (1: ct. 02 Pierre Raimbault) | | (2: Bapt. 24-04-1706, Mtl.) | | (3: Captured by Indians,) | | (4: autumn 1705. Ransomed by) | | (5: Louis-Thomas de JONCAIRE) | | (6: farmer of the Sieur Guay.) It is in the baptismal record of the parish registry of Notre- Dame-de-Montr‚al that we learn that he is 12 years old, that he is the son of Jean Dicaire/Diker/Dikker ...that he comes from Hauzerburg, New Found Land....and that he is English. ----------------------------------------------------------- Contact the Memorial University of Newfoundland, St.John's, NF, A1C 5S7 and ask *THEM* what they did with Hauzerburg !! ( I swear to you ....I didn't take it !! ) <grin> ----------------------------------------------------------- Documents pertaining to him are rare...but as best as we can figure...Louis-Thomas de Joncaire saw that a young white boy of about 11 years old was a prisoner of the Indians and ransomed him. Chances are pretty good that his parents had been killed or captured-and-eaten by these same Indians. So what do you do with an orphaned 11 year old ? ... especially when travelling to his place of origin is a major project that might take years to prepare. So he was adopted. ----------------------------------------------------------- "ct." here means that Jean-Louis and Suzanne Lorain drew up a marriage contract ...which still exists....on the 2nd of January 1720... (six days before their wedding) in front of notary Pierre Raimbault.